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We should stop physically punishing disabled children regardless of what the bible says. Lawmakers should be debating policy, not bible verses. Legislation must be based on reason, evidence, and human rights—not ancient religious texts. www.rawstory.com/shane-jett/

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Transgender Youth Have Better Emotional Health after Taking Hormones, New Study Finds www.scientificameric... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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All we need for peace in Ukraine is for Russian soldiers to return to Russia.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

That’s Tammy Baldwin — not me. You can keep track of all the hundreds of white men but it’s the 28 women in the Senate that trips you up, Fox News?

submitted 2 days ago • 216 comments

Maddow is calling what’s happening with non-white anchors at MNSBC a bad mistake, unnerving, worse than bad, and indefensible. And she calls the dozens of producer layoffs “not the right way to treat people, inefficient, and unnecessary.”

submitted 2 days ago • 597 comments

Yes it is!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1972 comments

Everyday Acts of Resistance Every Day. This was one of my favorite Acts so far. So easy! So satisfying! I didn't get all the bays, but I got about 24 before I ran out of flyers. I love taking it to the source. #cc4democracy.com #FuckElon

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS: there have been times when you controlled the House & Senate, yet Republicans still found ways to block your legislation. DO THAT TO THEM! And—since the GOP won’t hold hearings, go home to your districts & hold mock hearings yourselves. Let the people see what’s really up!

submitted 13 days ago • 416 comments

As Fico meets with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and cracks down on opposition voices at home, protests are erupting across the country. Tens of thousands of Slovaks have taken to the streets, fearing that their democracy is at risk.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

the thing about the civil rights movement is that they weren't a mass movement, not really. the freedom rides and the freedom summer were a few thousand people. but they understood that despite lacking all formal power, they could create confrontations that advanced their narrative. it worked.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

if places with far fewer free press protections can accurately print a headline that a member of this administration lied, there's no excuse for the New York Times or Washington Post not doing it

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

This is a disaster for public health and science. 🚨 His history of anti-vax rhetoric and conspiracy theories endangers evidence-based policy. The government should prioritize facts, not fringe beliefs.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 124 comments

This is the right frame, but my gut says that focusing on inflation is fighting the last war, which pollsters have lots of data on! And it's fundamentally not a progressive issue. Rich dudes are looting you and Medicaid for their tax cuts is a fight on our turf.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.

submitted 13 days ago • 17 comments

No matter what RFK Jr says, I will oppose amputations anesthetized with whiskey, bloodletting and surgeries performed by candlelight. I am not nostalgic about the illiterate Middle Ages.

submitted 13 days ago • 105 comments

OMG @robertgarcia.bsky.social 🤣

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

It appears that Donald the betrayer was floating the seizing of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal as a way of eventually arguing that "yes, yes Putin got Ukraine and Europe but look at all the stuff we got!"

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

There is an entire genre of subnormal people making variations on this argument, back to that weird-ass nerve-stapled SciFi writer saying “we could logistically expel all illegals, the Germans did it with the Jews.”

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

Some of the cases appear to be connected to private religious schools in the district, said Holbrooks, who cautioned that the investigation is ongoing. apnews.com/article/meas...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Those of you who continue to be surprised that so many white Christians support Trump should really read a history book.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate' 1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher; 2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent; 3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts #commsky @polcomm.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

In the Soviet Union they were called political officers.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

The April 1 election includes a Wisconsin Supreme Court race that could maintain or end the liberal majority on a court that has decided many voting rights cases, as well as an amendment that could enshrine strict Voter ID requirements into the state constitution.

submitted 13 days ago • 185 comments

State workers, retirees and others covered by state health insurance would no longer be able to receive gender-identity care under a bill that passed the Georgia Senate Tuesday. pro.stateaffairs.com... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Trump used naturally available resources like racism, sexism and lies to acquire the presidency, and then sold it to Elon Musk for a tidy profit.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Legendary First Amendment lawyer James Goodale pleads with the press to fight back against Trump:

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Senate Republicans aren't cowards – they're co-conspirators. They're not victims – they're traitors.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

I really wish rather than saying, "Kash Patel is bad," Dems would say, "If Kash Patel kills investigations into corruption, right wing terrorism, and Russian spying, you will be responsible."

submitted 13 days ago • 96 comments

I’m old enough to remember when this sort of thing was a scandal

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

In the wake of a slew of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus, one third of the Grammy Award-winning group Boygenius, is showing her support for the transgender community with a new pledge. www.out.com/transgen... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Dewey Defeats Truman, pardons edition

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

Kristi Noem, President Trump’s nominee to become the next secretary of Homeland Security, has some of the most extremist religious views of any of his appointments. ffrf.us/40ExLfP

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Those of you who continue to be shocked by the attitudes and behaviors of so many Christians should really pick up a history book. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

The government keeps way too many secrets. How much worse could it get during Trump’s second term? Here are three big secrecy issues FPF will be tracking:

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submitted 35 days ago • 1012 comments

Your purity tests are tiresome. Nazi or not Nazi. Oligarch or not oligarch. The end.

submitted 35 days ago • 64 comments

My name was on this list, and I sure as hell voted. In person, with ID. If you're in NC, check this list to make sure your ballot isn't being challenged.

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

10,000 BCE cave art in Mount Pellegrino, Palermo, Sicily. Same-sex sexual activity appears to have existed throughout human history. Although sexual orientation cannot be preserved directly as part of the archaeological record, depictions of sexual behaviors involving same-sex individuals do exist

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The combined wealth of the world's billionaires grew by $2 trillion in 2024 — nearly three times faster than it did in 2023. That's $5.7 billion PER DAY. Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

"When Jim Jordan conducted these crusades, he was shielded by Speech and Debate from adhering to basic facts. These EOs are an attempt to create space for Bondi to similarly escape the kinds of evidentiary rules and basic due process that limited Trump’s prior attempts to target his enemies."

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments