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NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 10 hours ago • 74 comments

If you're represented by a Republican and you care about the post office, how about flyering outside your local post office. Tell folks about the administration's plan to dismantle USPS and tell them to contact their GOP reps. Include local telephone numbers on the fliers. bsky.app/profile/sylv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

It’s true for undergrads as well—enrollment climbs during recessions.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Alot of y'all's allegiance to the Dems ....

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Yeah it’s not just white dudes and almost all of them who are like this have direct histories of doing this to Black women for years And the entire field of extremist and fascism kind of left out the specific space of misogynoir

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Not sure if any UCLA grad students follow me but CSW'a Black Feminism Initiative's Grad Fellowship applications are open til 2/28. I was honored to have 1 of the fellowships named after me a few years ago alongside my friend and comrade Alisa Bierria. Apply! opportunitydesk.org/2025/02/15/c...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Being a Black person and being a woman makes a person DEI, apparently. Not a DEI hire, but DEI itself. Per the NYT.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

"I support a two state solution" is about as politically informative as saying "I like puppies". What does it tell me about anything in specific? About what you'll do? The policies you support? How many children you think it's acceptable to have killed by 2,000lbs bombs manufactured by US companies?

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 122 comments

PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

submitted 17 hours ago • 95 comments

We will only be free when every stupid asshole who’s not a straight white man is viewed as an individual stupid asshole and not a representative of their entire demographic

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Men dying earlier than women happens in nearly every society across the world (exceptions only for war or targeted violence). But women suffer higher morbidity, their health problems are more often dismissed, and as @shannonrwatts.bsky.social says, research on their health is underfunded.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Twice as much funding goes to diseases that disproportionally affect men compared to those that mainly impact women. So … no?

submitted 9 hours ago • 70 comments

this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

submitted 10 hours ago • 25 comments

The end goal is for everyone to be free to be a stupid asshole without implicating their entire demographic group.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

This. I am very willing to be pragmatic. I am unwilling to compromise on the value of human lives.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

i keep seeing people posting things they think are wise to the effect of “people are letting their purity politics get in the way of achieving results,” and then the “purity politics” are just like basic standards shit like “we must oppose genocide” and “we will not work with the cops”

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

nothing says “efficiency” like having to step away from your work to write up a report to explain your job to a billionaire on a ketamine bender and his teenaged henchmen.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 17 hours ago • 427 comments

Not a charge anyone should deploy lightly, but what the ADL is doing right now is kapo shit

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

submitted 14 hours ago • 86 comments

This is the use of US power to serve Musk's interests

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Three cheers for this 5-page letter from ~92 Congressional Dems demanding answers about IES & ed research ht: @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 20 hours ago • 74 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 20 hours ago • 147 comments

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Their book club is also hella rad!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Turns out that Calvin Robinson, who was defrocked after his Nazi salute at an anti-abortion prayer breakfast, owned a gaming site. Yesterday, the entire staff quit in protest of his actions. aftermath.site/god-is-a-gee...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

call it what it is: a military leadership purge www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 478 comments

We might consider our government a democracy when the people deliberately sabotaging it like this are in jail.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Of course the person who was promoted because of their race in this exchange is actually Hegseth, whose only qualification beyond being a white male is bootlicking sycophancy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Apparently you only need to clumsily sabotage your coworkers to be rewarded with a big promotion by Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1857 comments

“To put it frankly, without our team ... pilots would quite literally be flying blind."

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

#EducationalResearch

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Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

via our own @autonomsolidar.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The guy who used to run social media for the NRA is now creating the same violent rhetoric for the White House.

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments