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I remember that. Those were not the “good” old days at all.

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 9 days ago • 834 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 8 days ago • 303 comments

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

submitted 8 days ago • 164 comments

This oughta wakeup the 'just wait for the midterms' crowd.

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

"...whose employees preyed on the prisoners in their custody for years in a culture so pervasive that prison staff nicknamed it “the rape club.” Read that again... The prison staff *themselves referred to it as the Rape Club.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

MAGA Farmer wants us to “come together” now that he’s facing the consequences of his vote. “I didn’t read project 2025 because it was my understanding that wasn’t what he was running on” 🙃🐆 youtube.com/shorts/9LtSM...

submitted 8 days ago • 171 comments

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 8 days ago • 583 comments

Update update: 24 hours in and aside from a sore left arm, easily managed by ibuprofen, no real aches or fatigue. I feel lucky. But even if both vaccines kicked my ass this weekend, it would have been worth it. Get your shots, y'all!

submitted 8 days ago • 573 comments

Dr. Jim Alwine, an internationally-recognized virologist who was funded by NIH for 35 years, talked to the press about the devastating actions the Trump administration has taken against NIH. www.kvoa.com/news/potenti...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

“But the AP refused to knuckle under. The organization’s stand provides a model for resistance to tyranny, and a model for free speech, that much of American media needs right now.” @nberlat.bsky.social @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

A.I. is a tool of oppression & erasure. Please stop enriching oligarchs by using it for your Blue Resistance memes. Just draw stick figures & use alt-text.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

"I don't feel safe" is a message that scares reps. Other big feelings can get eroded by time or the endless chaos but "I don't feel safe" always sticks.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Show up for our deaf friends, please.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

That’s either remarkable self-awareness or total lack of same on Noem’s part. Which do -you- think?

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

And now, something to be cheerful about.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I bet folks in Beijing already have their hands hurt from popping up champagne all the time as America voluntarily barbarizes its own global soft power instruments that particularly made it a superpower and won the Cold War.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

For anyone else in this position, Please never underestimate the usefulness of annoying the shit out of govt officials, organizing meal trains, being the support person who stays home to be jail support during protests etc etc. I know Gwen knows. Lot of y'all still can learn to help.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

This is not comparable to the Saturday Night Massacre, or Reagan's false Iran Contra speech; its only comparable in U.S. history is to the formation of the Confederacy in 1861; except then Lincoln, a president committed to the Constitution, took office; now an insurrectionist is in the White House.

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

Increasingly clear that the main fail safe for the US government was “do not elect someone like Donald Trump”

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Dr. Parcak is correct. The federal MAGA coup just struck a blow at Alabama's largest non-federal employer and largest healthcare provider, hurting everyone in Alabama and maiming our economy. And without review by Congress.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This article lays it out plainly. There's nothing to repeal. Costco doesn't have a DEI program. It doesn't have a diversity policy. It simply doesn't use discriminatory hiring practices. These AGs are in hysterics bcuz Costco refuses to segregate its business.

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

Connolly: "The public did not give Trump a mandate to dismantle whole chunks of the federal govt. It gave him a mandate to kick the tires, check the dipstick, and make sure things are running well and efficiently. What Elon Musk is doing is way beyond any mandate that Trump could possibly claim."

submitted 14 days ago • 230 comments

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 14 days ago • 1045 comments

Hi friends! Many of you have asked how you can help defend public health. Please check back at 5:30 PM EST for an effort to combat Musk’s Superbowl propaganda campaign against USAID. We will need help from anyone who can, and it’ll be as easy as a push of a button! 💕@defendpublichealth.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Is it too late for a bird break? No? Good. Take a break. Have a bird. Photo by me.

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this: Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.

submitted 16 days ago • 607 comments

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

submitted 16 days ago • 75 comments

If you're one of the 40 million people with student loans, Elon Musk’s team may have gotten access to your Social Security number, income data, and personal information. I'm leading 18 senators in an investigation into DOGE’s actions at the Department of Education.

submitted 16 days ago • 285 comments

How it started; how it’s going

submitted 16 days ago • 109 comments

The FCC is investigating a San Francisco radio station for its coverage of Trump/ICE's actions. Says the director of the First Amendment Coalition: "It’s an intimidating exercise." www.kqed.org/news/1202597...

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Link courtesy of a friend who is a high-level data management consultant www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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submitted 21 days ago • 774 comments

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

submitted 21 days ago • 58 comments

Donald Trump just slapped a major tax on every person and business in America. Families will pay hundreds more at the grocery store and the gas pump. Everything from cars to kitchen appliances will skyrocket in price. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 22 days ago • 57 comments

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

submitted 22 days ago • 131 comments

Are you now or have you ever been associated with any effort on behalf of, or even discussion that touches on, diversity, equity, or inclusion? How is an affirmative answer to this question in any way a lawful or legitimate ground for firing a civil servant? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

We need Democrats & the media to have the energy & effectiveness of Kendrick going after Drake and what they have is the energy & effectiveness of Drake going after Kendrick

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

submitted 22 days ago • 215 comments

this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago

submitted 22 days ago • 97 comments

Every Democrat should make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that when the right uses the codeword DEI, what we should all be hearing is “Civil Rights.” Get in front of those cameras and scream “Folks, the right is trying to blame the Civil Rights movement for this accident. We know better.” Rinse. Repeat.

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

This is the way forward, all around the globe. A resounding, vociferous resistance to hate, bigotry, and depravity, in the ongoing fight of good vs. evil, democracy vs. autocracy. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments