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submitted 2 hours ago • 8 comments

A core problem here is that like many things, the public discourse is totally playing on the right's terms. It's not "DEI" to research gender/racial inequality. DEI is a propaganda phrase to denote unnecessary excess in the mind of the public, like HR trainings. That's not what they're eliminating.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 3 hours ago • 832 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 114 comments

long trombone noise

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

"While congressional Democrats who lack control of either chamber have struggled to respond to Trump’s first weeks, state attorneys general have marched into court, pledging to rein in an administration intent on pushing the limits of presidential power." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

submitted 1 hour ago • 31 comments

Why do you believe that “they did not vote for this?” They voted for exactly what they wanted. They just thought they would not be affected.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

So the media could do a better job, but also the people we're talking about are not reading news stories, watching the news, or even documentaries. They get their "news" from Facebook posts or message boards. They believe every urban legend because they don't trust anything that challenges them

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 hours ago • 60 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 2 hours ago • 40 comments

I was wondering about this, because I'm pretty sure we have avian flu in Canada and the egg prices are mostly normal up here.

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www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

This is a deadly shakedown.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

submitted 10 hours ago • 636 comments

Yup!

submitted 10 hours ago • 123 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 1098 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 12 hours ago • 296 comments

lol I asked this last time and people got mad at me, but I have the same question. Beyond folks who lose access to the building and their computers, those who are just "told" to leave, how much of this is enforceable?

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 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 16 hours ago • 418 comments

The crazy part is they think they're fooling anyone. newrepublic.com/article/1916...

submitted 19 hours ago • 55 comments

MANY SUCH CASES. Also did you know that the 10 highest paid careers are overwhelmingly white men despite white men making up 31% of the population? (Source: @americanprogress.bsky.social)

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submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

submitted 4 hours ago • 100 comments

Good morning, my babies....here goes a child getting some culture. Happy Black History Month!! youtu.be/D-NlG0_ihrs?...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

So... lemme make sure I'm clear on what I missed today... A former NFL player got arrested during a 47 protest... ... did press about how he knew he'd get arrested and would DO IT AGAIN! ... and then said "fck Jeffries and every other elected dem for letting me be the one to get arrested...

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

submitted 17 hours ago • 52 comments

More details on the clever but shitty way they are blocking money going out.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Judge Adelson has granted a preliminary injunction in NADOHE v. Trump, Case 1:25-cv-00333-ABA in D. Md., enjoining the Termination, Certification, and Enforcement Threat provisions of EO 14151 (the DEI EO) on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

A federal judge blocked Trump's sweeping executive order ending government support for DEI programs

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Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

“Aid agencies say they are racing against the clock in some war-torn parts of Africa teetering on the edge of famine where mere days of delays in food and grain deliveries can result in widespread illness and death.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

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i make it a point to never work harder for a job than myself

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Maya Angelou, on first meeting Malcolm X in #NYC in 1961: "His aura was too bright and his masculine force affected me personally. A hot desert storm eddied around him and rushed to me." (Excerpt from Angelou's The Heart of a Woman.) Malcolm, at age 39, was assassinated #OTD in 1965. #BlackHistory

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Condé Nast management will start requiring employees to be in the office 4 days a week on 3/3, allegedly to make us more productive. Yet for months, many of us have gone without desks, often being forced to work from the cafeteria, HR floor or hallways.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

We’ll see discourse on it from white people who will debate whether it’s a good response to wokeness

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment