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submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 3 hours ago • 14 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 1 hour ago • 46 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

submitted 1 hour ago • 29 comments

This fantastic piece by Stewart Patrick is an excellent summary of the wrecking ball that Trump is taking to the entire international order crafted by Dem & Repub presidents over 80 yrs. Who does this benefit? The Kremlin, for certain. No one else. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

Nazi shit happens at CPAC every single year now. It's undeniable what that hive is. Anyone denying this shit still has their head so far up their own ass that they should never be taken seriously for any reason on any topic ever again because they're delusional.

submitted 2 hours ago • 25 comments

Not fresh observation but the idea that “government should be run like a business” is an exceedingly stupid one that fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a functioning democratic government. Redundancies in the event of any problem occurring are the point, not a failure or “bloat”

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 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 7 hours ago • 205 comments

Keep. The. Pressure. Up. No peace and quiet for them.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

but but but that's not legal mumble mumble sputter

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Endorsed - more like this, please.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Could they, please? Can't be worse than now

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1061 comments

My brain isn’t rotting, I’m making banana bread

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Put "discriminatory equity" in the Oxymoron Hall of Fame

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The video of this guy standing there with a shit-eating smirk as his constituents booed him and questioned him over his anti-human positions should be played on a loop and applied to every single House Republican.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 896 comments

Malicious compliance

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

"How can you be a remotely competent historian without acknowledging this thing I just made up in my head right now for which there is no evidence???"

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 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 21 hours ago • 451 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 228 comments

This is the kind of naive glorification of pre globalisation 'small towns' that I find so unrealistic. Technology evolved, and it wasn't as if there wasn't crime without immigrants. Nostalgia won't restore the idealised times that never were, we need to understand the world of today.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 22 hours ago • 56 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 23 hours ago • 156 comments

"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 1 day ago • 2237 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

i am going to fucking lose my mind, this is not an actual proposal, it’s brain poisoned nonsense drawn up by some musk toady on twitter, it assumes savings that are totally implausible and being contested in federal court, stop responding as if they’re real

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

Getting thrown in Gitmo for asking Sam Alito if it smells like updog in here

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

It's only been a month since he was sworn in... Art by @dennisgoris.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

acknowledging the history and existence of black people in america is not dei; it is not diversity; it is describing what is in front of you.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We finally have an actual 1A question about social media and I’m wondering where the Twitter Files dupes are?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Been watching a lot of John Vervaeke lately. His take on “bullshit” is enlightening and it makes me think of my dad’s last special. I’d have loved to turn my dad onto Vervaeke. Im hoping to interview him for my podcast 🤞🏻. youtu.be/JpEV2903Q_I?...

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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.

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

This fantastic piece by Stewart Patrick is an excellent summary of the wrecking ball that Trump is taking to the entire international order crafted by Dem & Repub presidents over 80 yrs. Who does this benefit? The Kremlin, for certain. No one else. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Nazi shit happens at CPAC every single year now. It's undeniable what that hive is. Anyone denying this shit still has their head so far up their own ass that they should never be taken seriously for any reason on any topic ever again because they're delusional.

Not fresh observation but the idea that “government should be run like a business” is an exceedingly stupid one that fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a functioning democratic government. Redundancies in the event of any problem occurring are the point, not a failure or “bloat”

“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.”

Keep. The. Pressure. Up. No peace and quiet for them.

but but but that's not legal mumble mumble sputter

Endorsed - more like this, please.

Could they, please? Can't be worse than now

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

My brain isn’t rotting, I’m making banana bread

Put "discriminatory equity" in the Oxymoron Hall of Fame

The video of this guy standing there with a shit-eating smirk as his constituents booed him and questioned him over his anti-human positions should be played on a loop and applied to every single House Republican.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Malicious compliance

"How can you be a remotely competent historian without acknowledging this thing I just made up in my head right now for which there is no evidence???"

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...

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

This is the kind of naive glorification of pre globalisation 'small towns' that I find so unrealistic. Technology evolved, and it wasn't as if there wasn't crime without immigrants. Nostalgia won't restore the idealised times that never were, we need to understand the world of today.

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

"it is a party's job to earn your vote" rather than "participating in the government of a republic is a citizen's duty" is just decadence.

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

This will especially hurt rural folks

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

i am going to fucking lose my mind, this is not an actual proposal, it’s brain poisoned nonsense drawn up by some musk toady on twitter, it assumes savings that are totally implausible and being contested in federal court, stop responding as if they’re real

Getting thrown in Gitmo for asking Sam Alito if it smells like updog in here

It's only been a month since he was sworn in... Art by @dennisgoris.bsky.social

acknowledging the history and existence of black people in america is not dei; it is not diversity; it is describing what is in front of you.

We finally have an actual 1A question about social media and I’m wondering where the Twitter Files dupes are?

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

Been watching a lot of John Vervaeke lately. His take on “bullshit” is enlightening and it makes me think of my dad’s last special. I’d have loved to turn my dad onto Vervaeke. Im hoping to interview him for my podcast 🤞🏻. youtu.be/JpEV2903Q_I?...

Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

You are too kind in your assessment