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Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

Reminder: Your actions today reflect how you would have responded to fascism and communism in the 1930s

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump on Commerce Department taking over Postal Service: "We're thinking about doing that. It'll be a form of a merger."

submitted 20 hours ago • 120 comments

Reminder: Europeans who support Trump and Musk are betraying their own countries by aligning themselves with russia and china (Europeans on Bluesky know this)

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

It’s bad enough that Trump has no interest in prosecuting or even discouraging police misconduct. It’s even worse that he’s making it impossible for future administrations to understand what the data actually shows. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

submitted 6 hours ago • 98 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are the two most dishonest and worst people in the world. They have the ability to do significant good but choose to deceive and harm others to advance fascism and exploit a corrupt, unfair, and violent environment

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard or good things were today. Tomorrow is a new day for fresh opportunities. ❤️GOODNIGHT EVERYONE❤️

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Another Friday night massacre that will surely make America’s National Security weaker! Trump fires Joint Chiefs chairman, and other leaders in major Pentago shake-up! ⬇️⬇️ #USDemocracy apple.news/AmaIKbIDkQ82...

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 14 hours ago • 127 comments

Ilhan Omar introduced an amendment to make corporations pay their fair share. Instead, the GOP voted it down and have moved along the budget bill that would strip $880 BILLION from Medicaid. Fun fact - that's the ENTIRE budget. #HandsOffMyMedicaid

submitted 15 hours ago • 20 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 15 hours ago • 101 comments

I worked at an Apple retail store for my first job. Even 18 year old part time employees were able to participate in the employee stock purchase plan. Last month, I exercised my rights as a decade-long shareholder by submitting my proxy vote to defeat the anti-DEI, pro-segregationist proposal.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

A whooping 83% of Americans oppose Trump pardoning violent J6 rioters. EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 300 comments

When taking actions late on a Friday night, a government sends a message its trying to pull one over on the public and the media, that it is hiding something or doing something it believes it should not do or will be seen as controversial. That is certainly true in this case.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

I will post only once more about this tonight. Whitman-Walker is how I am Erin. I hold this name because of the resources they provided the trans community. I hope what I have written tonight gives them pause, and all orgs who would do this. Because the wave has hit home and I can’t stand quiet.

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

Vaccines are so effective they have practically eradicated some of the worst diseases, from rabies to polio and smallpox—a fact that has possibly fooled some into believing that the viruses and their complications aren’t a significant threat for the average, health-conscious individual.

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value in a decade and inflation is rampant - with electricity up 250 per cent and interest rates at 21 per cent. As its citizens become increasingly impoverished, the key to peace will be Putin’s finances www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

2-20-20 U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to raise alarm about Trump and GOP plan to cut critical funding for programs that Virginians & Americans rely on, & use that to cut taxes for billionaires.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

"This is my fourth visit to Ukraine since Putin launched his full-scale invasion three years ago. As an NHS palliative care doctor, I have been supporting and helping train local hospice teams." via @theguardian.com #StandWithUkraine❤️

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 6 hours ago • 87 comments

RE: Trump’s Firing of Air Force General C.Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff As commander-in-chief, Trump’s powers to fire or punish military officers are LIMITED BY LAW. www.brookings.edu/articles/doe...

submitted 13 hours ago • 55 comments

This is the voice message I left for my electeds tonight in the U.S.House and Senate, as they work towards resolution. I hope it helps you with yours: #ncpol #DontCutMyMedicaid

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Remember the good old days of billionaires? They minded their own business and did their crazy crap behind closed doors.

submitted 13 hours ago • 91 comments

I don’t know whether it’s good politics for Maine schools to take a stand against Trump’s EO on trans student athletes, but legally it’s a fight worth having. The federal government withholding all funding to schools seems to violate the SCOTUS’s 2012 Obamacare ruling.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump admin has not fully complied with his court order pausing the freezing of foreign assistance grants and contracts. U.S. District Judge Amir Ali: "To the extent Defendants have continued the blanket suspension, they are ordered to immediately cease it."

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

submitted 14 hours ago • 60 comments

Nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight has filed a disciplinary complaint asking New York authorities to investigate potential professional misconduct by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, the Trump DOJ official who oversaw the dismissal of criminal charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Overflow angry crowd for town hall with Glenn Grothman in Oshkosh this morning ... www.wpr.org/news/glenn-g...

submitted 14 hours ago • 183 comments

This is the kind of leadership we need 👏🫡

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration has forced out a senior Commerce Department official overseeing export restrictions on China, three people familiar with the matter said. Borman is leaving his role as principal deputy assistant sec of commerce for export administration after decades of government service.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

If you admire, love, cherish, appreciate or respect Governor Janet Mills, I will follow you

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

I fear that this is just a prelude to further purges, the installation of yes men (pun intended), and the introduction of loyalty oaths. These are the steps that destroy professionalism and make the use of violence to restore "domestic order" thinkable --- and more likely.

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

Meanwhile, Matt is still grabbing dicks.

submitted 13 hours ago • 53 comments

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

submitted 6 hours ago • 57 comments

Finished week 7 of the Montana legislature and honestly, it was pretty good overall. - Dems blocked a school voucher scam program - A Republican voted NO on an anti-trans bill (a first this session in the House) - Medicaid expansion is on track to pass the senate - We got some great court wins

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 12 hours ago • 51 comments

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 13 hours ago • 22 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

Well well, Pamona... SOLD OUT in 2 hours! 🔥

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Just because republicans are loud and always dominating narratives doesn’t mean they have solutions or should be in charge. They’re power hungry narcissists. Not real leaders! Haven’t we learned that yet? FFS.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 20 hours ago • 149 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 168 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 21 hours ago • 172 comments

Elon Musk Is Already Trying to Buy Another Election

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

I heard someone compare Trump’s mass firings to him being a bull in a china shop. I disagree. Trump is a like a bull in a VA hospital. Trump is like a bull in an assisted living facility. Trump is like a bull in an Alzheimer’s research center. Trump is like a bull in a NICU.

submitted 7 hours ago • 114 comments