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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 23 hours ago • 92 comments

Greatest city in the world

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Democratic officeholders will never, ever take a direct action to solve a problem when they can defer it by proposing some sort of Rube Goldberg process that would be less effective even if it worked which it won't

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If you are thanking those two, you are doing something wrong. Such a glorious way to end your political career. And nice ratio btw.

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Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

The biggest line item on the site of Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 134 comments

A feather in Trump’s cap.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

I love this.

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white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

submitted 4 days ago • 4794 comments

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

submitted 5 days ago • 3750 comments

Oh lord in heaven

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Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

submitted 6 days ago • 109 comments

"Traffic crashes killed 253 people last year, according to an analysis by Transportation Alternatives, which advocates for pedestrian-friendly policies. That’s about 50 more than the 203 people known to have been fatally shot in the same time period, according to Gothamist’s analysis."

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 8 days ago • 519 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

To my New York friends who were feeling helpless about things even before the mayor’s total betrayal, a humble suggestion from the cheap seats.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

We know Elon Musk is in the process of smashing and trashing the US government—but why? As @elienyc.bsky.social theorizes, the reason about more than trying to strip the government to his studs: it’s about creating a nothing less than Neo-Apartheid in the US.

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Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025, the force cutting NIH funding. But it's thanks to NIH-funded research that Vought’s daughter had access to some treatments. “We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.

submitted 10 days ago • 152 comments

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 12 days ago • 142 comments

The problem with DEI is not that it went too far, but that it didn’t go far enough. My latest:

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Having Trump and Musk in charge for this is going to be awesome

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Hey @booker.senate.gov ! You ok? I’ve called your offices (Newark, Camden, DC) last week, this week—your voicemail is full. Your constituents need to see you actively fighting for us, or you won’t get our votes again. No confirmations until the power grab stops!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Fay Vincent’s final warning to MLB: ‘Gambling always leads to corruption’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 23 days ago • 2305 comments

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

submitted 23 days ago • 351 comments

The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 24 days ago • 88 comments

Good work, Chicago!

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so many people warned about exactly this for years and major papers preferred to publish scare pieces about trans girls playing sports

submitted 26 days ago • 34 comments

wtf. Guess my new senator @andykimnj.bsky.social is joining the “spineless collaborators” caucus.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Murphy, wtf!!! Stop!!!

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Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

submitted 31 days ago • 152 comments

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

submitted 31 days ago • 231 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 31 days ago • 942 comments