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Good news from India! 👏👏👏 www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/25/i...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Important point about Medicaid cuts, which will cause a whole lot of rural hospitals to close: it doesn't matter how much $$ or insurance you have. If the nearest hospital is over an hour's drive away, that time gap could kill you. Cartoon by R. J. Matson @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

"There are just... some hands. In America."

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A message from Bernie. zohranfornyc.com/vote

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Please, if you're a NYC voter, you have an opportunity to make wave and push change forward with better voting system that allows you to actually vote for competent individuals.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I see a LOT of folks saying this and wondering why. This is a litmus test and a face off - old guard vs new guard. It’s what we have been DESPERATE for. And w/a city this influential it could shake up everything. It’s exactly what we need to start a movement to tear down the Dem establishment.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

JD Vance’s Midnight Hammer

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

submitted 15 days ago • 231 comments

The original video is by @erikaishii.bsky.social and they are delightful! They are also a brilliant storyteller and if you like weird, insightful, anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist stories, check out @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 19 days ago • 596 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 19 days ago • 225 comments

This is what strong progressive leadership looks like. If your party officials and electeds aren’t showing up to protest ICE, you need new party officials and electeds.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Spokane, WA. Protest started when an immigrant was detained when legally reporting in to his hearing with his guardian. Stayed peaceful. Only escalation has been by federal agents and local LEOs. They've gassed press directly, and caused evac of a soccer game nearby. Multiple arrests. 2130 curfew.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Range is live on Instagram right now as protesters attempt to stop an ICE bus that is set to take a young asylum-seeker who hasn’t broken the law to its detention facility in Tacoma. If you are near downtown, please get to 411 W Cataldo now.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” - Late Rep. John Lewis and legend of the civil rights movement

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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

submitted 20 days ago • 764 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 20 days ago • 1454 comments

LA Friends: In 2020 in Portland when Trump tried this with us, when they unleashed gas, we used leaf blowers. It works. Also wear swim goggles. Also, If you see ICE in your community, call the LA Rapid Response Network Hotline at 1-888-624-4752 to report it.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Just FYI to LA folks: If you see ICE in your community, call the LA Rapid Response Network Hotline at 1-888-624-4752 to report it.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

submitted 21 days ago • 82 comments

This is not breaking news, it is from April 10, 2025. You can verify that for yourself by simply going to abc7.com/videoClip/16... Remember: there are bad faith actors who are going to use whatever channel is available, including unsuspecting posters, to spread disinformation.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 21 days ago • 626 comments

this is all deeply terrifying but it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that these people are lazy, incompetent dipshits who are doing a piss-poor job they haven’t won yet and we can send them home in embarrassing failure

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 22 days ago • 382 comments

I thought I would be safe if I positioned myself with all the cable news crews off to the side away from all of the protesters. But nope. I was wrong. The feds shot pepper balls at us, forcing us down Alameda Street with everyone else. @lataco.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 185 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 22 days ago • 3059 comments

Here’s the thing about the Trump Administration talking about violence: 1. They’re lying. No doubt there’s some but they are dramatically exaggerating. 2. They’re lying in order to justify escalating violence and violations of laws and rights. 3. Their goals are bigger than today. /1

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DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 25 days ago • 3019 comments

I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing. They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

submitted 25 days ago • 31 comments

Faith in Humanity lives another day.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I'm giving a training session on survey design soon. I've got one or two examples of bad practice as illustration - anyone got any other really good zingers I might use?

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

And it’s coming from inside the house

submitted 35 days ago • 45 comments

Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights

submitted 38 days ago • 59 comments

With everything going on, I wanted to something that felt more useful than just writing a story, so the good folks at @theappeal.org and I put together this legal resource guide for trans folks and those who love us. There are sections for trans people, parents and doctors. Please read and share!

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

submitted 40 days ago • 52 comments