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Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Gee, I wonder if there are any possible conflicts of interests involved with the owner of SpaceX getting access to NASA?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

companies listening to what people say they want instead of making art and just giving them something has been ruinous for games, movies and more for the last 10-15 years

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I've been seeing lots of super compelling videos of park rangers and federal lawyers and other federal workers telling their stories. Talking about what they did at their job, how it helped the American people, and why they want to keep doing those jobs. This is the way.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

York University has announced the temporary suspension of admission in 20 programs, including Religious Studies (in which I teach). The administration cannot shut down programs directly but they can starve them, which is clearly the intention. (1/5)

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

They literally want affirmative action for white people.

submitted 10 days ago • 70 comments

Me: BATMAN BEGINS is great, but I was amused by the writers’-fiat plot device that a place can be SO corrupt that some reasonably-organized foreign actor can just puppeteer it on a whim. Me, 20 years later: fuck

submitted 10 days ago • 157 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

The Trump administration is 0 for 3 in court defending the President's attempt to end birthright citizenship. The Constitution is clear: People born in the United States are U.S. citizens.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Great day for misogynists

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Getting private word that a few hospitals that have paused care for trans youth are starting that care back up. If your hospital is one of them, please message me privately. Good to see the initial capitulation is receiving strong pushback.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 14 days ago • 256 comments

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

submitted 17 days ago • 36 comments

Change of plan - Schumer, who has been under pressure to do more to stand up to Trump, now urging Democratic Senators to vote against all nominees www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 109 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 6591 comments

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

A gift for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old. The suit has been brought in Maryland. A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.

submitted 20 days ago • 36 comments

Oh shit NJ Gov Murphy seems to imply he has someone close to him that’s undocumented and he moved her into his house to protect her “and good luck to the feds coming in to try and get her.” Goddamn.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Go Canada!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Paging @maklelan.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone who’s written a scientific paper, this makes absolutely no sense unless your goal is to censor science.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

submitted 21 days ago • 64 comments

I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years

submitted 23 days ago • 383 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 26 days ago • 132 comments

the answer is "I want to speak to a lawyer/my union rep." then you shut the fuck up. that's always the answer.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

im a lil giddy for the new monster in dnd Monster manual coming out soon . Haunting revenant A gargantuan undead house. yeah baby...you know what time it is... DREAD GAZEBO

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

No, the headline is "Trump attacks minorities to cover up his own culpability in crash", it's time to start playing the game we are actually in

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Worth looking through the quotes and replies to this!

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 26 days ago • 1031 comments

The email account set up by the Trump White House to encourage government employees to snitch on their DEI-promoting colleagues is the target of a mass spamming campaign designed to overwhelm those administering it. Whatever you do, do NOT send your favorite cookie recipe to: [email protected]. 🍪

submitted 28 days ago • 147 comments

There has been some debate over whether bluesky is good for game promotion or whether actual consumers are here. As a test, last week we did two posts with mid-level performance - one from the company account, one from mine - and got ~900 wishlists. There was no other promo elsewhere. Pretty solid.

submitted 28 days ago • 58 comments

Hmm I haven't tried ChatGPT in a while — time to give it a spin and see why it's worth $157 billion

submitted 27 days ago • 70 comments