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An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 6 days ago • 634 comments

Wonder if Elon could survive a week on the salary we make. While he burns through $8 million a day, the working class struggles—yet he paints us as the enemy.

submitted 6 days ago • 253 comments

Why does a 38-year old U.S. Attorney in SDNY, who is also a die hard conservative, have more guts and integrity than the entirety of the GOP Senate Conference combined?! Shame on the shameless sycophants and enablers there, who can’t find the spine to stand up to common MAGA bullies.

submitted 9 days ago • 500 comments

A top Democratic leader weighing Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director accused him Tuesday of directing a purge of career officials and later perjuring himself in Senate testimony by saying he had no knowledge of any plans for dismissals.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2837 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 573 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 19 days ago • 924 comments

Breaking News: In a news conference with Israel’s prime minister, President Trump said he wanted the U.S. to take over Gaza in an “ownership position.”

submitted 19 days ago • 262 comments

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

submitted 20 days ago • 927 comments

Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to senators, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and someone who is unfit to be the U.S. health secretary. nyti.ms/40Oyb3o

submitted 26 days ago • 114 comments

Chicago Public School officials confirmed that federal immigration agents came to a school in the Back of the Yards on Chicago’s South Side today. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, denied it was the immigration agency. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

submitted 30 days ago • 18 comments

The joke is on us.

submitted 31 days ago • 1212 comments

Throwback pic to my location 6 months ago today ❤️Glad to have taken a family vacation to LA when we did. Will visit again and help how we can. #iloveLA #westandmidwestisbest

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

MURKOWSKI comes out against Hegseth for DOD, first GOP opponent. "The leader of the Department of Defense must demonstrate and model the standards of behavior and character we expect of all servicemembers, and Mr. Hegseth’s nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook."

submitted 31 days ago • 1424 comments

By the way, Bishop Budde has a book! Let's send her to the bestseller list. This book is already backordered on some sites. She proved yesterday that she's an expert on the topic about which she has written. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705987...

submitted 32 days ago • 125 comments

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

submitted 32 days ago • 742 comments

ain't that a mood

submitted 34 days ago • 26 comments

We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

submitted 34 days ago • 506 comments

I’ve left Meta and Twitter for bluer skies…

submitted 35 days ago • 2572 comments

Solid Shoreline on a Chicago Sunday at Sunset. Today in Chiberia.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

I gave up Meta today. Here I am, searching for some blue skies, in the gray below zero degrees of Illinois. This is Willow, she won’t pee outside below zero, but that face makes you forgive:

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

@dmercer00.bsky.social

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments