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learning is never wasted. tell the people you love that you love them, because sometimes people forget. kindness is a choice that we can choose every single day. per Tyler "Kindness is the only currency that isn't imaginary please spend it with abandon!"
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This is the approach every agency needs to be taking. Call their bluff. Make them work for it. wapo.st/3FjdEeP

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

How Federal Workers Can Organize for Defense Against DOGE The chaos induced by Musk and friends is already causing mass outrage. Millions of ordinary people affected can become allies of workers and unions. Here's how to join the fight.

Once upon a time, I wrote a really, really mean blog post about Somerville’s perennial Mayoral candidate, William ‘Billy’ Tauro. It’s probably the cruelest thing I’ve ever published. Every year I hope that he won’t run and I’ll get to delete it. 2025 is apparently not that year. 1/2

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Just stunning (in a good way) to see a truly independent American filmmaker like Sean Baker become a multiple Oscar winner.

Zoe Saldana winning the Oscar for best supporting actress: "I am a proud child of immigrant parents." Love her!

Congratulations @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social first Bluesky skeeter to win an Oscar for independently animated Latvian FLOW 🙏

If I were MacKenzie Scott, I would simply start a newspaper based in Washington DC.

Tesla stock is down 14% since close of markets last Friday. What happened during that time? One answer: mass protests. I describe what it was like at one such protest. What I saw fulfills what I describe as neuroscience-based requirements for effective action. samwang.substack.com/p/the-effect...

My constituents are outraged by skyrocketing gas distribution charges. Eversource claims it's a result of sustainability programs, but their profit on gas delivery went up 30% last year and stands to go up even more this year. Legislators are calling on DPU to reassess the rate hikes they approved.

"In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing. "

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask. If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask. If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask. If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask. My ultimate guide to respirators:

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

Istg if you're an editor who is sanitizing headlines about Steve Bannon giving a blatant Sieg Heil salute you are going to Hell I know some of you fuckers are on Bluesky

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

Huzzah!

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

I can't remember who said it, but back in 2016 I heard someone describe Trump's appeal this way--"he gives people permission to be their worst selves"--and it's always stuck with me. His public persona is like a bouillon cube of the most hateful and illiberal energies in US political culture.

Pretty simple to say that Musk purchased the Presidency and is acting accordingly. It happens to also have the benefit of being true.

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

Dems should not allow anything to move in the House or Senate until this is dealt with. Dem have the power in both chambers to jam up the works, and they need to use it. That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.

97% of @nymagunion.bsky.social members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @voxmedia.bsky.social. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

"but what can I do I don't have the skills to undermine a fascist regime" — if you are a bluesky user YES YOU CAN

Got a Dem Senator? They can do more than just vote. -Oppose Nominees -Reject Unanimous Consent -Vote NO on Cloture -Request Quorum Calls This is a constitutional crisis. They should act like it. Send an email to your Dem senators here: act.indivisible.org/sign/urge-de...

Counterpoint: no one should have any chill about this whatsoever

JFC. “His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.