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If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

Cowards, every single one of them

Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. ProPublica has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names we've just added.

Apple shareholders rejected a proposal to scrap the company's DEI programs. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

no, Donald Trump's net worth did not just go up $50 billion

How in the hell is @proton.me being led by a straight up maga chud not the biggest news right now.

Children of Time is a kindle monthly deal this month!

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine! Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

“While the thought of spending a year in county jail wasn’t appealing, there was no way I would bend to the state’s bullying.” - Mohawk journalist Isaac White on his arrest for reporting the news. freedom.press/issues/mohaw...

A useful feature they could add to bluesky is labels to clarify if someone in your feed is going through a personal crisis or live reacting to football

We honestly don’t know what Pokémon looked like, we’re just guessing that we put their bones together correctly

Pete Hegseth worships at the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, led by “Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism…” Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”

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ODD ONE OUT

Bring back Google Reader!

A Stanford student got in a car accident that killed two people and was charged with crimes. After the victims' families wrote to Stanford about it, saying he should be disciplined, he sued them and tried to use the suit to silence their advocacy. Yesterday he lost. This is the story.

This is the shot of the night. Chuck Schumer is filing cloture on several judicial nominations. The Republicans are forcing them to go into executive session separately for each nomination. Schumer and the Democrats are just pushing ahead. Here was Schumer before the 10th vote, by my count, began.

I would love if they would use maskskill.com to host a bunch of videos showing Mask Skill, like how to fit an N95 properly

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

breaking

The Onion has purchased InfoWars.

Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.

Tim Walz played Crazy Taxi (with AOC) aftermath.site/tim-walz-cra...

Oldie but a goodie

And if you don’t know, now you know! 🚫GenAI on Bluesky 🦋☁️

Late to the party, but the (Star Trek themed) vibe I’m bringing

Just pulled through a McDonalds drive through and the guy that took my order couldn’t stop talking about Arnold Palmers giant hog.

If you're curious why everybody's username is a domain, it's because every user is essentially a website