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Telling a child that they will go to hell simply for being gay or transgender is unequivocally 100% child abuse!

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

submitted 13 hours ago • 57 comments

Canadian professors see what's happening to their American colleagues and are calling on the federal parties to pour money into higher education so that Canada can welcome academics who are fleeing the US. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them

submitted 4 days ago • 946 comments

The big three grocers in Canada made $11.7B in PROFITS in the past two years. We could just take their profits and build a bullet train with it!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

will more useless democrats follow his example please www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trans Lifeline is a good place to direct resources if you’re looking to help here fuck everyone involved with this decision

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 427 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 6 days ago • 195 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 11 days ago • 236 comments

Normalize asking people what books they've read this year instead of what they do for work.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Illinois is and forever will be a beacon of progress and equality for the LGBTQ+ community across the nation. We know that people are hurting right now and looking for answers. That's why I spent the afternoon hearing from folks on what we can do to support them right now.

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

Is this what inclusion feels like It's amazing. Listen I hate how the times has mainstreamed fascism and anti-trans everything But reading a glam home writeup about a lesbian couple ? Whew.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

University has a 60 million dollars budget deficit because it now has a total of 10 vice provosts and vice presidents who each make more than quarter millions while the president makes 700K: “No more cheap coffee or sugar in the kitchen. No more photocopying”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 13 days ago • 108 comments

Finally, a worthy nemesis. You'll never take away my mayo

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The landmark Turnaway Study exposed how being denied abortion puts people at greater risk of poverty, domestic abuse &more. The Trump admin. just revoked the grant for her follow-up research on impacts of being denied abortion post-Dobbs b/c it's about "gender identity":

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The current insane, largely unwanted AI push in the U.S. reminds me of 20th century pushes to forcibly modernize “backwards” people by requiring them to use tech singularly ill-suited to their actual lives. It’s also good to recall those failed schemes all claimed their tech was “inevitable,” too.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 17 days ago • 1524 comments

ICMYI: reported protests in the US in 2025 are almost certainly outpacing protests during Trump 1.0. In March 2025, we recorded significant growth in the number of cumulative events, and also an uptick in the rate of events (# of protests/week).

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

It's not manufacturing jobs you want, it's a stable job with a middle-class wage, retirement, affordable health insurance, and worker protections that you want. Which isn't naturally tied to factory jobs, but it is naturally tied to union organizing.

submitted 22 days ago • 162 comments

Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston

submitted 21 days ago • 174 comments

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

submitted 21 days ago • 612 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 21 days ago • 2166 comments

Here's one statistic for you: → Net jobs created under Clinton and Obama: 33.8 million. → Net jobs created under Bush, Bush, AND Trump: 1.9 million. That is not a typo.

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

submitted 22 days ago • 101 comments

fellow parents: if your Minecraft movie expectations are low enough, this is survivable

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

how is anyone functioning right now

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 24 days ago • 1035 comments

poor states aren't conservative because they're poor, they're poor because they're run by conservatives

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 30 days ago • 1022 comments

It really is critical that people accept this. You don’t have to understand it, just accept it. The point is literally for kids and people to die. Now, is it foolish that they think THEY are the genetically superior? Sure. But eugenics is definitionally narcissistic and dumb.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

It should be obvious (and is to most people I still interact with) that the actual reason not to criminalise normal human variation is that trans people are people and deserve to be left alone. But this kind of story does help convince people who don't give a shit about others.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

submitted 31 days ago • 793 comments

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

submitted 31 days ago • 596 comments

Since we are discoursing about academics it’s also probably good for everyone to remember that academics are some of the first people that authoritarians target Also feeling forced to leave your home country is hard because it is no longer safe for you is hard, not fun

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

I Believe That It’s Possible to Agree that the Prior Status Quo Was Bad While Also Acknowledging that Things Have Swiftly Become Much Worse

submitted 31 days ago • 22 comments

On the up side I spent a lot of time recently with really pissed off elderly people and poor people and they get it. They get power. And they get bullies. It’s the credentialed among us who are struggling.

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

submitted 32 days ago • 99 comments

"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist

submitted 32 days ago • 110 comments