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The chats here were not actually sexually explicit. These people are just trying to cast literally everything related to LGBTQ issues as "sexual" And Also I would bet you money there's Genuinely explicit cis-het shit one could find in US govt chatlogs fom people who'll never be singled out

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

Fill the swamp.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

To have the Supreme Court lowering the bar for 'reverse discrimination' suits is nothing more than privilege and a straight-up slap in the face! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 593 comments

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

submitted 16 hours ago • 222 comments

Utterly destroying any capacity of the state to help people so that it can be reduced to a military and and border cops to guard the wealth of oligarchs

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

White nationalist Lana Lokteff says we have to "repeal the Civil Rights Act" to stop black people from invading "all our white spaces": "All of this because they couldn't drink [from] the same water fountain or use the same toilet. Was it really that big of a deal?"

submitted 19 hours ago • 188 comments

Now every day is trans day of visibility

submitted 15 hours ago • 34 comments

Trump announced plans to cut 65% of the EPA’s staff.

submitted 15 hours ago • 211 comments

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

The CDC will no longer collect transgender data in its surveys. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 16 hours ago • 430 comments

This is evil. Pure evil.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3610 comments

SSA employee to me re: 50% staff reduction: "Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services, very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed."

submitted 20 hours ago • 117 comments

Within the span of 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, two airplanes, at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and at Chicago’s Midway International Airport, were forced to abort landings to avoid collisions, federal aviation officials said.

submitted 1 day ago • 346 comments

I’ve written up a fuller version of this take at Arc Digital www.arcdigital.media/p/the-unbear...

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Surprise! Elon Musk approves of Jeff Bezos’ decision only to allow right-wing claptrap on the Washington Post’s opinion page muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 20 hours ago • 91 comments

If you want America without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, this is what you’re asking for. And the answer is no.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. nbcnews.app.link/paXT0Dg4iRb

submitted 23 hours ago • 247 comments

To recap: Trump admin broke the law by pausing legitimate spending The courts told him to knock it off They didn't Court is telling them to knock it off again Next step is to find out whether we still have an administration that will obey the courts after the courts call them on their bullshit

submitted 20 hours ago • 62 comments

NEW — House Republicans are putting the brakes on town halls after blowback over the Trump administration's cuts. One GOP aide said House Republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 1 day ago • 375 comments

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

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A group calling itself the 3rd Term Project is calling for a Constitutional Amendment to let Trump have a third term in office. This move is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. We should take it seriously. The man who would be king certainly does. joycevance.substack.com/p/speaking-t...

submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

submitted 1 day ago • 864 comments

Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

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The new DOGE administrator, who the White House only named after media pressure, told associates she did not know she would be named publicly to the position. She’s currently scheduled to be on vacation in Mexico. Meet Amy Gleason. We’ve been tracking her for a bit. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

It’s too early to say, but it looks possible that the second Trump administration’s legacy will be dismantling social security.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE

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A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

From food safety to air travel to environmental protections, Trump and Musk have gone on a firing spree at agencies that protect nearly every facet of American life. This has nothing to do with "efficiency" and everything to do with lining their own pockets at our expense.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

New op-ed out today! "We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists." This op-ed was written with fierce love for our communities. That's who we serve. We will not be erased. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

almost feel bad for the cia. someone is finally burning your nemesis agency to the ground in the most ridiculous way possible and you can't even enjoy it because you have to keep moving files around to hide from tulsi

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 3 days ago • 752 comments

Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Good that the Times is tracking his deeds and words like this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Next level would be to organize all the known steps in democracy's replacement by authoritarian governance, and report it as news when he reaches them, so that we know where we are— and what remains.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

Musk's whole deal is to pretend that no one knew how government bureaucracy worked before, like it was this big mystery box, and it's exactly that combo of stupidity and arrogance that pervades silicon valley and leads to them reinventing a city bus and thinking they're Isaac Newton

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Florida's new AG, James Uthmeier, is on Laura Ingraham's show announcing a new culture-warring lawsuit against Target for not being sufficiently transphobic

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

A thing I admire about billy corgan is he heard his voice and was like I'm going to be the lead singer of a band and people are going to enjoy listening to this and he was right

submitted 4 days ago • 156 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 4 days ago • 543 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2208 comments

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

They blink a lot. They lose in court too. They are even feeling some pressure from within the party. Things are bad, but not hopeless.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments