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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

young posters, the use of language changed before you were born, so in case you didn't know this: the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is guaranteed in exchange for your advance payments into the program

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

Also because of the way the US is structured, only federal employee strikes would impact the federal government and they're currently suing to stop what's happening. A lot of the general strike discourse skirts the violence issue too. Cops have no problem using their unions as shields for murder

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 4 days ago • 1876 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Look for the helpers? Yes, but also BE the helper, at least once today.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

submitted 18 days ago • 91 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 17 days ago • 106 comments

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

submitted 17 days ago • 181 comments

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

submitted 16 days ago • 125 comments

I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

An important first-person account from someone inside OPM:

submitted 17 days ago • 108 comments

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

submitted 47 days ago • 488 comments

Americans, please call your senators and tell them to vote no on the confirmation of Russ Vought as head of OMB— it’s scheduled for 7 tonight and Vought is the co-author of Project 2025

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

ICE is Gaming Google Search U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations 13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher." Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

This @melissagiragrant.com piece takes on social media narratives about protesting ('why aren't people in the streets?'), and highlights the fact that many communities have BEEN protesting, never STOPPED protesting, are ALWAYS fighting for their lives.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Srsly. Appeasement has never worked to curb fascism. Thought we finally learned this for good in the run-up to WWII, but clearly not.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Portland nursing instructors slap back at Providence, Musk's DOGE boy-toys eff around and find out, and anti-Trump protesters bring the righteous noise to Salem. It's GOOD MORNING, NEWS! 👋🗞️

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:

submitted 19 days ago • 72 comments

student protests did not stop. students protest year-round, even if you only pay attention when you're cheering for cops to round them up. hope this helps

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

submitted 19 days ago • 138 comments

#CelesChere #FinalFantasyVI #FFVI #MyArt Back again with “What if the experimentation on Celes caused her eyes to glow with each spell she uses” and Bio/Poison this time

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 If I'm going to get hate mail over it, I'll do this thread over w/o typos: Bluntly, I'm hearing from Hill offices that messages sent via resistbot tend to be heavily discounted. Calling is a more impactful way of communicating with Members and Senators. So if you can call, call. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Toriyama last note was to Piccolo to waive goodbye to the teacher. Toyotaro's version on the left, corrections by Toriyama on the right.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

Korean elected officials climbed gates and pushed past armed men to get into parliament while organizing protests, I have zero faith in the American Senate bothering to stare down one of the 18 year old pukes raiding USAID.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like those of us who studied the far right have been trying to raise the alarm for decades. Elected Democrats mostly couldn’t fathom the GOP would go this far. And here we are. It would be nice if they would now say, “You were right. What do we do?” Instead of just trying the same things.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 22 days ago • 164 comments

New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away. It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.

submitted 22 days ago • 367 comments

you can't punish people you don't like through social policy without also harming people you love.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with. www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

submitted 24 days ago • 67 comments

Y'ALL IF YOU DON'T CALL YOUR SENATORS ABOUT ANYTHING CALL ABOUT THIS. ask them why this is happening ask them how an independent government agency is under musk's control ask them what they plan to do about it Demand someone save the Office of Management and Budget from nazi control.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.

submitted 25 days ago • 53 comments

What a nightmare. The crashed plane is reported to be an air ambulance—and multiple homes and cars are said to be on fire on the ground. (This is in NE Philly, near the Roosevelt Mall.)

submitted 24 days ago • 353 comments

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world. The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments