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I remain convinced that if you resort to convenient bigotry to win votes, the people whose votes you gained will eventually vote for a more sincere bigot, while the people you abandoned will never trust you again.

submitted 67 days ago • 25 comments

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

submitted 7 hours ago • 333 comments

Women under our current administration are basically Schroedinger’s marginalized people, simultaneously especially vulnerable and unworthy of acknowledgement as a group.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

This reminds me of when a colleague and friend received a crummy student eval in her U.S. history survey because she "only" taught about women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ people. It wasn't at all true, but it was nice of the student to admit that the course covered most Americans!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm going to need my fellow educators to stop doing dystopian shit.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Democrats who want to move away from small dollar donors are actually Republicans and no, you cannot change my mind:

submitted 4 hours ago • 69 comments

anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

President Measles President Recession President Plane Crash President No Eggs

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.

submitted 3 days ago • 866 comments

Good god Republicans - it’s not worth it. Your country, your ethics, your self-respect, your soul - selling all of them for what? To keep your job? So no one yells at you? Why?

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

This is the face of a man who is coming close to realizing what he sold out and betrayed for the illusory promise of power.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Look at this Reek. The Faustian Bargain made by all Republicans. Look at what they make you give.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

There's no way this massive coup of the government by Elon Musk doesn't end in violence at some point. They're breaking the government in irreversible ways and when people start fully experiencing the effects of that, the pitch forks and torches are going to come out and it won't be pretty.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 3 days ago • 342 comments

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”

submitted 5 days ago • 684 comments

"Freedom is ethical–it minimizes coercion, which is why I am threatening you with job loss if you won't comply with promoting my exact vision of it."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.

submitted 5 days ago • 337 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...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Once again, the lows to which this administration sinks know no bounds.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

brb, checking the history books to find out if "roll over and play dead" has historically been a successful strategy in fighting fascism

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

I know this isn't the point, but... people go to Twin Peaks on Valentine's Day?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 7 days ago • 2171 comments

Trans women are going to get raped and killed. And this is by design.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

You know who else thought his way of handling the world would lead to the best possible outcome for everyone?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

This. And when anyone tells us that POTUS is kidding about being the king, this is all we can think of. He’s not.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 601 comments

Judge Reyes just became my favorite person.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Terry Pratchett had this one nailed in Feet of Clay we don’t do kings here

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 11 days ago • 297 comments

I had to confirm these for myself. Here are Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff and the official White House account running with Trump's earlier post referring to himself as king. Famously, the United States of America fought a war over not wanting to be ruled by a king.

submitted 12 days ago • 91 comments

When state legislatures try to dictate what courses or material we as faculty can teach, our instinct is (understandably) to defend our academic freedom. It seems to me that what we need to be talking about—loudly—is our students' academic freedom.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

submitted 12 days ago • 171 comments

I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.

submitted 12 days ago • 261 comments

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

submitted 12 days ago • 95 comments

All day, every day, I'm consumed with heartache and anger over the pervasive cruelty: The ecosystems decimated out of spite. The adolescent administrative pyromania. The shambolic alienation of long-term allies. The elimination of dedicated public servants without compassion or accommodation...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments