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Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 5 days ago • 494 comments

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

submitted 6 days ago • 542 comments

This headline should be stapled to the front door of the times.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Because of DOGE, countless Americans are going to die.

submitted 7 days ago • 621 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 8 days ago • 401 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 7 days ago • 299 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.

submitted 10 days ago • 553 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

Protect this law at all costs ! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 10 days ago • 1277 comments

Bowing to the Butcher: Trump Grovels to Putin and Promises to Abandon Ukraine No American leader has ever pledged loyalty to a foreign dictator — until now…

submitted 9 days ago • 247 comments

Keep going. No matter how bad things may seem. No matter how many tears you’ve cried. No matter how hopeless it seems. Keep going. You are worth it. You are able. We are here. We won’t let you fail. Keep going

submitted 10 days ago • 226 comments

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

submitted 10 days ago • 1041 comments

@aoc.bsky.social We’d like your help organizing a March on Washington to ensure protester safety and secure permits. We’re aiming for a Saturday at least two weeks out to allow for travel planning.

submitted 11 days ago • 522 comments

It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 11 days ago • 3884 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 11 days ago • 56 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 13 days ago • 3912 comments

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

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This starts GayforCongress 2.0! I am the Democratic nominee who ran against Matt Gaetz, and lost, on Nov. 5th, only for him to resign 9 days later so ethics investigation into sex crimes would go away or perhaps AG! My focus remains the same-The people of FL's 1st. Gayforcongress.com

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#BlackHistoryMonth Frederick McKinley Jones developed refrigeration equipment. His creation, the Thermo King. He became the first African American to receive the National Medal of Technology.

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls

submitted 17 days ago • 623 comments

THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!

submitted 17 days ago • 1013 comments

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 17 days ago • 1278 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 17 days ago • 2293 comments

I guess it’s outrageous that the American people want to know who is inside the government seeking to dismantle it and gain access to their data and a host of other sensitive info. We aren’t allowed to know who they are? Why not?

submitted 16 days ago • 743 comments

My sister works in international aid and yes.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know? Sarah Rector, at 11 years old, was one of the richest women in the United States. Born in 1902 to African descendants of the Muscogee Nation, Rector was granted 160 acres of barren land by the federal government as a result of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887. She struck oil.

submitted 17 days ago • 179 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 18 days ago • 444 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

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I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

The Trump administration is finalizing plans to dismantle the Education Department through an executive order that would build on his campaign promise to hammer the longtime conservative target. The order was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.

submitted 19 days ago • 211 comments

seeing some posts celebrating the end of USAID as a strike against empire. folks, none of the bad stuff is going away, it'll be funding for refugee camps, medicine, etc

submitted 19 days ago • 104 comments

"The fact that the Constitution’s enemies now include the president of the United States does not relieve members of Congress of their responsibility to that oath." www.thebulwark.com/p/more-dange...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Ok man, I’ll tell them

submitted 19 days ago • 224 comments

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 146 comments

I would encourage folks to contact Lindsey Graham’s office. While you can never count on him to do the right thing at the end of the day, he is an internationalist Republican who supports foreign aid.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

submitted 20 days ago • 2228 comments

It really is that simple. If Biden had announced he appointed Selena Gomez to shut down ICE, nobody would doubt that's illegal and unconstitutional. Appointing Musk to shut down USAID is no different.

submitted 20 days ago • 87 comments

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

submitted 20 days ago • 490 comments

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

submitted 21 days ago • 349 comments