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Same. My backyard may not be as big but I do have a corn field behind me and I'm sure they won't mind just the tip.

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“Like China forcing Google to delete all searchable references to Tiananmen Square, it displays the immediate, authoritarian power to censor—but it is not a move made out of confidence in one’s position. On the contrary, it is a move made out of fear of what knowledge can do …”

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Amidst the chaos and the law-breaking the most important thing to remember/focus on is that they are doing these things illegally because they know they don't have the votes to do it by passing laws, even in a GOP controlled Congress.

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Donold says he’s standing up for persecuted Christians…unless they’re Catholic bishops pleading for mercy, then they’re ‘radical leftists.’

submitted 13 days ago • 612 comments

FAFO, fuckers.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

submitted 15 days ago • 774 comments

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

submitted 16 days ago • 3187 comments

The, "We don't mind 'X' as long as it's done legally" crowd sure doesn't seem to care what Musk is doing.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Also if you hire people, hire trans people. This is important. Put trans people on in all the ways. Make sure you are seen publicly supporting them in every way you can.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you.

submitted 18 days ago • 1069 comments

Trump “made a show of detailing the supposed concessions made by the neighboring nations in order to gain his mercy — but most of the agreements were already in place before this weekend’s trade dispute.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

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JFC. Welcome to the Dark Ages, The Sequel.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🤔🤔🧐

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“Then the elected officials tried to walk into USAID headquarters, only to have security turn them away, allegedly on Musk’s orders. This is the moment where we remind everyone that ELON MUSK IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL OR A (REAL) GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE.” www.wonkette.com/p/democrats-...

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

I hate that Trump is going to claim he gets a "win" here, even if it turns out he didn't win a single concession. But I would hate far far more for tens of millions of people in the USA, Mexico and Canada to be harmed by any tariffs. Trudeau and Sheinbaum are doing what they need to avoid that.

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They said they were going to try this... ogles.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Acosta, we are with you.

submitted 25 days ago • 377 comments

THIS PLANE CRASH IS 100% TRUMP'S FAULT AND HERE IS WHY.

submitted 25 days ago • 228 comments

Enforcing discrimination and hate through economic coercion. Despicable.

submitted 25 days ago • 359 comments

Open-air corruption. They’re just flaunting it.

submitted 26 days ago • 335 comments

What a weird thing to hate. Also, wouldn't it be really cool if we could solve the root problem so these kids didn't have to struggle w funding to be fed? Oh, a girl can dream...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Posted from a dear friend over on FB (written by the shared-post author, AC Smith) With thanks to Emily Pearl: Wise and important words from sociologist Jennifer Walter about what is happening in this country right now and what to do about it (WHEW boy, these limited character platforms...)

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

I'm at a crossroads. I work at a non-profit (serving a vulnerable population) and as such we are not to do anything that looks like we are endorsing (or battling) a particular political figure. So, friends, what's my workaround? I'm pissed.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

My god. I'm actually having trouble keeping up with all the fuckery happening at lightning speed.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

JFC 🤬

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

It’s started: ICE raided a Chicago-area hospital emergency department today and showed up at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan last week. Share this with any health workers you know. We must know how to respond when ICE comes for our patients and coworkers. jacobin.com/2025/01/hosp...

submitted 28 days ago • 37 comments

You have to understand that Target is a Minnesota company. It’s one of the biggest businesses in the Twin Cities. This is a really big deal.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

By far, one of the easiest things you can do to help right now is support independent journalism.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

In April, For The People Leftist Library project will be putting out a new resource about how local communities can organize people's assemblies focused on their public libraries. We will launch it virtually. I hope that many people will use the resource to organize your own people's assemblies.

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

In my last post, I called for us to fight back against Nazis all over social media. I got comments shaming me that this is useless and the RIGHT thing to do is to organize. Ok, fair. But can we ALSO try to win the social and podcasts battle? Because it helped swing the last election...remember?

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I don't know what to do. Me: Well you can show up for your local public libraries [the only USian institution remaining where the verb 'commoning' has any meaning at all] and here's how. Some people: I don't know what to do.

submitted 30 days ago • 71 comments

oh so when pixar makes a movie about monsters harvesting the fear of children as an energy source its a classic family film but when i do that in real life its bad. grow up

submitted 31 days ago • 57 comments

i really like when horror movies have a scene with like, a horde of creatures gorily mutilating and eating a giant hunk of meat or a corpse and then a scientist / gov official is like "hungry little guys, aren't they?" and everyone else is aghast. more of this

submitted 31 days ago • 82 comments

From time to time, I bring you views about what’s happening in the United States from writers and journalists in other countries. This piece is from a columnist in Canada. Read it and let me know your thoughts.

submitted 31 days ago • 477 comments

The only thing more dangerous than a vengeful president is an opposition that’s too despondent to fight back. “There won’t be an election in 4 years.” Oh really? Please. You don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

submitted 30 days ago • 407 comments

I just remind myself that no one can ever take cats or Stevie Nicks away from me ✨

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

submitted 31 days ago • 753 comments