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Pussy Riot came to NYC to tell us “ We see the rise of authoritarianism here and we want go call people to not be silent. We want ppl to remember not to give up”.

submitted 11 hours ago • 78 comments

LISTEN to Barack Obama: The most important office in this democracy is the citizen. Freedom tomorrow is not a given—it has to be fought for.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

The budget from congressional Republicans gives $25 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy and big corporations over the next 30 years, and pays for it by raising costs, taking away health care, and threatening the economic security of everyday Americans.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

‘Not here to say I told you so’: Kamala Harris says this is what ‘we knew would happen’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7KB...

submitted 22 hours ago • 109 comments

I can’t get over how grants that were 1) funded by Congress through the appropriation process, and 2) awarded through a rigorous and blind review system, can now be 3) rescinded by unelected and unqualified DOGE bros through a haphazard gutting likely dependent on word searches and GROK.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Who did this?

submitted 23 hours ago • 1384 comments

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

submitted 19 hours ago • 213 comments

Oh man, somebody get him out of there. He’s crazy.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1858 comments

Tomorrow is for us. #PowerToThePeople

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 17 hours ago • 654 comments

Kamala Harris: There were many things that we knew would happen.. I’m not here to say I told you so

submitted 1 day ago • 1142 comments

Yes exactly.

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 2 days ago • 877 comments

Protesters in Paris, France set an American flag and a cardboard Tesla on fire.

submitted 1 day ago • 550 comments

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

We live in the dumbest timeline. That's the skeet

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"My message to the rest of the Democratic Party is if you are not willing to meet that bar, then step aside for somebody who will. Because we're at a moment right now where we do need people who are willing to fight, willing to show some spine, willing to break through in this media environment."

submitted 1 day ago • 482 comments

Newsom: He took water that was set aside for this summer from one part of Central Valley and dumped it into another part—without telling them.. They had to turn off the pump because it was starting to impact the levees. None of it went to Southern California.

submitted 1 day ago • 333 comments

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.

submitted 1 day ago • 1058 comments

handsoff2025.com Saturday APRIL 5TH 2025 YOUR POWER IS YOUR VOICE PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE to JOIN near you Trump and Musk think this country belongs to them.!! This Saturday, we're taking to the streets Nationwide to FIGHT BACK with a clear message: HANDS OFF PASS IT ON !!

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane

submitted 2 days ago • 669 comments

Congratu-BLEEPING-lations! It’s time we had a little talk about your use of expletive infixation. ‘Expletive infixation’ is the linguistic term for profanity inserted into a word for emphasis. (For this thread, we’ll use 'BLEEPING,' but feel free to substitute another word.)

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

Apparently Trump found the one way not to have everyone talk about Signalgate.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

30 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me.

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Thank you to whoever made this

submitted 1 day ago • 645 comments

With every week of additional horrors in the news I find a different part of my lecture course I feel I should expand. “Yeah, need to add more on McCarthyism and education …” “Well, probably could beef up wartime internment …” “OK, so time to revisit the depths of the Great Depression …”

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

America just shot itself in the nuts to “own the libs”

submitted 1 day ago • 1480 comments

Has anyone seen just one news article explaining that these are not actually "reciprocal" tariffs? Just one? Please link me.

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

Please reporters and editors. I’m begging you!

submitted 2 days ago • 318 comments

Every time I dipped in he was talking about health care for seniors & disabled, veterans benefits, democracy, tax cuts for billionaires, tariffs, selling out our allies, etc, while doing something this small, petty, weak propagandist could never do physically or intellectually.

submitted 3 days ago • 436 comments

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

submitted 2 days ago • 821 comments

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

submitted 2 days ago • 2166 comments

We needed eloquent leadership and fight. We got that today from Booker.

submitted 3 days ago • 538 comments

A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

submitted 2 days ago • 1252 comments

“Liberation” Day.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

submitted 3 days ago • 533 comments

My advice is if your law firm can't say this, get yourself a new law firm. "Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."

submitted 3 days ago • 554 comments

Crockett: To have the sitting AG go on Faux News and decide that she wanted to send a threat to me was wrong.. I don’t like Elon Musk. I’m going to say it 50,000 times.

submitted 2 days ago • 466 comments

And loving America means fighting to make it better.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

submitted 2 days ago • 843 comments

I called my senators today and told them I want Cory Booker to be the senate minority leader. We can’t hold hearings. We don’t have subpoena power. We can’t pass budgets. But we CAN filibuster, and we CAN change party leadership.

submitted 2 days ago • 1011 comments

Mallory McMorrow didn’t come to play it safe—she’s here to shake things up. A bold reformer, she’s taking on Michigan’s U.S. Senate race with a clear message: it’s time for real change in the Democratic Party. Michigan deserves a fighter. Let’s back her.

submitted 2 days ago • 293 comments

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”

submitted 3 days ago • 696 comments

they are not just ending careers with these layoffs, the functional result is going cauterize entire career paths. you cannot possibly overstate the damage these layoffs are doing to the ability for anyone to have a career of "being a scientist" in this country.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

A friendly reminder, from a teacher: Reward the behavior you want to see. Even if it's not when you wanted it. Even if it's not as great as you were hoping for. Even if the person who's doing it metaphorically shat the bed before.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments