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submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

Update on #RocklandCounty lawsuit asking for #recount of the #2024election. Press release on AP apnews.com/press-releas... Help us raise $100,000 by our next court date 9/22/25. We're trying to raise $895/day. We did that for 3 days so far!! Thx to all of you!! www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Some people just can't keep from telling on themselves. The ETA has made an updated "suspicious quotes" compilation video (now featuring clips from 2025) to make sure these telling moments stay firmly on our collective radar. YouTube Link 👇 youtube.com/shorts/ClkJc...

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

submitted 22 days ago • 344 comments

Republican Senator Thom Tillis just said he’s not comfortable voting for Trump’s nominee for US Attorney Ed Martin after it was revealed he went on a white nationalist podcast.

submitted 47 days ago • 261 comments

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

submitted 47 days ago • 430 comments

Historian here slaveholders would hang or put the heads of slave rebels on sticks to line a road as a lesson to others. This performative propaganda by the Trump regime is an insult to the American republic, the rule of law, democratic governance, and human rights.

submitted 49 days ago • 34 comments

Fascinating and important (and depressing!) from @semaforben.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 33 comments

the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

submitted 49 days ago • 202 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 50 days ago • 313 comments

MEDIA ADVISORY: Congressman Al Green Cordially Invites You to the Congressional Art Competition and Explore the Original Masterpieces Crafted by Ninth Congressional District Students. Watch the Facebook live stream Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 10:00 A.M. CT: www.facebook.com/repalgreen?m...

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Please spread the word on this everyone. @maddow.msnbc.com @meidastouch.com @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 54 days ago • 598 comments

My youngest ever unaccompanied minor client was only three years old when his case began. Children who are alone in immigration court need legal representation.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

submitted 54 days ago • 373 comments

This is so disgusting. Show your face cowards!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 56 days ago • 61 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 55 days ago • 754 comments

I know democrats are doing everything they can at the moment but it really appears that a lesson needs to be taken from South Korea. @aoc.bsky.social @algreen.house.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov @booker.senate.gov @meidastouch.com @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

✈️ ICE CHARTERS—EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL EDITION 🐣🧵 TYS50–Eastern Air Express 737 🛫 San Antonio, flying E over Texas Track: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a8b479

submitted 57 days ago • 14 comments

Due process wasn’t a gift of the Founders. It was a concession they fought to avoid—and lost. When we call it foundational, we erase the struggle that made it possible. It’s not a founding value. It’s a resistance victory. #resistancehistory www.patreon.com/posts/sembla...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

quick question: why was noem carrying $3,000 in cash? was she just out selling drugs or something?

submitted 56 days ago • 2607 comments

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submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome" Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018. snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...

submitted 56 days ago • 48 comments

This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

submitted 56 days ago • 647 comments