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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 188 comments

Humans care for the rich, robots are forced on the poor. The neoliberal fantasy of the oligarchs is coming to fruition by the way of austerity measures and spending cuts. Why pay for actual human support if a robot can tick the checkbox.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

"One might also adapt historian Peter Linebaugh’s term “thanatocracy” for our society, where health care is expensive but guns are plentiful, and justice depends on who is on their receiving end." progressive.org/magazine/mak...

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 547 comments

“Destroy the republic, build a startup nation? Taken together, all of Musk’s and Trump’s moves lay the foundation for what cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan calls ‘the network state.’” By Allison Stanger, 2/7/25 1/ theconversation.com/efficiency-o...

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

NEW: Two weeks ago gov't IT experts warned us that the worst case scenario would be if DOGE got full admin access to agency systems. We can report at at least one agency DOGE has unfettered "god mode" access. Our latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Authorities in Gaza say Israel is blocking 135,000 mobile homes, 500 bulldozers, and other humanitarian aid promised in the first phase of the ceasefire deal. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/8eizdz

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Congress is pushing bills to silence criticism of Israel, punish activism, and criminalize boycotts. Here’s what you need to know: mondoweiss.net/2025/02/what...

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UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

1) The letter is not legal 2) Do not comply in advance!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 3 days ago • 1368 comments

Hey zine makers and zine librarians: Tranzmission Prison Project, an LGBTQ+-centered prison advocacy and abolition group, is looking for digital files of zines on specific topics. They will print paper copies to share. If you can help them out, please consider it! 📚

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

So can we all agree that if people start losing their homes to a recession we are all gonna band together and buy it back at the auction for a penny while threatening any rich person who tries to come buy it up? Like, this has been done before. We can do it again.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor. What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through. bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 41 days ago • 401 comments

Union Square anti-Trump rally is on the move.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Union Square rally.

submitted 5 days ago • 499 comments

Another infectious disease no one is discussing “In Kansas, USA, public health workers are battling one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history. As of Jan 31, 67 patients in the Kansas City metropolitan area had active infections and 79 latent cases have been identified”

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Can everyone please call Congress, the courts, and anyone else you can think of to find out wtf this is

submitted 5 days ago • 198 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 5 days ago • 369 comments

🚨1 If you're attending a protest, make sure to save this post or the graphics in the thread. Knowing your rights, staying safe, & protecting others is essential. Be prepared, look out for each other, and keep fighting for what’s right. Stay safe out there! Credit meganthuy & blmlouisville IG

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

A Black transgender woman's testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then her identity was attacked. Some see parallels to today's climate.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

okay, non-profits, we’re next. we can’t forget the bill that allows the government to unilaterally shut down a 501c3 it accuses of funding terrorism.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

They are after disabled people in every way they can find. This is a good thread on wheelchairs in particular. Mari has a lot of experience.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

The word “women” is on the list.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I think of their cowardice now and despise them.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

“Diversity is better for the bottom line,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said. “In a global economy, those who reject the multicultural nature of consumerism and business will be left in the past they are living in.” #DEI apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

I knew she was good at tennis but this is just remarkable court coverage to be there at Stonewall on the front lines while she was a 12 year old living in Czechoslovakia without a passport at the time

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

In Ferguson, they swept phone data from the crowd, then later drove down streets and if there were 2 or more of those people in a house, they raided it.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Imagine writing a sentence as tortured as this just to say “Nazis support other Nazis”

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Anti-Musk protest at Tesla in Portland happening now

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Honest question: Why are our former #Presidents, Vps and their spouses, and all those #celebrities who took the stage for Harris so silent instead of heading with #courage our, the People's, #resistance and #protests? Where are they??? @hcrichardson.bsky.social @politicsgirl.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 114 comments

The Polish foreign minister understands Trump better than 90% of D.C. Democrats.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

Over 200 in Berkeley! #TeslaTakedown Teslatakedown.com

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

In front of Lurie children’s hospital in Chicago, hundreds of people are showing up to defend access to gender-affirming care for trans youth!! ❤️❤️❤️

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/02/15/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The "100 Days of Creative Resistance” project delivers a free email of encouragement, opposition, and commiseration from 100 iconoclastic contemporary voices on each of the first 100 days of the 47th president’s regime. www.writingco-lab.com/100-days?utm...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

CDC said that it now classified the #flu season as high severity for all age-groups for the first time since the 2017-18 season. Over the past 2 weeks, flu deaths have outpaced fatalities from #COVID and now make up 2.6% of all deaths for the most recent week, compared to 1.5% for COVID.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

New: Tesla and SpaceX relied on work by undocumented immigrants while Elon Musk advocated for a border crackdown

submitted 8 days ago • 69 comments

Do people not understand what’s happening with the Eric Adams thing? The memo instructing the prosecution to be dropped explicitly said it was because he was carrying out the president’s agenda. It was “you’re working for me, so we’re letting you go.” It was an explicitly corrupt bargain

submitted 9 days ago • 249 comments

hard to read this any other way than that death of lgbtq people is the explicit goal

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments