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“Safety and security don’t just happen; they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.” — Nelson Mandela
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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:

submitted 9 hours ago • 187 comments

Dear manager: 1. Friday night I crashed your party 2. Saturday I said, "I'm sorry" 3. Sunday came and trashed me out again 4. I was only having fun, wasn't hurting anyone 5. And we all enjoyed the weekend for a change

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Keep this in mind about African Americans—this is not our first. Our ancestors fought for the freedoms people take for granted today. White people didn’t just wake up one day and decide to hand out rights to non-white people. It was a battle—hard-won, paid for in blood and sweat—never given freely.

submitted 3 hours ago • 38 comments

I’m kinda blown away by all these TikToks of people showing up to Republican reps’ town halls & letting them have it over Musk/Trump/DOGE. It seems grassroots. If it becomes a lasting trend to go to town halls, shout down people who are lying to you, and post it online, we might all survive this.

submitted 6 hours ago • 60 comments

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submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

more often than not in 2025, I've been incredibly annoyed that the emotional regulation skills I developed last year—due to months of truly awful stuff—have to be used to deal with things like mass layoffs of federal employees and learning Dan Bongino was appointed the deputy director of the FBI

submitted 2 hours ago • 10 comments

When 47 verbally attacked and threatened Governor Mills of Maine, I felt triggered. My biological father used to speak in a similar manner, always threatening and demeaning, especially toward women. This is how abusers operate. I know I’m not alone in having encountered people like this in my life..

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

"Woke just means you give a damn about other people." — Jane Fonda accepting the Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards

submitted 3 hours ago • 48 comments

Dear Manager: 1. Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen 2. Pour myself a cup of ambition 3. And yawn and stretch and try to come to life 4. Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin' 5. Out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin' With folks like me on the job from nine to five

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Several US government agencies have advised their employees to ignore for now a demand from Elon Musk’s government efficiency office to justify their jobs or face dismissal

submitted 3 hours ago • 37 comments

Tillis is up for reelection in NC next year.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1974 comments

I’ve lived in Boston for 43 years. The only people more diehard are Philadelphians. If Homan wants to come to Boston & fuck around & find out, bring it on. He might want to open a history book to find what to expect. Boston doesn’t fear tyrants, kings, or red hats. We’ll meet you at Boston Harbor.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

I’ve been doing a lot of research about the people being laid off at the national parks and it turns out it has nothing to do with DEI or performance. It’s a land grab so they can drill baby drill.

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

ICYMI… IDAHO… “A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos… men who dragged Teresa Borrenpohl from the meeting worked for private security firm LEAR Asset Management…“ Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGcAW0e...

submitted 3 hours ago • 77 comments

Happy Birthday to WEB Du Bois, who wrote about the wildly important concept of psychological wages of whiteness in the first history of Reconstruction, *Black Reconstruction in America*, which he messily dedicated to his mistress, Dr. Virginia Alexander, and not his wife, Nina Gomer #BookSky

submitted 15 hours ago • 34 comments

Oh, you have got to be kidding me.

submitted 3 hours ago • 138 comments

Trump’s ugly twists, deranged turns, and flagrant lies are damaging the United States and its allies. The best among us are now the victims of Trump’s betrayals and vengeance — struggling to survive. Trump’s verbal attacks on Ukraine are comparable to “Russian aggression.” Utterly despicable.

submitted 3 hours ago • 24 comments

WSJ now exposes the bullshit, too. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Want to know why the US has been free from polio since 1979? Vaccines. Which RFK Jr. wants to get rid of. Look around and see what’s happening here now that politicians gave him control of our highest federal health agency. Read more ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/vaccines-a...

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

The cruelty has always been the point. From Heather Cox Richardson…

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

The heartbreak. Trump claims USAID is bankrupting America—it’s less than 1% of the budget. Meanwhile, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is gutting the largest food aid provider. He could end world hunger & still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Not just greed. We’re watching evil at work.

submitted 5 hours ago • 261 comments

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Friendly reminder that Michael Fanone wasn’t scheduled to work on January 6, he self-deployed in response to radio calls for assistance. The man is a hero. Tarrio and his traitorous clan of COD-cosplaying buffoons need to be shunned from society for the rest of time.

submitted 14 hours ago • 56 comments

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library exists with her own funding, in addition to state funding. States, such as Indiana, are beginning to cut such funding. Her library program gifts FREE BOOKS TO CHILDREN. We ride at dawn for Dolly Parton, always. Thank you for your book joy💛 tinyurl.com/DollyYahoo

submitted 12 hours ago • 18 comments

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submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

#ResistanceRoots #Voices4Victory #BlackHistoryMonth Today in history, 1979: Frank Peterson becomes the first African American general in the Marine Corps. Told when he enlisted that he’d make a great steward, Peterson vowed to become a combat pilot and entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. /1

submitted 7 hours ago • 69 comments

my cousin in the VA has to explain to a 4chan Doge tween what her day of helping elderly veterans consists of and my rage at these preposterous assholes is bottomless

submitted 14 hours ago • 57 comments

Irvine, CA stands against government corruption and will be here every Sunday until democracy has been restored.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

From inside NIH -- earlier today apparently staff received guidance from HHS that they should in fact respond to the inane five bullets email, but then NIH leadership told them not to, and then hours later HHS leadership told them they'll let everyone know by noon on Monday. Things are going great.

submitted 5 hours ago • 42 comments

All Pete Hegseth talks about is being a warrior and instilling a warrior mindset in the military. Personal courage is the cornerstone of the warrior ethos. I wonder how that fits with being such a coward as to fire generals with 35 or more years of service in a press release on a Friday night.

submitted 5 hours ago • 659 comments

never seen such inefficiency and waste... these people are know nothings wasting taxpayer $: www.wsj.com/us-news/thou...

submitted 10 hours ago • 45 comments

Anyway I just wanted to thank John Oliver for introducing me to this banger #HostileGovernmentTakeover

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

Trump will take minerals he steals from Ukraine and give them to Putin. That is what traitors do when Putin owns them. Save this post.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 2 days ago • 1062 comments

They want the market to crash so they can buy everything for pennies on the dollar. They. Don’t. Care.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

People are losing their lives and livelihoods and this psychopath and his technobro puppeteer are cracking jokes…

submitted 11 hours ago • 345 comments

It just remains very weird that a former heroin abuser is now trying to determine drug policy for your kids

submitted 8 hours ago • 71 comments

THE REAL REASON "Research indicates ketamine can alter the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), which stabilizes vision during head movements."

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

Wow! What a great cover!

submitted 8 hours ago • 284 comments

THE ONLY REASON "Ketamine-induced mydriasis can lead to increased light sensitivity, known as photophobia, making bright environments uncomfortable."

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

I have called, emailed & DM'd #Ohio's Bernie Moreno & Jon Husted with the same question: "Will you fight to protect Medicaid?" Their aides either refuse to answer the question or they have failed to reply to me If the answer was yes, they'd say, "Yes!" but they won't #OHpol

submitted 14 hours ago • 54 comments

Not the white man for the moment. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 14 hours ago • 799 comments

Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

submitted 14 hours ago • 449 comments

Ruining lives while you pretend to care about the debt then turning around and pushing to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on a literal ego trip

submitted 15 hours ago • 693 comments

We make a fatal error agonizing over a lack of leadership in DC. There are some leaders there who we should praise. But people have always been ahead of politicians. Stop fuming and start organizing, marching, helping.

submitted 14 hours ago • 124 comments

Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

submitted 13 hours ago • 391 comments

“Look, they’ve got the flag up on Mount Suribachi!” Robert L. Sherrod and the two flags raised on Iwo Jima on this day in 1945 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/09/robe...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments