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Seems like the relevance of this Reagan-era Herblock cartoon has risen by 200%. Washington Post, 12/22/1988.

submitted 7 hours ago • 135 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

Gonna practice my spelling so I can write-in this name on every election from now on…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Until you can make a cultural connection” oh you mean like Lunch and Not Like Us, that kind of culture? Or…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

submitted 9 days ago • 810 comments

“Until you make a cultural connection” oh you mean like A Minor and Pink Pony Club, that kind of culture? Or…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening. Like all federal employees in the US, I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a president…” 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 10 days ago • 943 comments

“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 11 days ago • 290 comments

these are segregationists.

submitted 10 days ago • 192 comments

Arguably we are overdue for what is happening now. I think that's why so many communities of color are upset but not spiraling. White people are experiencing our reality. Trust the government? Why? The US government unified to oppress and not much else. Certainly not to progress

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Whether it's the White House, or reporters uncritically relaying its every utterance, those claiming that placing "DOGE" within the Executive Office of the President automatically "shields" its records under the Presidential Records Act are demonstrably wrong. New from me: medium.com/@anthony_cla...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

submitted 11 days ago • 1312 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 12 days ago • 439 comments

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

submitted 12 days ago • 1306 comments

Less than 1% of patients appeal health insurance denials, which can be a long, difficult process. But up to three-quarters of appeals are granted. (gift link) www.wsj.com/health/healt...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

End-thread: a long one, but a good one

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Well, they did it: the city of Fremont CA (in the southeast area of the San Francisco Bay Area) made it a misdemeanor to “aid or abet” a homeless person. Government policies make people homeless, then make it illegal to help homeless people. Unbefuckinglievable. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 12 days ago • 520 comments

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

submitted 12 days ago • 185 comments

Every Democrat in every abortion hostile state should be introducing legislation to compensate pregnant people who are denied abortions—not performative legislation that serves no purpose.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, quit after the Justice Dept. told her to withdraw corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

To be clear, it's not a mistake that grants to train special ed teachers were cancelled. MAGA absolutely considers those to be verboten "DEI," and Silicon Valley considers them contrary to their eugenics project.

submitted 13 days ago • 79 comments

So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings!

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

This is the best piece of journalism I’ve read in a very long time: Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor. What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.

submitted 15 days ago • 801 comments

Your reminder that fame is not wealth and America is broken. Mainstream people know him as the cabbie from SCROOGED, but he’s a prolific musician and entertainer who has been at the heart of music since the late ‘70s. variety.com/2025/music/n...

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 17 days ago • 145 comments

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 18 days ago • 273 comments

Sexual Assailant Surrounds Himself With Girls While Signing Decree Allowing Genital Inspections perfect hed @susanrinkunas.com

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just was alerted to this, and this is goddamned terrifying and a five alarm fire. www.justice.gov/ag/media/138... Page 2 specifically:

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

my brain cannot process this >heritage foundation lead researcher comes out as trans on twitter >all her right wing coworkers use her correct pronouns and name and congratulate her what

submitted 19 days ago • 162 comments

NASA moves to erase 'women in leadership,' 'Indigenous people' from websites www.chron.com/news/space/a...

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

"The metaphor of that marriage feels salient to the reality of American life right now. The reality is, he wasn’t like that when we married. He became that over time. And it got worse when I fought for my freedom and happiness. And even worse when I finally left." @lyz.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 21 days ago • 2836 comments

Following the CDC's removal of critical health data and the potential approval of RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, it is crucial to access accurate health information from independent sources such as the WHO, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, and peer-reviewed journals.

submitted 21 days ago • 362 comments