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For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 9 hours ago • 991 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 12 hours ago • 807 comments

Proposed and ongoing cuts at FEMA and the National Weather Service could endanger public safety when disaster strikes. A critically important analysis from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and @bhensonweather.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/cuts...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1364 comments

Maine’s Gov. Mills: “See you in court.” Trump called her out over the trans athletes ban and threatened to withhold funding, she said she will follow the law. More: thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

submitted 12 hours ago • 167 comments

"Double own goal" - Rolling back on climate actions will result in rise in preventable illness – study #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1411 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1886 comments

Journalists! GIJN webinar on investigating fossil fuel companies is this morning, starting at 9am ET. Join us here: gijn.org/event/gijn-w...

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We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 3 days ago • 802 comments

Trump: "Lee Zeldin. Head of the environment. Environmental ... ah ... the environmental group. Various groups."

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

This new EO is a doozy, clearly written to test the constitutionality of independent agencies at the SCt. It purports to effectively bring all independent agencies - including the Fed Election Cmsn and the Fed (in part) under presidential control. Irreconcilable w/existing law full stop. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5970 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 3 days ago • 628 comments

Over 2,000 webpages containing LGBTQ+ information have been removed from federal government websites.

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 4 days ago • 2646 comments

The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

If this from DOGE is true, then isn't it violating court orders as we speak?

submitted 4 days ago • 191 comments

This is a concentration camp! They're disappearing people to concentration camps! We've seen this before and it leads to some of the most inhumane actions we've seen!

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 4 days ago • 2402 comments

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

submitted 16 days ago • 415 comments

Yes it is a coup.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I just found out that my first book 📗, LAB GIRL 🌱🌿🌳, was challenged by a parent and subsequently removed from the shelves of the library at Walworth High School in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. So I decided to write a 🧵 on book 📚 #censorship 🚫 in American 🇺🇸 schools 🚸 1/n

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

Where are the CEOs of @deltaairline.bsky.social @americanair.bsky.social @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social @jetblue2.bsky.social ? They’re good with this. Where are the leaders of business?

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

submitted 5 days ago • 153 comments

reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 6 days ago • 300 comments

these are segregationists.

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 6 days ago • 302 comments