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The rumors are true: The proposed SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.

submitted 3 hours ago • 118 comments

WATCH: “This is a tragedy for the free world. But first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.” This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...

submitted 18 hours ago • 132 comments

@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 21 hours ago • 144 comments

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

submitted 21 hours ago • 54 comments

PSLF has helped so many people pursue and remain in important industries (namely, education). This attack is horrendous and counterproductive.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Fulbright program is a national treasure and this is just so shitty.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

The news comes just days after a disastrous meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

submitted 5 days ago • 211 comments

ICYMI: Sen. Ted Cruz flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

Here's a story that illustrates why primary sources are important & how Black history is whitewashed. It involves a mass slave escape, Government-sponsored slut-shaming, my nomination for the Blackest name in history & the guy who discovered two words that might end racism. A thread.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

unreal that we’re really letting him jump from one federal agency to another, fire everyone, and loot the remnants for personal profit. it’s a smash and grab on the government

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

submitted 8 days ago • 193 comments

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts we all use are made from the NOAA data we all paid for Make that part clear when you ⬇️

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

submitted 9 days ago • 429 comments

💾 ⬇️ www.democracynow.org/2025/2/28/in...

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

submitted 10 days ago • 173 comments

Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

quiet part out loud.

submitted 14 days ago • 97 comments

Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black mayor of a town to singing music about change, these stories matter.

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 17 days ago • 556 comments

For a brief moment at the end of February, every planet will appear in the night sky simultaneously in a rare celestial spectacle. This so-called planetary parade, which will occur shortly after sunset on 28 February, will be the last time the phenomenon occurs until 2040.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

sabotaging government so that you can turn around and tell people government is broken and that’s why we should privatize everything

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

As. If. This. Weren't. The. Plan. All. Along.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 21 days ago • 2107 comments

According to the WaPo, which got their hands on the next phase of DOGE plans, a severe resegregation of government begins this week. Which, I imagine, will serve as cover for more Musk looting of the treasury. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/15/doge-fire-federal-employees-trump-dei/

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 21 days ago • 477 comments

If you elect an evil, corrupt, incompetent….you can’t be surprised when he turns out to be evil, corrupt and incompetent.

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

It should go without saying, but perhaps not: Removing uncomfortable histories because they fail to glorify the dominant group in power is not the sign of a healthy and free society.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

They are attempting to enforce a new Lost Cause narrative. Just as the original justified Jim Crow, reshaping and constricting our public memory concerning Black contributions and the national struggle against slavery and racism paves the way for the assault on civil rights and re-segregation.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

📌URGENT: The Associated Press is one of the foremost news operations in the world. Without it, most media entities could not survive. 📌Well, the AP has now been barred from the White House. I'd suggest very strongly that any media that gets its news from AP takes a damn stand here in solidarity.

submitted 22 days ago • 344 comments

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 22 days ago • 400 comments

The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico

submitted 22 days ago • 323 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 22 days ago • 506 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 23 days ago • 1306 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 22 days ago • 289 comments

Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. https://wrd.cm/3QkfGh3

submitted 22 days ago • 230 comments

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

submitted 28 days ago • 99 comments

Meanwhile an apartheid emerald fortune heir is shutting down our consumer protection watchdog and firing everyone who makes the government work... for "savings" that'll go straight to his pocket in tax cuts and government contracts. They're robbing us blind while they racially cleanse the country.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

“People should still be encouraged to read and to analyze information without the aid of LLMs or video because it is good for society.”

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

As I said to a reporter today: DOGE is not a management project, centered on efficiency; it is a political project, centered on shrinking the federal government and politicizing core functions.

submitted 24 days ago • 86 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 25 days ago • 596 comments