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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 17 hours ago • 551 comments

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 19 hours ago • 57 comments

China seems to have used Llama to build an AI surveillance tool to collect anti-China social media posts, and presumably intimidate at least some of the people who posted them. The power of open weights www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I’m encouraged by these town halls but I also remember very clearly how this happened in 2017 as well. Instead of responding to the complaints, they stopped doing them. www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...

submitted 1 day ago • 415 comments

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

submitted 1 day ago • 1710 comments

Both CNN and CBS News are reporting that “The US Marshals Service has deputized members of Elon Musk’s private security detail, granting them certain protections of federal law enforcement”

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 1 day ago • 1244 comments

So we’re punishing small business owners and entrepreneurs based on the policies of the cities they live in.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

It’s amazing to me that people still question whether or not Trump is a stooge for Putin.

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

1. AUDIO On Monday in Fairbanks, Congressman Nick Begich (R-AK) told a constituent laid off from a job with the federal gov't that there was nothing he could do to stop budget cuts imposed by DOGE and Elon Musk Begich said he was "not in a position to approve or deny the cuts"

submitted 2 days ago • 306 comments

And there it is: Pay or else www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

What I’ve been saying (screaming). Now there’s data.

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

submitted 2 days ago • 222 comments

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

submitted 2 days ago • 1310 comments