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When following the headlines fills me with despair, it's comforting to cuddle with a family member who remains blissfully unconcerned about fascism. That would be Trixie (a/k/a Bat-Mite).

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This might be a radical position but I think the government shouldn’t act to harm those that entrusted them with power. Especially when a clear harm to our populace is understood to be the result, the most harmed always are the most vulnerable.

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Anyone have any idea how many students loan holders this impacts ? www.kvue.com/article/news...

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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They’re bombing Gaza again. Horrors upon horror www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

submitted 4 days ago • 722 comments

Yes sir, you’re getting it

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Celia is a Central Valley sweet potato worker. She shares: I'm going to participate in the March 31 #CesarChavez immigration march in Delano, CA. I'm a American citizen, but I too once worried if we were going to return home with our children. These raids must stop. #WeFeedYou

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Spot. Fucking. On. Hear the primal scream and DO SOMETHING!

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

Here's the difference between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Elon Musk takes over something he didn't create, and then takes credit for its success. Donald Trump takes over something he didn't create, and then destroys it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

Good. The Party needs to be reformed, rebuilt, and culled of folks who are incapable of fighting and corrupted by dark money. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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@warnock.senate.gov: "If they're interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with co-president Musk's own companies, and ask why has he gotten $20 billion and more from the federal government. This is wealth-fare at its worst."

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I mean.

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“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 514 comments

anyway, this is Curtis Yarvin talking expressly about the motivation underlying the Trump Pentagon's shift to drone-centric warfare: they want a cryptographically verifiable thousand-year reich which excludes the possibility of popular revolt or democracy forever.

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If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

submitted 12 hours ago • 538 comments

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

submitted 13 hours ago • 162 comments

You’re not a real politician, so there’s that!

submitted 13 hours ago • 262 comments

One of my best friends puts these signs in front of her house. We need to be brave

submitted 13 hours ago • 489 comments

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

submitted 12 hours ago • 899 comments

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 13 hours ago • 507 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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That’s a shame that Skadden took away Rachel Cohen’s email access. Because after I read her LinkedIn post early this morning, I sent this email to her. If anyone is in touch with her, please forward this to her. Thank you.

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The United States is no longer a nation under the rule of law. I urge Canadians to avoid travel. Illegal detentions and kidnapping by ICE have become all too common for travellers and those with working VISAs. Stay away at this time. boingboing.net/2025/03/20/d...

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They're terrorizing our federal employees in real ways and the impact is devastating for all of us. I spoke to a VA employee and FBI Agent about what they're experiencing and it will shock you. This is the most important thing I've written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 21 hours ago • 554 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 21 hours ago • 332 comments

Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost. Please don't tell me we can't do the same.

submitted 21 hours ago • 717 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3589 comments

they want to make us slaves

submitted 20 hours ago • 148 comments

You're not overreacting

submitted 21 hours ago • 181 comments

A "former" major Democratic law firm. Lawyers at Paul Weiss now have a choice. Stay and understand you are now aligned with Trump or leave with your dignity.

submitted 21 hours ago • 186 comments

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

submitted 21 hours ago • 119 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 17 hours ago • 264 comments

Trump is now demanding that the Governor of Maine apologize and “never” challenge him again or else the entire state will face consequences.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1257 comments

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

submitted 19 hours ago • 76 comments

There's a reason why they're freaking out over what's happening to Tesla. It's working. There's a reason they're threatening absurd consequences. They need to scare you back into civility and compliance. As long as we're reluctant to cross the lines they ignore daily, they have the upper hand.

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“George Conway, a frequent Trump critic and a former partner at a major law firm, told NBC News that firms need to look beyond the bottom line: “‘They have a moral duty to defend the very system that has allowed them to make the kind of money that they make. … (1/2)

submitted 19 hours ago • 277 comments

Maddow approached something important last night but immediately added a caveat saying in effect she didn’t want to delve into Trump’s lifestyle habits then talked about how he isn’t available in the mornings and his public schedule begins late afternoon.

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If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.

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The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE. Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands. #FightOligarchy (🎥: Bastian Brauns)

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a president who squeaked in on a 49%-48% win is governing as though he has a 1936/1984 style mandate and for SOME reason the leaders of our opposition party are agreeing he does

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BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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AOC always gets it right...

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Colorado…

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chef’s kiss 💋 perfection

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So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?

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