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Please boycott my country and tell US airlines that you won’t waste money on a ticket to nowhere. Make the airlines lobby the administration to end this fascist madness. They will scream loudly when their lucrative international revenue dries up.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

it doesn't seem to even matter how often the institutional left acknowledges "men's problems" because way too many men have already tuned them out and are instead listening to multi-millionaire right wing podcasters who constantly lie to them about how the left doesn't acknowledge their problems

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.

submitted 11 days ago • 349 comments

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

submitted 16 days ago • 234 comments

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

I loved it so much though

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 28 days ago • 643 comments

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

also shit like this is a reminder why flight attendant's unions have the power to collapse this country. they are critical first responders. nothing moves without them and when shit goes wrong they save so many lives.

submitted 31 days ago • 31 comments

Heres how it goes: Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup After He Lost the 2022 Election Brazil’s attorney general has charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with. He now faces potential arrest. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

This is 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

"Unexpectedly" is actually not an accurate descriptor of polices historically know to .... raise inflation

submitted 38 days ago • 84 comments

It's called The Gulf of Mexico. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

submitted 38 days ago • 913 comments

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

submitted 39 days ago • 1178 comments

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 39 days ago • 3865 comments

Kendrick's Superbowl halftime show was like the Large Hadron Collider for being a hater. we have discovered entirely new forms of hate thanks to his trailblazing work.

submitted 40 days ago • 93 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 40 days ago • 159 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 41 days ago • 546 comments

Trump further inflamed the Middle East & stunned us all. In WH beside beaming Netanyahu he said: “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. We'll own it ... We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal, the Riviera of the Middle East." NO. Gaza belongs to its people. Period.

submitted 45 days ago • 68 comments

You lied on your resume and got the job. Now what?

submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

What if there were a coup, the US government fell to a drug-addled oligarch who seized control of our money, secrets, and levers of power, and Corporate media did not report on it?

submitted 47 days ago • 689 comments

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

submitted 48 days ago • 1701 comments

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 49 days ago • 1062 comments

i guess this is better than trump saying "this situation should not have been prevented, figure-skating children are the new al Qaeda and this war will demand sacrifices from us all"

submitted 51 days ago • 36 comments

new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

Yep.

submitted 51 days ago • 328 comments

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

submitted 58 days ago • 188 comments

It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself.

submitted 59 days ago • 37 comments

Election Interference and what's happening on Twitter (X). Letter from an X employee! Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference. theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks... #cdnpoli #peipoli

submitted 59 days ago • 36 comments

submitted 60 days ago • 1067 comments

It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.

submitted 61 days ago • 889 comments

🚨 BREAKING: Joe Biden Grants Clemency To Leonard Peltier www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

submitted 61 days ago • 85 comments

Deep breaths. Have a cat picture. We can do this.

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How are we all doing tonight? 😭

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

submitted 65 days ago • 104 comments

In toxic cultures, people get promoted for results even if they destroy relationships. Abuse is a price to pay for high performance. In healthy cultures, no level of individual excellence justifies undermining people. You’re not a high performer if you don't elevate others. ~ Adam Grant

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment