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Overnight, the National Park Service has removed "transgender" and the "T" from the LGBTQ+ acronym on their webpage about the Stonewall National Monument.

submitted 8 days ago • 428 comments

This is the way.

submitted 11 days ago • 822 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 12 days ago • 1911 comments

These powerful and poignant stories will give young readers a new appreciation of the rights afforded to them within a democracy -- and a deeper understanding of why it is so essential to protect democracy by becoming an informed and engaged citizen. www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=32426

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

The American Struggle, boiled down - "I'm human too"

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

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submitted 21 days ago • 571 comments

* looking @ people who "sat this one out" * You had one job.

submitted 23 days ago • 85 comments

in 1933, the German Communist Party had a slogan: "after Hitler, us." they figured he'd fuck up so badly that voters would vote for them in the next election. Hitler abolished elections and had all the commies murdered. do you see where I'm going with this

submitted 23 days ago • 205 comments

A time for ‘a look inward’, if ever there was one…👇 Thanks Canada, for a reminder that needs to be said, out loud! Introspection. Defined. ✨

submitted 24 days ago • 400 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 24 days ago • 151 comments

👇👇👇👇

submitted 24 days ago • 1205 comments

Sharing my throwback earworm for your nostalgia and enjoyment: youtu.be/LpLb2A6QF_E?...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It's been several years (probably more) since I last made banana bread. My recipe says it makes two pans. The pans didn't look full enough. Baked anyway - yeah, no that should have been one pan. Did I once know this? More mysteries lost to the covid brainvoid.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 26 days ago • 3624 comments

Seems to me the term "Tech Bros" is becoming the modern day synonym for "Robber Barons"

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Let Denmark cook.

submitted 29 days ago • 1699 comments

The cruelty has always been the point!

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

submitted 34 days ago • 1660 comments

The only thing cuter than a capybara is a baby capybara

submitted 34 days ago • 234 comments

The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones inside classrooms, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

I have a suggestion for you. In times of trouble and strife, there is therapeutic benefit in being among trees and in physical contact with them. So if you can, go hug a tree today, the bigger the better. This huge old chinkapin oak is known as The Great God Tree.

submitted 34 days ago • 315 comments