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Good work everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

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Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

submitted 7 days ago • 368 comments

Andrew Tate: “I'm very close with the Trump family. I know them well. I spoke to Barron after the incident [In Butler]. I look forward to once I'm free being with Donald Trump in person."

submitted 11 days ago • 280 comments

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

submitted 20 days ago • 309 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 20 days ago • 532 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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"We are acting in the interest of every man who acts decently and fairly by his fellows...I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people, or a few ruthless and domineering men, whose wealth makes them peculiarly formidable." -- Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

@karaswisher.bsky.social on Elon Musk post that judges should be fired …

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day

submitted 33 days ago • 114 comments

i’m sorry but this guy is the most try hard pick me i’ve ever seen.

submitted 33 days ago • 2410 comments

Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 941 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 35 days ago • 2648 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Ronald Reagan: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.”

submitted 39 days ago • 309 comments

This is a reminder that no one can convince Trump voters to no longer support Trump, better than Trump can.

submitted 40 days ago • 3439 comments

This. 👇

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And so it begins. Sam Kuffel, a meteorologist for CBS58, has reportedly been fired for criticizing Elon Musk’s arm gesture on her personal social media account.

submitted 48 days ago • 773 comments

If she can do it, we can all do it.

submitted 48 days ago • 1753 comments

This is an excellent quote for today.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

The Contrarian is not in the business of accommodating the interests of corporations or authoritarians. We're in the business of supporting a free press—unencumbered by billionaire interference.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

A serious constitutional crisis is taking place in North Carolina where Republicans are trying to steal a state Supreme Court election by disenfranchising 60,000 voters AFTER the count and recount have showed the Democrat won. Please watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yW...

submitted 62 days ago • 538 comments

What republicans want to do here is really really bad and undemocratic www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

submitted 62 days ago • 240 comments

That's a fast leak abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...

submitted 62 days ago • 118 comments

Trump claims Greenland is needed for self defense. Hmmmm, from who? Answer: Russia So maybe instead let’s just make sure Russia is defeated in Ukraine? Makes sense

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Posting this piece again. In teaching leadership - to MBAs, healthcare providers, other professionals - when I ask them to define their values (what they believe, what guides their actions) - few can answer. We each can fix that with reflection. www.thebulwark.com/p/i-helped-t...

submitted 81 days ago • 45 comments

If a church doesn’t have a food pantry or a soup kitchen or a closet full of clothes and blankets open to the public or isn’t showing up at natural disasters to help, why does that church have a tax-exempt status?

submitted 81 days ago • 973 comments

I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.

submitted 81 days ago • 1900 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 81 days ago • 235 comments

If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.

submitted 85 days ago • 501 comments