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What do you know about the degrowth movement? It's decolonization of the economy and society for a more just and sustainable future: "Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries." degrowth.info/degrowth

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Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉 It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm

submitted 1 day ago • 322 comments

NYT: “DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its ‘wall of receipts’ leaderboard after variousnews outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations…” newrepublic.com/post/191973/...

submitted 1 day ago • 516 comments

I love her.

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Jose shares, "I'm working pruning in the pistachios. I earn CAs minimum wage. It's really hard because I don't earn enough to support my family. The wages are very low and everything is very expensive. My salary is not enough." #WeFeedYou

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 1 day ago • 2797 comments

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 1978 comments

Juan is harvesting lemons near Sanger CA. He earns $47 per 1000 lb box. Working at a fast rate, he can fill 2 of these boxes in 6 to 7 hours. He worries about days when it rains as they don't work, and this means they don't earn the money they need for basic expenses. #WeFeedYou

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

I’ve been reading Bishop Budde’s book “How we Learn to be Brave” and I highly recommend it to anyone, faithful or not. This is a time for all of us to be brave, and this book provides a guide that is much needed in this era.

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This is compelling- take the time to read it.

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Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…

submitted 6 days ago • 1034 comments

I think Alzheimer’s is bad, and we should work on prevention, treatments and ideally cures. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 6 days ago • 207 comments

The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.

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Father Pence is not having the ‘King’s’ BS.

submitted 7 days ago • 757 comments

“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 802 comments

...Won't. 😄

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Avian flu isn’t a threat to the general public — yet! Right now, it’s a huge threat to farm workers. They are a firewall protecting the rest of the country. If we don’t protect farm workers, we can’t protect the public.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

submitted 7 days ago • 534 comments

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Joni Ernst, etc: You’ve seen Hegseth, RFK Jr, and others give worthless assurances. You’re now seeing the US appease Putin, and DOJ guardrails crumble. Are you going to let Kash Patel use the FBI against his enemies list and further destroy the rule of law?

submitted 7 days ago • 2107 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 7 days ago • 578 comments

The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

submitted 6 days ago • 839 comments

"The list.. includes words such as underrepresented, underserved, understudied, sex, identity, diverse, women, woman, promote, definition, continuum, ideology, self-assessed, special populations, elderly and disabled. It was not accompanied with an explanation." www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

So can we all agree that if people start losing their homes to a recession we are all gonna band together and buy it back at the auction for a penny while threatening any rich person who tries to come buy it up? Like, this has been done before. We can do it again.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Promoting diversity is not a crime.

submitted 10 days ago • 46 comments

jamelle is correct

submitted 11 days ago • 1327 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

My friend said she and her mom agreed not to speak Spanish to each other in public anymore. Oh man, that hit hard. I’m so sorry this is who we’ve become.

submitted 12 days ago • 984 comments

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

submitted 12 days ago • 1034 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 12 days ago • 1051 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 12 days ago • 794 comments

On this rainy day, these strawberry workers are out trudging through rows of muddy water to bring this sweet fruit to our tables. En este día lluvioso, estos trabajadores de la fresa caminan con dificultad a través de hileras de agua fangosa para traer esta dulce fruta a nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

submitted 12 days ago • 1962 comments

1. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of DOGE launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” URLs that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape.

submitted 15 days ago • 298 comments

Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

submitted 15 days ago • 2425 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 15 days ago • 1392 comments

Treasury Department officials admitted today that the agency “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Musk’s DOGE team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database. The disclosure undercuts the Trump administration’s repeated claims that access was limited to a “read-only” basis.

submitted 14 days ago • 387 comments

jointhepeoplesunion.com

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What the actual *?! The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, the United States DOGE Service, as an entity protected from public records requests and most judicial intervention until at least 2034, by classifying its documents as presidential records.

submitted 16 days ago • 908 comments

Musk Watch launched three weeks ago and our reporting was just cited in a second federal lawsuit filed against the Trump administration. This lawsuit was filed by a coalition of labor unions and alleges DOGE is violating the Privacy Act. Musk Watch is cited six times. muskwatch.com/subscribe