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The wholesale firing of probationary federal employees is crazy. It makes no sense. It's cruel. It saves practically no money. Everybody should be saying this all the time.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Somewhere in the middle.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

In 30s-40s Germany this was called working towards the Fuhrer. Not getting directives per se, but anticipating what the leader would like. Bezos is one of many in the US doing this.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Another big milestone for our tiny tapir! Ume has her very first tooth coming in and has started mouthing at food and hay. It won’t be long before she’s munching away like mom Yuna! For now, we’re soaking up every adorable moment of her wiggly little nose exploring new items behind the scenes.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

So this is what Marco Rubio was really doing in Panama.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kurt and Murray are absolutely right! Lube is ESSENTIAL, and while some of us make enough of our own, even then a little bit extra can make times extra fun!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

Sam Nordquist. Say his name.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Strong statement from @govkathyhochul.bsky.social about the brutal killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old trans man. Five people have been arrested for allegedly torturing and then killing him. “There must be justice for Sam Nordquist.”

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

Sam Nordquist. May the four winds blow you safely home. 🕯️

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👑

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

This also lets you comment, vigorously and at length, on the accuracy of, and motivations behind, Google's choices.

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

Maryland delegation condemns DOGE at Social Security rally in Woodlawn Story on @thebaltimorebanner.com by @briaovers.bsky.social here --> tinyurl.com/y8n96y59

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Every. Word. Of. This! Senator Alsobrooks: "In his wicked hunt for vengeance, this president has decided that no target is too small, no family is too vulnerable, and no American is out of bounds."

submitted 17 days ago • 128 comments

Mace Windu going to finally arrest Palpatine

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

The highlight of the game for me was hearing Goose “Give it Time” as the outro to commercial music.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

eat nuts and kick butts 🐿

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

“This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known. You can’t un-ring this bell. Once these DOGE guys have access to these data systems, they can ostensibly do with it what they want.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Usually, being a zealot is not considered a good thing.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A group of anonymous authors has published this well-sourced memorandum on Musk and the Neoreactionary movement. Please share widely. The threat is not well understood. Take a moment to read the one page executive summary now; then call Congress. america2.news/content/file...

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Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 25 days ago • 2171 comments

Gotta dig this series out of the box, it was one I bough on a whim because the cover was so compelling.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

🧵

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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 27 days ago • 310 comments

The attacks on USAID are so telling about the whole blinkered worldview of this admin of goons. The cost to the US is minuscle, the benefits to recepients massive, the capacity to manage crisis abroad sustained, and they're happy to destroy it because they cannot concieve of anyone else as human.

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

"Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground." -- Terry Pratchett ('Small Gods')

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 28 days ago • 4414 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 27 days ago • 817 comments

Today is the Sabbat of Imbolc, a celebration of the returning light. It is also known as Saint Brigid day, after the fire goddess of poetic inspiration, metalwork, and animal domestication. #blessedimbolc #saintbrigid #paganism #celtic

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting "You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women

submitted 29 days ago • 50 comments

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 28 days ago • 935 comments

I sculpted this diorama about a year ago now. Still a fav. 🐲🔥 #3DSculpting #Miniature #Art

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

23 Democrats voted with the GOP majority in favor of making Sean Duffy your Secretary of Transportation. They helped make this happen.

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

“on Thursday the [National Science Foundation]’s online payment system was still down, throwing lives into uncertainty. An NSF email seen by STAT suggested salaries had been suspended to “ensure only eligible activities” are funded.” www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 28 days ago • 112 comments

Mississippi Goddam Ms. Nina Simone Live in the Netherlands “Picket lines School boycotts They try to say it's a communist plot All I want is equality For my sister, my brother, my people, and me” youtu.be/ghhaREDM3X8?...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This is far from the first time he's had to explain this policy to somebody.

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments