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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

submitted 14 days ago • 143 comments

I can't wait to explain Kendrick's halftime show to all the liberal boomers at my gym this week 🖤❤️🤍💙

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The "But her emails!" crowd is so quiet

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Red, White and Blue. The American Flag in one perspective. But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan. And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust. It all depends on who holds the power and their intent. In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

An American flag built on the backs of Black people... Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways All this in New Orleans... What a moment

submitted 13 days ago • 182 comments

Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

submitted 13 days ago • 428 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 24 days ago • 840 comments

The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point The cruelty is the point

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

tfw you don't know how the roaring 20s ended

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

Preparing mass layoffs of civil servants in order to replace them with loyalists is another move from the authoritarian playbook www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 28 days ago • 590 comments

It would be pretty cool if society could do something about making teaching seem like a cool, rewarding, respected profession instead of treating them like resources to be used up and thrown away.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

My emotional state is "Weeping over the Wild Robot trailer on the Peacock homescreen while waiting for my instant noodles to soften"

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

No, Donald Trump cannot rewrite the U.S. Constitution with the flick of his pen. No, the Fourteenth Amendment is not ambiguous about this. Its plain meaning in written English is clear. Need a refresher? Here it is:

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Why did I start scrolling. Christ.

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

At some point I have to stop doomscrolling and try to get setting resembling sleep, but I am begging folks to look not just at 1930s Germany but also 1930s Russia cc @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project. Again, the gateway is racism.

submitted 31 days ago • 40 comments

🧪Here's the script for your senators. If you're in WI, like I am, that's Johnson www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/office_locat... and Baldwin www.baldwin.senate.gov Data by state on NIH impact: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

submitted 32 days ago • 38 comments

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

We're entering a dark period in US #accessibility. The White House home page has a bunch of links with "aria-hidden" and "tabindex=-1". This hides the links from assistive tech like screen readers & makes them unreachable with just a keyboard. Critical #WCAG compliance errors! But who can sue?

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

The arc does not bend itself. And it is not bending in the right direction. So we will have to collectively drag it toward justice, to organize and bend it ourselves. No one is coming to save us. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Start local. tap into local orgs doing good work. Concede nothing.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

submitted 34 days ago • 54 comments