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When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 117 days ago • 485 comments

the muppets crashing the red carpet at the 2025 oscars: thread

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

1/ Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine should hold a presidential election in wartime. Nazi Germany demanded the same of Britain in July 1942. This is the story of why the UK delayed holding elections throughout World War II. ⬇️

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

I'm probably pissing in the wind, but I have little time off because of the holiday, so I'd like to offer a thread arguing against an ugly, ugly habit rising on Bluesky: Screenshots of articles without links. Stop it. Just fucking stop it.

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of gq magazine: thread

submitted 33 days ago • 44 comments

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 33 days ago • 670 comments

To all those saying "shouldn't we root out government inefficiency? What's wrong with DOGE?" a quick background on Constitutional law and why the WAY it is being violated exposes the true motives of the criminals:

submitted 36 days ago • 99 comments

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love. I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

submitted 42 days ago • 829 comments

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 42 days ago • 106 comments

1. In the wake of Trump's election, many media outlets have decided to cozy up to power I'm going in a different direction Today at 11AM, I'm launching Musk Watch It's accountability journalism focused on one of the most powerful humans in history. You can sign up NOW muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

the muppets on the cover of rolling stone: thread

submitted 57 days ago • 50 comments

Attending the inaugural of an insurrectionist isn't some laudatory evidence of your fealty to democracy. It's an embarrassing capitulation to fascism. Go if you want, Democrats, but don't expect applause from people who actually believe what YOU said literally months ago about that insurrectionist.

submitted 61 days ago • 71 comments

There are over 300 events planned across the U.S. for The People's March on Saturday. You can find more information, host an event, or find an event near you to attend here: www.peoplesmarch.com Or: action.womensmarch.com/calendars/pe...

submitted 60 days ago • 81 comments

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

submitted 62 days ago • 562 comments

Here's the actual, correct summary of Biden's domestic presidency: He entered office with very narrow legislative margins, made worse by the fact that two of his key votes were deeply intransigent. Nonetheless he was able to consistently pass sweeping legislation.

submitted 61 days ago • 13 comments

So true.

submitted 63 days ago • 1255 comments

The reason people fall into MAGA so quickly is that it's not a process of BECOMING something, but a process of simply GIVING UP. Giving up resistance, giving up critical thought. Much easier to go along with it, say the words, agree that the lies are true. Much easier to give up than stand firm.

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 71 days ago • 903 comments

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

submitted 71 days ago • 84 comments

for every 50 likes i’ll photoshop betty white into movies she wasn’t really in.

submitted 72 days ago • 405 comments

This is how I would deal with the huge problem of Chinese companies knocking off American companies. Curious what everyone thinks

submitted 72 days ago • 475 comments

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

submitted 101 days ago • 388 comments

Austin Police officer Christopher Taylor was sentenced to 2 years in prison yesterday for killing Mauris DeSilva in 2019. The reaction from law enforcement groups has been as expected — disappointment, outrage. An unfair process But these reactions skirt over major checks in the justice system.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

1/ 🚨 Elon Musk wants to “delete” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Here’s why that would be disastrous for consumers, how successful the CFPB has been, and what you can do to protect it. A thread 🧵

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

I remember reading this when the book came out and thinking "Nah, way too pessimistic". Now the incoming US Health Secretary doesn't think HIV causes AIDS.

submitted 107 days ago • 40 comments

I read the washington post editorial condemning the ICC for their arrest warrant on Netanyahu. I expected to disagree with one or two of their arguments. What I discovered is they made not a single factual claim. And no one is even talking about it. Receipts: www.qasimrashid.com/p/rebuking-t...

submitted 108 days ago • 18 comments

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

submitted 111 days ago • 39 comments