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“On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder, read by John Lithgow.

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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

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New in PN: Trump tries to restore a grim era for workers "Let’s pretend that unlike his first term, everything goes right, happens fast, and factories are ready to start pumping out products in record time. What would those jobs look like? Bad. They’ll look bad. There’s no other way to put it."

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😕🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 482 comments

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

submitted 4 days ago • 429 comments

A stunning new image from the James Webb Telescope shows a rare Einstein ring—light from a distant galaxy bent into a circle by a closer one’s gravity. A beautiful example of gravitational lensing! 😍 Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler

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I hope this is wrong. I really hope.

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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

submitted 5 days ago • 1202 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 315 comments

Tracks

submitted 5 days ago • 888 comments

i have learned that way too many americans see the concept of 'freedom' simply as the potential to be rich and privileged, even if they aren't, & not things like freedom from dying from a preventable illness if you're poor, or being imprisoned for minor crimes, or persecuted by the police, etc

submitted 8 days ago • 206 comments

In the last 50 years the richest 0.01% have gotten 400x richer. The only moral position to hold is, the richest people have to get A LOT poorer.

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels.

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This!!

submitted 14 days ago • 968 comments

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

submitted 14 days ago • 901 comments

Corporations need to pay their fair share!

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Rumeysa Ozturk must not be deported. You can't kidnap someone off the street for their political views — this isn't Moscow. She has every right to speak her mind. I've contacted the Administration. I want answers.

submitted 15 days ago • 804 comments

Are we great again yet?

submitted 14 days ago • 788 comments

USAID is moving to end U.S. funding for Gavi, a global vaccine alliance that has procured lifesaving vaccines for millions of children in poor countries for decades. Other cuts planned by USAID in a newly shared document include anti-malaria initiatives. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...

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Far-right Marjorie Taylor Greene held a hearing Wednesday as part of a campaign to defund public media. She called NPR and PBS “radical left-wing echo chambers” with a “communist agenda,” as she attacked, among other things, LGBTQ+ programming. www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/he...

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Everyone should take a moment to remind themselves of what the Presidential Records Act is. This is a key component: Establishes preservation requirements for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts... They used Signal, because they didn't want a record.

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

Kudos to the student journalists at The Tufts Daily, who crashed a last-minute issue of the paper to cover the outrageous arrest and detention of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk: issuu.com/tuftsdaily/d...

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

The one time we can all agree w Petey.

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Hmmm, this didn’t age well.

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Do you really want your government deciding what kind of political speech you are allowed to hear, and protecting your fragile little mind from wrongthink? Or do you want to decide such matters for yourself?

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There's a reason why they're freaking out over what's happening to Tesla. It's working. There's a reason they're threatening absurd consequences. They need to scare you back into civility and compliance. As long as we're reluctant to cross the lines they ignore daily, they have the upper hand.

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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

submitted 23 days ago • 507 comments

The Houthi military spokesman , Yahya Saree, says that the group carried out a “qualitative operation” against Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates:

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [crickets "Thoughts and prayers" crickets] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

submitted 23 days ago • 1105 comments

Seeing personal stories about stuff like PhD cancellations due to illegal funding cuts and it's not much comfort but I hope you know some of us boring suits who don't know our way around a lab nonetheless consider these to be acts of piracy & privateering that warrant the traditional punishments.

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@gregpak.net Since you disabled the comments, my question around this is with a completely dysfunctional, economic system, etc. how are they even getting/able to use the $$ & does anybody know who is actually in need or if they are just phishing? People steal or create fake profiles all day long.

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rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

submitted 25 days ago • 834 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

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Folks, they have less than 1k comments so far. Posts arguing about which way to hang toilet paper have more comments in facebook groups. If you are in any way involved in art: writing, music, acting, film MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

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