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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 15 hours ago • 103 comments

Black History Month Stories. This has glitched out twice, resulting in a total loss, so here's take 3. Today, we talk about an elite Black athlete robbed of his rightful success by the government. Today's story is the first Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. The Galveston Giant, Jack Johnson.

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For those unfamiliar, General Charles Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is Black. Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations, is a woman.

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a four-star General with 3100 flight hours was fired. a retired three-star Lieutenant General with 2800 flight hours was nominated to replace him. beside rank and experience, the difference between the two is their race. now ask an "anti-DEI" voter about that without telling them who these men are

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Libraries buy books; authors receive royalties every time a book is sold. Authors aren't missing out on compensation. Libraries don't cheat authors. I'm an author. Libraries carry my books. I love libraries.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 15 hours ago • 227 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 15 hours ago • 417 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 23 hours ago • 38 comments

ICE raided a home up the block from me last week. My neighbors had attended a community ICE watch training with @siembranc.bsky.social and did exactly what they'd learned: verified, challenged, and witnessed. truthout.org/articles/tru...

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Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 64 comments

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 20 hours ago • 67 comments

Just had an excellent interview with @advocate.com, and I really think this one is worth your time to read.

submitted 20 hours ago • 117 comments

another thing every other president in history would be impeached for just happened

submitted 22 hours ago • 89 comments

The author's request for comment went to spam and this was published without it. When I replied, the author was out of office. So in the interest of saving time, here is my full response:

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

developmentally disabled people will no longer be able to see manatees, thanks to Republicans

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

This only addresses the seasonal employees, not the permanent employees who have been let go. It’s still a crisis.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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📢If you're a Veteran fired by DOGE, or impacted by DOGE cuts in any way, report it here: ➡️ votevets.org/doge-tipline Your stories are critical and we want to help get them out!

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This is an excellent, fact-filled article with video segments to answer questions about Trump & Putin’s “illegitimate president” propaganda war against Zelensky.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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Coke is often used as a a positive case study of an organization that did diversity right (after a bruising loss in an anti-discrimination suit). Conservatives claim to be free marketers, but by forcing companies to end anti-discrimination policies, they put bigotry over profits.

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RFK Jr.’s CDC just pulled a flu vaccine campaign in the middle of the worst flu season in 30 years. 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths—including nearly 70 children. Public health shouldn't be political. Get vaccinated.

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No, the mail is not “the least of our worries.” It’s a fucking important worry. It is the only postal service that delivers to every address. They are only provider of complete mail services for overseas military bases and provide free overseas PO boxes. They help prepare passport apps. Ship meds…

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

rainbow animals 🌈

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Half of pancreatic cancer patients in a small clinical trial responded to customized mRNA vaccines, potentially a huge step forward in treating a cancer typically regarded as an automatic death sentence. Trump/Musk are cutting cancer research and attacking vaccines. apple.news/AiYEpr6jtQFa...

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This is extremely apocalyptically bad, but so are most of the other things, so… vague hand gestures

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

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Meanwhile in AI land, the Game UI Database is effectively being ddosed as OpenAI steals their data and scrapes the front page hundreds of times per second.

submitted 170 days ago • 26 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Minnesota’s deputy director for the Small Business Administration was fired Feb. 7, rehired days later when the government said it made a mistake, and then fired again last week. Another federal employee who was abruptly fired has newborn twins in the NICU. More stories of chaos + cruelty:

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

DOGE claims firings target low performers and new employees. The reality is far from it, according to documents and interviews: cnn.it/417VuEn

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

In case anyone beyond the #uglydogs realm would like to support a kind, insightful trans musher with gorgeous & funny dogs racing the Iditarod.

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Thousands of federal workers performing essential functions—from food safety to forestry and fire management to nuclear safeguards—have been illegally fired. The Department of Justice has abandoned more than 150 years of independence. The president has claimed that he is a king. It is day 31.

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This is one of the things the Musk crew are doing to evade accountability. The DOGE staffers aren’t employees of DOGE detailed to other agencies; they’re employees of those agencies, and yet being moved around very quickly. This, frankly, raises more questions than it answers.

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I'm matching Greg's matches, so any donation before 11:59pm tomorrow gets another $10 to the fund to help out Chris.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

This is an absolute fucking disaster. Teenaged cybercriminals with physical access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

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Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

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Okay, reupping this one last time before bed (sorry for those seeing it multiple times but no algorithm means spreading the word the old-fashioned way - multiple posts). We are 44% of the goal in just 6 hours!! #mushersky #uglydogs www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-quinc...

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