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“What we, actors, create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls,” said Fonda, “And make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke. By the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.” #sagawards

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

don’t know who needs to hear this but empathy doesn’t require eagerness. you don’t have to be excited about helping other people, you do it because it’s right and because the alternatives are worse

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

submitted 23 hours ago • 132 comments

A lot of people who’ve posted that “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people” quote need to know that they should care about other people. I want my tax dollars to go to paying for insulin for the most vile MAGA asshole you ever heard of; that’s part of “everyone”.

submitted 23 hours ago • 75 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at [email protected].

submitted 1 day ago • 1010 comments

George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

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The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

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 2 days ago • 118 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 2 days ago • 208 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 2 days ago • 154 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Substack is using this myth of free speech absolutism to dismiss concerns about platforming and monetizing Nazi speech. Substack is privately owned. They could moderate racist and anti-trans content. THEY HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO TIME AND AGAIN because their business model is literally not sustainable.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Autistic Lexicon Prosopagnosia - an impairment with recognizing faces. By most estimates the co-occurrence of Autism & Prosopagnosia is very high and it can potentially explain many trends among Autistic people.

submitted 123 days ago • 15 comments

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 2 days ago • 353 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 2 days ago • 2483 comments

Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 2 days ago • 568 comments

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

A wealthy hospital system is caving to Donald Trump on LGBTQ and immigrant rights, writes socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — while receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks from the city. jacobin.com/2025/02/zohr...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If we can't sleep peacefully, they don't get to sleep peacefully. Don't call your republican reps because you think you can convince them. Call them because fuck them, they don't get a free pass on this shit.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

#TeslaTakedown is now expanding to other countries! We have many upcoming #TeslaTakedown protest events, including the UK's flagship Tesla store in London! Join an event or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Nobody in leadership at the Academies wants to be the first one to show a spine. They all hope that if they're fast enough to comply that the worst will hit someone else. Or that they'll be spared. Cowardice. Unfit to lead.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 4 days ago • 1936 comments

Therapy is fun because you spend your whole session talking about how you're pretty sure you're the only thing keeping most of your friendships alive and most of the people you consider friends would just vanish if you weren't always the one putting in the effort and then you just have to go to work

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

Congress is pushing bills to silence criticism of Israel, punish activism, and criminalize boycotts. Here’s what you need to know: mondoweiss.net/2025/02/what...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Why would DOGE need the ability to mess with this as part of an audit or efficiency effort?

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

If you're looking for companies to boycott and/or yell at, these are good ones. Just straight up evil.

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NEW: The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front." This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

submitted 4 days ago • 967 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

Two messaging options to consider below, which works better? Senate Dems: we stand ready to unite in bipartisanship to move America forward Governor Pritzker: beheads a Republican Sic Semper Tyrannis

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 4 days ago • 2652 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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I made Lucia watch this movie because it makes me so happy

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Everything going on in the world has my depression hitting harder than it has in years. I think sometimes people think depression is an all day every day sort of deal, but it's more of a "doing mostly fine all day long and then I get home and collapse" kind of thing sometimes

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Aviation’s first responders save lives. Listen to your Flight Attendants.

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