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submitted 2 hours ago • 1009 comments

last night I went with my son to his school where they were doing a thing called Living Wax Museum where every kid was playing a prominent character from Black history. My son was the poet George Moses Horton. Anybody comes for his school will be dealing with me directly, in their face, forever

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

Trump's CFPB just dropped its lawsuits against: -Capital One, for cheating depositors out of $2B+ in interest -Rocket Homes, for providing kickbacks to agents and brokers -Vanderbilt Mortgage, for trapping customers in risky loans It's open season for corporate crooks.

submitted 7 hours ago • 150 comments

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

submitted 8 hours ago • 463 comments

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

submitted 8 hours ago • 399 comments

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

submitted 10 hours ago • 169 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3103 comments

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 726 comments

North Carolina children deserve every chance to succeed. We can’t expect children to reach their full potential if they are hungry or worrying about when they will eat next. Thank you to Carolina Hunger Initiative for having me and for your work to eliminate child hunger.

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 5 days ago • 2643 comments

Python in a nutshell

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 5 days ago • 701 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 7 days ago • 986 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 7 days ago • 2912 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 7 days ago • 1226 comments

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 8 days ago • 242 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

Former NFL Vikings punter Chris Kluwe spoke out in front of the all MAGA Huntington Beach, CA, City Council and called Trump and MAGA a "Nazi movement.” He got arrested and carried out by police. In a world of Trumps, be a Chris Kluwe.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 9 days ago • 1220 comments

NC peeps - some programming for your snowy evening: our episode of #shapedbysound @mypbsnc.bsky.social airs TOMORROW night 2/20 at 9:30 PM! www.instagram.com/p/DGIuJfetoQ...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 722 comments

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 11 days ago • 444 comments

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the elderly on social security they paid into to be called a “parasite,” all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

the volume of great stuff we never see because somebody was afraid it was cringe is among the more damning aesthetic phenomena of this sad epoch

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

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$3,000,000 and counting raised during the 18th Project for Awesome. Join in, and support great orgs like Save the Children and Partners in Health. projectforawesome.com

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

OMG so remember when Elon said that "people over 150-years-old are collecting Social Security"…..well it turns out he’s a moron and so are those DOGE genius coders he got working for him

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 14 days ago • 1610 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 14 days ago • 6080 comments

A purge at the Kennedy Center open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Excellent reporting here www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

Odawara, from Scenes of Famous Places along Tokaido, Utagawa Hiroshige II, 1863 #Japanese #Art #JapanseArt #Ukiyo-e

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has dismissed the director of the Office of Government Ethics. David Huitema, the former director, played a key role in vetting Trump administration appointees for conflicts of interest.

submitted 18 days ago • 145 comments

Great essay @hankgreen.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=eI14...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."

submitted 23 days ago • 630 comments

Without public knowledge, Elon Musk is serving as a “special government employee” under President Donald Trump, with access to sensitive information (including your SSN) and broad authority granted by Trump.

submitted 25 days ago • 127 comments

We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government. This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

submitted 26 days ago • 405 comments