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I think we can celebrate The American Revolution's 250th anniversary by having another one

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

submitted 17 days ago • 241 comments

If you want to know what the authoritarians are planning for the entire country, see North Carolina.

submitted 17 days ago • 31 comments

Every single paper in the U.S. would be excoriating a Dem President who was golfing while the stock market melted down. We all know this. The editorial boards would be screeching, state tv ie Fox would be playing NONSTOP clips, etc. etc. It's worth remembering.

submitted 17 days ago • 173 comments

Here’s the thing about the tariffs: there will be no “short term pain”. Only long term. Every time a company realizes they can get away with charging you extra they don’t ever lower the price again. They just gouge. Whatever price hikes there are will be here for good.

submitted 18 days ago • 238 comments

The SAVE Act doesn’t save anything. Its main effect is to make it harder for women to vote, especially those like me who changed our names when we married. Hands Off Her Vote www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/gop-plan-d...

submitted 20 days ago • 154 comments

Horrifyingly cruel.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he wants excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

submitted 24 days ago • 1022 comments

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 31 comments

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

submitted 26 days ago • 472 comments

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

submitted 27 days ago • 152 comments

Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.

submitted 29 days ago • 260 comments

Posting this photo for no particular reason

submitted 28 days ago • 2356 comments

This energy right here.

submitted 28 days ago • 683 comments

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 29 days ago • 1563 comments

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

submitted 30 days ago • 176 comments

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

submitted 31 days ago • 1291 comments

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

submitted 30 days ago • 554 comments

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested on allegations of providing illegal abortions—and the consequences are extreme. Under Texas law, the midwife could face life in prison.

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

"A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the United States, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers." (1/3)

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Milwaukee mother deported to Laos—a country she has never been to, where she knows no one, and whose language she doesn’t speak

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Resistance Guidebook, a doc full of very concrete answers to "What can I do?" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 38 days ago • 40 comments

If it feels like no one's fighting for you, that there's no opposition, that the bad guys are being allowed to win, it's time to BE the opposition! Make your voice heard! There are 180 upcoming #TeslaTakedown protests in the US and abroad! Join a protest or organize your own at TeslaTakedown.com.

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

I’m voting HELL NO on the Republican CR. It hands Musk and Trump a blank check, turning your tax dollars into a wanna-be dictator’s slush fund. No accountability. Just corruption on autopilot.

submitted 38 days ago • 488 comments

Cowardice is Democrats acting as though a government shutdown would be on them, while Republicans hold the House, Senate, and White House. The mega donors are happy, though.

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

@chuckschumer.com again not meeting the moment and not listening to his constituents. Weak.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really tired of hearing how Congress is afraid of Trump, Big Law is afraid of Trump. Corporations are afraid of Trump. Meanwhile, thousands of people with a lot more to lose are out on the protest lines every single day. Suck it up, already.

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

“Your power lies in refusing to abandon each other or abandon the truth.” Sarah lays out our ugly predicament in the most beautiful prose.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Reupping this for reasons

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments