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The head of Social Security has said he’s “fundamentally a DOGE person.” The DOGE that fired thousands of workers, threatened to shut down offices, and is now rifling through Americans’ personal data? Elon Musk may be out of the picture, but DOGE is still creating chaos.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

submitted 2 days ago • 374 comments

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

submitted 2 days ago • 305 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

Elon Musk has questioned whether Donald Trump was replaced with a body double, days after Trump reposted that Biden had been assassinated in 2020 and replaced with multiple clones. Our critic asks: Are body double clone conspiracies having a moment?

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

submitted 3 days ago • 605 comments

What an extraordinary, beautiful thing. Sometimes the only sensible response to scientific discovery is wonderment and awe.

submitted 5 days ago • 74 comments

States Left Without Aid After FEMA for days Why? Trump administration failed to notify FEMA Although the approval process typically involves FEMA officials, the agency was not officially notified for days after Trump's approval www.latintimes.com/states-left-...

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Sending taxpayer money to private religious schools is a violation of the Missouri Constitution…

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

Let me suggest that when a federal judge spends the first full page of the opinion summarizing Kafka, it's not a good sign for the government

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

I use it very deliberately to link the current moment to COVID! Thank you. I’ve been thinking on that rupture for awhile:

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Mount Etna blowing its stack and the view from above is truly astonishing. This wonderful image was taken by Italian photographer Pio Andrea Peri!

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Nearly 3 months after their disappearance, 200+ Venezuelan migrants remain locked in El Salvador’s mega prison, cut off from family & lawyers. “Our souls are hanging by a thread,” said the mother of Andry, a gay asylum seeker falsely accused over tattoos. #FreeAndry 🔗 bit.ly/4n0hUl9

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

An outright lie from OMB Director Russell Vought.

submitted 8 days ago • 137 comments

When federal agents wear masks, carry rifles, and raid homes without warning or accountability, that’s not immigration enforcement, it’s intimidation. ICE operates in the shadows, and traumatizes families. This is state violence disguised as law and order.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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I was reminded again this week through certain interactions of a bitter fact: within my cultural milieu - rural, white, evangelical - objective truth has been and is being annihilated. There’s no common basis upon which to have a conversation about current events.

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Printmakers interviewed for 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

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Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak rose to prominence in the 1950s with her experimental printmaking and is one of many indigenous women artists who have employed the medium to create intriguing and important artworks #ReframingWomenPrintnakers

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“Well, we are all going to die” is the new “let them eat cake”.

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.

submitted 11 days ago • 251 comments

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation. Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.

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WATCH: “My son is afraid I won’t come home from work. People are scared. They’re taking anybody.” Powerful NYT piece on the NASHVILLE raids by @TNHighwayPatrol + ICE that snatched hundreds, terrorizing communities. (Few had violent pasts) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKM1ydH...

submitted 12 days ago • 212 comments

As St. Louis recovers from a brutal EF-3 tornado that hit 11 days ago, this is the anniversay of a terrible EF-4 tornado that hit here in 1896, 130 years ago, and killed at least 255 people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_St...

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This is contrary to consistent guidance in CDC guidelines for years. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

submitted 13 days ago • 1718 comments

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

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Portrait of Zitkala Sa, aka Red Bird (1892) writer, editor, musician, teacher, and political activist of Native American Yankton Sioux heritage, by photographer Gertrude Kasebier #womensart

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The Missouri National Guard has officially been activated to support tornado recovery efforts in St. Louis. governor.mo.gov/press-releas...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

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The CDC has been updating #SARSCoV2 genomics every 2 weeks but has failed to do so since their 9 May post. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t... This isn't a good idea with 2 new variants emerging (NB.1.8.1 in Asia, and XFG in the US). Graph by @jpweiland.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

submitted 15 days ago • 509 comments

In St. Louis, the sirens to warn people of a tornado threat were not activated by the City Emergency Management Agency before a deadly tornado hit on Friday, and a backup to activate the mechanism that is operated by the Fire Department was broken.

submitted 19 days ago • 357 comments

Who's with us? Just an absolute waste of taxpayer money on this dictatorship-like show of power. The United States is strong and doesn't need to display it in the name of a wannabe king. #NebDems

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

People should be SHAMED for staying in office so long they die there, leading to legislative and electoral losses. YOUR ego is NOT more important than the CAUSE. Millions of people are going to die on the altar of career goals. And yet I will be viciously attacked for stating this obvious truth.

submitted 17 days ago • 744 comments

Vaccine access is a human right. Full Stop.

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

In advance of yesterday's Why Make Zines in 2025 event, @marc-fischer.bsky.social made a zine of his responses to the question. He shared free copies with everyone in attendance yesterday. I loved that. I brought zines to give away too as well as some buttons and stickers.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.

submitted 18 days ago • 1030 comments

Sen. Murray: “You repeatedly claimed that staffing and funding cuts that have been reported on publicly and even confirmed by [HHS] staff are not happening. So either you’re lying, or you’re not the one making decisions” Both are possible with RFKJ: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments