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I think @govpritzker.illinois.gov is the real deal

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

It does make sense that the same people who delete the history of the Navajo code talkers would leak national security secrets in a group chat.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Folks are going to say, "well, they were (legal) immigrants" - but if the administration is packing people off to a foreign slave-labor prison without due process, you, me and the public have exactly the same evidence that they're not citizens as you do that they are gang members. Which is none.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The self-styled free speech people constantly threatening to imprison people for speaking.

submitted 1 day ago • 750 comments

the thing that kills me about "Obama doesn't owe you ANYTHING" is: the reason people want or expect him to speak up and be more active is THEY LIKE HIM. They're expecting him to fulfill an elder statesman role in the Democratic Party because he's the only two term democratic president in 20 years

submitted 2 days ago • 290 comments

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

Letter carriers around the country are rallying today to say #HELLNO to dismantling USPS 📸 Don’t forget to tag us and send in photos from your rally ➡️ [email protected]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

a lot of times people say the problem with the media is that they are "stenographers" or that they just blindly report both sides without fact checking but that severely understates the problem. When Trump was unable to articulate an appealing message they took the initiative to invent a better one

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Hint: It's crypto. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is why the “just the bad ones” is a terrible frame. Republicans think anyone who doesn’t own a Tesla is a bad one and will make policy to that end.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I've been to town meetings where people have worked themselves into a conniption at the thought of an abandoned paint factory being turned into apartments, the human mind really is able to get attached to anything

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the Trump administration has made a calculation that our elite institutions, from universities to law firms, are spineless and without principle, and they have been proven utterly correct

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.

submitted 3 days ago • 138 comments

One of the best explanations I’ve seen of the stakes of the disregard of data laws intended to prevent wholesale surveillance of the US public by its govt. The DOGE one-two punch is to disregard or dissolve the data regulations that protect us and then use AI to consolidate info about each of us.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

Cis allies, here's a super simple way to support trans people - and you don't even have to talk to anyone on the phone! Just add a public comment saying medical care for transgender people is essential and should not be banned from ACA plans.

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

RFK Jr & Bondi need to be asked why legal proceedings haven't been brought against this fake government website and when they inevitably refuse to do it, impeachment articles should be introduced. (If you're going to reply "but it won't succeed," go sit at the kids table and let the grownups talk.)

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Yes! The first step will be teaching people to fight for others. We need solidarity.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I told my students last year how much I was making as an adjunct and they were like, "Wait. That's less than each of us paid to take a class. Where is the money going?" Good question.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

PENNSYLVANIA!!!!! You have two huge special elections TUESDAYYY State Senate district 36 would be a flip if James Malone wins And state house district 35 is a must win with Dan Goughnour if we wanna keep the majority Make sure to vote!!!!

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I’m old enough to remember when the people who would have complained loudest about something like this were Republicans.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

As a reminder, Joseph Welch — who defied McCarthy and brought him low with the “no sense of decency” line — was a partner at the prestigious firm of Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale). It’s not only possible for leading firms to resist; it’s essential.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

The old republic has failed. But we have an opportunity to create a new republic that can finally make good on the promises of 1776 and 1865.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

we could have had Senator Conor Lamb 😭😭 he should honestly primary fetterman in 2028

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

BREAKING — The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is being eliminated entirely via Reduction in Force (RIF), an agency source tells me. Staff have not been given reassignment options. Functions of the office will supposedly be assigned to other offices.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

"Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he’ll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design" >> literally the least any and every Dem leader should be doing

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Well, you asked for it (technically). Back by "popular" demand is my list of 'Crimson Skies' play-alikes, rescued from the twitter-badlands... A 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

That gives them too much credit, they started out as contrarian edgelord rationalists/new atheists in college and never grew up. Exhibit A on why letting STEM students skip and shit on the humanities ends badly

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

submitted 4 days ago • 305 comments

This 👇 Stop hiding, stop obeying and get organizing.

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

the one really solid rule at the moment is that almost every institution in America is unbelievably fucking cowardly

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

the great irony of Trump 2.0 is that it actually is, now, time for some game theory

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I did some quick math, and even at Musk's diminished net worth following the Tesla crash, if he received no income at all and decided to spend $8 million a day, every single day, it would take him just over 112 years to spend all of his money.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Going to a rally for the first time in my life. If not now, when? They're happening all over the country on Sunday. If you have been waiting for a right time, a right opportunity to get out there and yell about how everything is fucked up, this is as good as any. You can do it!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't spoken to the families with trans kids forced to move from state to state just to make sure they can get the healthcare they need, only to have Trump try to shut it down nationwide. They aren't some abstraction or poll number--they're families who love their kids

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Can’t get over how great this is. People who say they don’t understand what we want Dems to do: do this. Make them sound as dumb as they are, attack, don’t use caveats or hedge, stand up for the people you say you protect, act fucking mad.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Hell yeah AOC.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

you can measure the evolutionary rightward drift and corporate capture of the Democratic party by how much of an outlier articulating basic, traditional liberal values makes AOC and how deeply DNC elites despise her for doing it

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments