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This is what happens when organizations have the money to fight back: Without warning, New Hampshire lawmakers tried to defund the NH library completely; within 90 minutes, Every Library was able to deploy defense. The amendment got killed 24 hours later. www.everylibrary.org/nhdefundingr...

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So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.” Apparently, not believing this is “insane.” Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

People who confuse their comfort with morality will always become fascists when pressed.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

Lol so I was looking up the lyrics to John Brown's Body, like ya do, and I found some Wikipedia Art lurking on the page for Battle Hymn of the Republic "As he died to make men holy" links to the page for the Crucifixion, "let us die to make men free" links to the Civil War

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It is almost impossible to describe how callously evil the New Royalty is

submitted 22 hours ago • 30 comments

As a Columbine survivor, it’s the lmao that really does it for me.

submitted 22 hours ago • 98 comments

It strikes me as odd/interesting that so much of the Luigi art is all co-opting religious iconography and not revolutionary art. Like hell, there's some real bangers from the French revolution, but no. I wonder why.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

FWIW that argument makes me think of those folks who can fake speaking in a foreign language in a way that sounds "real" but is composed of gibberish. Except in this case it's like the people who don't speak the language are insisting that the gibberish is the same as the real language.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

this is why i say it's a form of hegemonic suicide. america had the entire postwar consensus built around it and decided liberal internationalism was woke

submitted 23 hours ago • 25 comments

Okay so there’s one good use for AI

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Meet Frengel. He's from Venezuela. Frengel is a house painter. He has a 9-year-old step-son. He loves his dog. He has no tattoos. No criminal record. Frengel had an asylum hearing today. But he couldn't make it. His lawyer explained what happened. Donald Trump disappeared Frengel to El Salvador.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

6ft 4 cis woman loses her job at Walmart because of trans witch-hunt. Woman was followed into the staff bathroom by an anti-trans male, who called her names and threatened violence. When Wal-Mart found out, they fired HER.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

I read a biography of Lincoln once, and early in his life he was testing his anti-slavery beliefs by reading the best pro-slavery arguments and afterwards he wrote down "None of these people arguing about how great slavery is for the slaves seems to want to be a slave themselves."

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.

submitted 2 days ago • 204 comments

I have been a fair use and copyright reform radical since I was in high school, and I'll tell you what, I never envisioned anything so egregious that I'd be siding with the copyright maximalists, but here we are

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In 2016 I had a client who lived with his sister and his niece, a 16-year-old citizen. One day, two men came by wearing "POLICE" vests. They showed her a picture of a guy and said "this man is impersonating your uncle, can you call him to come home so we can clear this up?" She did. They were ICE.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

In five days, we can secure the liberal majority on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court and prove that Elon Musk’s money can’t buy everything. Help us get out the vote for workers' rights champion Susan Crawford. Wisconsin residents: indivisibleproject.f... Everyone else: www.mobilize.us/indi...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

AI would be so great if tech bros could accept it's just automation and never going to have actual intelligence capable of replacing humans. Then they could focus on maximizing its true values instead of trying to convince people that shitposting GPU clusters are randomly going to become sentient

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I'm trying to remember when this change occurred. I want to say it was W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment? Maybe his "heck of a job, Brownie" moment? Or did it really get going with Obama?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

None of the "top" 15 law schools besides Berkeley are on here, unless I'm mistaken. There's an emerging pattern of quiescence from the most "elite" US institutions vs more action from other institutions. Unsurprising, but important to note and understand.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and @indivisibleskagit.org member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

"fit so sexy it pisses off the prosecution" is like a legally blonde bit, i can't believe it's real

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

These are very good. Would have recommended them to book chat but I can't tolerate going to the other place to do so

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Someone please invent a gel pack face mask that vibrates at your sinuses

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The one little pleasure of being sick is limitless napping.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Done! I have talked to people (tbf mostly IRL) who think there's no point calling if their rep is a Republican. Actually, calling my Republican senator is the first thing my congressman's office asked me to do. If they don't hear from anyone they think they're getting away with it!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

This is the op-ed she's been disappeared for. These motherfuckers. All of you motherfuckers. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

Like most of the DOGE cuts, this is a good idea if: a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1942 comments

It is obviously bad that they were texting this on Signal and bad that they let a journalist into their group chat. But the actual act they’re talking about—intentionally bombing civilians, a war crime—is the far more fundamental wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Trump changed drone strike rules of engagement to allow more civilian casualties. Under Bush (especially second term) and more so Obama, the move would've been to monitor this target and fire when he was away from civilian structures. Biden was stricter, significantly reducing drone strikes overall.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I just want to personally thank Pete Hegseth for proving my theory that when your entire personality is “minorities are incompetent,” it’s usually because you’re more incompetent than anyone could have imagined.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

submitted 3 days ago • 468 comments