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In the 14th century, someone who didn't have a highlighter handy thought to use octopus tentacles to mark the most important parts. I love it so much (Manuscript from the Bankcroft library, UC Berkeley)

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I've been begging @zeit.de Online editor @wegner.io to translate and open their stellar coverage of America's fall for Americans. Here is a fine example: A European Declaration of Independence from America. Highly recommended. Vielen Dank, Jochen, mein Freund. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

all but one Republican Senator voted to allow banks to fuck over poor people more

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

DC April 5 handsoff2025.com

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

DNI Gabbard testified she maintains her "First Amendment rights" to post comments through personal accounts regarding views that might be different from her official work positions. Yet law firms & lawyers (incl me) are being targeted by Administration for excercising their 1st Amendment rights. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 215 comments

The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Gift link: Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 days ago • 192 comments

just found out about this online "anti-woke" marketplace that lists local businesses that support "conservative values" -- in other words you can look up which places near you to avoid www.publicsquare.com/marketplace

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

When you’re accidentally added to the NatSec group chat.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Lewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 8 days ago • 320 comments

I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

submitted 10 days ago • 126 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 11 days ago • 1303 comments

THAT NEW CHESAPEAKE OYSTER CATCHERS LOGO MY GOODNESS

submitted 11 days ago • 844 comments

This guy co-sponsored a bill to have "Trump Derangement Syndrome" classified as a mental illness YESTERDAY.

submitted 14 days ago • 260 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 19 days ago • 2340 comments

Someone actually pre-drafted a #FOIA request for you to send directly to #DOGE so that you can find out what personal information of yours that ketamine-addled doofus has. Here's a link to it. Happy hunting. drive.google.com/file/d/119jz... #resist

submitted 19 days ago • 79 comments

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 74 comments

We can’t normalize or forget this: The president of the United States did a car commercial at the White House for his biggest donor... ...the same day he cut school funding to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Staggering, unprecedented corruption on live TV.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s Department of Justice deletes link to study showing undocumented immigrants commit less crime than US citizens www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

submitted 66 days ago • 131 comments

US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Here we can see the results of six weeks of DOGE work. The number of indictments, DOJ investigations, money laundering cases, and public reports published by DOGE.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Maddow got this right last night: It's like spending our money on building a Beanie Baby reserve...if Donald Trump, Elon Musk, et al, owned the Beanie Baby factory. Pure grift. Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

submitted 26 days ago • 901 comments

I also re-worked this house finch drawing from last year 🪶

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

dan patrick wants to rename new york strip steaks to “texas strips” which is of course short for “texas strips you of your constitutional rights and reproductive freedom”

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

"I am Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the North Armies. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, proprietor of a failing dry cleaner business, owner of a car with a blinking engine light, caretaker of a goldfish with ick. And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next."

submitted 178 days ago • 6 comments

If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.

submitted 33 days ago • 40 comments

The UK has bolstered support for Ukraine with £2.26billion loan, where the military aid package will be funded by frozen Russian assets, per BBC

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

submitted 31 days ago • 716 comments

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

submitted 33 days ago • 1121 comments

Powerful flu wave hits WA hospitals, fills ERs www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Project 2025 was just the stuff they were willing to put into print.

submitted 36 days ago • 231 comments

Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 41 days ago • 113 comments

I finally made a website ... it's not super fancy but I did my best, okay? www.feistywaters.com

submitted 41 days ago • 26 comments

DEI. Trans care. Healthcare. Human rights. Marginalized populations. Muslim rights. Immigrant rights. Clean energy jobs. "We respect the civil rights of all Washingtonians." THIS is Governor Ferguson. 👏👏👏 youtu.be/3wFBW7CKtBk?...

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

If our federal agencies no longer provide good info, several states are still providing it. Here is Oregon's page for vaccine info.

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments