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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 19 hours ago • 556 comments

Pro-life, my ass. Misogynistic, evil shit-heads. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Did You Know? The inventor of the bestselling Super Soaker was a Black man—and Hasbro tried to cheat him out of his royalties. In 2013, Lonnie Johnson, a nuclear engineer and former NASA scientist, won a $73 million settlement from Hasbro for underpaid royalties. Johnson holds over 80 patents.

submitted 3 days ago • 428 comments

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

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As usual in this “administration,” RFK is fact-free in his premise (because in FACT, more white kids take stimulants for ADHD than POC), and also racist AF. Absolutely disgusting — this is your Director of HHS.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Happy President's Day from Union Square in NYC, which is filled with protesters preparing for a march down Broadway This picture is a fraction of the people in the park, and many people have already started marching It's a beautiful day. Let's do this 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 165 comments

Presidents’ Day falls during #BlackHistoryMonth, and the #BHM2025 theme focuses on labor. Today is a good day to learn about the over 300 known enslaved men, women and children who built and staffed the White House. Their story is part of the fabric of American history.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

submitted 5 days ago • 541 comments

I’m glad that, at least, in 1930s Germany, I wouldn’t have held my tongue. That I would have tried to amplify voices from the resistance and I would have been critical of those who were walking the path of appeasement (or as I prefer to say “bipartisan-shit”).

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment