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Thread: I can't even come up with witty commentary, this is just a reflection of how broken we (the US) are.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.

submitted 22 hours ago • 35 comments

We were in court this week fighting the National Institutes of Health's politically-motivated cancelation of hundreds of research grants. We're suing on behalf of people like Katie who've had their essential research derailed.

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Taking away our choice to protect ourselve with vaccines. Preventing trans adults from accessing needed care. Trying to make it illegal to recognize Palestinian humanity. Attempting to keep soldiers and their children from encountering Maya Angelou. Republicans sure do love that personal liberty.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I just spoke to Kelvin. He has glimpsed a plane and an officer has confirmed it is the one he will be on tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Remember when we had a "Me Too" movement that lasted for about five minutes, imposed tangible consequences on approximately no one, and produced a hysterical, years-long backlash? Sorry, sorry, didn't mean to distract you from the Men In Crisis storyline ...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

NEWS: Republicans to send all ‘pronoun users’ to the Protein Recyclers en masse LIBERAL IN THE REPLIES: Guess Elonia Musk won’t be able to get HER gender affirming care anymore !!! 🤣🤣🤣 In 1996 I was kicked in the head by a show pony and ever since dark figures have haunted the corners of my vision

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

A shame, in a situation like this, that one party is evil and the other is useless.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Disgusting This is a dictatorship

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This will kill people. Every awful thing in that bill will lead to death and destruction. This is naked, callous, shortsighted greed with zero fucks given about the lives and welfare of any American except the wealthiest. PLEASE call your Senators and your reps. This bill MUST NOT advance.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I hope that @brooklyncollege.bsky.social will speak up about what Councilwoman Inna Vernikov is doing here--targeting a CUNY student with hate and potentially putting them in danger. Vernikov previously brought a gun--against NYC law--to a protest at Brooklyn College in October 2023.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

New: Not only would Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” ban gender-affirming care via Medicaid, it would ban insurance under the Obamacare exchanges from covering it as an essential health benefit www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

How the hell did we let this happen as a country? All of our top health officials are fucking anti-science cranks.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

HRT saves lives. The goal of taking it away is death.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

“one of the scientists learned last week that the overall program was getting its funds back. but her study, about trans youth of color, was not. the NIH deemed it ‘not compatible with current NIH priorities.’” absolutely fucking monstrous.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The party coalitions aren't built the same. The Democrats' coalition is by-and-larg issue-oriented activists, while Republicans are identity-grievance driven groups. To the point below, left-leaning influencers are not central to the make-up of the Democratic Party.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

MASS EFFECT's political stance is ... interesting because it has a lot of the unexamined fascism of its shooter contemporaries but there's also a lot of progressivism which the authorial voice treats as correct. As someone else said, it's Iraq War liberalism. Pro-gay, pro-nuking-Baghdad

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

THIS IS GENOCIDE

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is so fucking good

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

It is wild to me that Netflix made this deal, but it's good for kids (and hopefully PBS).

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

A ‘massive fist moving through the air’ is great description of the Fascistic aesthetics of these trucks

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

lol Van Hollen has been this milquetoast senator nobody heard of for years and suddenly he emerges in 2025 as fucking awesome. Good for him, I love this journey

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

it was actually pretty obvious what the “campus free speech” and “viewpoint diversity” people were about all the way back at the start. these were some summaries of what they said at their stanford conference in 2022:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA is a romantic comedy about a young woman (and her pet duck) in the big city, where she finds love and the joy of organized labor.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

One day in the not-too-distant future, Rozos will be featured on an NYU recruitment pamphlet touting the school's history of courage and free thinking.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Why bless your heart

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

The only immigration reality TV show I’d watch is if you take all the authors of those “Japanese wisdom” books, have them live together in a Saitama share house and watch them adjust to their new entry level jobs at large Japanese corporations in Tokyo.