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one other way to think of this is that it is a massive program of upwards redistribution to wealthy business owners who can skimp on worker, consumer and environmental safety to juice profits for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

submitted 4 hours ago • 73 comments

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submitted 7 hours ago • 1159 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 5 hours ago • 219 comments

Not bad but take it a step further - NO UNIVERSITY should be dictated to based on politics.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This seems like a case that should get more attention. A man had his student visa revoked in MN. He & his lawyers allege this revocation might be linked to his participation in a 2021 anti-racism protest. Officers cited it at arrest. www.startribune.com/marshall-man...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Joining with TC colleagues to say, among other things, that elite universities need to see and hopefully act in solidarity with K-12 educators and school systems in this moment we are all under attack.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 5 days ago • 885 comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 5 days ago • 1247 comments

Remember when the GOP screamed about “death panels” in Obamacare? That’s what this is

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“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

submitted 5 days ago • 461 comments

The economic turmoil serves a purpose: to distract us from the fact that the gov’t is dragging people to secret prisons without due process.

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CNBC CEO SURVEY: “.. Disappointingly stupid and illogical. .. Without faith that our government knows what it is doing, it is impossible for businesses to thrive." @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 205 comments

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

submitted 8 days ago • 296 comments

This headline from the Toronto Sun belongs in the Louvre

submitted 7 days ago • 176 comments

This is @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty & @AndyOgles & @RepMarkGreen & @RepTimBurchett & @RepHarshbarger & @RepJohnRose & @RepDavidKustoff & @DesJarlaisTN04 & @RepChuck’s crash too

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Be like Rosemary #HandsOff #April5

submitted 10 days ago • 211 comments

Connor Lamb is being the person some of y’all thought John Fetterman was.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Even American-made products - and the workers who build them - will suffer.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

@tpwky.bsky.social finally listening to part 4 today and actually gagged during the forceps discussion 🤢🤢

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing to see here. Totally. Normal.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

We had an intense hail storm outside Pittsburgh today - I’ve never been in the car during one. It was intense!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There should be a LINE of Senators behind him ready to take over.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Posted by @niallstanage.bsky.social on another platform: “The recipient of Elon's first $1 million check in Wisconsin, Nicholas Jacobs, has the same name and looks very similar to the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans.”

submitted 15 days ago • 260 comments