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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There's video circulating of ICE cops with guns abducting a little girl on her way to school wearing a Winnie to Pooh sweatshirt.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

nervous laughter what the fuck gif crosses out text yeah we knew this was coming but trapping women financially is i don't have words

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

GenX is the first American generation that hasn’t, generally, made more money than their parents. The generational income mobility problem is at the root of USA’s political ills.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Because the feds have been grabbing citizens, and SCOTUS held (5-4) the petition must be filed in the district of confinement, and the feds could move people anywhere, this means everyone in the country needs to have lawyers in all 94 U.S. district courts ready to file habeas petitions for them.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

You want to know the truth about why there are so many cases of autism, ADD, ADHD today? It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago. You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

"... there was buried a primal scream: the primal scream of a woman who navigates a society that knows exactly how to hurt her, surrounded by people who understand everything that harms her perfectly, but still refuse to name or acknowledge the mechanisms by which they do so." WHEW

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This specifically outlines the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Yall that is the law that allowed women to have their own bank accounts and to not be required to have a husband or male figure cosign on a loan or lease for them. Lord please help us.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 4 days ago • 443 comments

This OK Go music video for the song Love might be the only usage of AI I'm 100% behind:

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The world may be a mess, but having lunch on the patio with an old friend, cocktails and a gentle breeze heavy with honeysuckle help me remember the small magics around us at all times.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the penguin.

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

He means our US Constitutional rights to due process are rightly obstructing the President’s ordered fascist abductions and kidnappings of innocent people to foreign torture camps* Fixed it.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE SO MANY THINGS, FRIENDS This is one of them. Find the thing that YOU DO that the world needs right now and DO IT REALLY BIG (more ideas on how to find your way in in the next skeet if you're still ISO) (But just FIND YOUR ROLE NOW)

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

TIL: You can't shock Chat GPT with black humor, but it will soothe and validate you.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

As a historian of eugenics, I can tell you that the "taxes" thing is straight up from sterilization eugenics. Not only that, it represents an even more extreme form of early 20thC. eugenics that I study: euthanasia eugenics. They are tax burdens therefore they shouldn't exist. 1/2

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 14 days ago • 340 comments

If two presidents colluding on TV to resurrect and profit from kidnapping and slavery in the middle of Passover isn't antisemitic I don't know what is. After a Pesach arson. We are in hell.

submitted 14 days ago • 94 comments

1. Planned Parenthood of Arizona has "paused" gender affirming care for transgender adults. It appears to be a case of massive over compliance. This kind of move could threaten the majority of trans people's medication in the US. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

It’s been serious, but yikes: “people there are denied communication with their relatives and lawyers; that people are tried en masse by the hundreds”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Take a deep breath and look at these otters relaxing. You probably need it.

submitted 18 days ago • 479 comments

The infighting begins.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social for lifting up concerns in E&C hearing that LGBTQ youth and human rights experts have been raising for years about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). We can and must hold Big Tech accountable without throwing marginalized people under the bus. www.them.us/story/kids-o...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

NOBODY IS SAFE.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

me: pardon me while I slip into something more comfortable returns to the sea

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Fascism means never having to say you’re sorry.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners. Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious. We cannot stay silent.

submitted 32 days ago • 95 comments

Just think, you voted for this…..

submitted 35 days ago • 70 comments

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason, but doors that don't come off while you're burning alive inside it. My dreams have come true.

submitted 39 days ago • 974 comments

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

submitted 39 days ago • 1453 comments

It's so important right now to give yourself dumb little reasons to keep going. You haven't had the best sandwich you've ever tasted. You haven't laughed the hardest you've ever laughed. You haven't gotten the best hug you've ever felt. I know these things feel small but that's why they help me.

submitted 41 days ago • 36 comments