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The massacre of 15 emergency and paramedics in Rafah is one of the worst incidents I can remember and I have yet to see any serious response. "Those responsible must be held accountable" said Foreign Secretary David Lammy. What are you doing for this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

This idea that there is a god given right for fascists to always be allowed to run in elections because somehow democracy is threatened by not allowing fascists to run for office is profoundly stupid, dangerous and makes people sound patently insane. Fascists want to kill democracy. That is all.

submitted 23 hours ago • 39 comments

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

submitted 1 day ago • 189 comments

An essential part of fighting fascism is realizing these are just evil people with irredeemably evil beliefs. There is nothing more or else to it.

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very funny April Fools' Day joke in The Times about not prosecuting far-right politicians guilty of fraud

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

Every once in a while I think about Matt Groening's 1996 "wisdom of the ages" cartoon that summed up the Dem approach

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

"During the 1956–1957 occupation" just a very standard thing for a group of people who've deployed human shield since almost the very beginning of their formation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

submitted 4 days ago • 446 comments

Sen. Cory Booker just entered hour 16 of his marathon magical girl transformation on the Senate floor. He has spent all night slowly spinning around in a field of twinkling stars and striking cool fashion poses. So far he has materialized one long opera glove and a silver tiara with topaz inlay.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

there aren't any words for how much I hate the people doing this. I wish every harm upon them, it is right and just to pray for such harm

submitted 1 day ago • 226 comments

"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

as trans day of visibility fades into night, it's time to build support for a new holiday: trans week of unfettered access to long-range rocket artillery

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

I’ll never not remind people that the New York Times called Ida B Wells a “slanderous, nasty-minded mulatresse” during her anti-lynching campaign.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 4 days ago • 122 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 4 days ago • 180 comments

worrying that years of “campuses are dangerous hotbeds of intolerance,” “students are the enemies of academic freedom,” type narratives have been useful in massaging the public so we will more readily accept that snatching and renditioning students for speech is okay

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 4 days ago • 679 comments

the inevitable end point of every right-wing fueled moral panic like this is “the right wing returns to power and uses their imagined oppression as justification for actual oppression” and it’s crazy that we haven’t figured this out yet

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

I see your “Unusual Deaths in the 20th Century” and raise you “Unusual Deaths in Antiquity” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Reminder that states have been pushing children (not just teens) onto the factory and food processing floors for several years now because—oh what was the precipitating event. I can’t quite recall. Something that happened around 2020… Anyway, here’s a thread of articles.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

commission for @fallboard.bsky.social of him with his band

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Today is a perfect day to listen to ‘Punch A Nazi’ by @noshu4me.bsky.social. Give him a follow on here too! No$hu is putting out some of the best resistance art in this modern era 🫡🫡🫡

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 2111 comments

The apprentice is now the master.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

Our enemies have figured out that everything is legal until someone stops you Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need

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OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

It’s never been about protecting women. None of it has been about protecting women.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The performative cruelty is the point, because they absolutely cannot do this at any scale. We're being ruled by a group of hucksters who only know how to huck. That's all Trump and Musk have ever been good at. They're trying to cargo cult authoritarianism built entirely out of PR stunts.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

The anti-scientific “binary immutable sex is a biological reality” led right into “race is a biological reality” (!)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments