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Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA. 😳👏 #FightOligarchy

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.

submitted 21 days ago • 218 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 33 days ago • 190 comments

Tesla stake is no longer Elon Musk’s most valuable asset amid stock market sell-off

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 38 days ago • 3635 comments

Christine, 33, explains that young scientists will be hit hardest by these cuts. "If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

Death to American Fascism!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

submitted 51 days ago • 239 comments

Dark money groups funded by Elon Musk spending over $4 million to buy Wisconsin Supreme Court race GOP-dominated courts on verge of overturning election of Democrat Allison Riggs in NC Supreme Court race There's a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 53 days ago • 15 comments

Tenth Circle Added To Rapidly Growing Hell theonion.com/tenth-c...

submitted 53 days ago • 154 comments

Multiple US agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward reut.rs/3XewdXW

submitted 56 days ago • 28 comments

“From my perch here in the US—where I arrived decades ago, thinking that having grown up in a country that experienced fascism was never going to be relevant again—here are a couple of thoughts on what we might learn from the German election.”

submitted 56 days ago • 29 comments

What does it mean to be “civilized”? asks Dina Nayeri. It is, she writes, “to live with a moral standard that takes into account our fellow man, and to ask: What do we owe one another, and what do we owe strangers?”

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Scoop: The Trump administration on Thursday cut protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States, putting them on track to be targeted for deportation this summer, according to government documents and an official with DHS. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 59 days ago • 24 comments

“Hitler systematically disabled and then dismantled his country’s democratic structures and processes in less than two months’ time—specifically, one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes,” Timothy W. Ryback writes in a step-by-step account:

submitted 60 days ago • 74 comments

My husband was fired by Elon. But that’s not even the thing that made me realize what we need to do as Americans now.

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

We have to fight back somehow and where we can; we need to avoid supporting those businesses that back the tRump Regime. This list is some of the businesses that have donated to him and Project 2025. Resist through buying your needs from companies who support Democracy fairly.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

CDC staffers, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, speak of the increasing chaos upending their work since Trump's return. “The feeling in the building is fear.”

submitted 61 days ago • 30 comments

DOGE has eaten its own homework: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments