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Again: I don’t think the primary goal of the anti-D.E.I. authoritarianism we’re seeing is re-segregation. It’s TOTAL human enslavement to corporations. Re-segregation is just a stop on that train. Explicit white supremacy and patriarchy are being used to make techno-fascism seductive to the masses.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

IMTs are quietly talking about what the current political environment means for this year's wildland fire suppression efforts, but it deserves a larger and more public consideration. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Guantánamo is "a place where law is warped, dignity is stripped, and suffering is hidden behind barbed wire." #CloseGuantanamo #MigrationJustice

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Meet the disabled vets, cancer researchers, and nuclear techs fired by the worlds richest man

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Who is writing about what "probationary" means in the context of federal govt workers? These are mid-career professionals, often leaders in their fields, who have simply taken another position. They're not in their first jobs, trainees, or skating on thin ice related to job performance.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

trying to do progressive politics “in” a technology is a dead end. inherent maintenance and capacity costs of that governance effort, and the elitism of its assumptions.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

Once capitalism achieved global domination, it began to have less need for the capacity of the nation state. Looting it while also weakening it is a two for one deal for the Musks of the world. Billionaires have become global citizens of an emergent and powerful nation that has no fixed home or name

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

There were some financial crimes that were not just committed but also invented inside of the Louisiana Superdome this evening

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I gotta find a cliff face and carve WE REALLY DID THIS BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T SEXY LADIES IN THE BURGER ADDS AND GIRLS STARTED PLAYING VIDEO GAMES I SWEAR TO GOD IT'S WHAT HAPPENED in letters ten feet tall because no historian is going to believe it.

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

Red, White and Blue. The American Flag in one perspective. But, in another, Bloods, Crips and the Klan. And in another -- White is purity, religious, sacred-- very Daughters of the Dust. It all depends on who holds the power and their intent. In this essay, I will analyze Kendrick Lamar's--

submitted 13 days ago • 22 comments

Every time you see a “New Orleans strong” commercial remember that, in honor of the Super Bowl, the city rounded up their homeless population, forced them onto busses under threat of arrest, and piled them into an unheated warehouse at a cost of $17.5M. $17.5M that could have been spent on housing.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

The Ill-Matched Couple, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530, 📸 by @Mikeyyowens

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

Evening on Karl Johan Street, by Edvard Munch, 1892

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Samuel L. Jackson as a stern Uncle Sam. Black dancers in formations of red, white and blue. 40 acres and a mule. I need to watch the Kendrick breakdown videos to see what I missed.

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

PHILADELPHIA YOU BEAUTIFUL FUCKING CITY

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

submitted 17 days ago • 180 comments

I have ideas and I like this

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

FLY EAGLES FLY

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.

submitted 14 days ago • 890 comments

i love how this proves tom is a robot…we knew that but thank you for confirming.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

I am begging academics to recognise that expertise looks different, but we all have unique disciplinary expertise

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

submitted 13 days ago • 215 comments

You can tell AI wrote/made these terrible commercials

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I can't stress this enough, join groups online or in person with people who clearly see what's happening currently. It will ground you and make you less fearful.

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

Remember that 'read-only access' doesn't mean they can't, and won't, do great damage here.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

“In Kenya alone, at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs, U.S.A.I.D. officials say. On Friday, several U.N. agencies that depend on American funding began to furlough part of their staff. The U.S. also provides most of the funding for two large refugee camps in northern Kenya”

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The NIH indirect cost cap thing will blow a hole the size of Texas in the budgets of research medical schools and life sciences departments across the country. Federal IDC rates are extremely high and it would be wrong to say there’s no room for debate about them. These cuts are gigantic though.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

I'm less concerned with who is at fault for getting us here. I'm far more concerned about what we are planning to do moving forward..

submitted 17 days ago • 78 comments

As human beings, we need to feel in control & we absolutely crave certainty. But more than ever, we have to get comfortable with uncertainty. Gonna keep harping on this point because we really don't know much about how anything will turn out. Anything is possible to the good or bad.

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Please share directfile.irs.gov and tell your Rep you liked it. Elon is going after it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Regimes that commit atrocities never say “we’re building a concentration camp”—they call it “detention,” they say it’s temporary. They don’t announce that they’re rounding up ordinary innocents—they call those abducted “dirtbags” or “criminals”. But make no mistake. This is what it looks like.

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

Cis women need to understand: the attack on trans women is an attack on all women. Imagine any other “group” of women having their rights stripped away, where’s that rage? Channel it into standing with our trans sisters. Women’s rights are all of our fight.

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

submitted 25 days ago • 97 comments

Hi! I’m Terita and I make small stoneware teapots for brewing green tea. I love nature, cats, clay, and sencha. Feel free to follow along! 💚

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments