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Our 6-yr-old kitty Eris got diagnosed with FHV & she has a severe eye ulcer. We're struggling to keep up with the ongoing bills for her care. I'm trying to do everything I can to try to save her eye. She's the sweetest spicy kitty. If you could help out, I'd be so grateful. gofund.me/e8ae0e23

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

submitted 17 days ago • 1359 comments

I think organizers should read "Let The Record Show" for lots of reasons not least is the reminder that when taking direct action you must always push an actual CONCRETE demand. You have to have targets and you must tell those targets: WE DEMAND THAT YOU DO THIS [THIS has to be a concrete thing].

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

Our 6-yr-old kitty Eris got diagnosed with FHV & she has a severe eye ulcer. We're struggling to keep up with the ongoing bills for her care. I'm trying to do everything I can to try to save her eye. She's the sweetest spicy kitty. If you could help out, I'd be so grateful. gofund.me/e8ae0e23

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

submitted 19 days ago • 610 comments

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

submitted 20 days ago • 924 comments

A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.

submitted 21 days ago • 118 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 21 days ago • 1330 comments

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

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submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

LGBTQ+ people outlived the nazis before and we'll do it again. Together.

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

So, a quick reminder ...

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

These are the same picture.

submitted 24 days ago • 65 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 24 days ago • 3627 comments

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

Please do not read this if suicide is a major trigger. … It has just been reported that a transgender person committed suicide today wrapped in a transgender flag in Syracuse at the VA. These attacks are killing us. This must stop.

submitted 24 days ago • 174 comments

So a white guy flying a plane crashed into a white guy flying a helicopter because a bunch of white guys decided to gut air safety and none of them could communicate with each other. But it's Black peoples fault?

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

“The message should be clear among all people of conscience: We will not cooperate with the fascist, anti-trans agenda. We will protect trans children. We will not live inside a fascist fantasy or impose it upon others.” - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social organizingmythoughts.org/trumps-lates...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My strategy over the next four years: Obstruct Obfuscate Do not Obey

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

submitted 25 days ago • 2357 comments

It's barely been more than a week, and we've got: bird flu, rising drug prices, soaring costs for gas and groceries, record egg prices, the biggest TB outbreak in history, and the biggest aviation disaster since 9/11. It's going to be a LOOONG four years.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

As bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac, Donald Trump and his grossly incompetent administration are blaming this deadly crash on minorities and white women. This is disgusting, racist and sexist. Their reckless actions have consequences and they should be held accountable.

submitted 25 days ago • 128 comments

Trump and his supporters often dehumanize #immigrants as “animals” or “aliens.” A human rights scholar warns that dismissing such rhetoric as bluster overlooks how words are a first step toward discriminatory and violent policies. https://buff.ly/4aEiUW8 (@niezen.bsky.social)

submitted 26 days ago • 16 comments

Every day, I'm alternating between a satisfying absorption in my job as a professor and blinding anger at the state of the broader world. It can often be quite jarring. I spent a very pleasant morning doing my reading for class and then opened my computer and wanted to scream.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

Hannah Arendt perfectly explains how authoritarianism works.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

We’ve been on the phone with multiple agencies/orgs. They’ve been completely cut off from federal money. We’re talking housing, homeless services, public safety, etc. I’m calling a press conference today to explain how this could have drastic local impacts to our constituents.

submitted 27 days ago • 1075 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 27 days ago • 3341 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 28 days ago • 1664 comments

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

submitted 28 days ago • 474 comments

If it looks like a project 2025, sounds like a project 2025, Smells like a project 2025 Pretty sure it is project 2025...

submitted 28 days ago • 260 comments

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 27 days ago • 64 comments

The only crime that rose in 2024 was shoplifting. STOP saying violent crime on the rise!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Great news everyone. Not sure if you've seen but the US empire essentially let evil nerds become the richest most powerful humans on the planet in exchange for leading the tech race. Well turns out China just beat all their AI models by 50x with a fraction the energy cost and made it open source

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

If you are a federal employee, it is advised to set your social media accounts to private to prevent outside viewership, as reports suggest that loyalty screenings have begun.

submitted 30 days ago • 749 comments

Hahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha Breathe... Hahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha What a damn shame 😂

submitted 30 days ago • 356 comments

In the post-Roe era, seeking reproductive care comes with new #privacy risks that could lead to prosecution—from health providers to family and friends. An online privacy expert explains how to identify and manage these risks.

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submitted 31 days ago • 735 comments

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

submitted 30 days ago • 1200 comments

Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

submitted 30 days ago • 569 comments

So how’s it going so far?

submitted 30 days ago • 513 comments

It’s official: In the USA The Gulf of Mexico is now the “Gulf of America,” and Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, has been reverted to Mount McKinley. But we refuse to accept this change—Denali will always be Denali to us. #IStandWithDenali

submitted 30 days ago • 1789 comments

Sick bastards tried to raid a Chicago elementary school that is 90% Latino www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/i...

submitted 31 days ago • 106 comments

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

submitted 31 days ago • 693 comments