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Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 21 hours ago • 82 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 21 hours ago • 564 comments

How Hitler seized power: 1. Create a crisis. 2. Demonize opponents. 3. Declare a state of emergency. 4. Undermine elections. 5. Make the rule of law irrelevant. 6. Rule by decree. If America falls it will be because of the people who didn’t pay attention.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

A Trump outrage that stands apart "You can almost hear Trump’s voice as he seeks to impose a pro-Russia peace agreement on an unhappy Ukraine, arguing: This is all Zelensky’s fault." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

First on the chopping block: The federal proofreaders.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

You need to watch this great and important speech from Governor Pritzker www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2fhPXAs/

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

submitted 4 days ago • 990 comments

For most of my adult life the nationalist right was screaming about the left "giving the country away" to foreign interests. The nationalist right is now in power here, and the vast majority of them are de facto foreign agents eagerly serving the interests of other nationalist right countries...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Rothkopf has been getting it right since this whole thing started. If you have the time to subscribe to only, say, two substacks, let them be Tim Snyder and David Rothkopf.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

🚨Authoritarianism thrives on fear & silence—but history proves that resistance is powerful. The fight for democracy is won by those who refuse to comply with the Lie. My latest on how we counter Trump’s authoritarian push—one act of defiance at a time. www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com/p/hope-in-th...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

www.facebook.com/share/v/1HHP.... #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I saw this posted but went out to Twitter to get my own screen shot to make sure it was true. It is. Nothing to see here. Just our acting President, who isn’t even American, giving our redneck Vice President, who just met with the modern day Nazi party in Germany this past week, some commentary.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 8 days ago • 600 comments

They are not going to obey this order. Not in full (though perhaps selectively here and ther). That is the end of democracy. If it hadn't ended already.

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submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

submitted 11 days ago • 695 comments

The below reported strong-arming is by the administration that claimed to be appalled at the Biden administration allegedly strong-arming social media companies to not spread false COVID information!

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Agree

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is *on its face* a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 11 days ago • 1186 comments

More of this from members of Congress please. Thank you, @balint.house.gov !

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

USAID was founded by John F. Kennedy in 1961. The Kremlin has wanted to destroy it ever since then. So if you're seeing or repeating anti-USAID talking points -- remember that you're consuming or spreading propaganda from Moscow.

submitted 13 days ago • 89 comments

✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ US Attorney General Pam Bondi will target private-sector DEI initiatives for potential “criminal investigation," Slate reports. But despite threats, 80 companies are standing firm on DEI, and the list is growing every day. Full list: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 16 days ago • 2293 comments