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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1135 comments

If you’re an elected representative and need a SWAT team at your town hall, you’re doing something wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 979 comments

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 3752 comments

I love when I give my dog a treat and he’s just like “omg thank you now I’m off to go eat this by myself in another room on the cleanest part of the carpet”

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Gonna need people to stop referring to the Eagles as "America's Team." We hate that. That's the Cowboys. You will notice how they are extremely shitty. The Eagles play for the Free City of Philadelphia. They are Philadelphia's Team. Show them some respect and get it right.

submitted 3 days ago • 230 comments

A new directory page up on the Indie Bookshop blog, Little Acorns Bookstore in Derry, it's got a typewriter museum! #BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop #Bookstore 💙📚 www.indiebookshops.com/2025/02/22/l...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Stolen Land

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Wise man…

submitted 5 days ago • 662 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The lovely Vestrahorn in Iceland - never tire of this view! #photography #iceland

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Fellow book lovers! There is a better way to buy our books than Amazon. Instead of putting $ in Bezos' pocket, every purchase on @bookshop-org.bsky.social financially supports independent bookstores. You can even select the bookstore you'd like to support.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

What I’m thinking, when I think “I wish I could be a full-time writer,” is really, “I wish everyone read so much that all writers could write full-time.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 956 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 8 days ago • 1471 comments

Glacier National Park isn’t just a breathtaking landscape—it’s a living testament to the hard work of federal employees who care for our public lands. From park rangers & forestry crews to dedicated biologists, these individuals ensure that our natural treasures endure for future generations.

submitted 10 days ago • 96 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 10 days ago • 2764 comments

Picture this: It's the year 2079. A 14 year-old is studying world history. They put their hand up in class. "Sir, why was was it called the Department Of Government Efficiency?" We are living in the cringiest universe.

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

People writing futuristic Dystopian type novels at the moment must be having a hard team keeping up with, let alone staying ahead of current developments. Reality is now more Dystopian than half of what I've read in recent times.

submitted 11 days ago • 157 comments

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 705 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 12 days ago • 2697 comments

📌URGENT: The Associated Press is one of the foremost news operations in the world. Without it, most media entities could not survive. 📌Well, the AP has now been barred from the White House. I'd suggest very strongly that any media that gets its news from AP takes a damn stand here in solidarity.

submitted 12 days ago • 346 comments

ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 12 days ago • 451 comments

The Eagles will snub the White House visit. Go Birds 🦅

submitted 13 days ago • 1193 comments

Forever relevant in the age of social media. Thank you, Wendy Cope.

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Love it.😄🤣😄

submitted 14 days ago • 663 comments

for all my complaints about Quebec, i am currently at a library that will sell you a glass of beer

submitted 14 days ago • 158 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 14 days ago • 240 comments

Jim Seegert I’m a poet and short form indie author living in the Hudson Valley, NY. My recent book,Fresh Light, is a collection of a decade’s worth of performance poetry focusing on our popular culture during the last 50 years. Presented in a non- judgmental conversation voice. Jrseegert.com

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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

submitted 16 days ago • 3881 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 18 days ago • 3256 comments

I admit that if this post went viral and one RT equaled one follow, I would be delighted!

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments