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“MAHA is, above all things, the apotheosis of a puritanical American tendency to blame the ill for their illness, the poor for their poverty.” This is excellent writing on some terrible policy.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Tech has entirely turned on the customer www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard’s best grad, said that it took him 90 years to become conscious of himself as a member of the working class. May we get there more quickly. Academics everywhere: join a union or build a union, and if you can’t do either, then organize your coworkers and act like a union.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote about the Biden hullabaloo. newrepublic.com/article/1953...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

One of the things that goes unremarked in these stories is that they rest on relentless armies of fascist goons who will harass and torment ordinary people for years on end, with no recourse for their victims, and that everyone treat as normal. Cops support it. Gamergate is the law.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Members of Congress have the right to conduct oversight — yet Trump is coming after Representative McIver for doing just that. This is another power grab from wannabe dictator Trump, and we won't back down without a fight. Representative McIver has my full support.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

dudes rock

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is what a eugenics economy looks like: everyone must keep themselves safe, and anyone who can't deserves to die.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

submitted 16 days ago • 262 comments

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

I can't top this one.

submitted 20 days ago • 295 comments

I love dunking on these fools as much as the next guy, but we need to realize that many of these fools have been failed by the education system and the media. Areas for improvement

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

thoughts and prayers for one samuel alito

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The media should be all over this👇👇👇

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Dem Spiegel liegt das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes vor. Es ist ein politischer Sprengsatz: – Umsturz- & Bürgerkriegsphantasien auf 1.100 Seiten – Spitzenkandidaten, für die 40 Mio. Deutsche nicht deutsch genug sind. Ein Verbotsverfahren wird damit unausweichlich.

submitted 25 days ago • 46 comments

We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...

submitted 26 days ago • 471 comments

Or don’t, if you had a shitty mom

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

An alle Sender, Talkshowbetreiber und Medienverantwortlichen: Wer ab heute noch AfD-Vertreter einlädt, kann sich nicht mehr rausreden: Er normalisiert bewusst Rechtsextremismus. Schluss mit der falschen Neutralität! Demokratie bedeutet nicht, Demokratiefeinden ein Forum zu geben.

submitted 30 days ago • 101 comments

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 30 days ago • 571 comments

In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

submitted 30 days ago • 105 comments

Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

This email, a year ago, from Fetterman’s former chief of staff, and this entire piece from Ben Terris, makes clear that Fetterman should not be serving in the Senate. Every Senate Democrat should read this and be asked about it - especially Schumer. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 30 days ago • 132 comments

This article isn't about opposing trump, it's trying to fill a vacuum right now created by the uncertainty and rage that many are feeling because of the administration, and trying to direct that to a (non)opposition that in an effort to prevent any type of direct action against the trump regime.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Good Night World

submitted 31 days ago • 483 comments

Now that Trump admitted he can pick up the phone and bring Abrego Garcia back, time to press WH on the fact that their basis for refusing is the word of a cop who was indicted for serious misconduct. Trump's ABC interview is full of bullshit. My rebuttal: newrepublic.com/post/194593/...

submitted 32 days ago • 62 comments

Later today the Senate will vote on my bipartisan legislation to end Trump’s tariffs. This has a real chance of passing. I encourage everyone to make your voices heard with your Senators if you feel strongly about this issue. I’ll be working to get it across the finish line. More soon.

submitted 32 days ago • 184 comments

The president is playing videos at his political rallies of people getting their heads shaved at what is effectively a concentration camp. He’s sending people to that camp with no due process, and 9 in 10 have no criminal record. The rallies are eating it up. Forget “can.” It is happening here.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

A) Democrats should be doing blanket opposition at this point. B) David Perdue has declared China is waging a new kind of war against the US and could be easily opposed for this specific position C) David Perdue is a NOTORIOUS insider trader who could have been easily opposed on corruption grounds

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

This stuff has to be blown up much bigger than it has been. You want a kitchen table issue? Cancer is a kitchen table issue.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments