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brief thread. since we focus on the role of local institutions at Bolts, one thing we knew we wanted to do when Trump won was: ramp up our reporting on how local law enforcement is responding — & why it matters. it's still early days — but some important articles from our team as patterns emerge:

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Wait they have literal slavery in SW and people still choose it?!

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Ive said it before but Ill say it again Gardening is a lot of fun and growing things is nice but also you learn a valuable lesson which is: I would absolutely starve to death if I needed to grow all of my own food

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.

submitted 13 hours ago • 22 comments

Yeah Vital Farms having plenty of egg but then selling at $10/dozen when local farms are still at $5 is so fucking sketchy

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Damn I forgot how *good* Harlots is

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Local news is amazing because it'll be like "hometown boy wins prize" and it's George Clooney at the Oscars

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 19 hours ago • 84 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

Cause they didn't cock up the 2020 Census enough

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

@4taxfairness.bsky.social identified two dozen House Republicans whose 2024 margin of victory is less than the number of people who will lose their jobs, health care and food assistance under Trump's budget. Is yours one of them?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

getting on a plane Saturday and uhhhhhh just hoping travelling by European carrier helps 😬😬😬

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Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I used to answer phones and log email and physical mail in a congressional office and can confirm It's getting logged in the same system. What members and senior staff see is the total tally. And the email inbox won't get "full" from non- constituents preventing you from getting your voice heard

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Medicaid expansion saved countless hospitals from shutting down completely. The effects of cutting it will reverberate everywhere.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

March submissions open on March 1! We're looking for short stories, flash fiction, or translations by immigrant and diaspora writers that are under 5,000 words. We pay $0.10/word! More details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Boy if you think the mail isn't a big deal, go somewhere that businesses don't get subsidized shipping 😬😬

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Honestly, I'd love to see other House Dems devote some of their floor time just to calling Musk a dick, over and over and over again. It'll highlight the Trump effort to crack down on protected speech, emasculate Ed Martin and completely enrage Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

Iiii...huh. I am not sure there's a single movie I've watched that many times. Maybe....

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For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

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