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Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 8 hours ago • 140 comments

Personal liberty is great. So is collective responsibility.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The Washington Post deciding it wants to be more like the Washington Times is an intriguing move after all we all know how dominant the Washington Times has been in that market and in the national discourse

submitted 8 hours ago • 54 comments

Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 1 day ago • 419 comments

Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince wants the Trump administration to let private military contractors take over mass deportations. None of this is about making America safe. It's about using human suffering to enrich the border-industrial complex.

submitted 1 day ago • 135 comments

A story in two parts. Part One: Prominent white-shoe law firm Covington & Burling issues a number press updates describing Trump administration initiatives in, at worst, neutral terms, accepting the administration’s framing. With such positive coverage, what could go wrong for Covington? /1

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

From a guy who used to work there: Rachel is a remarkable person and the best TV news talent there is. If she says something is fucked up, it is. Getting rid of Joy, who dared to see through this fascism bullshit years ago and had the gall of occasionally being funny about it, is dumb.

submitted 1 day ago • 763 comments

Trump is SHUTTING DOWN all 8000 EV chargers at federal facilities These EV chargers were already bought, paid for with our tax dollars, installed, and operational THIS is what real government waste looks like And what does Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, think of this?

submitted 2 days ago • 343 comments

I'm not that old but I can tell you what smoggy air looked and smelled and even tasted like, if it was a bad day. Lakes and rivers were often toxic, and occasionally caught fire. We solved all of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Your regular reminder McConnell could have taken care of this in January 2021

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

"Data doesn't lie"? It's amazing how much the same people who mocked pre-eminent scientists during COVID are now blindly following a ketamine-fueled hustler and the teenage DOGE dorks.

submitted 2 days ago • 476 comments

The man who sicced the black-shirted thugs on this woman is Sheriff Bob Norris. The man jeering, "Look at this little girl over here...We've got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here... Your voice is meaningless right now...I can talk over all of you" is "voice actor" Ed Bejarana.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

It’s actually just racist because the NYT is co-signing the idea that he got his job because he is Black and there’s no evidence for this

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

I guarantee the definitive “21st Century: A Global Calamity” textbook will start with GamerGate

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone brings up the increase in autism diagnoses, here's a useful graph and article www.psu.edu/news/researc...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

submitted 3 days ago • 310 comments

15 years ago I casually suggested ways for atheist men to improve their chances of 1) attracting more women to their community and 2) getting fucked based on a clumsy come-on a man made to me in an elevator. To this day they remain so angry that they watch all my videos and comment for the algorithm

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 4 days ago • 289 comments

I went to see a really good band tonight. Great musicians. Right up until they played Dixie for their closing number. "This one's for two of my great-great grandfathers." I walked out.

submitted 4 days ago • 201 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 4 days ago • 139 comments

I would kindly ask people to stop asking me to be more polite to nazis and nazi enablers. I would really appreciate that. I am on my last thread and hanging on by claws, and trying to save my friends while doing it.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 5 days ago • 989 comments

If you really wanted a Philosopher King, America, he was RIGHT THERE.

submitted 5 days ago • 168 comments

Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

This is absurd. We built this database to stop officers who commit misconduct at one police agency from being rehired at another. It's about transparency and safety -- it helps the hiring agencies and the public. With due process protections. Trump shut it down

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.

submitted 7 days ago • 1956 comments

let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a terrible bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

submitted 9 days ago • 1280 comments

I guess I accept that the DOGE folks were just dumb when they claimed 150 year olds were drawing social security benefits. But it's worth noting that they were ignorant, not of some arcane government rule, but the ubiquitous computing concept of epoch dating www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

submitted 9 days ago • 136 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 9 days ago • 2291 comments

Remember that Mitch McConnell's blueprint for our hellscape started with the GOP taking over vacant and uncontested local offices. School boards, city councils, and others are the hidden battlegrounds of our culture. This is why Run For Something is so powerful and important.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr: “Gardasil is probably the single worst, mass vaccine that we've ever seen.” @drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”

submitted 10 days ago • 684 comments

Ummm, so even my pretty conservative risk model that has me FLEEING AMERICA didn't account for every person on SSRIs being pulled off them abruptly simultaneously without proper planning or care.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 11 days ago • 2976 comments

Please read this thread… the section on how China might intervene is all too possible and something i had not considered but is a new wrinkle to worry about. Europe and the UK really have to come together and defend themselves before it’s too late.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Getting word that a few hospitals are offering trans care again after the EO was blocked by a federal judge. Please send the decision to your hospital, and PLEASE send me a message if your hospital has resumed care, as I’m doing a story on this.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 12 days ago • 3240 comments

Just in case people don't know the context, this is a policy called splitting the letters, developed by fundamentalist Christians to use feminist and queer language and culture to split the T off and then turn the others against each other. You can watch their 2017 conference planning it.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

She’s right. I mean, imagine if Donald Trump could be extradited to Russia and jailed if Putin didn’t like how Trump was running America. Nobody would think Trump could govern. I recognize this is a very silly hypothetical. Trump would never govern in a way that would disappoint Putin.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 13 days ago • 1780 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 22 days ago • 95 comments

True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 13 days ago • 226 comments