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Father/Husband. Rhode Islander/American. Black/Irish. Baseball/Braves. Anti-Racist, and therefore Anti-Trump, owner of a towing & roadside service company. In other words, a unicorn. Rickeys.org
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

submitted 6 days ago • 810 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 12 days ago • 1939 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 14 days ago • 1659 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 15 days ago • 1993 comments

Just another example of the genius level of the 47 administration. And yes, Rubio is the brainiac of the bunch. #DemVoice1

submitted 17 days ago • 237 comments

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

submitted 18 days ago • 497 comments

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

submitted 25 days ago • 1282 comments

The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history: 1. Trump, 3/16/20 -2,997.10 2. Trump, 3/12/20 -2,352.60 3. Trump, 3/9/20 -2,013.76 4. Trump, 6/11/20 -1,861.82 5. Trump, 4/3/25 -1,679.39 6. Trump, 3/11/20 -1,464.94 7. Trump, 03/18/20 -1,338.46 Tired of winning yet?

submitted 26 days ago • 109 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 34 days ago • 1921 comments

If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?

submitted 34 days ago • 808 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 39 days ago • 586 comments

Maybe the guy who glues cars together shouldn't be in charge of air traffic control.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 41 days ago • 962 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 40 days ago • 1073 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 47 days ago • 3631 comments

Just a reminder - the tipped wage was created so employers could pay former slaves less money. Long past time to get rid of it.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 69 days ago • 1011 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 71 days ago • 595 comments