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Kings used to die in mysterious hunting accidents and their bodies were left in the woods because everyone was too afraid of being named as the assassin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

They do Nazi salutes because they’re Nazis.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I can't get the wording of those termination letters out of my head. "You are not fit for further employment." The person who wrote that letter enjoyed it, I think. Why else would you choose those words? But what kind of person would enjoy THAT?

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 17 hours ago • 551 comments

If I'm falling for propaganda why does it comport so neatly with what I already believe, you IDIOT

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

submitted 3 hours ago • 109 comments

If you want to run for local office, @runforsomething.net is here to help you. Look up what office you can run for at runforwhat.net -- our next intro call is Tuesday night.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Proud to stand with the LGBTQ+ community as an ally in the fight.

submitted 2 hours ago • 72 comments

Hey @halbfinger.bsky.social, could you or someone else at the Times explain how firing a qualified senior general “root[s] out diversity initiatives?” Which initiative specifically did this “root out?”

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 943 comments

I feel like we’re weeks away from seeing Trumpers do this en masse at a rally

submitted 4 hours ago • 38 comments

That said, it's definitely not "250 years" of non-partisan tradition. The US military was intensely tied up with partisanship during the Civil War, for example. Our nonpartisan military was in large part a creation of the (both civil and mil) government reforms of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Please take a few minutes today & read this piece by @rtraister.bsky.social. I have tried to write/say something similar several times over the last month but find myself too choked by rage & futility to get through anything. Rebecca says it all:

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Performative naivety is the price of entry to VSP circles.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 5 hours ago • 275 comments

I'm glad that this story has been picked up by national and international outlets. One local outlet, D Magazine, has also highlighted the report. The rest of the mainstream news outlets in Dallas have not. Perhaps I'm being impatient but I must admit I'm confused as to why they've yet to pick it up.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 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 7 hours ago • 104 comments

I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

submitted 9 hours ago • 176 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

Great piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social. Reminder that this isn’t the first time the federal workforce has been resegregated: Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 order to impose Jim Crow rolled back almost half a century of progress that saw Black people working at every level of the federal government.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

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submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 202 comments

When I asked here earlier who the leader of the Dems was in 2017-2020, I got a whole range of answers. I find that comforting - we were able to win then without a single person at front because we all stepped up to the front.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

"Is Pepsi okay?" No, actually

submitted 22 hours ago • 24 comments

Congrats to Trump’s new picks for top military posts for meeting the job description. You don’t have to say yes, you know.

submitted 7 hours ago • 38 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 7 hours ago • 193 comments

Dude got wrecked by those biddies

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 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

When Trump names unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and purges our top military leaders, it raises rational fears that he wants a military willing to train its guns on American citizens upon his orders.

submitted 19 hours ago • 30 comments

At the moment, barring a forced reversal, 2) and 3) are essentially dead already and 1) is hanging on for dear life only because the military chain of command is vast. We are rapidly losing everything we've ever valued from the government.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

So DOGE's 'wall of receipts' is riddled with errors, falsehoods and distortions. big shock. about what you'd expect from 6 tech bros dragged over from the strip club www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 226 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 • 450 comments

I hope there is some media outlet, nonprofit institution, or university that has set itself the simple task: remember this. One of the most shocking & disturbing things about Trump's first term was how the vast bulk of it just vanished down the memory hole almost as soon as it happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

This is a good moment to thank the federalism gods. States choose their election technology, not the federal government. In blue states the read out will be GTFO Elon. And given how toxic he’s getting probably in a lot of red states too.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

i do not think that intentionally creating a devastating recession in the city where every political reporter gets their vibes from will work, necessarily, to the trump administration's benefit

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

lol we might be able to take the House this year

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Anyone else?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yes, Rufo is good at playing the good faith to the reactionary centrists. The guy knows his marks.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments