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Your imposter syndrome should have died laughing at this point. You're doing great. You didn't author a bill to rename Greenland "Red, White, and Blueland." You can do anything.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

It’s so frustrating for folks who have worked really hard and who have been continually sold the idea of meritocracy to see people who objectively do not meet a high standard of merit and lack a basic understanding of the bare minimum of civics, history & government… get coveted jobs & get promoted

submitted 11 days ago • 41 comments

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

submitted 11 days ago • 1356 comments

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.

submitted 11 days ago • 555 comments

This tweet has lived in my head rent-free for seven years now and it's still as relevant as ever.

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“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

Normalize conceiving of mitigating damage as righteously constructive. Not every moment will serve up the Civil Rights Act, or some society realigning reform effort—but if we can meaningfully assuage the sheer volume of havoc that Trump would otherwise be able to wreak, that absolutely matters.

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

submitted 33 days ago • 1183 comments

Sarah McBride on Trump’s anti-trans executive orders: “Well, it appears that he just declared everyone a woman from conception based on the language of the of the executive order.”

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

The rules, if you are keeping track: If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever. If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

submitted 34 days ago • 134 comments

He’s made claims like this before and it’s extra weird since the mythical 1950s conservatives associate with “making America great” was rich because the country pushed a global anti-tariff policy & taxed the shit out of rich people’s incomes

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Many people who identify as "Christian" may find Rev. Budde's words strange and unfamiliar. That's because they're based on the philosophy espoused by Jesus.

submitted 33 days ago • 84 comments

when you cannot call out antisemetic conduct on your own side you are using Jews as pawns.

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

“When college students protest to end genocide, the ADL calls for militarized police across campuses. When the richest man in the world gives a nazi salute on national television, they tell everyone to calm down.”

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

Here are three kinds of information it would be useful to track and try to consistently message, testing effeicacy. 1) All the corruption in plain sight, like Trump's meme coin. 2) The things Trump took away, like lower drug prices. 3) Trump's victims, from Trans people to Afghan allies.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

I'm sure many figured this out before me (relevant update was almost a week ago), but if you're still looking to disable Copilot in Word there's now a fast path to deactivate it on the Toolbar and turn off the cursor prompt: - File tab - click Options - select Copilot - unclick Enable Copilot

submitted 34 days ago • 37 comments

Rather than being data mules for what is undoubtedly a Nazi salute (which Elon, who is anti-social, will claim is ironic) by disseminating, let's talk about the ways that BY FOCUSING on the fact he did that we can chip away at his ascendancy?

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

democrats not just appearing at this ceremony but hailing democracy in speeches at the ceremony is just proof of how hollow most americans see the party. you cant go on and on about a guy being a fascist then praise his installation and wonder why people are cynical about it all.

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

submitted 34 days ago • 140 comments

The arc does not bend itself. And it is not bending in the right direction. So we will have to collectively drag it toward justice, to organize and bend it ourselves. No one is coming to save us. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Start local. tap into local orgs doing good work. Concede nothing.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

"Masculine Energy"

submitted 34 days ago • 291 comments

as we begin to see the awful of what's coming on 'day 1' let's remember, tens of millions (& more) of americans believe in/voted for equality, accountability, justice, facts, compassion, human rights. we're in blue states & red, cities & country. we're not shutting up and not giving in. ✊

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Democrats handed Trump this TikTok win on a platter by picking up right-wing arguments and running with them. It’s the same thing they’re doing on immigration right now. It turns out that moving right legitimizes and helps the right!

submitted 35 days ago • 36 comments

All of the pro democracy guardrails are gone. The democrats can’t defend their way out of a paper bag. The media has been overthrown by monied interests that support the incoming autocrat The American experiment is under threat like no time since the civil war

submitted 35 days ago • 26 comments

A lot of capital D Democrats really need to look in the mirror… No one in the party should act like any of this wasn’t insane or was acceptable just because Biden is a Democrat. This just can’t be the kind of thing the party tolerates

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

*offer doesn’t apply to Capitol Police

submitted 39 days ago • 239 comments

Pete Hegseth, generously, is barely employable and there are sitting senators going "I mean hey, who doesn't show up to work drunk and get divorced for cheating on their wife, am I right fellas"

submitted 39 days ago • 76 comments

Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe DON'T mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!

submitted 39 days ago • 105 comments

I think that it would go a long way towards helping people fathom folks like Zuck & Jordan Peterson if they recalibrate their understanding of masculinity in a way that allows them to see that it has always included petulant whining. Men have been petulant whiners since before the written word.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

While the GOP whines about "unqualified DEI hires" how do they explain this guy?

submitted 40 days ago • 99 comments

okay, so, the thing is, being contrarian makes you more susceptible to propaganda, not less, in the same way bottomless cynicism does. you’ll grasp for any straw you can find that supports an alternative narrative.

submitted 40 days ago • 29 comments

Ah yes, the free speech party, back to supporting free speech by suing or threatening to sue anyone who calls them out.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

I can't tell you how absolutely livid I feel about the fact that, while I'm checking in with Los Angeles friends to make sure they and their homes are safe, certain Republican senators are going on TV and explaining with shitty little grins how LA had it coming and doesn't deserve relief aid.

submitted 41 days ago • 105 comments

Repubs in the Senate & House, just know that once you cross the rubicon of politicizing aid to victims of natural disasters, that is a road that you don’t want to go down. Especially since your states seem to have a lot more of them, & you tend to lose your majorities quickly.

submitted 41 days ago • 828 comments

This screenshot should be shown in schools to educate people on AI bias. Damn.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

- MA in homeland security from Naval Postgraduate School - firefighter for 21 years - member of Colorado Air National Guard deployed to Kuwait after 9/11 - previously worked at FEMA - ran emergency management for New York City - is a woman obviously highly unqualified

submitted 41 days ago • 82 comments

Every woman journalist I know has a MeToo story we couldn’t publish because the legal risks were strangling.

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In their mythology masculinity is something they've been robbed of by vaccines, chemicals, etc. while femininity is being stolen by birth control and antidepressants. They associate modern medicine (and modernity writ large) with the dilution of their gendered birthright

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

They use the term to mean “b*itch” and “<ethic/racial slur>”. That is quite literally its meaning.

submitted 41 days ago • 236 comments

A refreshing perspective in sour times

submitted 47 days ago • 22 comments

My instinct is to learn from what inspired us for about two weeks during the election and pick that up and run with it: Who are these absolute fucking weirdos hating on sign language and why do we tolerate them?

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

This experiment with letting a small handful of people amass most of the wealth in a society and then inflict something devastating on the world when they reach middle age and realize no one likes them seems to have run its 5000-year course. We might not need to run additional trials.

submitted 42 days ago • 26 comments