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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

I'll be live masked and in person at Rutgers reading new and old shit and in conversation with @roxanegay.bsky.social this Monday. Youtube vid will be posted later. www.rutgers.edu/event/they-h...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I need $330 to paypal today to make my payment on my line of credit on time. #ShowUpForWishes #HelpSky #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 💸💕

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit panel DENIES the Trump administration’s request to limit the nationwide scope of a Seattle court’s injunction that blocks Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The panel included two Republican appointees, and one Democratic appointee

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I would add @support.bsky.team that you should consider nonresponsive alt text, which disrupts the UI for disabled users, something we can report because "read the image" is just plain ableist trash

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

What a joke that those of us applying to take the July bar exam have to submit to character & fitness evals while the number of barred attorneys standing up in court to projectile vomit their lack of character & lack of fitness at judges is a staggering number

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Today, possibly even higher on the "should know better" alt text shit list is the official accounts of literal governors. Please. I beg.

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Eugenics is bad, actually.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Reposting with complete alt text.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"He's British! They don't learn about FDR!" doesn't work. If a British journalist is hired for a job leading anything about American politics, to be read by the most aware people of American politics, he damn well better meet a higher standard than a regular Brit re: American history

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you've ever said "I would never put chemicals like that in my body" or "you know, my friend started doing yoga and was able to get off her medication for [x condition], you should try it!" to a sick/disabled friend, then you're a lot closer to RFK Jr than you are probably comfortable thinking

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I've seen some "doesn't RFK Jr remember his disabled family members??" comments. I actually think his attitudes toward disability perfectly incapsulate the threat that tons of family members pose to their disabled kin. Disability Day of Mourning is coming up - I encourage folks to do some reading

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

If you are a reporter for Reuters, WaPo, NYT, etc. (although this was sparked by a Reuters reporter) there is absolutely no reason for you to not know how, or to think it's not necessary, to include alt text when you post info online. Journalists not alt-texting is the worst

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I don't want to suddenly create an account for the weather app I've been using for 10+ years! Just show me the weather!

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Today I learned that RAINN is actively and explicitly prioritizing compliance with the Trump admin. Either all survivors matter, or not: that's the choice, and it's why I've annoyed GBV researcher friends and colleagues about anti-trans hate and SV.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Again grateful for professors who pivot to discuss current events. My professional responsibility prof scrapped tomorrow's lesson to assign readings re: prosecutorial ethics, Watergate, and the Adams dismissal/DOJ resignations instead. Glad to get to learn, rather than ignoring what's going on

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking back to high school, I'm pretty mad at how little we learned in AP Gov or AP US History about Watergate, among, obviously, many other things. But I guess that would have required talking about the reality of what the US did in Vietnam & encouraged us to see our government as breakable

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I think I'm good at being honest but kind w/ my friends when they ask hard things. Knitting hats & socks (for a fun answer). And I'm a good person to help others prepare - e.g. for a big change, a scary conversation, a doc appointment - by thinking from angles they haven't considered yet

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I'm seeing a lot of ableist slurs very casually thrown around lately (more than usual), almost always in reference to trump voters or repub politicans (+ doge folks). The words themselves are harmful, but also the attitudes that they express. Disappointing as always

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The musical Waitress is streaming on Max right now and you should watch it! It’s pretty great. I will always feel bad for Sara Bareilles that it came out the same year as Hamilton, because I think any other year it would have cleaned up at the Tonys

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Don't bust into people's mentions to say that something potentially good doesn't matter. Don't bust into people's spaces to discourage them from fighting however they can. Why is this hard for some of y'all?

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Handled some tough shit well this week, so I'm reading a novel today. The things that need to get done will eventually, and flying through a good book is good for the soul

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A Friday reminder that having your book banned doesn't sell books. Only THE MOST banned books see support, and I assure you all those creators would prefer their books were NOT banned instead. There's no silver lining. It's just the knowledge that ppl hate you! Ok have a good weekend

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Our kid says better to talk about this than not, so here goes. Since mid-Oct it’s been apparent they have long Covid. Things have gotten progressively worse—resting & pacing is difficult to figure out when you’re a teen. They have brain fog: school is difficult in a way it never was before. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Hagan Scotten resignation letter with alt text

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Editorial note: fascism is not insanity, and the language of mental illness should not be used to describe the hearts and minds of evil men.

submitted 8 days ago • 127 comments

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN. If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper. I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

submitted 10 days ago • 373 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 13 days ago • 256 comments

After class a friend/classmate popped up and said something really kind about me to our professor when she heard us talking and didn't think i was talking up an accomplishment enough. It hasn't been a good day overall, but that was a really lovely thing

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

you are a christian! you're just also a bad person! they don't actually contradict. you can be both

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

If you have republican senators or congresspeople, consider calling and yelling at them with phrases like "kids in hospitals" and "economic engine of the state" and "I didn't vote for cancer"

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Note to physicians: please actually include patients in treatment decisions. Dictating that "this is the treatment we're doing, let's get started on paperwork!" is insulting and does not give opportunity for informed consent, especially when there's more than one possible treatment option

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

overdrawn by $58 but if folks hit my pay links I can transfer and avoid a late fee if it's covered by EOD.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments