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Elon Musk’s staffers are still attempting to manipulate the Treasury payment system to halt the flow of funds following their recent losses. Reminder: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has restricted DOGE’s read-only access. No one is above the law.

submitted 15 days ago • 310 comments

Being correct about all of this for years doesn't actually feel good.

submitted 15 days ago • 117 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 18 days ago • 202 comments

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

submitted 19 days ago • 697 comments

Protests are popping off again and people are getting snatched up for lack of tactics. If you’re in a city where the police enjoy kettling protestors, it’s time to make safe egress maps. Here’s an example and instructions on how to make them for your city:

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration blamed the dismantling of USAID on its workers’ high levels of “insubordination.” Nothing like gaslighting America.

submitted 19 days ago • 196 comments

A witch hunt has begun at the FBI. Employees are required to provide information by Tuesday and are being encouraged to report on their coworkers. The FBI questionnaire asks agents about their roles in various cases, including whether they made arrests or appeared in court, among other details.

submitted 20 days ago • 786 comments

I’m finding the prolonged high stress punctuated with danger is making my autism “worse”. I’m weird about food even if ordinarily I could work around it, sensory stuff is nigh unto unbearable, and I am super literal. I’m late dxed because I was raised to mask like whoa. Finding that difficult!

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?

submitted 21 days ago • 208 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 21 days ago • 1178 comments

Us friends, Medicaid has been frozen. Be careful until it’s open again, avoid unnecessary doc visits and bloodwork till you know it will be covered again ❤️ www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

Y'all remember the Wolfenstein games? No reason, just curious.

submitted 34 days ago • 272 comments

"Look for the helpers." Friend, you are forty two years old. You are supposed to be the helper.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

I have to share these, I’m so proud. Gifts for my coworkers! I work at a clinic that does sexual health and queer healthcare, so these actually are appropriate office gifts. 🤣 I’m still pretty new to stained glass, so they are far from perfect, but I’m so happy with how they are turning out!

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

I’m back on my bullshit, by which I mean, running around the world of Fallout 4, scolding everyone I come across for not being able to pick up a goddamn broom and clean the place up.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

It's the 11th Annual Holiday Solidarity Drive in support of incarcerated parents and their kids. Please consider donating a toy or teen gift so an incarcerated parent with no other opportunity to do so can choose and give a gift to their child: bit.ly/holidaysolidarity11

submitted 85 days ago • 27 comments

Artists! Use alt text! Your work goes farther and can be appreciated by more people if you take the time and effort! I don’t mind alt texting someone who’s clearly new or needs help, but if you know you can do your own and just don’t, that’s all you.

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

Reskeeting with alt text.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The controversy is not merely that Matt Gaetz raped underaged girls. The controversy is not even just that Donald Trump wants to make this sex predator attorney general. The controversy is that the entire GOP is OK with that.

submitted 94 days ago • 550 comments

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

submitted 96 days ago • 473 comments

Obligatory cat post. This is Bricks, the most perfect angel to ever exist. She has never done anything wrong ever.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Are we really supposed to be able to concentrate on anything at this point. Like, are you shitting me, my liege

submitted 96 days ago • 28 comments

I am EXTREMELY concerned that when targeted groups decide not to fight then others who are not targeted decide that they will just stand down. I am sorry, folks, but this is NOT a moment for standing down. I know that some will disagree but I am right about this.

submitted 95 days ago • 42 comments

Bluesky, you beautiful people, thank you so much. We are at $3500, which gets us passports, enough for Jason’s certification, money towards pet transport, and money towards airline tickets. You can’t know how much this helps. www.gofundme.com/f/secure-a-s...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

I feel mislead by all dystopian literature. It's supposed to be a powerful authoritarian government that lords over a cowering population, and and we just need need a few brave acts of heroism to give the people the courage to rise up. Instead it's just half the country being dumb and mean.

submitted 102 days ago • 716 comments

Looking for community here I am polyam, queer, nerdy, bookish, disabled, handy, crafty, and leftist. If you are these things, let’s be friends!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments