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Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 8 hours ago • 69 comments

Read the headline. Read the sub-headline. Look at the photo. Trump fired him simply because he's Black, a blatant act of overt racism. Which media outlets will date to say it?

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

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submitted 15 hours ago • 39 comments

There's a big fire on deck, O Defenders of the Constitution. Watcha gonna do?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

"Growing" I think it's a fully-formed Hydra. Where's Heracles?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 17 hours ago • 151 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 17 hours ago • 860 comments

Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency.

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle. We set up a concentration camp for asylum seekers in the Panama jungle.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I still don't know how EM is considered a government "official." When was he vetted? When was he given a Congressional interview? Did we miss that?

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2164 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 36 comments

Hunter Schafer announced in an 8+ min video that her new passport misgenders her, presumably because of Trump's announcement that the US govt only recognize gender as assigned at birth. she (rightly) connects it to fascist history, like Nazis burning the Institute of Sexology in 1933 @teenvogue.com

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

The barbarians have breached the walls and hold the fort. This is not how you fight back.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

submitted 19 hours ago • 163 comments

Millions of seniors and working families wouldn’t be able to see a doctor without Medicare or Medicaid. Our leaders should be fighting to protect AND strengthen workers’ health care, not threatening to gut it. www.newsweek.com/white-house-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

I love how the article doesn't even mention Tim Walz is the governor and I hope he leads a massive lawsuit. This is all petty vindictiveness that will lead to unnecessary suffering.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

This.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 22 hours ago • 47 comments

Comrade card for 2/21/2025. Feeling without action will shrink the heart.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Something’s happening out here, folks. And not just in blue states.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Gonna continue to say that these pickets are so important right now. There are many reasons for this touched upon in the Waging Non-violence I shared a couple of times yesterday and even more. One of the most useful tactics right now.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

submitted 23 hours ago • 40 comments

If there isn't massive obstruction to this from within (as well as without), an awful lot of people could "disappear."

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't give a shit about Bond. I don't subscribe to Amazon, et al. Why we are still discussing bullshit like this when we should be, especially now, supporting independent artists, is baffling. There's only one way forward for the arts and it isn't with corporations and overplayed IP.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, protests and demonstrations are important. If all you see in the streets are nazis and their flags, there needs to be an equal and opposite, if not greater, reaction. No it isn't everything a movement should be. But it is important and folks putting it down are getting on my nerves.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 333 comments

The facts of the transgender discrimination cases that the Trump EEOC wants to drop are stomach-turning. They are doing this because they want to empower the abuse of trans people, which they don't think should ever have been illegal in the first place ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

I think industry taking advantage of men (sports betting, loot boxes, online dating, body issues like below (manorexia?)) has really come into its own recently, and whereas beauty standards for women have at least gotten feminist pushback, the male equivalent just furthers the grift.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

fascists are currently setting the public up to suffer and die from viral diseases so this is 1000% correct

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I really loved the film version of V for Vendetta because even as broad as some of the strokes were, it no longer seems absurd to imagine such traitorous, venal and OTT characters in power. All of whom are taken down not by outside influences, but a righteous, vengeful ghost from their past.

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