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This just harms women's and children's health. CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The DOGE gang that can't shoot straight: If this is true, it means that not only have the DOGEbros sent an email with a demand of questionable legality to all executive branch workers, but they have sent it to judicial branch employees who are constitutionally beyond their reach.

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

submitted 22 hours ago • 433 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 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 1 day ago • 233 comments

All across the country, civil servants who worked in the federal government for a public good are risking their jobs to pushback against the Trump Administration. Here are some of their stories.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 21 hours ago • 269 comments

For the record, the fact that the Nazis persecuted others besides Jews, the Soviets others besides kulaks, and Trump others besides trans people, while very true, is beside the point I’m trying to make. 🧵

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

He nails it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1509 comments

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I cannot confirm this independently but I am hearing the same thing from a source. If anyone can confirm or share info about the definitive shutdown of the 2024 PRAMS data collection can you contact me on Signal at joshtpm dot 99 or via encrypted mail at joshtpm at protonmail dot com

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A small museum says all but one sponsor of a Girls in STEM event backed out, fearing retaliation from the Trump administration over "DEI." Evan Kruegel reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1n...

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. Gift link here: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is a very interesting thread. Worth engaging with on the merits.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Gift link. I could barely read it, deleted an earlier post abt it. This truly must be stopped

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 9 days ago • 519 comments

If you haven’t ordered your last round of free Covid home tests, get ‘em now before they’re destroyed. special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Because the lesson they learned from Covid is that tracking the cases "hurt" them publicly, so better to not know.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

The processing fee for a passport is $130 but there can be other costs and you have to get documents establishing your citizenship like a birth certificate and a photograph. This is the new pull tax if the SAVE act passes.

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

Journalists at the national and local level should be clear-eyed about the challenges of political accountability reporting today. We should be equally clear that we won’t be dissuaded from that reporting.

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 5 days ago • 819 comments

This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

Yeah, they forgot about the need for a bailout last time.....

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

Yep, the goal is re-segregation.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is what targeting a vulnerability minority for hatred and exclusion results in.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

According to the Houston Chronicle, public health officials in Texas think that there are likely 200-300 people now infected with measles. If confirmed, this outbreak is already out of control. H/t to @mickiemo.bsky.social for the heads up. www.chron.com/news/houston...

submitted 7 days ago • 187 comments

The excuse of every authoritarian.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“We all have one common enemy, his name is Satan, and right now his minions are trying to run the country,” Peters continues. “Liberals, democrats, communists, lizard things, we got a lot of words for these creatures.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 8 days ago • 303 comments

Five people have been charged with second degree murder over the death of transgender man, Sam Nordquist from Minnesota, 24, whose body was found in a field in New York. Authorities say he endured "prolonged physical and psychological abuse" for more than a month.

submitted 8 days ago • 290 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 8 days ago • 329 comments

I love a good Venn diagram.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Look, I'm hardly one to defend DEI, but this is an incredibly poorly-reasoned article that bases its prescriptive argument on incredibly flimsy grounds. www.vox.com/politics/399...

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 8 days ago • 710 comments