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Seems like we're finding what gets Democrats out of bed

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 11 hours ago • 71 comments

remember how i told you yesterday that i've talked with people who are volcanically angry? boy, do i have a story for you coming on monday.

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

Trump send dick email from fake boss

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 13 hours ago • 224 comments

Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

submitted 7 hours ago • 38 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Chris Geidner at Law Dork nails it: "The mere fact of litigating can change implementation of policy to improve its application to those affected.... Failing to challenge illegal & unconstitutional actions means that Trump & his team will go forward & do more. That is not an option." ⚖️

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1775 comments

Letter From A Birmingham Jail.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

You’ll never get “class-first” people to understand this unfortunately. But I’m glad it’s being discussed more openly.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

The wild part is that it WILL hit them. Look at all the non-Black women who are suddenly out of a job. The damage they think is reserved for us (that we are “strong enough” to bear”) isn’t reserved JUST for us. If you are not a cishet, “able-bodied” white man, you’re on the chopping block too babe

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

The very simple fact is that if those high ranking military officers were white/men they would not have been fired. This is the essence of racism and sexism: The belief that form determines function.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Don't be modest, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com. Take a bow. What a beautiful atrocity you've built.

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 190 comments

I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

movies you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh. One day after Coonerama at the White House, Trump fired the Black chairman of the joint chiefs. And you won’t hear the negroes who kiss Trump’s ass say a goddamn thing.

submitted 17 hours ago • 57 comments

trans women will be raped to death. they know this will happen. this is a crucial part of the steps to our genocide.

submitted 18 hours ago • 43 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 103 days ago • 4686 comments

we need a new slur to describe the bizarre combination of traits exhibited by elon musk. traditional insults are simply not enough

submitted 18 hours ago • 207 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 19 hours ago • 109 comments

These people are coming after Janelle Bouie as if they could successfully silence him and doing so would stop the rest of us from making the same criticisms Losers

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

I don't believe in Hell, but if I did I would die happy knowing there was a special seating section for anyone currently railing against "the sin of empathy," and every one of those seats is made with hot rusty barbs

submitted 22 hours ago • 315 comments

not to downplay the harm that’s happening, but it’s worth remembering that conservatives won’t ever get what they truly want. on some level, they believe they can use govt to force us to agree with their regressive vision of society. to treat their bigotries as morally acceptable, ...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 239 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 20 hours ago • 225 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

“Let me hasten to add here that the fact that we are the majority does not mean that we are automatically going to prevail. No. That is going to take a lot of work. “

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

fwiw this is basically how the Tea Party started except with imagined instead of real grievances

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Congratulations to everyone who put in the hard yards to ensure calling this "white supremacy" - which is exactly and precisely what it is - is completely unacceptable in polite liberal society. You've insulated yourself from the consequences of awkward dinners with your kids though.

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A pundit tried to argue with @jamellebouie.net just yesterday that Trump isn’t trying to resegregate the bureaucracy. But this stuff would make Woodrow Wilson proud.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Imagine that

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Talk to Dell

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not just the government, but this government, specifically

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1090 comments

You can tell Nancy Mace stopped paying attention to biology after the first month of 5th grade because 1 in 500 people born with male phenotypes have XXY chromosomes and 1 in 20K born as “biological males” actually have XX chromosomes. Even “biological sex” isn’t actually binary anywhere in nature.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

MORE NEWS: A federal judge has granted an even more extensive block of DOGE's access to Treasury systems, saying there is a "realistic danger" that the "rushed" process to access sensitive payment systems has compromised data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

feeling very assured that the people telling me i’ve been overreacting to our current situation are very, very wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

God it's good to see people encounter this kind of bullshit and just say "no, we're not doing that."

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 479 comments

Of course he never would, but if @jamellebouie.net were to start a cult, I'd feel obliged to at least skim the promotional brochure

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

so @chatterton.bsky.social’s position is basically that i am a cult leader and that all of you are mindless hordes who have no actual thoughts and do not engage with substance

submitted 1 day ago • 844 comments