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Two weeks from now the crew of a nuclear submarine are going to see this email and the subsequent one firing them all.

submitted 3 hours ago • 40 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 5 hours ago • 77 comments

Don’t post front facing pictures of yourself maskless at protests. Don’t post front facing pictures of other people maskless at protests. Especially ppl of color. Seeing that all over with the Tesla stuff. You eagerly wanting to be seen doing something endangers both yourself and others.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

#OtD 22 Feb 1865 the Dripping Riot took place in Leeds. Eliza Stafford, a cook, was caught stealing 2lbs (900g) of dripping from her boss and was jailed for a month. She was released on Feb 22 and thousands attacked her boss's house, then police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

"Merit"!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 6 hours ago • 309 comments

#Witches. This is a moment we needs to focus our magic on the Judiciary. That’s where all this lands and they need the courage to do the right thing. This is the time to do it!!!! #witchsky #witchactiviwm #thisiswhatyoutrainedfor

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

It’s like some people were asleep for the Biden years. Surveillance, beatings & arrests of students; funding of a genocide, expansion of deportation policies, criminalization of the unhoused, unregulated tech oligarchs, rising cost of living for the working class….we’ve been on this road for a while

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Big same, kiddo

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Even the nonviolent Boycott Divest Sanction @bdsmovement.bsky.social movement has been attacked and outlawed all over the world, especially in the US. The problem isn't violence, it's Palestinians demanding the self-determination that every human deserves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BD...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

That was one of many, many peaceful protests. My Dad participated in plenty of them in the 60's. They arrested him, tortured him with electro shocks then kicked him out of the country

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

submitted 8 hours ago • 83 comments

It is way too on the nose than trump is starting his second term to try to shake down Ukraine… again

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Billionaires have more class solidarity than we do.

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

Been using @openvibe.social today and it makes me happy that people keep using Mastodon whatever the trends and "momentum" say. Honestly scrolling today, neither platform feels any more or less lively, cringey, or scoldy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I know I’m too old to still be struck by this but I am just endlessly struck by the way white supremacy takes up Black and Brown aesthetics — his whole getup is so pathetically desperate, to be something he will never be

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 9 hours ago • 24 comments

Now with alt text on the important part.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

And, please read up on the TESCREAL bundle: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

In a suit brought by 19 Democratic attorneys general, a federal judge in New York on Friday night in a preliminary injunction blocked the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing the Department of Treasury’s payment systems. ncnewsline.com/2025/02/22/r... #ncpol #nc

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 9 hours ago • 73 comments

TODAY AT 1 pm

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Republicans aren't interested in fraud and waste. They're interested in destroying one of the only public institutions that can foster cross-racial and cross-class solidarity

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

"Merit"!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1134 comments

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 23 hours ago • 170 comments

Yes, & when Dems said “only the sick & old will die” because Delta’s bottom line was hurting, it was never going to be just that group either. Sacrificing disabled people w/o much popular pushback under Joe showed leaders they could keep going w/the “pick off unpopular groups one by one” strategy.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 19 hours ago • 556 comments

Depressing brilliance from my pal Ruben Bolling.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Weird its almost like some of us on the academic and research side were right the entire time. Really bums me out how people just couldn't and wouldn't see what has always been right in front of them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

I think if you’re a parent the most important lesson you can teach your kids is that they share more in common with someone living in their car than a CEO or member of Congress

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Streaming art LIVE in 15 minutes! www.twitch.tv/theironspike

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

On her friendship with playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Nina said: “Lorraine started off my political education, and through her I started thinking about myself as a Black person in a country run by white people and a woman in a world run by men.”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Do you think throwing trans people under the bus will save their funding or do you have object permanence

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Today is Nina Simone’s born day. My love for her is boundless. For several years, on this day, I’ve shared on social media some of my favourite things that Nina Said in appreciation and respect. I’ve collected them here in one place. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-nina...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed (Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Dying on the toilet does.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

more evil, hateful bullshit the “biological sex” thing is so annoying because it’s not just bigoted it’s also bad science. i am intersex and also physically transitioning, the fuck bathroom do i belong in. they mean sex assigned at birth, which is … based on a doctor just looking at the infant

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Cosign all of this. Additionally: - Yes, you need to install and use Signal - No, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc etc are not good alternatives - You need to get as many people as you can to join you on Signal

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments