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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

He was one the last time around, too. Not one for changing much, that man. He was who he was--and made no bones about it. If you "failed" to see it, it is entirely on you.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

We should never trust them and never forget and never let them forget what they did to us

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

NYT page one: @nytimes.com

submitted 11 days ago • 294 comments

I was raised a rural southern Baptist. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. When I went to college, and took a Black history class, my world changed and I couldn’t wait to teach the history that I had learned. This is why they want to defund higher education. Why they remove true history.

submitted 16 days ago • 81 comments

It is a tale Told by an idiot

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Thousands of protesters gathered in Boston for the"Hands Off!" rally. It's one of 1,200 protests unfolding in all 50 states nationwide. Estimates are at ~2.5 million total protesters today.

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

“Pssst…I have a plan. I know where she hides the treats.” #caturday #catsofbluesky

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Just as forced birth is becoming the norm in many states across the country. With the developed worlds highest maternal mortality rates, what could go wrong? 🫠

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck this. This plan, this media framing of the plan, all of it. Really.

submitted 23 days ago • 107 comments

It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.

submitted 24 days ago • 28 comments

'Daisy' comes from the Old English for 'day's eye' as the flowers open during the day and shut again at night.

submitted 25 days ago • 47 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 29 days ago • 330 comments

Elite lawyers sell out the rule of law #US #RuleOfLaw ‚Furchtbare Juristen‘ hieß ein Buch von Ingo Müller … Mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen und hoffen, dass es so weit nicht kommt?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

lan Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Millions of Americans are now in the position to find out what they would have done “if they had been alive back then.”

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 31 days ago • 1563 comments

New from me at @motherjones.com: Attacks on Social Security disproportionately harm retirees of color, as SS is more likely to be their own source of income (vs. IRA, pension etc). www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

forever mood

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Sleepy Sunday #catsofbluesky

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

their party is bad and they should feel bad

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Thought for the day.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Well everybody, you cannot say you weren't warned.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

What's the point of power ...if you're not willing to use it? JOY-ANN REID open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Wow, an extremely rare and incredibly well-preserved tapestry-woven, fringed linen cloth from 3,400 years ago! Lovely lotus flower and bud design in the border of this ancient fabric! Dimensions 85 cm x 58 cm. From the Theban tomb of Kha (TT8) at Deir el-Medina, Egypt. 📷 by me #Archaeology

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

Emails sent out late last night—The Department of Health and Human Services is offering employees up to $25,000 to voluntarily leave the agency.

submitted 46 days ago • 662 comments

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

submitted 46 days ago • 1287 comments

Rep Crockett does not miss…

submitted 48 days ago • 128 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 48 days ago • 2049 comments

This is oh so Soviet. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 50 days ago • 431 comments

Good morning. It's now 12:01 AM. The largest US tariff hike in a century has officially gone into effect—25% on Mexican imports, 25% on Canadian imports (except energy at 10%), & now 20% on Chinese imports. Canadian retaliation on $21B in US exports has also just gone into effect

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

Eugenics and “race science” fully back and rampant. The conference venue is owned by the University of Texas www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

“The issue is, who decides what is harmful? Are we really wanting to turn our librarians into criminals for providing access to books that discuss topics like puberty, LGBTQ+ rights or the realities of sexual violence?”

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

Already hearing that Republican members have been showing up to the House floor trying to take up the Dem side seats for the joint address 💀

submitted 49 days ago • 2035 comments

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

submitted 51 days ago • 1309 comments