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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

submitted 95 days ago • 451 comments

AP could have been cowardly and rolled over for Trump. “We had to comply or we’d lose [funding/access/privileges]” like so many orgs are doing. It would have been easy for them to say “gulf of America” But it never stops there. They got the memo. Good job AP.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I hate the administration and I also hate the increase in anti-Americanism as a result of this administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is a big deal, in part, because it forces trans people to detransition, which is cruel and unusual punishment

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” — Albert Camus This warning should chill all American who care about our nation.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 7 days ago • 2698 comments

If everyone stopped being complicit, the manchild would just be whining and ranting from behind an old desk. He really is only as powerful as the compliance he gets.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

submitted 8 days ago • 186 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 10 days ago • 424 comments

At my sleep med doc this morning, I described how I wake up with an anxiety jolt every morning around 5am. She (American Muslim) and I then discussed our respective contingency plans for leaving the country. There’s only so much medical & behavioral health can do when the environment is the problem.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 12 days ago • 487 comments

Our country was under attack on January 6th and it is under attack now. It is appalling to have people who are anti-government in charge of the government. They are systematically dismantling our most important federal structures. This only serves to destabilize our economy and society as a whole.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

Curious which part of DEI people have a problem with. Diversity? Equity? Inclusion? The value of each concept is so self-evident to me.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 230 comments

I’m so glad I didn’t purchase that Tesla I was considering.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

submitted 21 days ago • 527 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 21 days ago • 503 comments

I have been instructed by someone who loves me to delete Facebook from my phone. She didn’t say anything about Bluesky, though!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

submitted 24 days ago • 384 comments

The widespread corporate capitulation to the anti-DEI agenda is truly breathtaking.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

I no longer feel safe in the United States and that’s a damn shame.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

“Hitching the evangelical wagon to Donald Trump has meant unhitching it from the life and teachings of Jesus,” Peter Wehner writes. “It’s a bad trade.”

submitted 29 days ago • 55 comments

Surprise Surprise... bathroom laws target cisgender women more often than trans ones, from a simple numbers game there are just so many more cisgender gender nonconforming people than there are trans people out there.

submitted 30 days ago • 69 comments