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Businesses in northern Vermont are reporting that Canadians are cancelling planned trips to Vermont or saying they won't visit during the Trump administration.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

submitted 19 hours ago • 720 comments

Many have asked why I carry a black flag to these demonstrations. The black flag is the time honored symbol to show that we will not surrender.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3603 comments

Every accusation is an intention.

submitted 21 hours ago • 469 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 1 day ago • 3280 comments

#EconomicBlackout

submitted 3 days ago • 1094 comments

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

submitted 3 days ago • 1536 comments

This morning I went to John Lewis Middle School to watch a class taught by Brian Greene. 4 days a week he teaches botany. On Fridays, he teaches the kids how to cook using plants they’ve grown in the school’s gardens.

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

Firing & threatening career civil servants, moving trans service members & prisoners to unsafe settings, and trying to strip mine Gaza and our allies…the literal worst brains in the world executing the most heinous, dangerous & revealing things. This is a toxic patriarchy coup.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"'When we saw that the police wasn’t helping us, every able-bodied man in the neighborhood, with or without a gun, has stood guard and has been standing guard ever since,' said Dominic Brewton Jr., who runs a maintenance and repair company in the town..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 4 days ago • 368 comments

Read this whole thing. Crazy anecdotes inside. Also: very efficient. ‘It’s bedlam’: Federal workers left in limbo as clock ticks down to Musk’s email deadline www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 9 days ago • 761 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 9 days ago • 1179 comments

"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

submitted 6 days ago • 584 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 381 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 9 days ago • 2526 comments

👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 15 days ago • 773 comments

"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."

submitted 15 days ago • 329 comments

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

submitted 16 days ago • 1688 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

submitted 15 days ago • 2574 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 15 days ago • 2831 comments

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

submitted 23 days ago • 456 comments

This 3-post thread is based on a series of AOC Instagram stories she posted tonight, explaining the importance and value of calling your House Representative and Senators, EVEN/ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE REPUBLICANS. Please watch and share.

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

submitted 22 days ago • 157 comments

NEW: The Department of Education told employees late Friday that they must review and terminate all programs, contracts and policies that affirm the existence of transgender people. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 160 comments

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

submitted 23 days ago • 1285 comments

Courtship dance of the peacock spider 📹 Michael Lun / wa_peacock_jumping_spiders

submitted 23 days ago • 504 comments

Humility is in order right now. No one knows what will make a difference. So do everything that you can to take some form of constructive action. 1000 people taking action is ALWAYS better than 1000 people doing nothing or 1000 people acting like East German figure skating judges.

submitted 23 days ago • 73 comments

A note to journalists and editors (that I can’t believe I have to keep saying): you don’t have to interview extremists! You don’t have to give them a redemption arc! You are just a stooge spreading their propaganda and making them ultimately more dangerous!

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Staff at the CDC are bracing for a significant reduction in the work force that appears to be targeting staff with the fewest worker protections.

submitted 23 days ago • 162 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 23 days ago • 738 comments

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

submitted 25 days ago • 1575 comments

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize Mexico when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of Mexico today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

submitted 26 days ago • 1036 comments

I’m a career behavioral neuroscience consultant & psychotherapist; this is the whole thing. Elon and Trump both have significant features of neurodiversity (different profiles), characterized by very “sticky” brains easily obsessed w an idea. Also both extremely cognitively self-referential

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Dear DNC, DSCC, and DCCC: I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment. Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that. No plan, no donation.

submitted 27 days ago • 142 comments

dear reporters: please try to add alt text on your images! lots of disabled folks use bluesky (along with the rest of the internet) and many others allied in their struggle do not want to share posts that ignore them. i won’t share your posts if you don’t use alt text!

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Trump just said he’s calling for the full forcible transfer of all 1.8 million Gazans out of the strip and says “The US will take over the Gaza Strip”

submitted 26 days ago • 1456 comments

2 insurrections, same President.

submitted 26 days ago • 874 comments

At a protest called to decry NYU Langone’s cancellation of medical appointments for young trans patients, now filling St. Vartan Park in Manhattan.

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

submitted 27 days ago • 343 comments

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, warned hospitals that denying transgender care to comply with President Trump’s order could violate state law.

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

submitted 28 days ago • 561 comments

Trump accomplished nothing with his trade war threat. He was talked down like a petulant toddler by the cooler heads of Claudia Sheinbaum and Justin Trudeau. They prioritized averting economic catastrophe above political noise and allowed Trump to think it was his idea. That's what happened.

submitted 27 days ago • 88 comments

More of this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 74 comments

New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote.

submitted 27 days ago • 417 comments

It is our honor to serve you. America, you broke through— the media is finally picking up on what’s happening. We love you!! 🦬 💚 🇺🇸

submitted 28 days ago • 968 comments

It wasn't just members of Congress today, a lot of people came out and that was really important and will remain important every step of the way

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments