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This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

submitted 8 hours ago • 122 comments

The oil and gas industry is among the worst workplaces for heat-related deaths and injuries. Yet the American Petroleum Institute is lobbying to get Trump to cancel a proposed rule that would protect workers from extreme heat. These sociopaths don't care if they kill even their own people.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Given that the economics of this will price oil & gas out of the market (relative to renewables), this amounts--effectively-- to a sunsetting of oil & gas production by EU:

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

With all the technology that Israel has, they couldn't invest in a few bullhorns?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know what to do with this quote

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Oh, 2025, what are you doing to us? 🤣

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The SAVE Act is a basically unprecedented assault on the right to vote. Republicans are pushing it because they want to make Trump's conspiracy theories about "stolen" elections the law of the land and potentially disenfranchise millions in the process. Supporting it is utterly disqualifying.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

submitted 48 days ago • 1362 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 48 days ago • 834 comments

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

submitted 49 days ago • 389 comments

A Buchenwald commemoration speech by @omri_boehm , an Israeli philosopher, grandson of Holocaust survivors, was cancelled because of pressure. Not by BDS. Not by Neo-Nazis. By the Israeli Embassy. Sadly, I’m not surprised. #NeverAgain4All Read 👇🏼 www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Recap: Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 48 days ago • 119 comments

This is really an amazing chart, even in 2025 conservatives remain disappointed that too few people died from the wages of sin that they still hold a grudge

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Over 650 known cases so far, and most have nothing to do with pro-Palestinian advocacy. The admin seems to be engaged in a breakneck effort to kick out every foreign student who has had even the most minor interaction with the police possible, including for TRAFFIC CITATIONS and JAYWALKING tickets.

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"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 49 days ago • 122 comments

This is exactly right. "We get to do as we please, we get to dominate, and we are owed deference at all times" is the animating sentiment and promise of MAGA as a political project. All based on some idea of what "real America" is and who gets to define it, who belongs, who gets to be at the top.

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

Spring has returned to the Saugeen Peninsula in Ontario. Although after recent ice and wind storms, it will be a while before the Bruce Trail is back in shape.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The Canadian government is warning citizens visiting the United States that US border officials have the authority to search travelers’ electronic devices – including phones, laptops, and tablets – without providing a reason. edition.cnn.com/2025/04/05/w...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Multiple maternal and child health programs have been eliminated or hollowed out as part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layoffs, prompting alarm and disbelief among advocates working to make Americans healthier. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

It can happen here – it is happening here! - but the “It” is likely to look different than anything that came before or elsewhere. In a stable democracy, the range of outcomes is narrow. But in America, we must now widen our horizon of expectations far beyond what most people are comfortable with.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 57 days ago • 1377 comments

For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.

submitted 57 days ago • 397 comments

I'm a #Boomer and Vietnam Era US Marine Corps #Veteran and my brother is a 100% disabled Army vet living in Alabama. People say "thank you for your service," but don't mean it. The cuts to Veteran Affairs aren’t going down well in Trump country - www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

How is spending billions on an unnecessary, hostile takeover of Greenland compatible with "cost-cutting" and "efficiency"? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 57 days ago • 97 comments

Collective narcissism, paranoia, and distrust in science predict climate change conspiracy beliefs www.psypost.org/collective-n... @psypost.bsky.social "Conspiracy beliefs about climate change, such as claims that it is a hoax or part of a global political agenda, are widespread across the world."

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

The many triumphed over the money in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election yesterday. Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford, to the people of Wisconsin, and to everyone fighting for a just and free America. Let's keep going.

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submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

‪Other UMich (and US university) leaders, Dean Jackson shows the way! "[DEI] will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design because our academic program and DEI initiatives are legally compliant, in alignment with our university values, and an extension of the mission of our school."

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

“It is a five-alarm fire for public history, science and education in America,” said Samuel Redman, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Tariff Spin in Leaked Call Stunner newrepublic.com/article/1933... via @newrepublic.com

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Call the Midwife is too woke. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 63 days ago • 2752 comments

Flight Bookings From Canada to the US Plummet Over 70%. Wonderful, keep it going Canada 🍁 #cdnpoli www.newsweek.com/canada-us-fl...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

"We need stand up for our health care system. We stand up for what's ours. Because the alternative is not an option. Health care is a symbol for what we are" @brittlestar.com opening @cmadocs.bsky.social #CMASummit 2025

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

Monstrous. That's my only response to the news these days coming from White House, which is truly a white house feeding on the despair and emotions of people like vampires.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

"Most people, including a lot of journalists, don’t understand what an executive order even is. It’s not a law or even a quasi-law. An executive order is really just a memo from the president to his staff..." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/notes...

submitted 63 days ago • 117 comments

Will telling 23andMe to delete personal data protect your genetic information? Not entirely www.snopes.com/news/2025/03... I deleted my data. 🤞🤞🤞

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

You would think an administration that has so many tech bros working for it would have done some "technology training" on day 1.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Putin--oh wait, that wasn't accidental. Never mind.

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This could almost be about 🇺🇸, but it's really about 🇨🇦.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday's historic security breach has already fallen off the top of the @nytimes.com app, replaced by an article about ... college admissions. This is such an egregious display of their bias to downplay stories that might damage Republicans. It's practically unbelievable.

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

CSIS alleges India organized support for Poilievre’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid "CSIS did not share this information with Mr. Poilievre...because he does not have the necessary security clearance to access secret documents and receive classified briefings on foreign-interference activities."

submitted 65 days ago • 37 comments

Carney on this, just now: "I find it beyond baffling, I find it downright irresponsible, that the leader of the opposition...refuses to obtain his security clearance." "At this point in our history, when we face the greatest threats that we've faced in generations...he has to answer for that."

submitted 65 days ago • 27 comments

@princetonupress.bsky.social should be ashamed of the revisionist nonsense they published. @joho.bsky.social takes a look at In Covid’s Wake by Lee and Macedo.

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

A good 2016 summary of the problem with the "must hit rock bottom to recover" ideology and of @maiasz.bsky.social book Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. #recoveryposse #addiction #recovery #opioids #alcohol www.thecut.com/2016/05/the-...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

📢 PODCAST Escalation Over the past two weeks, the Trumpists have significantly escalated their assault on the rule of law as well as on both individuals and institutions they regard as the “enemy within.” Some thoughts from the new episode of Is This Democracy:

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments