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Just got done reading the full article and it is so much worse than I could’ve imagined www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Trump has already been enjoined by courts in his second term more than Biden was in his entire term. It’s not the courts. It’s the illegality.

submitted 12 days ago • 111 comments

🪧🪧❗ Saturday, April 5: Make this the BIG ONE. Across the country, people will rally & march to say tell Musk, Trump, and MAGA: HANDS OFF! Here in Chicago? Join us & partner groups on Sat. April 5th at Daley Plaza at noon. SEE YOU THERE. #HandsOff #April5 INFO: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

First they introduced Americans to the idea of doubting the press. Then they convinced millions to doubt our free and fair elections. Now they introduce doubt in the courts. With the rest of the exec branch whittled away and universities scared into silence, only their truth will remain. Resist ✊🏽✊🏽

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

smiling for spring 💚🍀 • • • #chicago #dogsofchicago #aussie #australianshepherd #spring #dogsofbluesky

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

On Kremlin TV, Putin intimate Solov'yov says Russia so encouraged by Trump taking their side no longer see need for ceasefire. "No, there won’t be any ceasefire. Our idea of peace is everything happening as we see fit” Then plays a clip of Vance slamming Ukraine. Vance is "our man" he says.

submitted 23 days ago • 66 comments

Things I will be doing instead of watching a Russian puppet deliver the SOTU tonight: 1) cuddling the handsome creature depicted below 2) figuring out how I can get to the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in Chicago this Friday!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

failed business man fails at business once again

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

What a joke

submitted 36 days ago • 124 comments

Warren: "Our best strategy is to make sure everybody knows exactly what the Republicans are trying to do, and that is they want to give literally trillions of dollars in tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, and they want to pay for it on the backs of seniors who are living in nursing homes."

submitted 36 days ago • 325 comments

$19,000,000,000,000.00

submitted 36 days ago • 1628 comments

Out of all the cabinet picks, OMB director Vought is the most anti-democratic IMO: “Such adjustments to apportionments may prohibit independent regulatory agencies from expending appropriations on particular activities…”

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 46 days ago • 470 comments

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 46 days ago • 938 comments

As always: Follow the money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 50 days ago • 125 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 57 days ago • 108 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 61 days ago • 1808 comments

Sloppy. We’ve been told they better prepared & well organized for 2.0 but I’m seeing a lot of cracks in the facade and that’s an opportunity for people who love democracy to protect it.

submitted 64 days ago • 617 comments

Interesting new extreme event attribution study on the devastating LA area fires. www.axios.com/2025/01/28/l...

submitted 64 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: My colleagues & I analyzed nearly 1.3k hours of footage (>2k videos) from nine wildly popular podcasters and streamers on YouTube to understand how they helped lift Trump to power. Now that he's back in office, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda.

submitted 71 days ago • 50 comments

On his first day in the White House, President Donald Trump gave commutations and pardons to every defendant charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Many assaulted police.

submitted 71 days ago • 126 comments

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

submitted 71 days ago • 647 comments

You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down. And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.

submitted 71 days ago • 23 comments

High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds. Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

The US just revoked an executive order aimed at making EV sales 50% by 2030. “The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said. But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap. Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 72 days ago • 47 comments

"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity." -- MLK Jr., 11/8/56

submitted 73 days ago • 29 comments

Even tho my phone feels naked without TikTok, it’s been deleted and I’m not re-downloading. Despite all the human connection made and all the potential, they sold their soul to an authoritarian and that’s unforgivable.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

During Pam Bondi's confirmation hearing, one question was asked multiple times: who won the 2020 election? It’s a simple question but one Bondi repeatedly refused to answer.

submitted 73 days ago • 35 comments

Having shut down TikTok for a few hours and replaced it with pro-MAGA propaganda, TikTok is announces it is restoring service, including more pro-MAGA propaganda in the announcement

submitted 74 days ago • 142 comments

Bernie Blasts Trump For Moving Inauguration Inside: “Wear Some Fucking Mittens”

submitted 75 days ago • 25 comments

If the left had information infrastructure anything like the right, this would be the frame of a thousand memes on Monday afternoon.

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…

submitted 74 days ago • 693 comments

Wealth of US ‘oil-garchs’ went up 15% in nine months as industry figures plan Trump inauguration party" Oil and gas firms have given more than $75m to Trump’s campaign and stand to benefit from his ‘drill, baby drill’ plan. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Something that struck me a long time ago, as a New Orleans native, is the way that longstanding racialized & sexualized depictions of the city bring danger even as they attract tourists. "The postemancipation city, in their telling, pined for conquest in both senses of the word." My latest:

submitted 85 days ago • 7 comments

this year sucks and the headlines are scary. i hope Oakley can brighten your feed like he brightens my day 🌸

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump’s pick for energy secretary rejects linking climate change and wildfires" by Maxine Joselow for The @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 77 days ago • 10 comments