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You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

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based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right

submitted 9 hours ago • 298 comments

Stephen Miller says the Trump regime is "actively looking" at suspending habeas corpus, so it's important to know what that means. The suspension would apply to all of us, citizen or non-citizen. Anyone the Trump regime deems disloyal could be arrested and imprisoned without access to the courts.

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Ah, I see we're at the "openly arresting elected officials" stage of things, right on schedule

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

“You’ll never take me alive.”

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The firing of the Librarian of Congress is worse than many appreciate. The Librarian is appointed for a ten year term by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The position is nonpartisan and runs the critically important Congressional Research Service. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

HBO’s Watchmen series sure was prescient.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is married to Bernie Sanders. I mean, mainly because it’s not true, but she would be the first to argue that alternative facts are no less valid than factual facts. she’s actually married to Colonel Sanders

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Gestapo shit. And reading this article it's abundantly clear that Worcester police absolutely aided ICE in these arrests by using force to suppress any dissent or resistance.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is what Worcester police do to a sixteen-year-old for screaming in fear and throwing herself at a car carrying her mother, who has been kidnapped by armed men who refuse to identify themselves.

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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.

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Trump just fired Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. A complete tragedy and a scandal.

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You know, the thing they said they weren't gonna do after all. Is happening. And is pretty much a HIPAA nightmare and a Nazi first step.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Extremely funny to me that right wingers are combing through the new pope’s old tweets and trying to cancel him like Disney just cast him in a live action Frozen remake

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

The DOGE Dipshits really are overachievers. Most kids reach their mid-20s without having killed a single person, much less generated a global wave of death and suffering.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake says Voice of America will rely on coverage from the far-right OAN network. OAN has offered unwavering support of President Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 276 comments

Weird, because for the last 2 decades NYT (and their Corporate Media friends) have been warning me that the greatest threat to free speech in US history was elite universities not giving a warm enough welcome to right-wing extremists.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

One time Wonder Woman built an entire full-size functioning suspension bridge out of a penny.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Drop someone ANGRY 😤🖤🤬

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Whenever I see pictures or red carpet stuff of this one movie actor, the actor always looks heavily sedated. But I've never seen anything that this actor actually performs in, so I'm trying not to form any kind of uninformed opinion about this person's acting. Could be great for all I know.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"We are now in a position in which Republican colleagues are not allowed to say whether or not they support or oppose an amendment" -- bizarre scenes at the House Committee on Natural Resources as Republicans refuse to engage with Joe Neguse's questions & instead sit in silence

submitted 4 days ago • 350 comments

Weird what happens when you fire all the competent people because you think their ethnicity or gender or whatever automatically makes them "DEI."

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If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating! I mean, OK...

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In a brand-new Comic Book Legends Revealed for @csbg.bsky.social at @cbr.bsky.social, I look into whether DC really forced Wonder Woman's creator to stop chaining her up so much. www.cbr.com/wonder-woman...

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A cobbled-together list of arts orgs hit by NEA grant cancellations that I know about: American Conservatory Theater Berkeley Repertory Theatre Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive California Symphony Circus Bella Cirzo Zero Dance Mission Theater Flyaway Productions Frameline...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The FDA names Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

Speaking of AI, because we’re always speaking of AI, if you get mail with “AI” handwritten on the envelope, that stands for “animal interference.” It usually means a dog was blocking the carrier from the mailbox last time they tried to deliver, but occasionally it’s deer or even aggressive turkeys.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

They can have two dolls.

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Couches. Trophies. Popes. India. Stay away from him as far as you can. He's the walking "Final Destination"

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

we just straight up can't have the World Cup here honestly. or the Olympics. it's not safe for the teams, coaching staff, fans, nobody

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

For more details on ICE operating procedures, watch literally any old SNL Land Shark sketch.

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Don't concede an inch to these people unless they have an actual warrant signed by an actual judge.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

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Yesterday I had to triple check that I wrote it right about Trump wanting to cut the NEA but increase defense spending to ONE TRILLION, a number so big I can’t even comprehend it

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This isn't part of my "books I'm reading" series, but I couldn't help but notice that this is among the timeliest of my local library's new additions. #booksky

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