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We should be able to comment on ads. If they're foisted upon us, at least let us publicly ridicule them.

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

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🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨 Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️ ➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures: www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe... 💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Biodiversity being flagged as DEI makes me want to kill myself.

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submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 21 days ago • 1330 comments

NEW: HIV/AIDS workers are cut off from lifesaving medicine and money that the Trump admin has approved access to due to Elon Musk's DOGE. This is by @knibbs.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

submitted 21 days ago • 852 comments

The Secretary of Interior just ordered the government to "review and, as appropriate, revise all withdrawn public lands, consistent with existing law, including 54 U.S.C. 320301" That's the Antiquities Act All of our monuments are under threat right now youtu.be/QYSYAHDKtvM?...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

#CDC staff have been instructed to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5 pm today. This is part of the "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" Initiative.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

If you’re wondering how RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing went.

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

Wat.

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Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 25 days ago • 328 comments

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky. Here is a great list of #litmags to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 27 days ago • 728 comments

“The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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People keep emphasizing the outsized impact TFFG will have on red states, as though wreaking havoc on poor, rural voters wasn’t exactly the roadmap to his ascendency. Yes, republican voters will suffer - but the real question is whether or not they will wake up and blame him for their lot.

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I’m finally beginning to understand why Edward R. Murrow signed off with “…and Good Luck”

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I don’t think TFG gives a fuck about Greenland. But I’m certain his bff Vlad does.

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Call your senators and email legislative aides to demand they reject the Laken Riley Act, which manipulates personal tragedy to scapegoat immigrants. Script: "I'm a constituent and I urge the Senator to vote NO on the Laken Riley Act." Capitol switchboard: 202 224 3121 Target senators below ⬇️

submitted 47 days ago • 7 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 47 days ago • 904 comments

Pasadena Humane has seen an influx of over 300 animals due to the fires. People lined up down the block to drop off beloved pets they could not take with them when they fled their homes. Some animals arrived with burns and injuries and are being treated. Donations and fosters are needed NOW.

submitted 47 days ago • 40 comments

today is a good day for Californians to read the January 2025 Legislative Analyst’s Office report which details how investor owned utilities (for-profit) pass climate mitigation and wildfire response costs on to you, pushing rates more than 50% higher than public utilities lao.ca.gov/reports/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

48 House Democrats voted earlier today to help jump-start Trump's mass deportation agenda by expanding mandatory detention. Shame on them. medium.com/@jonathancoh...

submitted 48 days ago • 27 comments

Reminder that if your job is causing others harm (and you have the means), you should quit your job.

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AI is a huge waste of resources and energy, but I would use it if I could selectively block certain types of social media posts before I even see them.

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These 81 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for a National Defense Authorization Act that bans medically necessary health care for military families with trans kids. Especially disappointed to see Hakeem Jeffries there. clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/rol...

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