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They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 7 days ago • 66 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 7 days ago • 286 comments

Not to be boss baby enjoyer about this but this is what Everything Is Permitted was about

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We can't do broad tariffs without first investing billions into implementing expansive domestic manufacturing policy so we can produce our own version of these goods domestically. Our supply lines would first need YEARS to correct/onshore! All this does is raise prices!!!

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

First Trump removes any reference of diversity from the present — now he’s trying to remove it from our history. Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 34 days ago • 299 comments

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

submitted 38 days ago • 62 comments

“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.” - Schumer to Bret Stephens. Is that really his job?

submitted 38 days ago • 574 comments

He really screwed the couch on this one.

submitted 40 days ago • 30 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 48 days ago • 3631 comments

I realized some of you might've missed this @propublica.org story because you — understandably — have certain words or phrases muted. But y'all need to know what financial and bookkeeping shenanigans Trump 2.0 is looking to test, starting with HUD. Read the full story: propub.li/41IkxPH

submitted 51 days ago • 26 comments

It used to be clear that Democrats stood on the side of working people. Then they started chasing the “center.” Today’s Democratic establishment leaders have brought the party — and the country — down with them.

submitted 52 days ago • 250 comments

“The leaders of this current Republican administration are people to whom you cannot give an inch, and for some reason certain people who are supposed to be the opposition seem willing to give them a mile. It is, in a word, deranged.”

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Under what authority??!?!?!?!?!? Why does this private citizen with no background in government and no loyalty to the Constitution have access to information that is only available to the government I consent to?! Why the fuck is everyone being so casual about this?!?!?!!!

submitted 59 days ago • 23 comments

"What is Ramadan – and other questions answered: A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant." For my non-Muslim friends, and haters!, I wrote this guide to Ramadan and fasting almost 15 years (!) ago.

submitted 60 days ago • 54 comments

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submitted 60 days ago • 24 comments

Department of Education launched a DEI snitch portal if you want to flood it with spam. enddei.ed.gov

submitted 62 days ago • 115 comments

The Department of Veterans Affairs is making sweeping cuts to contracts, with the Trump administration asserting that core services will remain unaffected.

submitted 63 days ago • 115 comments

"While this initial action focuses on minors, there is almost certainly no way it remains confined to them. As we’ve seen with the attack on health care for trans minors, children often serve as the canary in the coal mine for abusive conservatives’ most radical ideas."

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration has fired a quarter of the federal employees in a central program office responsible for coordinating the tracking and monitoring of the growing bird flu outbreak.

submitted 73 days ago • 42 comments

A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

submitted 75 days ago • 116 comments

Help me out here: Most if not all of these "mass firings" are illegal, right? Why aren't we seeing "illegally" in all the headlines? Or, if using that term is a no-no without a court ruling, some other qualifier to show that these are illegitimate, and thus inherently provisional, actions?

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, the fascists aren't following the rules? Surprise face.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The realest shit you will read today.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes Macklemore slaps. Fuckin' anthem for our time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

House Republicans have released their budget plan, and in order to pay for massive tax cuts for the wealthy, they are planning to slash funding for Medicaid and food stamps.

submitted 76 days ago • 49 comments

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

The way they don't fight fascism is how we know they don't fight for us. And all they have to fight leftist insurgent candidates is blood money from AIPAC. Disgraceful.

submitted 79 days ago • 28 comments

And it looks like it’s official. Trump is ignoring court orders. The rubicon has been crossed.

submitted 79 days ago • 204 comments

USAID was investigating Starlink CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests

submitted 81 days ago • 39 comments

Among the data used by Cambridge Analytica to profile gun owners in the database: income, debt, religious affiliation, whether they liked the paintings of Thomas Kinkade and whether the underwear women had purchased was plus size or petite. By Corey G. Johnson & @byardduncan.bsky.social

submitted 80 days ago • 33 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 80 days ago • 118 comments

Jesus fuck. I just heard the announcer genuflect for Rupert Murdoch and wanted to throw up in my mouth.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Somehow Kendrick bodied Drake even harder than expected with Not Like US. Fucking mastermind.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Imma just going to leave this here. Ya'll know what to do.

submitted 80 days ago • 7 comments

As companies shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that average profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

submitted 80 days ago • 548 comments

Day one of Obama's term, the GOP was facing the same odds and declared unanimously and unambiguously that they would not help him a lick and anyone who didn't like it could eat shit. It largely worked, and they left the literal playbook for the Dems - who have instantly surrendered.

submitted 80 days ago • 66 comments

Here are 1,000 AI-generated people and resumes who really want jobs at Tesla. Here are all the jobs they can apply for. You know what to do. www.tesla.com/careers/sear...

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people aren’t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been.

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

All this administration does is put every single nonprofit and institution into a trolley problem of either sacrificing trans people or hurting everyone else by eliminating federal funding. It won't end with us. They'll do this with every minority until it's only white men who are left.

submitted 83 days ago • 65 comments

There is one final leap Democrats must take to impede this coup and give us any chance of recovery: They must accept that Republicans are bad people. These elected officials have the power to stop this, but they are choosing to let the crimes continue for their own power. It is the essence of evil.

submitted 83 days ago • 22 comments

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

submitted 83 days ago • 2034 comments