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Suicide prevention resources are now DEI. Survival is the ultimate act of inclusion.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

There hasn't been a protest this year as large and widespread as the Women's March of early 2017, but there have been more protest events overall. And as this data shows, the margin compared to the start of Trump Term 1 appears to be growing. Don't let anyone tell you no Americans are protesting.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 21 hours ago • 220 comments

My dear friend’s niece, who in October developed sepsis when a Georgia hospital refused her a D&C after a miscarriage, will be taken off life support tomorrow. I don’t know the names of the countless others who have suffered and will suffered because of anti-abortion laws. But her name was Haley.

submitted 1 day ago • 292 comments

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

submitted 2 days ago • 435 comments

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

submitted 2 days ago • 271 comments

We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 days ago • 1353 comments

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

submitted 3 days ago • 420 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 2 days ago • 620 comments

need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.

submitted 3 days ago • 510 comments

It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 5 days ago • 236 comments

This is a terrible affront to the veterans posthumously dishonored and canceled and to their families. It is a pathological statement that the MAGA government cannot even accept inclusion in death. taskandpurpose.com/news/arlingt...

submitted 6 days ago • 219 comments

Today is a great day to take a concrete action to lessen one person's suffering.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

So much this. The purpose of tenure is to protect academic freedom - freedom to resist political interference in the research and teaching decisions of academics. Perhaps tenure won't protect that now. But if you don't use it for the purpose it was made for, there's no reason for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 372 comments

DOGE: “We’re going to fix the government!” Fed employees: … www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department. On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down. That’s their idea of efficiency.

submitted 5 days ago • 251 comments

Sharing some resources for people trying to figure out how they might want to plug in if they aren't already: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Don’t worry there was nothing nefarious going on, we have a very good explanation. Our concentration camps are just overcrowded and infested with disease.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Thanks to people like Schumer and Schatz this erasure is bipartisan

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

submitted 6 days ago • 119 comments

So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

So, if anyone's wondering what Chuck Schumer's doing next week... He's going on his book tour. This is just one of the stops, but he has multiple stops next week: www.eventbrite.com/e/senator-ch... New Yorkers... please do what you have to do.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

If you're sinking in defeatism and wondering if there’s any point in protesting, here’s a detailed look at the astonishing amount of resistance happening — and how it's making a difference.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 6 days ago • 2374 comments

Got through to both of mine in NYC offices Schumer +1 (212) 486-4430 Gillibrand +1 (212) 688-6262

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I agree with @alexabdo.bsky.social "Institutions of higher education must speak with one voice in condemning this attack on their missions and values." and @jameeljaffer.bsky.social "The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy." knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 77 comments

"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics... then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 2726 comments

Yes, exactly. Where I live and work, millions in fully appropriated federal spending has simply vanished. Contracts breached, grants rescinded. Government service offices are closing, important personnel laid off. There is already a shutdown based on Trump's & Musk's whims. Don't endorse it.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

“The warrant for Khalil’s abduction was signed on November 5, 2024, by over 77 million people who voted for fascism, and 90 million eligible voters who couldn’t bring themselves to vote against fascism.”

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

the social dynamic in america used to be that white people didnt think blacks were human beings. we got the government to change the legality on that. we were right. and we should make the same fight on trans rights. period.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, your local public school is at risk. What happens next: 1) No personnel left to administer categorical K-12 funding 2) Those funds get block granted 3) Red states funnel the money into vouchers instead of supporting America’s most disadvantaged kids

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

As a Columbia alumna, this hits just right.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🚀 Women shaping the future of space. From astronaut training 👩‍🚀, pioneering life science in space 🧬and leading lunar missions🌙, women at @esa.int are driving the next era of space exploration. #InternationalWomensDay 🧵👇

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I don't understand why the DAILY MESSAGE from these losers isn't "ELON AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE STEALING FROM YOU TO ENRICH THEMSELVES AND THEIR BILLIONAIRE BACKERS." Why is this hard????????????????????/

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

And if the way Republicans have avoided any accountability, say for school shootings or laws that result in women bleeding out in hospital parking lots, they don’t expect to pay any price for this next year at the ballot box.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

submitted 16 days ago • 215 comments