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"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.+

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When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

submitted 8 hours ago • 74 comments

it’s the 110th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth: April 7 1915. in Episode 28 of my Black Girl Songbook #podcast, i celebrate the influence of Holiday’s music as it shows up in artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Diana Ross, and more. listen in www.theringer.com/podcasts/bla...

submitted 12 hours ago • 64 comments

like Judge Boasberg, the Supreme Court directs DHS to provide individuals who are rounded up under the Alien Enemies Act with legal process. but the process the court says is necessary is a trap for the unwary.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal"

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

If you are stocking up, please make sure you buy beans. Add beans to your list and spend about $8 on beans during each shopping trip.

submitted 19 hours ago • 336 comments

This is high art

submitted 1 day ago • 485 comments

5-4, and 9/9 depressing… “But we do not reach those arguments. Challenges to removal under the AEA, a statute which largely ‘preclude[s] judicial review,’…”

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Treasury Sec. Steve Bessent: “We are shedding excess labor in the federal government…that will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing.” They expect cancer scientists to stitch socks in factories.

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For people who want to focus on more community based organizing, People's Action has some upcoming trainings/workshops: peoplesaction.org/training/ - plug in.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

HOLY SHIT. I grew up two stoplights over from Flower Mound. I never in my life would’ve expected to see a protest like this there. WOW.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

submitted 3 days ago • 813 comments

This is the biggest, underreported news right now. Republicans are trying to STEAL an election in North Carolina. Straight up. This is a test case for 2026 and 2028. They will never voluntarily give up power again.

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

submitted 4 days ago • 153 comments

Since 2022, Alabama’s attorney general has been threatening to prosecute people who travel for an abortion. This week, a federal judge ruled that the state definitely can't do that. www.jezebel.com/some-much-ne...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you are part of the tabletop industry and are interested in being quoted in an article on the pending tariffs and the effects they will have on your business or the industry, please send a DM here or reply to this message

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

They're calling today "Vindication Day" for everyone who's put nothing into retirement accounts because the apocalypse is their retirement plan

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

This an excellent article on what we/ you have lost in the mass firings in the FDA. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

genuinely begging someone who understands the economy to tell me what I need to worry about in a practical sense when line go down!!

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

submitted 5 days ago • 571 comments

Ok folks who are familiar with him and his work: talk to me about this Pelosi challenger.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Chicago is the greatest city in the world

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Americans will destroy themselves with an unnecessary trade war and a potential depression because they can't stand seeing people of color and women moving up a bit and getting a small piece of the pie. Same as it ever was.

submitted 5 days ago • 351 comments

It’s funny—I find myself becoming more conservative as I age. By which I mean I believe much more in social duty and in shame, and on a day like today I can’t remember the last time I saw a Republican demonstrate behavior that showed an understanding of either

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

📣 DSA WIN! 📣 Alex Brower has just secured his seat to Milwaukee Common Council! Brower is a tireless advocate for public utilities, tenants rights, and public education. Congrats to @voteforalexbrower.bsky.social, his team, and @mkedsa.bsky.social for this win! 🌹

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Stop and read this. It won't take long and it's well worth the time.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

And, to be clear, it's almost certainly happening because the base has been screaming for action from elected Democrats. This isn't "relax, they've got this." This is "keep yelling, it's working."

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 99 comments

"Our creed, above the presiding elder, says it all. E Pluribus Unum...to remind our country that despite race, gender, republican or democrat, ethnicity...all the lines that divide us are not as strong as the ties that bind us. America...does the constitution live in your heart?"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 6 days ago • 1027 comments

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

submitted 6 days ago • 157 comments

NEW: You can now send us your tips via SecureDrop, the most secure and anonymous way to share information or files with us electronically. Used properly, it shields your identity even from us. Here’s how to use it: www.propublica.org/tips

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Hi all. Many of us that were formally with CDC are pulling together resources to help coordinate protests and resources for all those impacted by the administrations dismissals. If you can contribute/share, it would make a huge difference in helping our grassroots group 🙏 shorturl.at/HS0A0

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 7 days ago • 311 comments

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

submitted 7 days ago • 166 comments