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This old tweet made the front page of reddit, or so I hear.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

I realise that to cis people, when trans people lose access to gender-affirming care, it seems like we're bitching about not getting our little treats. I have more than one friend whose body is currently falling apart because it no longer makes its own hormones and the government banned their HRT.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Wes Streeting's guide to mental health from @larryandpaul.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIo...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote about Chuck Schumer. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Apparently Republicans in Congress don't read history books so I gave a quick lesson on why the Department of Education was created (and why destroying it would set us back decades)

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 4 days ago • 593 comments

It really is enraging to see so many people with wealth, privilege, and power getting on their knees and capitulating to Trump. Trans people don't have any of that and we refuse to back down. I never want to hear from any of these people about principles or values ever again.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

History shows that stripping the rights of one disfavored group is always just pretext for a larger aim of stripping the rights of others.

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

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submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

AOC: If you are an LGBTQ kid or family, we cannot throw you under the bus in order to win an election. In this house, we stand together

submitted 4 days ago • 618 comments

Lawmakers knew that cases like this would occur. The claim that they are pro-life is a fiction, they are anti-women -- violently, murderously so.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

submitted 4 days ago • 272 comments

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

submitted 5 days ago • 738 comments

states directly into camera

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

A Polish friend of mine learned the only 2 facts about swans any Brit knows, then confused them and, gloriously, forgot they were about swans, so one day she told me: "Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including

submitted 6 days ago • 135 comments

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

submitted 6 days ago • 2676 comments

"I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

submitted 7 days ago • 1705 comments

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

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Put it this way, every public school kid in the country goes through active shooter drills because they have been told being out in public, including places we require them to be, means accepting the idea you may be shot. Meanwhile Senators and CEOs are saying they’re too scared to do their jobs.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 10 days ago • 751 comments

I'm sorry but this shit is incredible and I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of it.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 11 days ago • 5331 comments

Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT. Fucking cowards

submitted 11 days ago • 131 comments

The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.

submitted 11 days ago • 645 comments

Even if you agree with Schumer that voting for cloture was the lesser of two evils, he handled this with such total ineptitude, in a way that could not have angered and demoralized Democratic voters more if it had been designed to, that it's impossible to justify his leadership role.>

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

We are unequivocally the bad guys.

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

When DOGE cuts aviation safety and planes crash, when Medicaid is demolished and your community hospital closes, when trans care is banned through pulling funding, when Musk subverts democracy… These dems own it. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters

submitted 11 days ago • 133 comments

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

submitted 11 days ago • 1146 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 11 days ago • 3163 comments

Schumer calling the cops on these people instead of agreeing to fight Trump. Sums it all up.

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.

submitted 14 days ago • 996 comments

This story doesn't mention that Donald Trump said at this event he would label those protesting Tesla as domestic terrorists and would punish them. I'm just wondering how and why that was left out of this story and not the lede to it. @tylerpager.bsky.social ? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.

submitted 14 days ago • 348 comments

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

submitted 14 days ago • 1098 comments

Trump is dismantling our democracy before our eyes for the sake of Putin and billionaires and Democrats are censuring Al Green for standing up to the nonsense. Here we are.

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

Many Democratic politicians have forgotten that leaders can shape public opinion, rather than just always follow it. Republicans learned this lesson over a decade ago. Elected officials should not be a moving polling average. They should be humans with values and willing to stand up for them.

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

submitted 19 days ago • 1209 comments

Meme in real life

submitted 19 days ago • 66 comments

All I saw was sandwich for at least 15 seconds

submitted 45 days ago • 88 comments

Climate change is a crime, and the biggest criminals have names — 36 of them to be exact.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments