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We all need to hear this

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is today, March 4, the year or our Lord 2025. He’s threatening to remove federal funding and arrest people for exercising 1A rights (speaking against him) and to “expel” Americans … from what? The colleges he doesn’t run or the country he thinks he does? Impeach/convict/remove @resist.bot

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow.

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

We’re seeing that constitutionally-protected rights are only as good as the people willing to defend them.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Over the weekend, a presidential action was put forward with a goal of accelerating US lumber production. They want to destroy what’s left of our wilderness, leaving what? If we destroy this planet we will have nowhere to live. We cannot live on Mars, despite what Space Ballz Musk says.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

Many folks want to organize right now but aren’t sure how. There are many ways; that’s the hard part AND the beauty of it. This model by Leah Penniman, illustrated by Christine Tyler Hill, shows how comprehensive social change requires many strategies. We need all of us. Find your role and begin.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Weekly pep talk (for you and me): 1) you and your work matter. 2) you are appreciated and loved by many people. 3) you need to protect yourself. Have copies of EVERYTHING from your personnel file, know what RIF would look like for you (retirement or lump sum- see section L in employee express).

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

We threw out a hundred years of anti-corruption reforms overnight and so far barely anyone has even noticed.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Dear National Media, You still do journalism, right? Corruption at scale still gets eyeballs and sells copy? Could you maybe do something about this like, I dunno, report it? Ya know, if you don’t have better things to do. No pressure.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 3 days ago • 251 comments

Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

Genuinely like asking 10 white men to rate how consequential a policy affecting black women is.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

If a private law firm took a significant number of cases and then cut its staff so it couldn't manage them, the Judge would show no sympathy. If a corporation couldn't afford the legal fees from a bunch of products liability claims, we wouldn't deny the injured plaintiffs relief. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

#Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr Thank you for supporting @npr.org @therealelvira.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director. He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.

submitted 5 days ago • 309 comments

Trump and Elon are destroying the Social Security Administration, and without staff & offices, there will be people who can’t get their benefits—period. I put together a fact sheet about what Elon's decimation of Social Security will mean for YOU. Please share it far and wide.

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

Texas A&M is claiming it needs to ban drag shows from campus because they create a hostile environment for women on campus, and involve the mockery or objectification of women. It's one of the most laughable arguments I can imagine.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Imagine any reasonable argument for standing down our defenses against cyber attacks intrusions from Russia. Like, what’s the upside, unless treason?

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

“For us to be of any use in a Trump world, we must pay attention to our inner states, so we don’t perpetuate the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion, and constant disorientation.”

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

It's #Friday, which means another nature pic. Here's some 💚 to our Nat'l and State parks! Nature lovers, be sure to follow @altfws.bsky.social and @altnps.bsky.social for updates Grove of Titans at the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park #Nature #FeelGoodFriday #Forest #Redwoods

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Follow the money.

submitted 7 days ago • 151 comments

It's genuinely astounding how Trump's main thing is that evil foreigners are coming to the United States to rape white women and yet they pressured Romania to release a serial rapist so he could go to the US and rape women there

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Something getting lost in the discussion around RIFs and waste: we pay for work from federal employees because that work benefits the country and its people. Starting an occasional series of civil servants in their own words (AI voice for privacy). This person works for the IRS.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

@alt-irs.bsky.social with some info for you. ❤️

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

An open letter to America from career federal civil servants Two career federal civil servants wrote an open letter to Americans, saying that they're not enemies and they serve their best interests. federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

submitted 8 days ago • 635 comments

The reporting on the trans travel visa ban is criminal. It does NOT only affect transgender athletes. The cables CLEARLY say it affects all trans people. They can reject visas on point 6 of anyone who is requesting a visa that does not match their assigned sex at birth.

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

(1/5) Updated Suicide Prevention Resources - please reach out if you're struggling! National Crisis Line: 988 For Veterans: 988, press 1 National Text Line: text "HOME" to 741741 The above lines are the only ones tied into the National 988 network. All the rest in this thread are not.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

TODAY: 21 protesters decrying the blowing up of the #PEPFAR program, which saves the lives of babies with HIV, are arrested in the Cannon House Office Building @altusaid.bsky.social @hivpxresearch.bsky.social @housingworksnyc.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Job loss can be a major form of trauma. If you’re in shock, feeling untethered, or worried about your life situation, finances, etc. please reach out to a friend, family member, someone in the community, or a hotline/chat to connect and talk about it. Dialing 988 is a good place to start.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

submitted 8 days ago • 1359 comments

“Spending cuts for thee, but not for me” Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

🚨🚨ACTION REQUEST🚨🚨 And short 🧵on why this matters USAID staff in Washington received word that they can go into USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building to retrieve their personal belongings. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Reposting again because people need to see be aware. I know there's a lot going on. A lot. But this going to remove a lot of people who would stand up for us.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This order has been upgraded to a permanent visa ban, meaning trans athletes attempting to enter the country to compete in LA's 2028 Summer Olympics could face lifetime exclusion from the U.S.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The US is effectively issuing a complete life ban on trans people entering the country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Oh, imma print a bunch of these.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

History is repeating itself. There were more LGBTQ people removed from government during the lavender scare than were suspected communists during the red scare. They only really taught the latter in history classes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavende...

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

The House will vote TODAY on whether to advance devastating cuts to Medicaid that would destroy lifesaving programs for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Call your representative now and tell them to save Medicaid at (202) 224-3121.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites. Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

1. Nearly a century ago, Nazis burned trans books to usher in fascism. Now, Trump is doing the same, digitally burning all records of transgender people and striking the community from records. This must be seen for what it is: a move towards atrocity. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments