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Trump administration threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI https://www.europesays.com/1850329/ The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights declared all race-conscious student programming, resources and financial aid illegal over…

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This. The constant tactic of infantilizing WW who won’t take action is just sinister at this point.

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The board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Wednesday to appoint President Donald Trump as its chairman in an unprecedented move days after Trump announced the Washington, D.C., arts center would be his latest target in his war against “woke culture.”

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

extremely glad to see media coverage of this because it is monumentally fucked up

submitted 80 days ago • 12 comments

It’s real! And awful!!!

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

That's conventional wisdom right now.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Bush v Gore was the beginning of the end. White supremacists still pissed about Brown v Board knew they were the minority & could only win by cheating.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

submitted 87 days ago • 1437 comments

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 88 days ago • 480 comments

it’s hard not to feel disillusioned when reporting all the flagrantly illegal and terrifying things this government is doing somehow doesn’t fully break through to the mainstream. it feels like cable news and corporate media made a deal to convince people to keep calm and carry on.

submitted 88 days ago • 206 comments

how it started at USAID > how it's going

submitted 88 days ago • 164 comments

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

submitted 88 days ago • 1523 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump, to the delight of their far-right followers, are invoking the specter of a race war in which Black citizens “steal” the land of their South African compatriots.

submitted 88 days ago • 33 comments

"Troubling": Panama Agrees to Anti-Migrant Collaboration After Trump Threatens to Retake Canal

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“We’ve been seeing this over the past several decades as funders decrease funding for advocacy, refuse to engage in political work (such as by funding C4 organizations), give one-year grants (when conservative funders fund for 20 or 30 years at a time)”

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

So now we get in a pissing contest where each side tries to show how much they can hurt each other, people who have been friends and partners forever, things just keep getting ratcheted up, and everyone loses. All because of one malignant narcissist’s derangement and fragile ego.

submitted 90 days ago • 889 comments

On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

submitted 90 days ago • 46 comments

This is really terrible. Public sector jobs are good, actually!!! And literally make our communities, states, and nation run! “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.”

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday

submitted 91 days ago • 184 comments

Amen

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Posting for myself mostly

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Everything’s terrible but they’re about to sacrifice a Pop-Tart mascot on live TV and that just feels right to me. Capitalism is great!!

submitted 125 days ago • 11 comments

MVP throwing pieces of Pop Tart like it’s a Carnival parade 🤣

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Cinnamon will be back next year though. 😱

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Facebook Memories is a function on both the app and web browser of one of the eldest social media platforms, just in case you don’t know what Facebook is, or have deleted it, or never joined (I don’t know your life ;).

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If you were unclear as to why Jesse Singal is here, this is the point, this is the bit. Trans folks made a space, separate from him, his followers, and the harassment they bring. He is attempting to import those followers and that harassment of trans women here, because it makes content for him.

submitted 148 days ago • 120 comments

He once commented that Jesse Thorn - an NPR host, podcast network founder, and all around good guy - was engaged in child abuse because Thorn posted a thread about the careful and considered approach they are taking to his daughter's transition care.

submitted 147 days ago • 4 comments

When it comes to platform moderation, I’m a Singal-issue voter

submitted 147 days ago • 2 comments

And this should be the story.

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

What the fuck @support.bsky.team

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Thou shalt not pretend that wanting everyone to have healthcare is “radical.”

submitted 148 days ago • 178 comments