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submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 4 days ago • 340 comments

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

submitted 6 days ago • 183 comments

"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View

submitted 7 days ago • 2574 comments

The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes... Let's just stop right there, shall we? I do not care what you believe. Give me evidence or shut the fuck up.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 9 days ago • 2790 comments

GOV. WALZ IN IOWA: “This an issue of - do you stand with veterans? If you do, you should not have voted YES like your rep did to cut the VA. It’s that simple.”

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

Last Friday, Labour leaked their disability cuts plans to ITV leading to panic, despair, hopelessness and a noticeable spike in suicidal ideation in disabled communities. Rachel Reeves wouldn’t have noticed this though as she was enjoying a free box at a Sabrina Carpenter gig.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 456 comments

Today I’m teaching you how to build your moral courage — the single most essential quality for this moment in history:

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization... Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

submitted 14 days ago • 94 comments

YESTERDAY: "There is no substitute for Starlink." --Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product. TODAY: "We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink." --Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

submitted 15 days ago • 637 comments

This is wild

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submitted 15 days ago • 115 comments

Disgusting - this is just a game to them Investors have been trading and made 17% profit on the bailout YOU'RE paying for if you're a Thames Water "customer" We say NO - protest 11.30 today outside Royal Courts of Justice PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW www.ft.com/content/333c...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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submitted 17 days ago • 209 comments

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

submitted 17 days ago • 1480 comments

this is obviously bleak and horrid and I know it's a petty thing to point out but: god we fucking told you so, lesbians and gay men who decided to become transphobic for no apparent reason, we told you the entire LGBTQ community would end up getting screwed over, this was always going to happen

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

oh god <3

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Against all of the contrary evidence, I continue to believe in human beings. Despite our flaws and our fuck ups, I think we can do and be better. I appreciate all of the people who keep my faith going.

submitted 20 days ago • 55 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 21 days ago • 1199 comments

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

submitted 22 days ago • 509 comments

I hope fellow Celts will sign this too 〓〓 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇲 🇮🇪 ✍️ Petition: Make St Davids Day on March the 1st a Public Holiday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

submitted 25 days ago • 461 comments

The late Janey Godley was right. Blue Sky do your thing.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Be in no doubt, MAGA America, we Scots will make hay with this visit by Trump to our country. There will be protests and piss-takes, aplenty. The only thing missing will be Janey Godley and her trademark ‘Trump is a Cunt’ placard www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Oh, man, not Gene Hackman. 2025 can just fuck right off. Okay. Let me tell you a little bit about Gene Hackman...

submitted 26 days ago • 111 comments

🧐In 2018 the cost of nationalising water was hugely overestimated by a private water funded, "economically illiterate" report 😡Today the government is using this report to justify EXCLUDING the option of public ownership in its new commission on water www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEs...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

You voted for a corrupt sexual predator who assaulted multiple women and even admitted it on tape. What did you think would happen?

submitted 26 days ago • 1676 comments

Pushing through these damaging plans shows such poor economic judgement. Over 100,000 extra flights a year won’t deliver for our communities. Labour should listen to the public who think airport expansion is the wrong priority. #Gatwick

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 284 comments

I don’t like talking about health issues. There is nothing so boring. I remember sitting in a hospital waiting room, one of only two people under the age of 50 about 15y ago.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

🤔

submitted 28 days ago • 1761 comments

Breakfast of champions 🤣💪🏆

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

"The outcomes for stigmatized people who cast their lot with an autocratic force out of 'misguided conviction, or out of fear, or out of the misguided idea that that they can somehow make themselves safe by punching others in the face, historically is very bad.'" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor, pledged support for Ukraine will be a top priority for his government and that it must "win the war". "Victory means restoring territorial integrity" and "we are not neutral, we are not standing aside. We are on the side of Ukraine.” #GermanElection #CDU

submitted 30 days ago • 237 comments

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

submitted 32 days ago • 135 comments