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The top 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of the country controls $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

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Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Trump: widening inequality and the unchecked power of billionaires. There's no "center" anymore between a takeover of the government by oligarchs and true freedom. Dems need to learn this.

submitted 3 hours ago • 173 comments

A critical victory. Until it goes to the corruption of SCOUS where at least 5 are against human rights.

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Cue the “Will SCOTUS save us?” takes. (It won’t).

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Trump and Elon have been labeling any judge who upholds the law and the Constitution as an activist and arguing that they should be impeached. The Chief Justice of the United States rejected their calls to impeach federal judges who have aggressively pushed back on the administration’s initiatives.

submitted 3 hours ago • 99 comments

trump literally believes that he is the sovereign of america

submitted 4 hours ago • 110 comments

the rest of the world should boycott US products. Dont vacation here.

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Before the nazis came for the communists & trade unions. They came for immigrants & queer folks.

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We are fighting like hell to stop Musk’s staffers. They come into our buildings, forcibly removing us with the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and police. This coup must be stopped.

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I can see this. We go broke b/c we can't afford things or organize. Corporations will raise prices & never bring them down to adjust for terriffs. Rich people will flock to him, pay him & kiss ass to stay on his good side. W/ corrupt SCOUS & politicians on his side there is little that can stop him.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Kinda feels like this right now

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

submitted 22 hours ago • 1188 comments

The first time the word "ska" appeared in print was on March 17, 1964. But I found that ska was first spelled "sca" and it actually appeared in print before this. I reported it to the Oxford English Dictionary about a decade ago, but no reply. Have a read and see the articles here. #OED #ska #reggae

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This shows very clearly that (1) most institutions in the US will quietly comply with the shift to autocracy, (2) universities in particular will almost always fold because they seek status and funding. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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And do not miss the explanation: “Multiple Voice Of America Reporters Have Posted Anti-Trump Content On Social Media.” The implications are clear and should stop every American in her, his and their tracks. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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Andrew Jackson Isn’t a Patriot to Celebrate—He’s America’s Founding Father of Authoritarianism youtu.be/DOrBlwS0-bY

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Read this closely and then sit with it.

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“The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters ‘DEI’ added to the site’s address… The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “ ‘deimedal.’”

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Curious how certain people keep missing the point: this regime couldn’t care less about what courts say. Let them enforce their decisions. There’s name for that. It’s similar to “Fetterman.”

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For over 80 years, Voice of America delivered news to countries—many under authoritarian rule—where reliable information was scarce. Now, those broadcasts, once a vital tool for promoting democracy and transparency, are fading away.

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pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Over five years into this and denial folks are silently and loudly mad at COVID realistic folks, thinking and saying in so many words “WHY CAN’T YOU JUST IGNORE ALL RESEARCH AND REASON LIKe ME?!?!?!?!?”. Y’all cannot be serious.

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The next chapter I write will be on swing music and the southern tour (not yet called the chitlin' circuit). Until then, I've got to write this OAH paper. Here's Ivie Anderson singing with Duke Ellington's orchestra. #jazzsky #womenshistorymonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnr...

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Libraries, too, because you can’t have people reading and thinking critically about all the shit the administration is doing.

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I don't think Democrats should surrender on "DEI" for the same reason I don't think we should surrender on "trans sports". The actual demand in both cases is that the affected caste of people disappear from public society, and that is not something we should (or can!!) deliver upon.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.

submitted 2 days ago • 391 comments

And yet, they do. They persist. And recovering anything will be an enormous effort. There is no pressing restart, though. And don’t look now, but RIP IMLS.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here we go again. The Framers will save us. No, they won’t. If you’re looking for heroes, try the MCU. It’s just as believable.

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We need a new free speech movement. And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

The only reason this hasn’t also been treated like an alarming constitutional crisis concerning free speech is because people in positions of influence in the media, business, and politics at least tacitly agree with the aims of this movement.

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Ecuadorian government violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples living in the Amazon rainforest.

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The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown. Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down. Why vote to legitimize Trump's coup?

submitted 4 days ago • 263 comments

Fucking hate to see a bunch of bullshit books referring to COVID in the past tense, offering “critique” that doesn’t even come close to what I ecologically connected in my new book, but their work gets eyes on it because they have publisher publicity and funding streams.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

They are doing that now & other illegal things with funds that congress has approved. As well as it's in the CR. Republicans want to pass & enrich their their donors and codified into law, so what they are doing will be legal. You would rather bend the knee to an authoritarian than say you're wrong.

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It breaks my fucking heart and no amount of research can prepare me for the fact I knew this era was the inevitable result of most folks irresponsibly. Whether it is from the repeat COVID infections or from some other harm, COVID makes us all more susceptible to most other harms.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

submitted 5 days ago • 1315 comments

For fuck's sake. Toxic white male supremacy is truly shitty.

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Privatization has been going on globally since the 1970s. It’s an element of neoliberal capitalism where publicly owned items are privately bought. The consequences are everywhere in the world.

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Mahmoud Khalil expressed his political point of view peacefully. That’s supposed to be permitted in a democracy. If this egregious assault on civil liberties stands, what’s to stop Trump from arresting American citizens who support any cause his regime doesn’t like?

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We’ve been following, and acting on, this purge of honest history by the DoD and now we see, in broad scope, the first quantitative evidence of the result. Step one: erase the truth Step two: sell the lie Check out the AP article to access its database. #publichistory apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

A tale of two women in upstate NY: One knows history, the other is desperate to repeat it. Guess which one I am.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments