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why is this not a gigantic fucking scandal that we're talking about 24/7. an unelected billionaire is fueling threats against federal judges and he just keeps on with his wanton destruction of the federal government

submitted 21 hours ago • 52 comments

How can I say this gently? Fuck you, Senate Democrats, and fuck your decorum. We are fighting Nazis here. GET IN THE FIGHT.

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

Not mentioned at the #SOTU: how cuts to USAID are affecting American farmers, by potentially undermining the billions of taxpayer dollars they receive to support conservation practices. www.wired.com/story/usda-l...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

More fuel for the bullshit machine: combing through data they don’t understand, then mischaracterizing it with their “waste and fraud” frame, and using those mischaracterizations to justify the dismantling of government programs that people rely upon to survive.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Fun fact: You've been paying into social security your whole life, so when Elon turns his cash vacuum cleaner on that system, he's stealing directly from you in the most unambiguous way imaginable.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I love these genAI jockeys who speak of democratising art. 'Art' isn't this cabal with hidden techniques. Everything you need to know is in the open. Heck, composition alone is quite the multiplier for even modest talent, and you can learn it. No, what needs democratisation is basic income.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The end game here is to overthrow democracy, privatize everything government provides to bring a handful of people incomprehensible (& utterly unethical levels) of wealth while the rest of us are so impoverished we can’t fight back. But currently, the people of Ukraine are the specific target.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I think it’s important we all stop speaking about local and state politics as simple “civil engagement” and start thinking of it as an integral part of antifascist resistance. The right does, and their people show up to the polls religiously, and hold outsized influence over our lives.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

This, dammit. THIS!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Make sure these people are never able to eat in public again

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Accidentally fired the guys running the nuclear program. Accidentally fired experienced air traffic controllers. Accidentlly fired the people trying to contain the bird flu.... Accidentally fired...

submitted 15 days ago • 92 comments

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines (with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

submitted 17 days ago • 407 comments

news.va.gov/press-room/v... juxtaposition of the crisis line link and firing over 1,000 employees a little bleak. Government isn't a business! It's insane that shitty businessmen are doing a private equity speedrun on the entire notion of governance. Fire Musk, fire Musk, fire Musk.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Find out how much federally funded education programs benefit students in each congressional district in the US In this crucial new dashboard tool @UmichPoverty poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

This is how you do it. Thank you, @tupelopress.bsky.social!!!

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 26 days ago • 104 comments

Harrison Butker Announces He Can’t Kick If Women Are Watching. We're fading the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX after Harrison Butker announced cannot and will not kick if girls are watching.

submitted 27 days ago • 374 comments

This is BAD.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The need for STEM students to study social sciences and the arts, especially things like ethics has never been clearer

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 29 days ago • 98 comments

Accidentally got drunk tonight. But how many times do you turn 49 during a coup?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

submitted 29 days ago • 433 comments

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social is brilliant. A rebellious culture of care in defiance of a death-making culture of greed. Amen to that.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

From Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

Serbian 'populist' pro-Putin PM quits after months of mass protests www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

THIS!!!!!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

See earlier in @polotek.bsky.social thread for more context.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I just received an email blast from trusted comrades who work on Federal policy and one of the things they stressed is that for now: "Ensure that individual community members know that direct individual assistance from the federal government is not being paused."

submitted 36 days ago • 37 comments