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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 7 hours ago • 193 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 2 hours ago • 953 comments

You have to love it when the Judge implies that a homeless wino passed out in front of the courthouse could argue your case as well as you're doing now:

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Please help Julie!

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there is a fundamental contradiction between "home as affordable shelter" and "homes as appreciating assets." in order for the latter to be true, prices must go continually up, which requires some combo of supply restrictions & subsidies, and also tends to produce this:

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This month, at Xtra: I wrote about despair, and how protest isn't something you do because it guarantees an outcome -- it's something you do because doing it keeps you from falling apart. (This is scientifically true!): xtramagazine.com/health/menta...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In the UK and America we are witnessing an openly anti-science, ideologically motivated gaslighting campaign to reclassify people who suffer from mental illness as weak-willed whiners and malingerers.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The anti-drip is so powerful that it overcomes infinite money to hire someone to make sure this never happens.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It's no understatement to say the Elon Musk is the most dangerous man alive. He's an existential threat to everyone on this planet if he's not stopped.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Thinking a lot about Sam Nordquist, the trans man who was held captive and tortured for a month in New York state before finally being beaten to death and his body dumped, and how the cops are misgendering him to the media.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 2 days ago • 355 comments

gofund.me/4fd7b5f2

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Such a gut punch. "One fired program officer in the geosciences resigned from a tenured faculty job after getting official notice that they'd been hired permanently by NSF...That officer left the job security of a tenured position "to give back to my country and the scientific community …"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

NEW: HHS launches anti-transgender campaign featuring Riley Gaines. It seeks to ban gender affirming care and require the federal health agencies to eliminate recognition of trans people. womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...

submitted 3 days ago • 189 comments

So much this. I could do with a lot fewer swastikas and sieg heil salutes around here

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

And Republicans pick many stupid battles! Which they then abandon. But they keep trying lots of things constantly, until something sticks, and then they focus on that. Yet another media Dem-GOP asymmetry is Republicans are never held accountable for saying stupid shit. There's only upside 4 them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Democrats, here’s a 10 point plan that you can adopt and add onto with more depth and it will get you much further than the bullshit you’re DNC chairs is trying to push. 1: Immediate arrest and seizure of all assets for those involved with the doge coup at any level

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately By Jackie Sabbagh www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Dear person worried that me making fun of Trump and his party pals today will draw their attention and have them come after me: I have a decade of calling Trump awful things online, today's contribution is a mere drop in that comprehensive ocean, I was already destined for the work camp I assure you

submitted 3 days ago • 348 comments

According to a NASA official, DOGE workers already have access to contracts, partnerships, classified national-security information, and satellite data, among other materials. They said, in the wrong hands, such knowledge could erase generations of advantage in aerospace and defense capabilities.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Remember to keep calling your MLA (in my case Brendan Maguire) and demand an explanation as to how the attacks on the governor general are in the interest of their constituency. Flood their lines. Do not let them get anything else done, including calls from their wealthy patrons.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

submitted 2 days ago • 316 comments

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

submitted 3 days ago • 537 comments