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Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

"The new reporting shows that, after the state banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals..." www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

To be clear: the brutal, prolonged torture and murder of Sam Nordquist for his trans identity was ruled "not a hate crime" by upstate NY law enforcement because it happened to a trans man. The #1 rule of hate crimes is they never happen to trans people. No matter how much hate is behind the crime.

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

So glad our president somehow undid the fucking miracle on ice by making us the baddies in a friendly, tightly contested international hockey game that took on grim geopolitical overtones thanks to waves hands around.

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World's largest on-the-nose metaphor the 990-ft long abandoned ocean liner SS United States is being towed to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean off the Florida coast after decades languishing on a port in Philadelphia. RIP, old friend. www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-st...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

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"Dozens of workers focused on lamprey control were among scores of Michigan federal workers fired without notice in the past week" 'I'd like to ask them why ... it doesn’t seem like they realize who they’re getting rid of, and the impact it’s going to have.'" via @bridgemi.com

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Reminder: Behind the numbers are regular people, with lives - many veterans.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 476 comments

Also, he said he'd fix the water crisis in flint MI back 2018, and rather than repair their pipes (50 million dollars) he just spent half a million to put some new water fountains in 12 public schools.

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Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

So social security fraud is the new voter fraud?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

#ICYMI: We've added eight previously missing disclosures from Justice Clarence Thomas to our Supreme Connections database. The newly added filings, which cover 1992 to 1999, reveal more than 100 gifts or travel-related reimbursements.

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

I'm a parent of a kid who takes some of the meds RFK Jr has taken aim at, and they are absolutely life-saving. Given the MAHA Commission will be reviewing antidepressants and other medications, what could the commission recommend that could actually happen, legally and practically?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Today is my birthday and if you want to give me a gift, please repost my art 😊 #sciart

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

submitted 4 days ago • 223 comments

Information for parents & adults who need information on how to help support trans children... 19thnews.org/2025/02/tran...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

submitted 5 days ago • 251 comments

How was this contract awarded??!

submitted 5 days ago • 761 comments

I just really really can't wait for #Murderbot to hit Apple TV. I will randomly post this information until my needs for Media are met. (I painted this for the Subterranean Press special edition of The Murderbot Diaries - I love how @marthawells.com writes action)! #booksky

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 6 days ago • 71 comments

"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️

submitted 24 days ago • 39 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments