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🚨Watch this movie! 2073 This is exactly what is happening, this is exactly where we're going! Mind blowing! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

With journalists struggling to get people to take warnings about climate change and fascism seriously, a filmmaker stepped in. 2073 combines dystopian fiction with real-life footage from the world right now to send an important message.

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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 4 days ago • 1942 comments

This crisis is like the COVID pandemic except it's caused by a guy who ran for president on a platform of "I have engineered a virus that will shut down the global economy, and if you elect me, I will release it"

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

This is like a movie where a bunch of kindergarten kids swap bodies with the leaders of the government

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

submitted 8 days ago • 746 comments

Andy Kim: "If you want to know why there is so much chaos and confusion about what happened with regard to tariffs, I can say it's because of the absolute dysfunction of this national security council as demonstrated by what just happened with Laura Loomer."

submitted 8 days ago • 191 comments

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

submitted 8 days ago • 723 comments

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

submitted 8 days ago • 677 comments

I kind of want to go

submitted 8 days ago • 1904 comments

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "This big beautiful economy that actually was rolling pretty good with jobs and inflation coming down feels more like the Game of Thrones red wedding. I mean, it's not going well."

submitted 8 days ago • 931 comments

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

submitted 9 days ago • 3300 comments

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

submitted 9 days ago • 808 comments

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

submitted 8 days ago • 1120 comments

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

submitted 11 days ago • 1356 comments

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

submitted 12 days ago • 1093 comments

In Venezuela, Andry José Hernández Romero, who is gay and skeptical of the country’s authoritarian regime, was a target for abuse. He sought asylum in America—then was deported under the Alien Enemies Act.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 11 days ago • 1026 comments

Happy International Trans Day of Visibility!

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has acknowledged that it grabbed a Maryland father with protected status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador—but claims that courts are powerless to order his return, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/Bot5mE4O

submitted 12 days ago • 112 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

submitted 12 days ago • 968 comments

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

submitted 12 days ago • 457 comments

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

submitted 11 days ago • 1429 comments

“This is how democracy dies. Everybody just gets scared,” the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tells David Remnick. “You make a few examples, and everyone else just decides to comply.”

submitted 12 days ago • 55 comments

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

submitted 12 days ago • 165 comments

It was great to see some former Mile High MFA buddies at #awp25 today! @loriostlund.bsky.social @hinaahmedwriter.bsky.social @valkillpack.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Arrived safely in LA for #AWP25 conference! Excited to see fellow writers and friends, learn from panels, hear readings, make connections—always inspired by these! Perfect thing to energize to write/revise final stretches of our novels, get ready to defend, and move to Lawrence for KU this August!

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submitted 20 days ago • 607 comments

I’m happy to share that my short story “Fallen Leaves” has been published in Issue 12 of Marrow Magazine. This story is on the innovative, experimental side of things—so if that’s your interest, please take a look. marrowmagazine.com/fallen-leaves/ Thank you!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

May your heart blossom this Ramadan. May this holy month bring peace, blessings, and joy. Ramadan Mubarak! 😍✨❤️🌙

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has reoriented the U.S.’s geopolitical strategy, turned on our major trading partners, and allowed the world’s richest man to cut hundreds of thousands of federal workers and billions of dollars in government services. Why aren’t we in the streets?

submitted 44 days ago • 65 comments

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa | South Africa | The Guardian Horrific

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A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 57 days ago • 898 comments

Free to hate-delivers the votes

submitted 79 days ago • 73 comments

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submitted 143 days ago • 16 comments

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submitted 147 days ago • 73 comments