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I love this Judge so much.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

wish more of Film Twitter had moved over here, because the ratio of politics to nonsense fun things is way out of whack

submitted 1 day ago • 304 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 22 hours ago • 2148 comments

I had a salt bagel the other day. That was kind of intense.

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submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Can we just make Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Lassen, Pinnacles and all the National Parks in California into Cal State parks? We can hire the rangers back and take care of our lands. We have 9 of the 63 National Parks here. The park rangers were treated so cruelly, and our lands are forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

👇🏻

submitted 2 days ago • 1369 comments

Parents, students and educators who are served by 504 plans need to step up and speak loudly to protect and fund this support! I also believe it is a test case to kill IDEA and special education! Let them know your thoughts! #Edusky

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a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

The United States needs millions of people doing community work. A single hero won’t save us. We will have to save ourselves, collectively 💙🫶✊

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

One day about 18 years ago I was looking around a Yoko Ono exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum when an old wall phone in the gallery rang. This phone was part of the show. I looked around & I saw that it was just me & a security guard in the gallery. He said, “oh my god you need to answer it! 1/5

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

HUNDREDS of Higher Ed faculty, staff, grad workers, postdocs, researchers and students showed up in the cold today outside the office of @davemccormick.bsky.social to say HANDS OFF our research, our healthcare, and our jobs! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 537 comments

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

submitted 3 days ago • 603 comments

This looks incredible.

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When America loses the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/11f1...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

It’s weird how we’ve memory holed the fact that Obama entered his first term with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a majority in the House and McConnell’s response was “We’re going to make Obama a one-term president,” not “there’s little we can do”

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

If ONLY there'd been some warning this is what electing Republicans would lead to. Not 100 years of deregulation. Not 20+ years of threats to eliminate Soc Sec & Medicare. Oh, yeah not the HUNDREDS of warnings about Project 2025, which spelled out this strategy.🤷🏽‍♀️

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Too many people on here seem to believe there are exactly two kinds of Americans: ardent politically-obsessed Bluesky users, and frothing MAGA cultists. There are a LOT of people in this country who just don’t pay a lot of attention one way or another. And we absolutely can reach them.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 5 days ago • 186 comments

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

The sad fact is this lawless pronouncement by Trump is damn-near a quote from the democracy-busting presidential immunity ruling from a compromised Sup Ct. This is PRECISELY why Justice Sotomayor (joined by Justices Kagan & Ketanji Brown Jackson) said, “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

submitted 6 days ago • 194 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

27% of the country's income goes to the most extremely wealthiest people. Over a quarter of the total income... JFC They don't need any more advantages. They don't need a hand up. 71% of the population believes the system is rigged, and they are not wrong...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 6 days ago • 5670 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 6 days ago • 312 comments

There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

My husband and daughter got this flu and it was BAD. Stay home if you feel badly! Wear a mask!

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Musk has wielded the power of an official who would need to be formally appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but he hasn’t gone through that constitutionally required process, the states argued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 6 days ago • 156 comments

“Choose your battles” only makes sense if there’s some battles we can afford to lose

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I posted yesterday about a family that’s dealing with a catastrophic bird flu infection in their cats. They’re dealing with enough right now, and don’t need unkind comments. But it does seem that the contaminant was a commercially prepared, batch tested raw food. Please stop feeding raw right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 7 days ago • 544 comments