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Libs: "Black Lives Matter" Conservatives: "All Lives Matter" Conservatives, again: "Maybe not all Lives, but definitely Blue Lives Matter" Conservatives, yet again: "Well not all Blue Lives, but at least Officers who Support the Convicted Felon Lives Matter"

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

also, plan b’s medical name is levonorgestral. amazon sells multipack & they last up to 4 years when stored properly. stock up.

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

you are not ready for the RFK gulags

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

James Baldwin: (Most patient, heartbreakingly eloquent description of the experience of Black suffering in America you've ever heard) William Buckley (smirking): Well, heheh, y'see, what Mistah Baldwin seems not to realize is that, ah, as the poet said, Politics nerds: Wow... they were both so smart

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

This reminds me of how @moiradonegan.bsky.social pointed out that a lot of trad femininity rhetoric aimed at women today about leaving higher ed and the workforce is also more akin to pining for childhood as an adult

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

Looking for a more radical reading of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham City Jail? The Review of Democracy and I got you covered: revdem.ceu.edu/2023/04/16/n...

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Rich people have found their Treasury Secretary! Hooray!

submitted 37 days ago • 264 comments

nobody has ever designed an aesthetic cooler than this one and we made a terrible mistake ever moving past it

submitted 38 days ago • 132 comments

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

submitted 38 days ago • 642 comments

Nancy Mace asked Jasmine Crockett to “go outside”. Chair Comer ruled that threatening violence against another member is okay, as long as it’s in the form of a question! Wild

submitted 39 days ago • 242 comments

the Laken Riley Act is a destructive, anti-immigrant bill, fueled by and fueling xenophobia, along with grotesque fictions about defending white womanhood. it's also legal chaos. my piece:

submitted 39 days ago • 62 comments

Read this report before the Trump administration withdraws or disappears it for being woke

submitted 41 days ago • 50 comments

Lots of men folk died of mysterious causes when women couldn't leave the kitchens... that's all I'm gon say.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

I’m not sure we need earnest explanations of why ASL interpreters are necessary so much as we need a resounding “fuck you, you socially unacceptable little piece of shit” to anyone questioning or mocking them

submitted 41 days ago • 47 comments

#Whale Effigy 🐳 Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600 Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9 www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/2375/ #IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

submitted 43 days ago • 46 comments

Good thread.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

44 Republicans Voted Against Forest Management Wildfire Prevention in December The funds allow states like California to create barriers to stop the spread of fires

submitted 43 days ago • 321 comments

This photo, shared by the Carter Center. 13/10.

submitted 44 days ago • 1096 comments

🧩 Puzzle #535 🤔 10 guesses ⏱️ 1m 28s 🔗 alphaguess.com

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

“Police say they have frozen €5m in bank accounts linked to the site in Hungary, Lithuania, Germany and the Netherlands.” €5m!

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”

submitted 45 days ago • 1076 comments

Critical to remember how we got here: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir... #LAWildfires

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A perfect comic panel.

submitted 46 days ago • 104 comments

As a historian, have to say I never imagined I would live to witness so many acts of craven historical cowardice quite so close & in real time. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags. Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.

submitted 47 days ago • 909 comments

It’s cool that humans have been eating bread so long that when we touch a loaf for a moment we can sense ah this is going to be awful bread. Like badgers sensing vibrations underground through their claws.

submitted 47 days ago • 175 comments

VP Kamala Harris: "Today, I did what I have done my entire career, which is take seriously the oath that I have taken many times to support and defend the Constitution of the United States."

submitted 47 days ago • 1148 comments

Pro publica had multiple articles in 2017 ( coincidentally while Lorenz said it wasn’t happening) And if you guess that the 2017 instances were targeting Black children YEP www.propublica.org/article/face...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

ok the intrusive website pop-up situation is officially out of control - "Accept cookies?" - "10% off on your next purchase?" - "Are you sure?" - "Sign up for our newsletter?"

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Hawley will probably get fewer steps in today than he did 4 years ago.

submitted 47 days ago • 387 comments

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in every generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

submitted 428 days ago • 19 comments

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

submitted 49 days ago • 179 comments

It was not a protest. It was not a riot. It was not a “violent event.” I heard all these terms on major news outlets this morning. It was an attempted coup. It was an insurrection. Using any lesser term is a failure of our media. “Democracy dies in darkness.”

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Today is not a “peaceful transfer of power.” It’s the completion of a violent coup attempt that began this morning four years ago. Yes, Trump won the ‘24 election; but he was only able to run because we failed to fully confront the fact of that violent coup attempt.

submitted 47 days ago • 103 comments

Let us be clear on this: the laws of this country are still aggressively enforced against nonwhites and the poor. We not only have rule of law for those groups but among the most draconian rule of law on Earth. What’s happened is that the rich, famous, connected, and powerful no longer are policed.

submitted 49 days ago • 69 comments

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -- Emmanuel Kant

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

A group of protestors in the Israeli town of Pardes Hanna protest the starvation of Gazans by holding empty pots. They have received threats and intimidation but have continued protesting.

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

In his opening speech, Speaker Mike Johnson just recited a long prayer attributed to Thomas Jefferson. As @jackjenkins.me and others have pointed out, Jefferson never said any of this: www.monticello.org/research-edu...

submitted 50 days ago • 386 comments

Hot trends for 2025* Composting Bicycles Libraries Repair cafes Wetlands Voting rights Plant based diets Home weatherization Water conservation Sharing Rain gardens Green roofs Agri-voltaics Electric school buses Dense housing Walkability Fossil fuel phase out Peace *If I ran the world

submitted 53 days ago • 291 comments

You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.

submitted 54 days ago • 353 comments

In other words, a lot of the people they convinced to vote for him 🙄 We need to restore civics education in this country.

submitted 53 days ago • 183 comments

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submitted 55 days ago • 680 comments

Please remember that President Carter appointed more minorities and women to the bench than all previous presidents combined. He was the first President to embrace the concept of bringing racial diversity to the federal bench. A key aspect of his legacy. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/poli...

submitted 55 days ago • 187 comments

RIP Jimmy Carter.

submitted 55 days ago • 789 comments

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid $6,200 a month to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

submitted 54 days ago • 477 comments