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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

The DOGE team does NOT have the time, skills, or resources to do any kind of actual “audit” of federal data or to “modernize” the information systems to which they have gained access—which are the lies being asserted to give them cover. So what are they really doing in these systems?

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

They're using fear to bully you into compliance. Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom. They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises. What do they have to fear? Nothing so far. That needs to change.

submitted 5 days ago • 579 comments

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

submitted 5 days ago • 839 comments

"If the opposition party is somehow not legitimate, if they’re enemies, if they’re an existential threat to the nation, then that justifies extraordinary behavior against them."

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

In the United States, we had indoctrination forced upon us, since we were old enough to speak. Being constantly taught that our country was “the greatest on earth“ brainwashed many young Americans. This made it easy for many, to fall into a cult like personality, that we see today

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

submitted 5 days ago • 167 comments

A MUST WATCH! youtube.com/watch?v=FrHF...

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submitted 5 days ago • 2074 comments

@harrylitman.bsky.social thanks for this heads up. I hope every single prosecutor resigns and Pam Bondi has to go lie to a judge in an attempt to push this through bc no DOJ lawyer will do it for her. I'd love to see her get disbarred for lying to a judge.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 11 days ago • 112 comments

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

Portrait of Raymond Schuyler & Four of His Children c. 1904 in Worcester, MA by photographer William Bullard. Mr. Schuyler was an active member of All Saints Episcopal Church, the Masons, Knights of Pythias, & the NAACP.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is truth. SO many of you have no idea the sputtering, wild-eyed meltdown you would trigger. Criticism means nothing coming from marginalized person; they've already decided we don't matter. But YOU? You're supposed to be on THEIR side. And I can almost guaranteed they just assume you are.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

submitted 19 days ago • 261 comments

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

submitted 19 days ago • 1476 comments

Just because people are still going to work and grocery shopping doesn’t mean it’s not a coup. They’re not going to broadcast loops of Swan Lake.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Massive rally in Berlin against against far-right fascism. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

submitted 25 days ago • 824 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 25 days ago • 1031 comments

Dr. Caroline Still Anderson (b. 1848) was a physician & educator. Her parents, William & Letitia Still, were leaders in the Underground Railroad who assisted 800 individuals in the dangerous work of freeing themselves. Her grandparents were self-liberated, formerly enslaved.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 103 comments

If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?

submitted 39 days ago • 390 comments

hes talking about rape allegations here

submitted 39 days ago • 32 comments

ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW! You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

I'm so glad the Dems are holding nothing back attacking the trans sports ban in the House. It would enable child predators by allowing them to inspect the genitals of little children to ensure they aren't "trans."

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

I don't think I have ever seem a norm go from widely accepted to completely irrelevant as quickly as the importance of minimizing conflicts of interests

submitted 40 days ago • 162 comments

Hegseth: Anonymous false charges Kaine: They’re not anonymous.. We have seen records with names attached to all of these including your own mother

submitted 39 days ago • 262 comments

The CA fires couldn't be more stark of a reminder that all our riches and possessions are truly nothing more than ashes if we destroy this Planet and Her climate to acquire them.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

all these phones advertising about how bright their screens get as if im not gonna turn the brightness down to the lowest level and then download several third party apps to make it dimmer

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

I’m with Harry.

submitted 50 days ago • 405 comments

I'm never ever ever gonna get over the fact that it didn't have to be this way. This is not how things are meant to be. This is not how we are meant to live. And I'll be damned if I let anyone normalize this existence.

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Formerly enslaved, Anna Julia Cooper earned an MA in math in 1887 & a PhD. Educator, leader, democracy activist, her 1892 book championed women's rights. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

This article is 109 years old. And we still aren't doing enough to act on climate change.

submitted 52 days ago • 775 comments

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

submitted 52 days ago • 2210 comments

The number of women gleefully participating in MeToo backlash campaigns without even realizing they’re a part of a larger movement to undermine their safety and equality makes me depressed beyond words

submitted 51 days ago • 41 comments

If what Brianna Boston said is a legitimate threat that warrants charges and $100k bond, every man who tweeted "your body, my choice" needs to be in prison.

submitted 71 days ago • 15 comments

I had a history teacher who in 1986 told us that the Berlin wall will sadly not fall in our lifetime. I think about this all the time when idiots insist that some circumstances cannot be changed

submitted 73 days ago • 89 comments

Dehumanization is a process. This reminds me of Arendt's concept of superfluous wealth using superfluous people as a means of fueling endless expansion. Homeless people are inherently rightless and considered both superfluous and outside of society.

submitted 74 days ago • 44 comments

i love having little kids bc they ask the hard questions like “why does war exist”, “how come people are racist” and “does having autism make you gay”

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

My dearest dearest authors. Every time you talk about your book, please post a link. Do not be shy.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

If Medicaid faces federal cuts, “state officials would have to decide whether they want to cut health care for pregnant women, kids, people with disabilities, or seniors because that is essentially who Medicaid covers in Texas,” said one advocate. With @texastribune.org

submitted 79 days ago • 60 comments

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

submitted 79 days ago • 1765 comments