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'luigi mangione being celebrated as a hero will lead to a valorization of vigilante violence' is one of those things that only sounds reasonable if you start paying attention to American vigilantism at the exact moment it targets someone with wealth and influence

submitted 17 hours ago • 59 comments

It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

BRB teaching this to my girls

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

To be clear, this is a photography exhibit by a nonbinary artist who took portraits of their visibly queer friends, and it's been there since August at the art museum owned by the state of Florida, in the town where Moms for Liberty started. A whole lot of institutions need to follow that example.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

you've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for sudden collapse of global US hegemony

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

This isn’t Nazi shit. This is straight up slave shit . It’s deeper in America than Nazis

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 3 days ago • 844 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

Black history is only offensive if you side with enslavers, segregationists, and other racists. It slaps if you have morality.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Suspect the place we really went off the rails as a country was 1864 when we didn't bar from government every single member of the Confederate government and army without exception, seize 100% of Confederate property to give to formerly enslaved people, and muster a Black-led army to defend it all.

submitted 5 days ago • 83 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 6 days ago • 186 comments

I can’t decide what they are more pissed off about — losing the Civil War in 1865 or having a very intelligent and very sexy black man as president.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue. www.the-reframe.com/the/

submitted 7 days ago • 123 comments

#BlackHistoryMonth Facts Mary Jackson was NASA’s first Black engineer at NASA in 1958. She specialized in aerodynamics, specifically the effects of wind resistance on spacecraft and airplanes. She conducted research on airflow at supersonic speeds & helped improve designs for re-entry vehicles.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Time magazine: Do you need to worry about an asteroid hitting the Earth? Me: No, an asteroid would be a relief. It's not my fault, I can't do anything about it, and then we'd be finished with these horrors.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Getting a booster is relatively easy. You can make an appt online at Walgreens or CVS. Thanks to reminders from Rahaeli, I got MMR and TDAP boosters last month

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

This right here. It's the same segregationist movement it's always been.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them. That's nasty work. Hope this helps!

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

every day we wake up to two new breaking news headlines and they are "DOGE saves $80 by cancelling postage stamps used to mail sympathy cards to war widows" and "president announces eleventy-trillion dollars in new tax breaks for nation's six richest people"

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

Every single conversation about Linda McMahon needs to start with the fact that Republicans want to put someone who is credibly accused of sex trafficking minors and covering up child rape in charge of the US Department of Education.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

I'm so friggin exhausted. All I can say is as long as RFK Jr. is running public health, learn his office phone number and blow up his phone at every mistake. Not pushing back meanings people will literally die. Learn who is your state's health commissioner and be ready to bug the hell out of them.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It is so hard to get through to people that before food stamps, kids starved. Before meat inspections, kids died. Before vaccines, kids died. You're choosing to kill children to save a buck & you refuse to see it because it's not real to you

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

YOUR REMINDER THAT THE HANDMAID’S TALE DEPICTED ENTIRELY THINGS THAT WERE ALREADY DONE TO GLOBAL MAJORITY WOMEN The novelty was just that they were being done to white women please, it’s not some startling new ground being broken ok

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled out making amends for historical wrongs reut.rs/3Qf8zGD

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 10 days ago • 102 comments

somewhere right now, the CEO of Spirit Halloween is desperately trying to find out if anyone can make a banner the size of the entire US mainland

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Trump take egg

submitted 10 days ago • 57 comments