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I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

submitted 14 hours ago • 21 comments

Hakeem Jeffries earnestly believing that this is a great time for him to go on a book tour is how you know not nearly enough of these guys are reading the vibes on bluesky

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

A. Book. Tour.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

For all newcomers - you're probably aware of the classic Twitter account @joeldongsteen - account that used to retweet that evangelical grifter Joel Osteen's tweets replacing "God" with "Your dick." In its honor I recreated that account here. Enjoy. bsky.app/profile/joel...

submitted 128 days ago • 39 comments

I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

CARVILLE: “More deficit accumulated under Trump than any president… Trump’s approval rating lowest at this point in his presidency ever… GOP supports Putin, wants to get rid of Medicaid & Medicare…” James Carville exposed Hannity’s audience to some facts 👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGUcU1c...

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Love, love, love the #TeslaTakeDown pickets. These are low-barrier to entry direct actions. I hope people are passing out info to passerbys and also sharing info with each other so they can stay connected!

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

We will not be stopping the Wild to Mild Flu vaccine media campaign. Thanks to @waybackmachine.bsky.social here are archived graphics. Share widely! Make them your screensavers, backgrounds, and profile pics! Print on T-shirts! #resist #vaccinessavelives #fedstrong web.archive.org/web/20241224...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

submitted 3 days ago • 410 comments

if the president is breaking the laws you wrote, your authority and duty under the constitution is to impeach him, not ask nicely for individual favors

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I can't emphasize enough if you're reading this and you're working on climate and energy-- if your coworkers are pacifying you into some sort of business as usual work plan or into figuring out compliance with the energy dominance regime, you are being pulled rightward at a fast clip.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

I would die inside if that happened to me

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By rights, this would be another enormous DOJ scandal www.yahoo.com/news/senior-...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

The tariff threats are not about drugs

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

The "try shit" era has been here for a minute. TRY. SHIT.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

submitted 5 days ago • 2091 comments

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

submitted 4 days ago • 117 comments

If you’re wondering who the Elon Musk staffers are, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has several Musk staffers, including Amanda Scales, Brian Bjelde, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

Please talk with your loved ones about Ruby Bridges. Read “I Am Ruby Bridges” by Ruby Bridges 💛 The first Black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana. She was only six-years-old when she made history marching into that school. Ruby Bridges is living history. She's only 70!

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

SUMTERVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from a Florida prison weeks after Biden commutes his life sentence.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

A good way to follow-up on the protests today is to call your reps and get everyone you know to call their reps ☎️ @5calls.org We are just getting started! 💙 ⬇️ switchboard number ⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you find yourself in the presence of a Democratic politician at some point in the next 2 days could you do me a favour & ask them "What the actual fuck do you all think you're doing, and when are you going to actually try to stop the onrushing tide of white supremacist fascism?" much appreciated

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

@democrats.org, if you’re still awake, how about it?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately" Something something in advance www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 357 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments