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My article in today’s Observer about the German elections (the title and the piece reference this outstanding poem by the technologist, storyteller and activist @emily.gorcen.ski: emilygorcenski.com/post/the-tim...)

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1962 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 1 day ago • 872 comments

Trump voters wanted the rest of us to suffer to feel great again. They wanted us to experience pain. The ones crying now with "I didn't know Trump would do that" mean they didn't think it would affect THEM. But they were perfectly fine with everyone else suffering. Alas. We're all in it now.

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Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1218 comments

Hey, SCOTUS, you cool with this part of the executive order Scribble Face signed today?

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

Tom Homan can’t find enough illegal immigrants to deport because they fabricated the ‘crisis,’ so now he’s just gonna spend all his time attacking AOC.

submitted 5 days ago • 961 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 5973 comments

Hey, regarding Amazon disabling USB downloads: It can be totally bypassed with a download of free software, and one can strip out the DRM, by following the instructions at the link. Then the files are yours to do with as you will, as they should be.

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

Reading dystopian fiction, where in the future all of humanity is ruled by rivaling private companies, I always just nodded along, thinking that was indeed the most likely scenario. Living through that transformation, though, watching these emotionally stunted men fumbling their way through tearing

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent. Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

submitted 6 days ago • 256 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 792 comments

You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union. If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South. Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

submitted 8 days ago • 908 comments

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood. grist.org/accountabili... #IRA #BIL #Climate #Infrastructure #Biden #Government

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour

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Some Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..." apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 10 days ago • 400 comments

👇🏽🤔 💰

submitted 12 days ago • 243 comments

Antifasist rallies in Germany!👏🏻

submitted 14 days ago • 367 comments

Lasst euch von niemandem einreden, dass 100.000e Menschen auf der Straße nicht zählen. Bekämen die Rechten einen Bruchteil davon auf die Straße gäbe es Sondersendungen, Demonstrant_innen sässen in Talkshows und Medien würden sich fragen was sie vergessen haben abzubilden.

submitted 14 days ago • 76 comments

It should be a national fucking scandal that a U.S. senator discounted the deaths of Black women to make his state’s maternal mortality rates look better. But we’re so inundated with bullshit that it’ll be a 15-minute story at best. This country has deep issues, and I don’t know how to fix it.

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

"The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. "This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments" - Dr. Lucky Tran

submitted 15 days ago • 298 comments

if you dont know how signal works and are embarrassed to ask and whatever and its a social thing stopping you from communicating and organizing in encrypted manners, I will help you figure it out and will not shame you and help. The DMs are always open, if I dont follow and its that @ me and I will

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1018 comments

I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.

submitted 18 days ago • 276 comments