It would also be great if social media sites had a feature in which they posted something on the top of the site saying, "It looks like you haven't been on social media for a while. There's been a thing. Do you need help understanding it?"

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

If we don’t stand up for these victims, who will ?

I’m going to keep saying this- You don’t fight fascism with fascism light. We don’t fight fascism by sacrificing Gaza, trans folks, unhoused people, migrants, etc. We fight fascism by building a strong coalition INCLUDING everyone and fighting for a better world for EVERYONE. There’s no other way

Agree with the sentiment here and many of the arguments but I remain skeptical that using the language of impeachment is the way to go. Impeachment is a constitutional dead letter, barring some extraordinary transformation of it or the US Senate. We should be speaking of "removal" by any legal means

When you strip away humanity

I absolutely lost it where the sixteenth notes kick in (also the internet and humanity was a mistake)

My home state, Massachusetts, is expected to lose 30,000 good paying jobs in the clean energy sector due to Trump's diversion of money to billionaire tax cuts and big oil. He's destroying people's livelihoods, American produced energy, and the stability of our climate's future, in one bill.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

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10,000 people signed up to run for office in the two weeks after Mamdani won. Whether the party likes it or not, a new generation of leaders is stepping up.

Every Democratic president post-Nixon has believed their unique charisma and healing ability could reunite an America divided by Republican crimes. Carter and Watergate, Clinton and Iran-Contra, Obama and Iraq/torture, Biden and January 6. They just bought the right more time to fester.

I agree with the push to have younger Dem members. On average, younger people will be more progressive and more creative in fighting the GOP. But age is not a panacea. Jeffries is 54. Elissa Slotkin is 48. But they act and sound very similar to the old guard, which mentored them.

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

I hope to see you at our No Kings Day event in Fitchburg MA on June 14! Join our nationwide day of defiance to reject Trump’s tyranny and ruin his self-serving birthday parade. app.sosha.ai/s/JCWIcPpl

hi, cis folks! it's pride. you with us? cool. who’s from MA? evidently, @warren.senate.gov doesn’t know the GOP is trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans. that's >20% of us! who can call & let her know? rep info here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

🚨I’m here with @RepLuzRivas, @RepNormaTorres & @RepLouCorrea at the Roybal Federal Building exercising our Congressional authority to investigate ICE’s inhumane detention of immigrant families—including moms & kids held after routine check-ins. No beds. No food. No water. We are demanding answers.

Handwritten letters didn't move the needle in 2024. That's okay! I *deeply* respect Yasmin Radjy's leadership here - fundraising incentives do not encourage honesty about what doesn't work, but we need to hold ourselves with integrity if we're going to improve. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Which also means that everyone should absolutely tell their Senator to hold the line on this amendment when reconciliation between the chambers come.

A break from my regularly scheduled political and legal posting to express some gratitude. This week, my 18 month old daughter had to have open heart surgery. 💔 As you might imagine, this was utterly terrifying. 1/

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

He’s already broken the law by offering the bribes. Arrest him.

Yes. I do not want to ever 'move on' again. Every time we turn the cheek, overlook the criminality, absolve the sins, they come back worse. I want punishment. Deterrence. Retribution. Err on the side of excess, not lenity. Anything less is asking them to come back worse yet again.

US foreign policy for the last decade has many problems, especially in the way our military harms people around the globe. However. I think regular citizens have no idea of the extent of positive outcomes we contribute. Cutting those contributions so callously is a crime against humanity.

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

British cartoonist RE Burke was backpacking through North America. Now she’s locked up in an ICE detention facility. www.comicsbeat.com/cartoonist-r...

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.

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

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Ethel Rosenberg got the chair for doing a lot less damage to U.S. national security than Elon Musk has done this week

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

A thought. Many of us are wondering why the Democrats are not taking a more vocal and hard stand? Maybe they’re wondering why we’re not marching outside the GSA, protesting the hijacking of our private information and that of our government by a private citizen. Maybe we all need to get moving.

PEPFAR alone: There are ~220,000 people picking up new supplies of ARVs every single day and will lose access to treatment for every day of the stop work order, according to amFAR. They also estimate a 90 day freeze would mean ~130,000 babies acquiring HIV. www.amfar.org/wp-content/u...

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

I had a convo with a colleague right before Thanksgiving about The Washington Post. They were furious that people were unsubscribing. "This will only hurt reporters, not Bezos." When I asked them if maybe readers aren't trying to hurt Bezos but simply no longer trust WaPo, they look scandalized.

I signed up to donate monthly with Run for Something. They recruit candidates for down ballot races all over the country. An antidote to moaning about the 2024 election.

Today on Volts: fans of distributed energy have lots of complaints about utilities, but Pier LaFarge thinks they're the only institutions that can build it out fast enough. He wants them to procure it like any other energy resource. We talk it over ... extensively. www.volts.wtf/p/should-we-...

If you're in the same boat: why not get your loved one a subscription to Volts? Nothing says love like someone ranting about utilities every week! www.volts.wtf/subscribe?gi...

From a purely "this guy knows how to win" POV, @benwikler.bsky.social is the right choice to run the DNC. For real.

I have to write an email for Giving Tuesday & man do I dread Giving Tuesday. It's the only day of the year when I feel like I'm in competition with any other nonprofit. There's plenty of space for all of us out here, even if Philanthropy isn't always up to the task of balancing support among us all.