I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Is this efficient? This doesn’t feel efficient. Asking for a country. And a world.

Wake up America 🇺🇸

This is what it looks like when companies put profits over people.

Modern capitalism is based on the promise of growth, which is itself predicated upon scientific and technological advancement. Without this advancement, there is no modern capitalism. Threats to science = threats to capitalism. Everyone needs to understand this.

The CDC has eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries and the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Succinctly put by @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social: "white men.... have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action in this country." stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f

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Trump has done the impossible: he has made Americans like Harvard

True ✅

They have our business!

MASSIVE SHIFT Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time. MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025. Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

US MAGA terrorist confirms he murdered 23 people and wounded dozens of others at the direction of Donald Trump. His lawyer states that he was responding to the “presidents” call to stop an invasion at the border.

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots. A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

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I was proud to sign. I am grateful for the conservatives who signed. I am angry at and have contempt for the many lawyers who know what happening is wrong and are too cowardly to sign. History will remember them all. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Only in the US would harming an inanimate object be considered violence, while denying millions of people essential services leading to their certain deaths is only considered a 'bad policy'. #3E #EndAutogenocide

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Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.

The M51 galaxy captured by Webb

Jupiter as seen from the JWST

That’s how you write a headline, people.

Wisdom from his many years.

when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄

Jesus also was a pretty far left dude

....and another thing.

A Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Homs, Syria. Revolution flags are hung all over and 'Hotel Room Service - Pitbull' plays in the background.

1. THE GREAT SPACE MIGRATION. A short story 🧵 The year is 3045. Mars has long since been colonized with vibrant Musktowns dominating its partially terraformed surface.

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

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I'm not looking to exist in an echo chamber. But I would like to exist in reality...and Elon's X is nothing more than an alt-right fever dream filled with falsehoods and propaganda. Excited for the prospect of greener pastures.