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In a city of over 8 million, just 400 people showed up to speak at the last Rent Guidelines Board hearing — where decisions about rents are made. We can do better. The next hearings are this June — show up and make your voice heard. Visit ORGANIZE.NYC.GOV to get involved.

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This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

We told you it wasn't gonna end with just icky porn you don't like....

Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

The number one thing that leftists, liberals and progressives can do to improve the future fortune of our brand of politics is to start giving as much of a shit about the little races - school boards, DAs, sheriffs, judges & state reps - as we do about the big, national, high visibility ones.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh

I saw someone post a screenshot of his post and didn't want to repost it, but I immediately wondered just *how* the media would cover it. And of course I slipped into my, "If any other president had done this..." alternate timeline thinking and got mad about it. "POTUS, his boots licked." #Darmok

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

So fucking funny to sell this to big businesses and world governments

happy trans visibility day 🩵🩷

1. Gov. Tony Evers has on multiple occasions pledged to veto any anti-LGBTQ+ bill that crosses his desk. Now, on Trans Day of Visibility, he delivered on that promise again, issuing five vetoes against anti-trans bills. Subscribe to support our journalism.

If therapists are not subject to any sort of viewpoint discriminatory regulation by the state, then states cannot ban or regulate them from telling minor clients to drink bleach or kill themselves because that would be viewpoint discriminatory.

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

This was always the plan. The National Guard is still in D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans. ICE never left Minnesota. Now they’re planting themselves in airports, with TSA sharing passenger data. Polling places are next. share.google/lzYscGU1718K...

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I am officially 38, so here are some thirst traps bc I'm also very proud of my weight loss progress the past 11 weeks (down 20lbs). Also my Final Fantasy pixel tattoo is adorable, everyone should be jealous.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

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I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.

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You do want to skip flying because 1) we know how incompetent ICE is 2) we know anti American sentiment is at historical high level because of drump 3) airfare price is at historical high because of drump No you don’t need to fly. Break the airlines so they know the cost of conservative politics

Y'all I'm just so tired of this timeline to the point where it's getting harder and harder to conceptualize a worse timeline (I still can, but damn).

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

i cannot fucking believe we're having kink discourse AGAIN because younger queers AGAIN think that throwing other queers under the bus AGAIN will do anything to prevent themselves from being put on the wall by fascists AGAIN. solidarity now! or you'll die! we'll all die! fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

New polling from Pew shows what Americans think about data centers: Only 6% think they're good for the quality of life for those nearby. Similarly, only 6% think data center have a good impact on home energy costs. And only 4% think they're good for the environment.

This is what happens when I ask @localswampgay.bsky.social to show his mommy milkers.

As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it. You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result. Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.

Today is Friday the 13th, the perfect day to get a new tattoo (not me, I already got 2 new ones last week) CC: @localswampgay.bsky.social @breakabone.bsky.social @harim.bsky.social

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Born to get cuddles and belly rubs Forced to measure KPIs and circle back.

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy. Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity. No court hearing necessary. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

One of the excluded systematic reviews is the York systematic reviews commissioned as part of the Cass Review itself. NHS England excluded from its evidence review a systematic review produced for the very process this evidence review is supposed to implement. It's a joke.