The Republican Congress is the reason that community hospitals are closing. The Republican Congress is the reason that healthcare coverage is unaffordable to many. The Republican Congress is the reason that US science will be digging out for decades.

It's possible to live your dreams even if you grew up poor it's just that rich people get to live their dreams at like 17 whereas I had to build major structures to live some of my dreams and I'm only really getting there in my 30s and I'm still basically broke just not as drastically broke as I was

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Please consider helping Cassie, who's been like my sister from another family on here

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Anna Sewell was born on this day in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, U.K. She was the author of the children’s classic Black Beauty, which became one of the best-selling novels of all time and helped transform public perception and treatment of horses. /1

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

10th Cir. holds that it was clearly established law that shooting (and killing) a person believed to be publicly intoxicated or having a mental health crisis, with his hands raised, and no weapon in sight would be an unreasonable use of force. No QI. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

@songsforhorses.com Hard candy Christmas always hits hard, Love is like a Butterfly, Coat of Many Colors ❤️ The less known These Old Bones is good, so many

Look I understand how the user base of this website is skewed but "AI might be bad for the environment but it can't be *that* bad, don't he hysterical" is such a The Data Centers Aren't Going in My Back Yard take that it actually makes me spit blood out my eyes like a lizard

Wie in Frankreich gibt es nur einen Krankenkasse? Wie werden den alle Franzosen versorgt? Ja das geht, statt mehr als 90 Krankenkassen, wo jeder Geschäftsführer eine dicke Geldbörse hat. #Bürgerversicherung 1 Krankenkasse für ALLE. 🤷‍♀️😷 !B 👇 www.cec-zev.eu/de/themen/ge...

A new contender for best headline

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

“Race”: social construction not biological fact. Humans are humans. There are no clustered “racial traits” passed on as groups. There has been vast & ongoing movement & inter-mixing of populations. *large majority of sociocultural and even moreso of semiotic/linguistic anthros?

Good job, NYPD.

Jean Reno, one of the badassest actors ever

Magnificent No Kings protest sign in Ellsworth, Maine. 10/10.

Do not listen to people who tell you protesting doesn’t matter. If protesting didn’t matter they wouldn’t be freaking the fuck out every time we do it. See you out there. Be safe.

I want it on record that anytime I post a bunch of depressing political stuff the message isn’t that we’re doomed it’s that there are countless opportunities to act against something doing harm. We’re only doomed if individuals don’t take those opportunities.

Today's full-day event was full of fascinating talks by researchers from many fields. "Material Histories of Italian Colonialism" —opened by Interim Director Barbara Faedda; organized by Bianca Gaudenzi, Nicola Camilleri, Carmen Belmonte, & Laura Moure Cecchini

#PSA Make sure you secure your accounts!

The anti-birthright pseudo-scholarship has been rife with dishonesty. Not error, not mistakes. Bad-faith dishonesty. They are lying and know they're lying. They're lying because it suits their political goals. Denouncing them in those terms is not incidental, it is the essential heart of the matter.

Yes, big day protests do matter. Esp when Congress is feeling the heat over war, TSA, ICE. More than 3,000 No Kings protests all over the US, and the world this Saturday. Find one near you: www.nokings.org

Remember how Republicans used to sneer about the govt paying farmers not to farm? President Convicted Felon just cut a deal to pay a wind farm company $1B not to build wind farms off NY & NC www.eenews.net/articles/int... h/t @sejorg.bsky.social

If you’re unable to schedule an MRI later this year, blame Trump. 😡

There’s a paywall on the Bullwark article but the article they reference, is free and is worth every second to read, is here. #sheshed open.substack.com/pub/no01/p/m...

Misinformation alert: Steve Forbes and other rich Republicans are lashing out at NYC Mayor Mamdani, blaming him for a recent budget explosion in the Big Apple's budget. What they're not telling you is, that budget was set under Eric Adams last year.

I don't understand why huge swaths of the public eat this stuff up

#France - A mass demonstration against racism and the far right was held in Grenoble.

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Been saying for years that one of the most conservative and own-goal takes of ‘the left’ (both the actual left and what mainstream media defines as such, i.e. centrists + Dems) is that the “internet is not real life.” It’s not true just because you want it to be and repeating it doesn’t make it so.

Ramadan ends tonight & I’m getting the usual questions, so lemme clear things up. If anyone says “Eid Mubarak,” to you, here are perfectly good replies: •Eid Kareem! •Khair Mubarak! •Eid Mubarak to you! •I will buy you tacos for Eid!❤️ (OK last one may be apocryphal but I stand by it😅) EID MUBARAK!

I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

ICYMI: this week, worker-owner @nicolefroio.bsky.social  went long on children's rights and how they intersect with feminism:

When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure. Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.

This problem -- the RW takeover of media -- is like fucking Voldemort or something. He Who Cannot Be Named. People seem to think they'll burst into flame if they discuss it. It's baffling. I've accepted that I'm going to live & die without ever understanding why this is.

*eye twitches*

NEW: State healthcare sites around the country have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...

Rand Paul: “I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force.” The entire confirmation hearing in one sentence.

In Michigan, we’ve vastly expanded access to the ballot, but a lot of Michiganders still don’t know all the ways you can securely vote early. What can you do? Encourage everyone you know to take advantage of early voting and no-reason absentee here in Michigan.

If you were adopted like me, do you have your original birth certificate or an amended one? 📜 If you’ve been married twice, how many marriage certificates do you need ? Women need to fight to protect their vote. 🤯 ☎️ Call your senators and demand they vote NO (202) 224-3121 #SaveActIsPayToVote

If you’ve ever doubted that you matter, or that you can make a difference, please read this post! Because you do matter, and we need you more than ever. Please share widely because there is a lot of nihilism here on Bluesky! And I’d love for you to subscribe—it’s free.

This is one of the way that freedom is under attack in this country.

there's a moment in Der Vorleser where the narrator, going to visit the camp, wonders how they could have hated their victims enough to kill them en masse. the guy giving him a lift suggests hate had little to do with it; they thought nothing of their victims; they simply didn't see them as human

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?