society erred when we removed the computer from its honored place in the home and ushered it into every part of our profane world. we must rebuild the temple of the Computer Room

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

Most people don't know what's really going on, how it's impacting their lives right now, choose not to know, or think they can't do anything about it. All are misapprehensions of the truth.

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Show the Abbott cast. Show Sunny. You cowards

I am so happy that the orange man had to sit through that absolute work of art

They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.

Tesla paid $0 in federal taxes last year. If you’re reading this, you paid more taxes than Tesla. It made $2.3 billion last year. Does that seem fair to you?

Wanting our tax dollars to go towards every American having housing, healthcare, and food instead of bombs is not a “fringe” position. It’s humane. What’s “fringe” is buying bombs while Americans sleep on the streets and go bankrupt because they get cancer.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

The ordinary questions you might ask: Is Elon Musk a government employee? Are his lieutenants? Does he personally hold a security clearance and do his “lieutenants”? Have they all undergone a background check? Are they subject to foreign influence? Have they ever done a sieg heil on stage?

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

in retrospect it is pretty incredible that the media pressed donald trump, a man known for lying, about his obvious connection to project 2025 a single time. he said “nope :)” and the mainstream media collectively accepted that as truth. what a useless bunch of losers

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

I'm sorry but if you see a plane crashed and the first thought in your head is "probably happened because of a black guy," you don't have anything to offer humanity and you probably shouldn't even leave a note.

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

I feel like not being stressed right now is a huge red flag

"...NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking." @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

right now really feels like starting a lot of sentences and not knowing how to finish them

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

I say this as much to myself as anyone else: this is their goal. To pelt us with every vile declaration & action, to make us feel battered, powerless & defeated at every turn. I just keep reminding myself to feel my feet on the Earth, breathe, get in my lane, reach out across lanes & fight.

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025. There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

I am officially past the doom and gloom stage. If you don't got solutions, move on by. If you don't got organizations people can volunteer, support, and fund, move on by. If you don't got opportunities to counteract this insanity locally, stateside, and even nationally, MOVE. ON. BY.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

Dissent. Dissent in public. Every day, for every action. Use the power of the podium against him. Use the media's obsession with him to expose him and his enablers. Just like this. Drown him out.

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

I know this country is racist af and increasingly antiscientific but I didn’t realize it was so bad that if a “DEI hire” found a cure for cancer like 50% of Americans would rather die

Legality does not always equal morality. Don’t forget that slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow were legal but highly immoral.

The Trump administration said federal employees would face consequences if they failed to report colleagues pursuing DEI efforts

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

in 2025, the most trustworthy media outlets of record are rolling stone, the onion, and approximately 42 worker owned cooperative digital papers cobbled together with freelancer blood, sweat, and tears

A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster was dropped by her station a day after she criticized Elon Musk for his Nazi salute

This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

They will go after Wikipedia. They will go after libraries. They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports. They will go after archives. Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy. Thinking is the enemy.

Gritty continues to be a real one

The road to fascism is paved with centrists screaming “he can’t do that because of the law”

warm lines save lives. please share 💖 credit ig: @/inclusivetherapists

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.