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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.

Marsha P. Johnson, photo by Alvin Baltrop c. 1975-1986 (with thanks to @cmonstah.bsky.social)

...they're eating the protections for the people who live there.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Hand embroidered hoop art of Winnie the Pooh sitting down to eat with the phrase ‘eat the rich’

I think I’m obsessed with this actually????

Short eared owl at Elmley Nature Reserve. I just love them.

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#Bird #owl

NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.

can’t even have hurricanes anymore because of woke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

If only fascism wasn’t fashionable

Cover of a magazine, The Masses. Drawing showing a man - John D. Rockefeller Jr. - with bloodied hands at a wash basin. A crowd is trying to break down the door to get at him

Thinking today of John Sloan's cover for July 1914 issue of The Masses, showing a crowd trying to get at John D. Rockefeller Jr., with literal blood on his hands. Rockefeller was held responsible for deaths of striking miners in infamous massacre at Ludlow, Colorado guides.loc.gov/chronicling-...

simply repeating the straight reporting of what is happening in the executive branch makes you sound like you have lost your mind.

"We're going to run the government like a business. And that business... is Boeing"

Appeals Court Strikes Down Federal Ban on Handgun Sales to Teenagers The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.

oh great right on time thanks

one more day and this year of January is finally over

The brave list for 2025:

- Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
- Grace Tame
- Caroline Kennedy

#auspol

Elon Musk got the ADL to defend Nazi salutes at a presidential inauguration as an "awkward gesture/roman salute."

Next, he'll have them defending putting a swastika flag in the White House because it's really just an ancient Hindu symbol for peace.

running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage

I wish they’d make some things that I like more than cigarettes and men.

I may be desperate for attention but I’m never act like a nazi desperate. #elonmusk

Genocide has rendered Gaza a space-time exception The Israeli onslaught has disfigured space and time in Gaza leaving a physicist like me no other choice but to use my understanding of the universe, as well as the wisdom of the ages, to navigate and ...

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photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

The supreme irony of Germany offering sanctuary and opportunities to scientists unable to work in fascist USA is knocking on the door.

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week

and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant....

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

Makes perfect sense to discontinue medical research right after a global pandemic that killed millions. This is the kind of strategic thinking we need!

Dating life so dry, looking at Carrie Bradshaw for inspiration. #womanataconference

you know what you saw. debating it dignifies the person who did it and the people defending it. they don't deserve that, and won't get what they do deserve until we see a sharp uptick in people doing the obvious thing. in the meantime protect your vulnerable friends and hell, strangers too

Trump issues pardons for 1,500 defendants charged in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol • Arkansas Advocate President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020…

President Donald Trump on Monday night issued sweeping pardons for nearly all Jan. 6 defendants, erasing accountability for those who violently tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results on that date in 2021.