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-...

05.02.2025 12:44 — 👍 120    🔁 26    💬 2    📌 1

For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it

05.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 8190    🔁 1406    💬 329    📌 201

Out of 510,000 NCAA athletes, less than 10 are transgender. They are literally writing an executive order to target less than a hundred people nationwide. Republicans spent over $110 million in anti-trans ads on a made up problem.

04.02.2025 21:03 — 👍 4245    🔁 1189    💬 131    📌 70

We’re starting to think SCOTUS saying the president is immune from laws made Trump and his administration feel like he’s immune from laws 🤷🏼‍♂️

05.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 1821    🔁 359    💬 57    📌 12

The Words of the Week - Feb. 7 Dictionary lookups from the trade wars, the Grammy Awards, and the high seas

These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
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07.02.2025 18:21 — 👍 4889    🔁 940    💬 111    📌 77

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

07.02.2025 22:22 — 👍 12221    🔁 3801    💬 683    📌 235

It's not going to happen but if anything were to turn me into a Nintendo character who likes to hunt ghosts in mansions it would be the infantilizing of the world's most powerful men in the mainstream press

21.01.2025 10:54 — 👍 296    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 0

It’s fun trying to find that line between “I need to remain vigilant of the horrors afoot” and also “oh no my heart is racing and my jaw is making weird creaky sounds and I can taste pennies.”

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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.

22.01.2025 20:31 — 👍 11598    🔁 2006    💬 193    📌 100

This guy must be like your kryptonite

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