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It's not that Hilary was being kind when calling them "deplorables", she was trying to use the most diplomatic words to try to build a bridge to people who are now trying to bring back slavery

GREAT new resource from us:

You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.

See what they own --and how much they're worth.

See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.

Want the folks connected to Palintir? Please enjoy.

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

With early voting starting TOMORROW, Former President @barackobama.bsky.social endorses the YES campaign for the Virginia redistricting amendment bluevirginia.us/2026/03/thur... h/t @meidastouch.com

A whole lot of white gatekeeping today with people justifying James Talarico over Jasmine Crockett. I don't know why these fucks can't ever admit that no matter what her qualifications are, a white man is always more qualified in their eyes than a woman. Especially a black woman. Stop fucking lying.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

You can now visualize how a color palette distributes across OKHsv, OKHsl, OKLCh and CIELab, and compare 6 distance metrics side by side. Zero dependencies, raw WebGL2.

Took me 3 years to make something I wasn't too embarrassed to share 🙃

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For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

“Frog, why do you keep looking out the window?” asked Toad.

“Because I am waiting for the mail,” said Frog.

“But there will not be any,” said Toad.

“Oh yes there will,” said Frog, “because I have sent you a letter.”

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If you've read about people going to the wrong polling place to vote in Texas today, here is a clear explanation of what just happened. It is both disgusting and terrifying how the Republican party (in general) and Ken Paxton (specifically) intentionally suppressed Dem votes in this election.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

“newspapers have been in steep decline since the 1980s” yeah who told you to shrink the comics and then deprioritize and ultimately remove the comics

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Lynchburg Court Dismisses Latest GOP Attempt to Block April 21 Vote - Blue Virginia From Virginians for Fair Elections, “the campaign advocating for a constitutional amendment to protect fair representation and ensure Virginia voters — not politicians — have the final say over congre...

Lynchburg Court Dismisses Latest GOP Attempt to Block April 21 Redistricting Amendment Vote; "Republicans have tried again and again to stop Virginians from having their say — and again, that effort has failed." bluevirginia.us/2026/03/lync...

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Liberal hunting permit sticker on many conservative's cars after 9/11.

Meanwhile the same damn people 20 years ago:

I remember that BS about MVP Harris “sleeping her way to the top” but zero mention about Tr*mp raping his way to the top. The US is not ready.

Can Trump cancel the election in all 50 states and DC? No. Can he even rig the rules for state run elections? Also no. Is it seriously alarming that the thought is on his mind? And that the media and the Dems don’t seem to think this is a big priority? Yes.

Why Are We Subsidizing Data Centers Instead of Creating Real Jobs? - Blue Virginia By Michelle Moore, Bridge2Blue Data centers promise big returns, but the truth is they deliver very little to the communities where they’re built. Most of the jobs they create are short‑term construct...

Why Are We Subsidizing Data Centers Instead of Creating Real Jobs?; "Data centers should pay their fair share of taxes—no exemptions—just like other companies in Virginia" - Michelle Moore bluevirginia.us/2026/02/why-...

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

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Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques Forty-Hz auditory stimulation increased amyloid clearance markers in aged primates and produced lasting effects, supporting its potential as a non-invasive Alzheimer’s therapy. Scientists at the Kunmi...

I read about this study in an article from Science Daily but in that study the sound therapy was also coupled with super fast flashing lights.

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It's the DM but I wouldn't be shocked if they're using that plane to run drugs for the rest of the executive branch

How else are they going to fundraise? So sick of these Vichy democrats

Apparently it’s just fine to post an AI picture of our only black president and his wife as apes for the world to see. But, not fine for anyone to declare black people are not apes in front of the POS who posted the picture. Got it.

Happy Twin Peaks Day to those who celebrate 🪵☕🥧

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Anyone who has had a relative with Alzheimers recognizes this kind of behavior, except this old man also controls nuclear weapons

Decades of feminism paved the road to Andrew’s arrest | Rebecca Solnit The outcry and activism of the 2010s – itself enabled by earlier generations of feminists – brought us to this moment. But if the Trump administration has its way, opposing forces will prevail

One way to describe Epstein’s vast network of rape and trafficking [...] was as a system of treating women and girls as trophies, commodities [...] rewards, bribes, service-providers, domestic livestock, anything but human beings endowed with inalienable rights.

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