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If true, that’s a pity because one can never have too much Tilly/Mary!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

And “disrespectful”

what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?

This signature?

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Robert Reich The Failures of “Centrism”

Joe Manchin says Democrats need to "move to the center" to win.

I've watched corporate Democrats like him peddle this baloney for 50 years.

Instead of caving to Big Money, Democrats should fight back against Trump and the oligarchs rigging the system.

Lunacy

A television showing Sylvester McCoy at an anti Trump protest.

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

LEGEND 😍😍😍😍😍

The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would inject nearly $500 million into historically Black colleges and tribal universities, a windfall funded largely by cuts to programs elsewhere for minority students. The administration will also redirect money to other political priorities for President Trump, including an extra $137 million for American history and civics education and $60 million more for charter schools. The increases follow a White House request for a 15 percent budget cut to the Education Department next year, as President Trump seeks support to permanently shutter the agency. History programs will now receive about seven times their expected funding for this year, and charter schools will see a 13 percent increase. To pay for the changes, the administration cut money from other parts of the education budget The details of the changes were described by three people familiar with the department’s plans who insisted on anonymity to speak about private discussions. The biggest cut, announced by the department last week, is a $350 million hit to programs that support minority students in science and engineering programs, schools with significant Hispanic enrollment, and other federal grants at minority-serving institutions. The administration also cut money from gifted and talented programs, which it said use racial targeting in recruitment in some cases, and from magnet schools, which have been used as a tool for combating school segregation.

what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.

i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Oh man, Bluesky allows posting your own gifs now. Fucking. Gamechanger.

Wow, this still isn’t official. We will be on pins and needles for a while longer.

Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days.

That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that.

And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.

going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago

I miss the old brand #CDC

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

Found this article interesting on some of what has been wrought by the present conditions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you

yep, as i have written a bunch, the great lie of white supremacy is the idea that all whites are supreme. it’s a ruse! there is a reason dubois called it a “psychological wage” because those rubes weren’t getting a real wage out of it bsky.app/profile/john...

We needed troops to occupy the cities and rewrite history because people kept putting their pronouns in their email signatures!

The thing is, he didn’t make a crummy album or something. He’s *burning the country to the ground.*

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.

“A .. CNN review of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein—backed by records, photos, videos, interviews & messages—shows a long, close relationship until at least the mid-2000s .. with Epstein saying Trump was his ‘closest friend for 10 years’ in 2019.”

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you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools