‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

"We know this guy is incompetent. I wouldn’t feel safe leaving Pete Hegseth in charge of putting together a DoorDash order.”
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I'm hiring! 🏛️

This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history.

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if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Poster featuring a grayscale Statue of Liberty holding up her torch beside bold black text reading “We’re Taking Back Our Science.” Below, it lists “March 7th, 2026, Washington, DC.” At the bottom, a red “Stand Up for Science” logo and the website standupforscience.net/march7 appear on a black banner.

1/ One year after the movement-defining Stand Up For Science protest, organizers are returning to the streets on SATURDAY MARCH 7th, 2026 to save science, protect health, and defend democracy!

He didn't expect anything to happen. He has no idea how defense management works, how a defense industrial base is run, or how an alliance works. All he cares about is trying to force the EU & the other NATO members to capitulate to whatever bonkers demand he makes on any given day.

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Also, do not stop calling your lawmakers to protect #Section230. Call them everyday, because many LGBTQ+ youths need the internet to survive this cruel world that views their existence as undesirable. Repealing it is part of Project 2025.

U.S. House/Senate number: (202) 224-3121

The KZs of the 21st century. In the USA.

🧵 They're not identifying fraud in services that happen to serve disabled people. They're defining the services disabled people rely on as inherently fraudulent.

600,000+ people are on HCBS waiting lists right now. Paragon's recommendation is to cut the funding.

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.

The fact that everything these companies do is for profit is fundamentally at odds with the goals of public health. This was true under Biden and has just gotten worse under this administration.

Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.

It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.

Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.

Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.

The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.

Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?

NOT the Onion

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In brief, this maneuver:
- effectively converts employee status to "at-will" (meaning they can be fired for any--or no--reason),
- redirects whistleblower complaints to internal agency counsel,
& takes away these civil servants' rights to appeal adverse personnel actions.

A must read if you have complicated health issues, or will be helping someone with health issues. (elderly parent, disabled friend et)

America’s contract to protect white women has always been tenuous | Saida Grundy ICE’s killing of Renee Good has revealed how the state will only defend those who uphold a white racial order. A 1915 film points to the origins of this social pact

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This is Alex Pretti.

Artwork by a Jewish artist David Olère depicting a concentration camp prisoner in striped uniform and a Nazi officer in green uniform walking together.

Artwork by a Jewish artist David Olère depicting a prisoner crouching beside scattered objects including fruits and a doll.

Painting a Jewish artist David Olère depicting a sinister figure in uniform surrounded by chaos, suffering, and apocalyptic imagery, reflecting themes of oppression and human despair.

Artistic representation featuring the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei', by a Jewish artist David Olère.

19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.

In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.

Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible Join us Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country. We will talk with local and n...

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Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible Join us to Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country. We will talk with local an...

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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.

Donald Trump has finally won a peace prize – from Fifa, no less. Here are five other awards he should win | Arwa Mahdawi The inaugural award bestowed upon the US president could pave the way for many more colourful accolades. I have some ideas, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Endorse.

Donald Trump has finally won a peace prize – from Fifa, no less. Here are five other awards he should win | Arwa Mahdawi The inaugural award bestowed upon the US president could pave the way for many more colourful accolades. I have some ideas, writes Arwa Mahdawi

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Otd in 1991, the Referendum on the Act of Declaration of Ukraine's Independence was held. The turnout was 84%, w 90%+ of votes in favor. In numbers 28,8M Ukrainians said yes.

Here lies the answer to "trade your land & ppl for the pause in the war" offers that are coming.

Ukraine won't surrender.

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)