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Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:

If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

"Ban on trans athletes seeks to demonize, not protect" by Sally Jenkins

homer simpson from the simpsons is making a funny face with his mouth open and his fist in the air . ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is making a funny face with his mouth open and his fist in the air .

" ... there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes out of 530,000 who participate in college athletics. But with his latest executive order, the commander in chief makes it clear he wants all six or eight of them under his Brioni heel."

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)

Blue book cover, linen, with silver stars and a crescent moon. In black, an elephant floating by means of a large balloon. "On a lark to the planets" by Frances Trego Montgomery, published in Chicago in 1904.

Wouldn't you love to travel to all the planets of the solar system by balloon and electric elephant?

(1904, by Frances Trego Montgomery) 🧪📚💙🪐

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”

So, she took a breath, and spoke.