Also, did the reform work? Did the trainings work? Did funding the police work? Are we living in the success of your efforts?

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

happy friday! just leaving this here...

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment (Gift Article) President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.

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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

ACT UP, 1990

oooof. I knew all of this, but seeing it listed in one paragraph really hits different.

A Chicago flag waving in front of a blue sky and 2 skyscrapers. Unfortunately one of the skyscrapers is the back of Trump tower, but its sign is not visible.

A picture of a sidewalk intersection, with a large house and a tall sunflower plant on the right; two mailboxes on the left; and a large tree in the center. Sunlight is filtering through the leaves.

Montrose Harbor is in the center, with the lake shore curving from the bottom right corner to the center of the picture. Some scattered people are on the left. The water, on the right, is blue, as is the sky.

Uptown Theater's fire escape takes up the top third of the picture and the sidewalk occupies the bottom third. A white Volkswagen bug is parked on the street to the left.

a few of my favorite shots I got of Chicago this summer 🏙️

I love when half these stories are still like "safestableforeverlegitcoin goes bankrupt and also crimes"

you should know gay history bc it's important and powerful but you should also know gay history because queer activists from the 60s dropped the hardest bars ever.

A screenshot of Twitter drafts that reads "we as a society are not talking enough about how 'raising cane's is a psychotic name for a dog."

all my twitter drafts got deleted except for one brave soldier