The FY2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for military spending and pays for it by gutting NOAA, FEMA grants, NIH, and fully eliminating programs that keep the lights on for struggling Americans.
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social issued the following statement responding to the announcement today revealing President Donald Trump’s plan to move multiple parts of the U.S. Department of Education to other federal departments:
For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ
Likewise, if wage theft was treated as criminally as time theft, a lot of businesses would run a lot differently. Businesses are people when it comes to counting victims but never when it comes to counting offenses.
The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
This is a great book, seriously. I loved it.
Pedro Pascal spoke up for trans rights and has been targeted with a smear campaign as a result. False allegations lobbed by TERFs have since become a meme and entered the YouTube podcast sphere—not unlike the previous anti-MeToo smear campaigns I’ve covered.
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Elon Musk is one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st Century.
Riley Gaines is comparing teenage trans girls to rapists.
This vile coward defended her own swim coach after it was revealed he sexually assaulted her teammates. Simone Biles stood up to the man that systematically sexually abused her and her teammates.
This is exactly why we were saying defund the police. The police are the vanguard of authoritarian regimes.
What we're seeing in LA is just the start. This is going to be a long hot summer. Prepare accordingly.
What's going on in LA should be a real wakeup call for folks who don't already know that a fully liberal government can still wind up a police state and without some major change to the way we talk about the militarization of policing, nothing will get better
I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA HAVE AGAIN AND AGAIN TOLD YOU WHAT SCARES THEM AND IT IS NOT ONE BIG PROTEST, IT IS MANY SMALLER ONES
Congress is currently attempting to pass a bill that will ban transgender healthcare for minors and adults under Medicaid and ACA. It passed in the House, and is going to the Senate. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on HR1, to help transgender people like myself continue to access healthcare
I'm both of them
For ✨ no particular reason ✨ nothing to do w comics discourse ✨
Here are some booklists I compiled of really great comics, made by creators of color:
BIPOC 🌟 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
AAPI & SWANA 💫 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
Trump acts like his rule is absolute, but this country doesn’t belong to a king.
On June 14, we’re coming together to send a clear message:
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Find a #NoKings event near you: go.aft.org/nokings
If you ever wonder about quest design in The Witcher 3, I have another captivating read for you, part of our 10th anniversary celebration 🥰 Couple incredibly talented people, and me, talk about the craft. Please, enjoy ❤️
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Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact!
We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!
If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!
We only have one chance! Lets go!
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if you don't wear sunscreen please just buy something like this at the drugstore and put it on after you wash your face in the morning everyday. i promise it doesn't feel like greasy coppertone or whatever. you can thank me in 20 years
they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this
hey so here’s a repository of all the lgbtq+ resources the government removed from their sites www.thelgbtqarchive.org
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
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Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much
this entire story is so horrifying and nightmarish I can't think about it for long without wanting to go insane
I've never wished death on anyone in a positive way before. I hope she can pass on as soon as possible and their efforts fail
this is so insidious
Recreating this in AI is so completely pointless, so totally unnecessary, it has this feeling of how colonizer types don't actually give a fuck about something they take- they just want to own it, put a stamp on it, plant a flag on it, and let it languish ignored #political
