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IF YOU ARE IN AN ACTIVIST SIGNAL CHAT please check if there’s someone named “AJ” with a trans flag in bio OR someone named “Teddy” with a pink Signal name attempting to access, joining, or already in your chats. That’s a fascist infiltrator. Reset your group link after you boot em!
Starting to think the “they voted for this” posts are an op/organized bloc. Poss confirmation bias bc I’m getting tons of them, but they’re p effective at distracting ppl - including me! - thereby shifting focus
ny state government, what are your plans? we saw this coming. you must have too. are we diverting dollars from funding mass surveillance into rural hospitals, and feeding children? I hope to hell these conversations are happening.
Senator Lea Webb@senatorleawebb.bsky.social · last yr.Republicans in Congress have voted to kick 17 million Americans off their health insurance, make the largest SNAP cuts in history, close rural hospitals, raise costs and other harms to our communities.
Republicans just voted to murder 140 Americans a day, every single day of the year. They're killing 51,000 of a us a year.
watching this, i am angry that the people sitting behind Jeffries dont look as angry as I feel right now. www.c-span.org/event/us-hou...
U.S. House of Representatives
The House will consider the Senate-passed GOP tax and spending cuts bill with the goal of getting it to President Trump's desk for his signature by Friday, July 4.
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We are going to have depressed wages, more crime, more suicide, more hunger, less social services, and less providers and it's going to happen quicker than people think. You group that with rural healthcare being battered, and this is a social experiment in how to create trauma.
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the child care system is already overburdened... “We already know that there's not enough care, so we cannot expect people to work to get these things when, if they have young children, they will not be able to find that care.”
WSKG Public Media@wskg.bsky.social · last yr.Some Southern Tier advocates are apprehensively eyeing proposed cuts to America’s food assistance program as the federal budget makes its way through Congress.
Written this morning. I once noted, "Dante had Beatrice. Orwell had Stalin." Negative muses are a thing. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...
Cynicism Is the Enemy of Action
We have distant enemies, the enemies of truth, justice, human rights, and environmental protection, and they are easy to recognize and oppose. We also have near enemies, the cynics and defeatists amon...
meditationsinanemergency.com
"“We are overwhelmed. Every day, we see more children arriving with extreme weight loss, anemia, and symptoms of immune deficiency."
Children Are Starving in Gaza, as Soldiers Kill People Looking for Food
Doctors trying to save starving children and parents trying to feed their families spoke with The Intercept.
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All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · last yr.A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
Don't be intimidated by the colossal challenge of 'saving the world'; there are as many worlds as there are people -- save *yours*, the one made up of the life you share with those around you. Where one flower blooms, a million more will follow. -page 160
The Ones Who Stay and Fight, NK Jemisin. A companion essay to LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. LeGuin's story made me angry. Jemisin's made me cry. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Ones Who Stay and Fight - Lightspeed Magazine
It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat! The Day is a local custom, silly and random as so many local customs can be, and yet beautiful by the same token. It has little to do with birds---a...
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“Scientists don’t know who will be reviewing their applications, whether their own investigatory teams will stay intact, or how the NIH might influence these projects’ process & conclusions.” @rosebroderick.bsky.social on RFK Jr./NIH’s sketchy new autism initiative: www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/n...
Why autism researchers aren’t convinced NIH can keep science and politics separate
A new $50 million NIH initiative to find the causes of autism faces questions about transparency and independence.
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Dear Dems: this is what we want. This is who we want. Listen to us.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...
I propose $1 billion of congestion pricing for Andrew Cuomo
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · last yr.In Midtown, where one of Andrew Cuomo's staffers is holding a parking spot for him in front of the polling site he's soon expected to vote at. Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.
If you care about alternative public-safety models that don't involve the police, read this excellent piece by @mkaiasand.bsky.social on what these models need to thrive. Vital reading as Portland's City Council votes this week to strengthen Portland Street Response www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded.
In Eugene, Oregon, CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program, may disappear, but the programs it inspired have spread across the United States, including to nearby Portland.
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If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last yr.Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of "changes in the FTC and other government leadership." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's firm has invested $690 million in AI-powered military startup Helsing. Helsing builds AI-powered military decision-making software, and is moving to produce its own drones, aircraft, and submarines. www.thefader.com/2025/06/20/s...
Spotify’s Daniel Ek secures €600 million investment in A.I military drone company
Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek is leading a €600 million investment in Helsing, a military A.I company branching out into drones.
thefader.com
"How can the American people trust a government that uses their taxes to fund our destruction? How can anyone sleep at night, knowing their money becomes bombs that fall on sleeping families?" gonna leave this link here, in case anyone wants to pick it up... nwtrcc.org #wartaxresistance
Moved to Refuse - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is a network of organizations that supports individuals who refuse to pay for war.
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BlueSpirit@tinytardigrade.bsky.social · last yr.
"Across the board, the assemblies are committed to building people’s power beyond the confines of the electoral system." Autonomous community assemblies are forming in various cities to coordinate mutual aid and community defense. Latest from @ella-writes.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/gra...
Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda
People’s assemblies across the country are committed to building people’s power beyond the electoral system.
truthout.org
TRUMP: We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today
The person addressing America is not the president. He’s a terrorist.
Among the reasons I loved GYWO and admired David so much is the date of this first strip, just a month after 9/11. So it was about invading Afghanistan, not Iraq (yet). For younger people - this comic was totally opposite where the country was at then. People only turned against the wars later.
Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · last yr.GET YOUR WAR ON by the great David Rees, nearly 24 (!) years ago. www.mnftiu.cc/category/gyw...
