Such a rich interview with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"A government can take away your rights, but no one can take away your belief in those rights. The first points of challenge to fascism are memory and history."
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
This how much money was lost by the CEOs who were convicted of stealing money from Medicare. Over 1.3 billion. They were supposed to pay it back. None of it will be recovered because trump pardoned them.
What Trump has been doing to Cuba is unconscionable. He's singlehandedly forced the island into a humanitarian crisis over recent weeks.
An American president can’t be given carte blanche to threaten hostile takeovers of other nations and sow mass chaos around the world. (1/2)
It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course
Civil rights are good, actually.
I just finished this! A gift from a friend and I loved it, too.
Actually it’s at least 10 trained martyrs on our side so far. In Iran. Oh, isn’t that what he’s referring to?
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...
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As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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The administration had threatened to punish countries that attempted to break the blockade, which was aimed at weakening the communist government.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
wor$t girl in academia
Libby Spencer
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What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
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I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
