Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.
She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.
The past isn’t past.
The Nazis systematically raped women and girls and murdered many of them afterwards. They even raped children.
Whitewashing the Nazis’ use of mass sexual violence is absolutely wild.
What the Big Three car companies did was actually far worse than just lobbying — General Motors bought up the electric transit-car systems of 46 major cities, literally destroyed them, and replaced them with GM buses. One of the casualties of GM’s sabotage was the Los Angeles interurban electric railway system—then the largest in the world.
NEW: The biggest welfare scam in the country is run by a consulting giant.
Deloitte has made over $6 billion running error-prone eligibility systems that make it harder for Americans to get the healthcare and food aid they rely on.
We investigated the big business of welfare.
He deleted the tweet, but @davidshor being unable to distinguish between defenseless Palestinian villages under attack by settler militias and “armed Palestinian groups” is a good indication of where many democrats are at in their understanding of Palestinians.
This job is so depressing. I work my ass off for 16 hours and get zero respect and shit pay. My choice to wear fun earrings doesn’t take away a single bit of my intelligence or skill as an educator. All it does is make the day a little less fucked.
Not shocking that these people don’t know what actual sexual assault looks like.
No reason for the cop to have been cupping his genitals. UNDER his clothes.
That’s not what a pat down looks like.
But keep holding water for predatory men.
Fun fact: no.
The Nazis were not socialists.
The Nazis hated socialists.
The Nazis thought, correctly, that they could trick the working class to support them by adding "socialist" to their name.
They were a fascist party.
A Federal judge has ruled that the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Michael Jeffries 82 is competent to stand trial in October of 2026 for charges of running an International sex trafficking and prostitution ring got young male models.
Most unemployed disabled folk aren’t unemployed because they don’t want to work. Many want to, but either literally can’t because of their disability, or because ableism in the workplace makes finding/keeping a job incredibly difficult
“We should start calling it genocide.”
Journalist @AdeleShoko has been covering the occupied West Bank for 5 years. She told AJ+ about witnessing a coordinated attack by Israeli soldiers and settlers on the Palestinian village al-Mughay
I find all of these tips — "how to shake a person's hand to show dominance" — so gross, manipulative, and insincere. Perhaps these techniques work on other people, but such characters always strike me as low-rent strivers.
Fact check: There's no proof Trump sent a large group of construction workers to Ground Zero. He pledged a $10K donation that auditors found no record of. There is no record of him attending even a single funeral for a 9/11 victim.
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The American public has never been more anti-war so naturally Hakeem Jeffries appoints a warmongering DINO to lead a crucial foreign policy committee.
The Democratic Party will not change willingly, we have to throw all these people out.