El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

DOGE is inflating its savings claims. DOGE counts fully paid contracts as “savings.”

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service says it has saved $55 billion by cutting jobs, canceling contracts, and renegotiating leases. But a closer look suggests that number is misleading.

How does one manage work/life/fascism balance?

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Trying to stay grounded while also trying to disassociate just enough to get through a day of work is quite a challenge ain’t it.

1. Breaking: Donald Trump has issued an EO that lays the groundwork for a total military ban.

In it, he says that being trans goes against "a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle."

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Please understand...you will never shame him into doing the right thing. He will obfuscate, gaslight and bully his way out of any situation. Don't make that the goal. You will never see him humbled.

The change is in converting the small percentage of his followers needed to tip the electoral scale.

(1,14) Getting real now. For those who voted for the current occupant of the White House, I find it hard to believe you voted for this. Just suck it up and admit you were lied to and make it clear to the enablers in Congress that you do not want this, and you expect them to do their jobs.

I was just absentmindedly humming to myself, but when I realized my partner was in the adjacent room trying to read I apologized, thinking I was being accidentally disruptive.

They looked at me and just casually said “don’t be so afraid of standing in the light, it helps me see you better.”

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They can bring back segregation by simply firing any employee who isn't a white man by calling them DEI.

Now if you’re looking to feel rage - I get it. But there are actual achievable anti-democratic things happening across this country.

And they have a much greater realism than Trump’s pointless, sensationalist, clickbait, distraction clown show.

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

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