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Last note: HOUSING THE HOMELESS IS CHEAPER THAN LEAVING THEM ON THE STREET. www.vox.com/2014/5/30/57...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Ohhhhh this is gonna end badly

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 8 days ago • 447 comments

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

Threats to use surveillance to punish people exercising their First Amendment rights are fundamentally antidemocratic and raise serious constitutional concerns. We will not let law enforcement intimidate us into silence.

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house." The threat was greeted with extreme concern by civil liberties and digital privacy groups. It suggests the LAPD could be using facial recognition to identify and retaliate against protesters.

submitted 17 days ago • 1321 comments

CNN correspondent Jason Carroll and camera crew detained by LAPD live

submitted 17 days ago • 284 comments

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

submitted 17 days ago • 283 comments

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 18 days ago • 896 comments

Democrats should not (must not) take Musk's money, but I want to point out how chilling it is for the president of the United States to be promising "very serious consequences" to someone if they donate to the opposition party. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

If you are lgbtqia, you belong and deserve love and happiness and everyone who thinks otherwise is a raging hunk of wet trash. I love you, Red Sonja loves you, Wonder Woman loves you, Batgirl loves you, and the X-Men love you.

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

It's the LAST WEEKDAY that I'll post about the Bigger Than Binaries shirt! I'm sending the order to the printer first thing Monday. SO! I humbly request that you buy a shirt and/or repost this so everybody sees them 😘 Shirts support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! 👕 -> squidfacts.bigcartel.com

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

yes this. this is something that ought to be nonpartisan: the people crafting public health policy cited multiple studies ~that do not exist~ in order to enact the policy they wanted to enact. they won't answer questions about that. that's grounds for immediate dismissal in any reasonable world

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 28 days ago • 435 comments

The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

submitted 28 days ago • 158 comments

1. Good news for trans people out of Iowa. A federal judge has blocked the LGBTQ+ book ban and has also ruled that Gay-Straight Alliances remain legal in the state. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Rules are rules.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

submitted 34 days ago • 91 comments

if I see one person suggest that trans people are acceptable losses in exchange for other stuff, it’s on sight that is evil and it is also loser reasoning we fight this WHOLE bill there is nothing to compromise here, especially not on vital lifesaving care for trans people

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

FEMA’s new acting chief just scrapped the agency’s strategic plan—the one staff called its “organizational backbone.” No replacement. No clear direction. And hurricane season starts in less than two weeks. But that’s not all…. (1/2) www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-re...

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

This is 100% true. It doesn’t help anyone to burn it all down if they’ll die from lack of care while it’s getting rebuilt.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

There are so many awful things in the budget bill that the House passed that our founding generation would have, at a minimum, tarred and feathered every politician who supported it.

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination. This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 35 days ago • 84 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 36 days ago • 122 comments

After public outcry, a provision has been removed from the House tax bill that would've essentially given the executive branch free rein to shut down non-profits and stifle dissent. This is a big win, but we must keep up the pressure to make sure this dangerous proposal stays dead.

submitted 37 days ago • 25 comments

The bond downgrade specifically mentioned this bill as one of the reasons.

submitted 39 days ago • 89 comments

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

submitted 40 days ago • 140 comments

Books I have read recently and very much enjoyed - Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Swordheart by T Kingfisher All These Bodies by Kendare Blake and (finished today!) The Ministry of Time by Kailiane Bradley

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

“Historically, when left to their own devices, states don’t necessarily do the right thing for kids with disabilities and their families,” a former director at the federal Office of Special Education Programs said. With @idahostatesman.com

submitted 40 days ago • 39 comments

So many headlines like this... US Judge invalidates transgender workplace protections. Completely leaves out that Judge Kacsmaryk invalidated GAY people's protections too.

submitted 40 days ago • 21 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 45 days ago • 231 comments

…Though you’d be in no danger of a hernia from picking the transmuted amount up. (While it lasted…) www.engadget.com/science/scie...

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

this is a direct threat to your safety as an American and should be treated as such.

submitted 46 days ago • 75 comments

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 48 days ago • 137 comments

Y'all, this is devastating. We will see where things land once they fire a bunch of people and get rid of the divisions... There are a lot of things to unpick here but the expertise to review grants is a lot, and many of us do a lot of free or nearly free work to make grant distribution happen.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 48 days ago • 701 comments

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

submitted 50 days ago • 220 comments

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Moderna’s combined Covid and flu shot outperformed the existing standalone vaccines for both viruses, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

submitted 52 days ago • 951 comments