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what if we announced these totals every day like we do the stock market? 170,000 children dead thanks to DOGE. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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Princeton University’s student newspaper is reporting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plagiarized portions of his senior thesis. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

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“For the past five decades, the National Zoo, in collaboration with partners, has played a significant role in bringing pandas back from the precipice of extinction.” www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/office...

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'Klein & Thompson are right that this is time for big new thinking & to recenter progressive politics on making essentials affordable. But... their policy prescriptions [are] too limited to live up to challenges we currently face.' bingo @isabellamweber.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/a...

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Ok but tbh Abolish ICE

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“Sinners,” the horror movie from the director Ryan Coogler, is on a pace to collect at least $330 million in worldwide ticket sales, a level reached by few original films in the genre.

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one person who has changed his mind on this is literally Netanyahu's former minister of defense, who is explicitly calling what is going on ethnic cleansing

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This part

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Floridians were preparing new initiatives on behalf of Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, and other issues on the ballot. But a new law makes these efforts a lot tougher, threatening volunteers with investigations and criminal punishment. boltsmag.org/florida...

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You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

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it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service. I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.

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NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

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READ THIS! Designing Cities for Families: A Pulitzer Prize-winning [yes, you read that right, PULITZER PRIZE] series explores how urban design and architecture affect parents and kids. By the great @langealexandra.bsky.social in @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

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🚨Not getting enough attention: DOGE quietly killed millions in Labor Dept grants to train women in fields like construction & manufacturing & combat gender-based violence/harassment in the workplace Surprised there hasn't been more coverage. Read @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...

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The Free Press and other MAGA centrists are using the term "the woke right" to describe old-school racism, which they appear to believe didn't exist until the "excesses of wokeness" created a backlash. Seriously, this is what they believe.

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Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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for the past few months the us has been ruled by a lawless triumvirate--a mobster (trump), a plutocrat (musk), and a commissar (miller)--haphazardly implementing, respectively, a great leap backward (tariffs), a kleptocratic shock therapy (doge), and a gestapo-spearheaded ethnic cleansing (ice)...

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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

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Honestly surprised this was published www.outsideonline.com/adventure-tr...

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“i can’t breathe at home, it smells like gas outside” if your read one news story today, make it this @arielwittenberg.bsky.social investigation into the air pollution from an xAI data center in memphis tennessee somehow operating entirely without clean air act permits

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“For thousands of years, people have been walking through the densely populated British Isles, weaving from farms to fields to ever shrinking forests and leaving a record of their movements in the form of footpaths.” www.outsideonline.com/adventure-tr...

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This article is actually about redlining, blockbusting, and a century of de facto segregation in Chicago housing. Since no one in the reporting or editing process realized that, the result is incoherent slop. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

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“This modern Nazism says, "Yes, we are losers, we are incels, we are cucks, we are despicable creatures, we do fear, we do hate, and there…” open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

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"In the few months since the second Trump administration began, the federal government’s efforts to control silicosis have been destroyed," David Michaels and Gregory Wagner write:

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“The conservative complaints more or less begin from the premise that Fetterman’s ideological apostasy is the only possible explanation for a story on his infirmity. The possibility that a journalist would…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

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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.

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They’re lashing out against Habeas and arresting Mayors because they know their position is weak and getting weaker, and they’re panicking. It’s scary to live through, but it’s less scary when you remember this isn’t coming from a position of strength, it’s sweaty desperation.

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BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump admin’s push to fast-track the Oak Flat land swap—halting the giveaway of sacred Apache land + rare desert ecosystems to a foreign mining giant until SCOTUS rules.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

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It’s actually easy to put a genie back in a bottle. I do it all the time

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@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social looks at unconventional media types, from Joe Rogan to John Oliver, who are spreading immigration horror tales to audiences beyond the usual. Every mention counts and maybe even helps. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

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Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in aid due to theft of medications.

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