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NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

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SCOOP: I spoke with a fired DOGE staffer about what it was like inside the organization, and what might come next now that Musk is departing. www.wired.com/story/fired-...

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Leonard Leo, perhaps the man most responsible for the federal judiciary's lurch to the right - including the SCOTUS right-wing supermajority - is now apparently a "sleazebag" in Trump's eyes. 🤷‍♀️ In 2023, @andykroll.bsky.social led a massive deep dive on Leo for @propublica.org :

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Democrats remain vulnerable to the right's framing on an endless series of ginned-up moral panics. Dems' instinct is always to meet the right halfway on whatever bullshit they've cooked up. This is a result of not have their own policy platform beyond diet fascism and slightly less corruption.

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Trump Invited Traders With Nazi-Linked Tokens to Private Meme Coin Dinner "'For example, one token is called ‘FUCK THE JEWS,’ while another is simply the n-word." (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) truthout.org/articles/tru...

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When I was growing up children who were sick stayed home. It didn’t do our education any harm whatsoever and meant that the whole class didn’t get sick. The current attitude towards attendance is unhealthy imo. It has prioritised attendance over children’s long term health and is why we have tens

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RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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This was clear less than a minute after the speech when Dems granted the GOP unanimous consent to advance to the vote without any obstruction whatsoever.

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People have been radicalized against COVERING THEIR GODDAMN MOUTHS WHEN THEY COUGH, apparently

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An easy way to make people like Curtis Yarvin mad is to wear a mask in public spaces!

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5 years ago - Minneapolis 3rd precinct fell & sparked a global uprising. A new world attempted to break through that summer. Never forget what it felt like. Never forget how scared the state was. Never forget the counterinsurgency. Our time in the streets will come again 🖤🫡

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these numbers are a decent indication that the whole "the left is ostracizing young men" thing is, if not entirely fictional, at least very overblown

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our brains evolved beautiful intricate circuits that suppress vision for a millisecond when you move your eyes only for video game developers to add a thing called Motion Blur and turn it on by default because Realism

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Quote Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur

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If chasers loved trans women they’d be going to planned parenthood pretending to be dysphoric to get women hrt.

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CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

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BREAKING: Highly Contagious COVID Variant NB.1.8.1 Detected in California Amid Ongoing Vaccine Crackdown.

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LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

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All of this is so horribly cruel

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If you have to reject your own studies when they don’t fit your agenda, it’s time to reconsider your agenda.

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Explains a lot about where we are as a country that people are still willing to believe trickle-down economics is going to happen but ignore the dozens of massive, high-quality studies showing that just giving poor people money actually does solve their problems.

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We're all pretty used to the idea that our phones are listening to us, that algos know our preferences, and that ad companies have a very good idea of who we are and what we like Right now, they mostly use this to sell us stuff. We are on the cusp of them using it to do something very different

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this argument about left scolding sounds initially plausible but does not survive contact with hearing how these manosphere people talk to young men

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It’s really comforting that as food skyrockets in price, your neighbors are disappeared by masked goons, and people die en masse of preventable illness, Republicans and Democrats can come together and say: fuck this one trans teenager in particular for trying to run track with her friends

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Look at how theyre not spreading the Elon tech bro's picture that blew up a fertility clinic last week in Palm Springs

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No joke, this is actually one of RFK’s favorite physicians and medical advisors

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In addition to the rage and the grief I have a pretty visceral sense of disgust any time I think too hard about this timeline

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Calling medical journals "corrupt," Kennedy says gov't scientists may be barred from publishing in Lancet, NEJM, etc going forward. #NIH may establish its own journals, he said. Meanwhile #CDC 's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is on the budget chopping block. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/r...

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Given the actions of the Trump administration to date, here’s my extremely nuanced analysis: Best case is they don’t care if we die. Worst case is they’re trying to kill lots of us.

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I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

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the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

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everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

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A few years ago I worked for a men’s magazine and edited this writer who was a biohacker. He would take any gas station dick pill or inject anything into his dick or do anything to his balls for like $500. Anyway I just saw on IG that RFK Jr invited him to give a presentation at the White House

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the cool part about this FIFA World Cup situation is that European football hooligans could probably pull off a regime change if ICE kidnapped one of their bruvs

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People think we live in a democracy and not a dictatorship of capital cause they don’t want to contend with what you have to do to get out of a dictatorship of the ruling class

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Yep. Mass shooter ideology, long honed and disseminated in the most virulent white supremacist circles. Circulated broadly in Elon's far right radicalization chamber. Now platformed at the highest level, by the nation's highest elected official. White supremacist fantasy and blueprint for violence.

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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

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