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Just when I thought I couldn’t love this woman more.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

submitted 23 days ago • 319 comments

😭😭 everyone has lives. Family.everyone matters

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Hello! My favorite place is hanging out on the back of the sofa looking out the window and yes, I am really this adorable.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.

submitted 37 days ago • 452 comments

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

submitted 38 days ago • 397 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 38 days ago • 873 comments

Let’s start with the basics.

submitted 39 days ago • 315 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 44 days ago • 1015 comments

If billionaires can build rockets for 11-minute joyrides, they can afford to fund universal mental healthcare. We don’t have a budget problem. We have a priority problem. #MentalHealthForAll #WealthTax #EquityNow #HealthcareIsARight #JusticeNotJets

submitted 44 days ago • 10 comments

April 1

submitted 45 days ago • 8 comments

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

submitted 47 days ago • 294 comments

Excellent. Here’s the habeas lawsuit filed in DC for all the men disappeared to CECOT we were waiting for.

submitted 48 days ago • 201 comments

Where is our humanity?

submitted 58 days ago • 1818 comments

Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIDAtyB...

submitted 60 days ago • 195 comments

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Several top scientists overseeing research into disease prevention & cures at NIH were fired. Among them, Dr Richard Youle who was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Science for identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

submitted 62 days ago • 13 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 71 days ago • 921 comments

We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party. This is just fantastic.

submitted 73 days ago • 499 comments

If people getting caught up in an illegal, haphazard dragnet and getting shipped to a hellish nightmare prison in El Salvador while being used for ghoulish propaganda doesn't move you to use some of your political capital or power, you don't deserve to hold your office or an ounce of trust.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 77 days ago • 1680 comments

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

submitted 79 days ago • 849 comments

This is the Serbian people protesting their pro-Putin autocratic regime. Similar uprising in Hungary against GOP darling Viktor Orban. Our time is coming.

submitted 79 days ago • 222 comments

Jeffries: "The average Social Security recipient in the US receives about $65 a day in benefits. Elon Musk in his contracts with the federal government gets about $8 million a day. If they were really interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they would start there ... but they're going after grandma"

submitted 79 days ago • 376 comments

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

submitted 80 days ago • 525 comments

AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”

submitted 82 days ago • 339 comments

The way people act like they won’t actually cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security gives similar vibes to when they acted like they wouldn’t actually overturn Roe Stop underestimating them

submitted 85 days ago • 275 comments

love this @rokhanna.bsky.social We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos Please share off line as well !!!

submitted 92 days ago • 1519 comments

DOGE's bogus 'wall of receipts' reveal Elon Musk's real agenda DOGE is efficient — but not in the way Musk says it is. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

So proud of my daughter who just crossed the finish line at the Tokyo Marathon. It was a bright spot to counter the daily dismal news cycle. 🏃‍♀️💕💐🎉

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

💙 if you stand with UKRAINE? 🇺🇦

submitted 95 days ago • 472 comments