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Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.

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An inspiring story: U Mich president withdraws his signature on a letter defending academic freedom because he wants to leave and get paid to join Ron DeSantis's war on higher education, and then doesn't get the Florida job because he supports vaccination www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/haha...

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Trans hero

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Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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I can't get over the AI 2027 thing. I reread it this morning, and realized that one of the underlying assumptions is that 'if we run an LLM on a big enough data cluster, it'll somehow develop goal-directed learning, metacognition, and independent innovation, instead of being autocorrect writ large"

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Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

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This is (the science equivalent of) hallowed ground. Should be a national monument (and still a center for continuing research). www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

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The thing to remember about Andrew Cuomo's breakfast order is that he resigned the governorship in disgrace after being credibly accused of sexually harassing at least 11 women with unwanted groping, kissing and sexual comments

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www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Karoline Leavitt said the Trump regime is pushing for the trades while defunding Harvard. Now, they’re defunding Job Corps. They aren’t advocating for trades people. They want uneducated folks with no skills to work for any wage and any condition www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

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I was part of the construction team for the Job Corps center outside Manchester, NH. If it comes to pass that this program is killed and that facility closes, it will be another real personal punch in the gut to see something I put my hands on to make possible destroyed - destroyed for no reason.

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From the New York Times, a 5 part podcast ignoring their own role in fomenting a moral panic targeting trans youth.

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Good to see the NYT still has some columnists objecting to their own paper’s attempt to help Musk launder his image. But: If a somewhat functioning democratic system is to ever again emerge from this mess, reputational damage won’t do. Musk needs to be held accountable in a court of law.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

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Again, authoritarianism as a component of capitalism is about shifting from a society of relative privilege to one where it becomes normal that people will needlessly die, that to protest or speak out means risking death or imprisonment. This has been building for decades.

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not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

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We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

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no it’s actually because of the slavery

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Scientists on the run again? dst.at/cartoons @derstandard.at @cartoonmovement.com #science #USA #Musk #Trump #freedom #Liberty #cartoon #satire

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

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i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

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Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

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It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

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What's a pyrocumulonimbus? There was an outbreak of them across northern Alberta on Thursday evening. Check it out 👇 badweatherkyle.com/pyrocumuloni...

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If you text the word "resist" to the number 50409, @resist.bot will quickly & efficiently walk you through the process of writing your senators & rep all at once & send the text to them as an email for free. Do it this way if you don't like to make phone calls. I just did it in less than 3 minutes.

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I read a particularly horrible trifecta of reports on the regime today--the Elon-on-drugs story, the Michelle Goldberg column on how many deaths Elon has already caused, & the story on how RFK's AI-generated MAHA plan has been updated with different, also-incorrect citations. We're hosed, aren't we?

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There ALREADY IS an asset test, @governor.ca.gov. You have to be dirt poor to qualify. I know because my mom eventually qualified after her life savings (and some of mine) went to assisted living. No more than 2K in assets. You're allowed to have a car. That's it. How the fuck do you not know this?

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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I’m starting to take a closer look at defense and surveillance technology. If you work in this field, or have strong thoughts on it, get in touch! I’m especially interested in the private defense companies currently working with the US government.

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I'd like to speak to the manager about Hurricane Karen.

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For the second night in a row, russia launched a massive drone barrage at Ukraine - and missiles are on the way, with bombers airborne and ships seaborne. For the first time ever, I am spending the night at a metro station. What a damn good 'peace deal'. Many thanks.

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Also just noticed that lil Marco says he's big mad about "censorship actions against [...] U.S. citizens and residents" AND RESIDENTS, FOLKS Suddenly he cares about the speech of individuals like Khalil and Ozturk?! lolololol

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Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species. What are we even doing here. 🎁 link: 🧪

submitted 91 days ago • 58 comments

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us." https://theatln.tc/HxwwbaTF

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Experts: During the pandemic, global supply chain breakdowns exposed the risks of relying on international sources for essential vaccine production. Expanding Canada’s domestic RNA vaccine capacity is more than just a scientific priority; it’s a public health imperative and economic opportunity.

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