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I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

No. The protest movement against the genocide has been militantly and explicitly nonviolent (and yes, those things can co-exist). You do not get to blame a violent accelerationist shitposter on a ground movement that has from the start renounced violence.

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

submitted 5 hours ago • 564 comments

Whatever you do, do it with the confidence of a terrible idea moving inexorably through the Texas Legislature.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Medford, MA won’t let you buy a moving van parking permit online. You have to go in person to City Hall. What the fuck? Who has time for this bullshit?

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

submitted 12 hours ago • 38 comments

“You don’t get rid of a shovel like that unless you’ve committed a murder with it.” “In which case it ends up at the bottom of Spy Pond.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The Protestant Work Ethic has done more damage to America’s brains… www.inc.com/jessica-stil...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The amount of trouble I have explaining to my parents and other Boomers in my life that both our current administration and our current healthcare system want them dead, simply because they're old and no longer producing...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Republicans cut taxes for rich, explode deficit

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

“Being able to disavow your fellow Christians is a luxury” is something that I’m gonna start bringing up A LOT now cause so many fucking people try to do it when I talk about the evils violence of evangelical Christianity.

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

Waiting to see these Very Online Leftists arguing it's fine to kill US government employees at random because our government is currently in the hands of a fascist and that anyone who has ever served in the US military is always a valid target, regardless of their active or uniformed status.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Christianity, like any other culture, is what Christians actually do, not what they claim they do. French culture is what French people do. Punk culture is what punks do. Y'all gotta stop giving Christianity this special status where it gets to be judged only by its claimed ideals.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

with respect, arent they just choosing a different set of the same guy's teachings to emphasize? it's not like there's one unitary, decisive christianity that is unimpeachable -- or synonymous with virtue

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

The ongoing battle between the person minding their own business walking down the street and the mugger who just pistol-whipped them. The conflict escalated when the victim tried to call the police.

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.

submitted 17 hours ago • 32 comments

And also, the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 13 comments

It's TGIF and time for #FlamingoFriday! Coming in to land on the lake, you can see the neck is bent as it prepares to flare and run! Have a good weekend all! #birds

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

Jesse Watters, Tim Burchett. A couple more weirdos so insecure in their masculinity they’re afraid to drink out of straws and you got yourself a movement.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

"All these Generative AI haters never offer alternatives" yeah man like I also don't offer alternatives to rolling in shit because it doesn't benefit anyone to do and you can just Not Do It, which used to be normal

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Wait. Hold on. I was busy doing stuff around my apartment and I just saw that the US fascist regime has blocked “Harvard’s ability to enroll international students”?!? I work at a different institution of higher ed in Boston and. Uh. What the fuck.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The president’s inviting these assholes over for dinner.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Democrats keep talking like they want to win a popularity contest to prove to the marginalized that they shouldn’t complain As opposed to you know governing a. Country they are best qualified to lead

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cis Americans, if you do one single thing today please let it be to contact your representative. You have no idea how many US trans people I follow who are freaked the fuck out And for everyone else, if America does it, your country will use America as an example of how they can do it too. Speak up

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I've seen this argument made MANY times, including by supposed public transit advocates. And what happens when cars become inaccessible isn't "oh everyone takes the bus." It's, "women get trapped at home." And kids. And disabled people.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

my politics is pretty simple in that I think the Republicans who consistently do shitty things should shoulder the blame for doing the shitty things

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

submitted 1 day ago • 556 comments

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

This is from The Atlantic. This is exactly how Democrats should message Trump‘s bill. 👇🏻

submitted 1 day ago • 186 comments

When you see politicians and law enforcement omitting this man's motivations, respectfully push back and provide the evidence from the article below. The murderer was motivated by the rhetoric of the anti-Israel movement and side stepping this does not protect Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Nah. If I see something day one and it sucks, you'll hear about it. I won't spoiler it. But you will hear about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Posting data that the public is against something is all well and good. Even farming up the data itself is all well and good. Ignoring political realities, that there is a party that will do whatever they're told (and I think that'll hold for the Senate too) is just leading to heartbreak.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Not much, just thinking about how authorial voice is a thing that never really has been sold in commercial fiction. Just notions of action, specifically what kind of action, and plot and twistiness. When the fact is that voice is the thing that makes a novel work or get tossed.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment