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submitted 28 days ago • 58 comments

Her stats line up with CDC data…

submitted 31 days ago • 629 comments

Fewer teen pregnancies are a good thing. Children born to women over 30 have several points higher in IQ. They are benefits to having fewer higher quality children. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The information environment around councils is fucked, frankly. Too many candidates run on platforms that are just fantasies but they get voted in because their impossible narrative is allowed to fester. Plus it's hard to stand if you're not wealthy and generally, older. #nzpol

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

submitted 67 days ago • 504 comments

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submitted 68 days ago • 38 comments

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More "The administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades"

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submitted 71 days ago • 21 comments

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 71 days ago • 1846 comments

The playbooks for yesterday's tariff profiteering were written in the 1970s, eg Doug Casey's Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression, Harry Schultz's Panics & Crashes and How You Can Make Money Out of Them, Howard Ruff's How To Prosper During The Coming Bad Years..

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Think of prohibition as a “price support” for traffickers. You will never make these substances disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Meanwhile, escalating law enforcement keeps the market in flux. The only thing worse than organized crime is disorganized crime.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

More than 50,000 people in Gaza are dead. 114,000 have been wounded — two-thirds of whom are women & children. The entire infrastructure has been destroyed. Much of that devastation has been done with bombs that the U.S. supplied to the Netanyahu war machine. We are complicit.

submitted 79 days ago • 217 comments

"if Mr Trump gets his way, the economic order that was slowly and steadily built up in the aftermath of the second world war is dead and buried. Instead, Mr Trump extolled the prosperity of America in the late 19th century, when the country was much poorer" www.economist.com/finance-and-...

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”

submitted 87 days ago • 171 comments

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency. Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

submitted 91 days ago • 269 comments

I spent about 30 hours over four weeks reading all 716 pages of the report of the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response, then wrote two articles detailing its findings and recommendations. With the paywall now lifted on both of those pieces, here's what I found. 🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments

Abortion access and domestic violence have never been separate issues. Studies show that people who seek and are denied abortions face a significantly increased risk of long-term domestic violence. www.jezebel.com/abortion-ban...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

submitted 101 days ago • 325 comments

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

submitted 104 days ago • 1374 comments

“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.

submitted 103 days ago • 99 comments

It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power. It is another to hand it to him. I’m headed to the Senate floor now. To cast an emphatic “no.”

submitted 104 days ago • 3063 comments

Ngāruahine chair Emma Gardiner presented to the Transport & Infrastructure committee today entirely in te reo. When the chair said halfway through that the committee didn't have an interpreter or anyone who spoke te reo, she replied, "Nē rā? Nā koutou te hē!" and forged on.

submitted 106 days ago • 9 comments

A south Taranaki iwi will use only te reo Māori when corresponding or speaking with central government officials from now on and hopes other iwi and kaupapa Māori organisations will follow suit. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/17/i...

submitted 402 days ago • 5 comments

What do you think I will bomb tonight to prove that Ukraine doesn't want a ceasefire?

submitted 107 days ago • 56 comments

We thank all abortion providers, staff, and volunteers who work to help as many as possible access the care they need every day despite harassment, political attacks, and legal challenges. 💜 Our communities need abortion access, and we must all #CelebrateAbortionProviders!

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...