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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 7 days ago • 260 comments

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

submitted 15 days ago • 63 comments

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

submitted 14 days ago • 138 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 14 days ago • 596 comments

RFK Jr. is removing independent scientists from the CDC’s vaccine policy panel and putting his own people in charge. This shift means that the CDC’s vaccine guidance is no longer coming from independent experts it’s now under his direct control.

submitted 16 days ago • 17 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 17 days ago • 308 comments

In March, ICE agents and Texas police raided a so-called Tren de Arauga gang gathering at 5a.m.—going so far as to attack the families with flash grenades. In reality, they were celebrating a child's fifth birthday at a house they rented for the weekend. https://trib.al/2zAWyDY

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

"As we celebrate Pride let us pause for a moment to remember. This is an image of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget." #PRIDE #AIDS #HIV

submitted 21 days ago • 45 comments

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

submitted 23 days ago • 741 comments

The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 201 comments

The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger.

submitted 38 days ago • 81 comments

Gross. How is this legal HOAs in Green Valley Ranch (Denver) have been exploiting a legal loophole to foreclose on HUNDREDS of families with sometimes over just a few hundred dollars in unpaid dues (from reasons like hail damage or an oil stain on their driveway).

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

This was a baffling exchange in last week’s hearing for the anti-book SB13. The woman who says she’s never challenged a classic (minus Toni Morrison) has actually been traveling all around Texas demanding schools remove Picture of Dorian Gray, Native Son, & I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

submitted 40 days ago • 100 comments

Me watching the news every day…

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

submitted 56 days ago • 125 comments

@xkcd.com I could really use a “What If? 3” to cope with the dark times. Any new books coming out?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 57 days ago • 968 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 57 days ago • 1131 comments

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 58 days ago • 1230 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 60 days ago • 559 comments

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

submitted 60 days ago • 38 comments

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

submitted 74 days ago • 1037 comments

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

submitted 73 days ago • 97 comments

NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.

submitted 73 days ago • 88 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 72 days ago • 685 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 77 days ago • 876 comments

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

submitted 78 days ago • 16 comments

another huge warning sign www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 83 days ago • 15 comments

Here’s the thing about the tariffs: there will be no “short term pain”. Only long term. Every time a company realizes they can get away with charging you extra they don’t ever lower the price again. They just gouge. Whatever price hikes there are will be here for good.

submitted 83 days ago • 236 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 83 days ago • 516 comments

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 90 days ago • 175 comments

The US government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, per the US Treasury

submitted 101 days ago • 41 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 108 days ago • 453 comments

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

submitted 109 days ago • 144 comments

Quit complying in advance

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 112 days ago • 1565 comments

This is bad if this actually happens. Really bad. drrubin.substack.com/p/doge-looks...

submitted 112 days ago • 11 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 112 days ago • 1288 comments