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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.

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):

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

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.

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.

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

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

"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

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

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/

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.

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).

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.

Me watching the news every day…

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.

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

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

Dear god let this man cook.

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

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.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

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

"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"

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

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.

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

adobe deleted their post so this one's for posterity

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Quit complying in advance

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.

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

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