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We are now risking lives and actively letting people die because they can't afford inhalers. Why? Because insurance companies are emboldened to not cover them under Trump. Cole Schmidtknecht died because of price-gouging — and he didn't have to.

submitted 6 hours ago • 55 comments

It’s very funny that they’re having a centrism conference about how to win in REAL AMERICA on REAL ISSUES and keep bringing up Bluesky, the home of neurotic millennial news obsessive Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans.

submitted 5 hours ago • 42 comments

“emotional engagement with ChatGPT is rare in real-world usage." Interesting because even if true, the number of people addicted to meth is also relatively “rare in real-world usage,” but it’s illegal 🤔

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I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

Jaia Cruz joins the disgustingly long list of trans women of colour jailed for surviving a hate crime

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If you want to understand why families with trans kids are exceptionally stressed. It's because our kids and families are being actively persecuted by the UK government and NHS. goodlawproject.org/advice-for-t...

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Somehow seems that despite all the big success stories of politics over the last three decades, we're averse to concluding "people who appear to believe in something sincerely are popular, being the kind of person perceived as someone who would say anything to get elected is unpopular"

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

“That child deserves our support,” @governorwalz.mn.gov continued. “Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

Running a successful business with warehouses and hub distribution and HR and lawyers and salespeople and staff and happy customers... MAGA: "is this communism?"

submitted 15 hours ago • 123 comments

i know no one cares about hypocrisy or shamelessness or anything anymore but these people really used to tell us they were scared of an armed govt being turned against americans, they made an entire career out of it

submitted 3 hours ago • 230 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 4 hours ago • 76 comments

Hello! I am a public librarian. PLEASE do this. Library administrative offices are the exact damn same as any other corporate office: they live and die by written customer feedback. Tell them with your words that Pride matters to you. Please. Please.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I’ve never been more proud of you guys

submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

Along those lines: If I see one more motherfucker share that image of the east and west coast as part of Canada with “fixed it” I’ll start screaming. Stop tossing out all the ppl who fight and are kept down by gerrymandering and shit because you’re a selfish ass. WE ALL MATTER. Pricks.

submitted 203 days ago • 3 comments

I teach a game writing class. Students have scripts, worldbuilding docs, treatments, etc due every week About half the class used ChatGPT last semester even though I made it clear using an LLM = an F. When I asked why a studio would ever hire them if their work was just ChatGPT, they seemed stunned

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

I think a lot of people don't understand that in a world where everyone uses "AI" to vomit out statistically average text, the ability to use words uniquely becomes a premium skill and a critical differentiator.

submitted 9 hours ago • 56 comments

“Those other guys are right. Don’t vote for them”

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump just fulfilled another Project 2025 promise. He pulled guidance that protected doctors who provide abortions to save their patients’ lives. Let me be clear that in Illinois, you remain protected and can receive reproductive health care without fear of retribution.

submitted 8 hours ago • 42 comments

Fundamentally, the answer to "why are you trans?" isn't "I can't help itttttt, pwease let me twansition". It's "Why are you asking, you fucking pig?" while doing HRT in their face.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Chuck Schumer couldn't muster up any outrage for fascist deportations to a gulag, defiance of Congress and the courts, or wanton public corruption on a scale never seen in the Republic. But he is very very angry at the prospect of a peace deal with Iran. The whole system is rotten.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Disagree. This is about cap ex in places that specifically haven’t had the same degree of cap ex because cap ex breeds cap ex. It’s not a politically London issue, it’s a policy London issue. You can debate it, but that’s what it is

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Cuomo used state resources to investigate and smear his victims, including but not limited to seeking subpoenas for their gynecology records. He also placed covid+ patients in nursing homes, knowing the risk to elderly residents.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If I can be real for a moment, what frightens me most right now is that David Brooks is more upset about Trump-Musk than many, maybe most, liberal pundits and Democratic leaders are.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

See my politics about who deserves healthcare or deportation don’t vary depending on who annoys me on the internet

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I am still begging people to realize that the science vs engineering split is not just a huge longstanding cultural tension within the weird grouping called "STEM," but directly responsible for a ton of politics since the 1940s.

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Going to repost this excellent thread with my single-transferable contribution to this debate rationalwiki.org/wiki/Enginee...

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reminds us of the folks who wanted a big dog and the shelter was like, OH BOY DO WE HAVE ONE bc they had this big dog with weird attitudes so they adopted the dog and soon went to the vet, who was like, excuse me why the FUCK do you have a wolf (it worked out well & the mostly wolf lived well)

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How is this allowed?

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Love to see appeasers who are ultimately siding with the death of higher education in the US waffle themselves into the ends of their careers 💖

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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 69 days ago • 112 comments

I saw this getting discussed on Reddit recently and the Youth asking the question did not seem to want to accept the answer, "people got lost a lot."

submitted 23 hours ago • 34 comments

Trump keeps using Mafia-like threats to get firms "not to publicly attribute price hikes to tariffs." When Mattel's CEO talked of this, he responded: “We’ll put a 100% tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States... I wouldn’t want to have him as an executive too long.”

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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But if you want to read AI-assisted guff from non-professional writers then LinkedIn already exists.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

this is perfect

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments