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BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

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“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 2 days ago • 106 comments

Put this on billboards

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The action is the latest move by the Trump administration to purge all programs, policies, books and social media mentions of references to diversity, equity and inclusion.

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

$19.4 million. That’s how much taxpayers have spent so far to defend Andrew Cuomo and his staff in three lawsuits brought by women who allege they were sexually harassed by the ex-governor. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

submitted 5 days ago • 379 comments

The 2025 class president of M.I.T. was barred from a graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a pro-Palestinian speech during a commencement event the day before.

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🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase. Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13 Young kids: $27 → $10 These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Adams signed off on this. Cuomo would too. We have a primary in a few weeks, NYC. Let’s show up.

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Q: A NOTUS investigation found the MAHA commission report cites studies that appear to not exist. Does the WH have confidence in the info coming from HHS? LEAVITT: Yes. I understand there were some formatting issues but it does not negate the substance Q: Did they use AI? L: I can't speak to that

submitted 8 days ago • 387 comments

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

US Court of International Trade just issued decision in case against Trump tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and me. All "Liberation Day"/IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal, and blocked by injunction! See link for opinion. I will have much more to say soon: www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

This is straight up Yellow Peril sinophobia.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

submitted 9 days ago • 143 comments

In 2023, a Mexican girl with a life-threatening medical condition was allowed to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds. The Trump administration has now ordered her and her parents to leave the country. Her says that if her treatment is interrupted, “this could be fatal within a matter of days.”

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

This should be bigger news, no? www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 18 days ago • 65 comments

House Republicans are pressing forward with a plan to cut billions from SNAP—a critical nutrition program—by forcing states to shoulder more of the cost. The move threatens benefits for roughly 42 million low-income Americans in both red AND blue states.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 21 days ago • 363 comments

This is horrific: The Trump administration wants to send a Harvard scientist back to Russia--and hence most likely to a gulag for criticizing Putin's war against Ukraine--for failing to declare samples of frog embryos that she was carrying from France to Harvard.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

Like Pritzker's approach to this more and more!

submitted 23 days ago • 147 comments

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut everyone loses services.

submitted 25 days ago • 162 comments

This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

submitted 28 days ago • 69 comments

“It has been more than 30 hours since I last ate. At times, I go as long as two days without food” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Dang it. Whelp, time to order more books from them!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Since Israel broke the ceasefire, it has declared most of Gaza as no-go or displacement zones.

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

@propublica.org wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉

submitted 32 days ago • 32 comments

Goodreads is doing a giveaway of my new novel! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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What if your dreams could be used against you? Listen to an excerpt from THE DREAM HOTEL by Pulitzer finalist @lailalalami.com—a gripping novel about surveillance, freedom, and the fight to reclaim your life in a world where even sleep isn’t safe. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717465...

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Psychopathic.

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Hey NYC, get ready to Get Lit! @lailalalami.com will be joining @allofitwnyc.bsky.social and @nypl.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 6, for a fantastic book club event celebrating The Dream Hotel. Get your tickets here: bit.ly/42OHGiY

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Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel's plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...

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In this interview with TED Talks Daily podcast, host Elise Hu and @therichbenjamin.bsky.social, author of TALK TO ME, discuss the power of history in shaping generations. www.ted.com/talks/rich_b...

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My novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER. January 2026 with @pantheonbooks.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have left Houston, Tampa, New York and other major cities without head meteorologists just ahead of what will be another busy hurricane season This is straight-up life-threatening malpractice (h/t @lisamjarvis.bsky.social ) www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

submitted 35 days ago • 27 comments

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

submitted 35 days ago • 1543 comments

White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths

submitted 37 days ago • 275 comments

How much louder does it need to be said? Every Republican owns this disaster. Every time they’re asked to prove it, they show that they care more about their orange god than they care about their constituents.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Woman from Haiti died in ICE custody at a for-profit immigration detention center owner by GEO Group 👇

submitted 38 days ago • 49 comments

The only reason anyone would cut the Narcan program, a mere $56 million annually, is because they want people to die as punishment.

submitted 37 days ago • 69 comments

Hard to conceive a more disturbing headline. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic