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Senator Murkowski cut a backroom deal to exempt Alaska from Medicaid cuts, but the Senate parliamentarian shut it down. Protecting your own state while harming millions elsewhere is selfishness and disgusting.

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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

submitted 21 hours ago • 133 comments

Honestly do not understand why so many of the biggest "progressive" accounts on here do not use alt text.

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Oh, look, just in time for you to get in the Independence Day mood, my Danger Cove Mystery set over a July 4th holiday weekend is free at Amazon today! It's part of a larger series, but the first in the farmers' market subseries and stands alone. www.amazon.com/Death-Flower... #Booksky

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Oh, look, just in time for you to get in the Independence Day mood, my Danger Cove Mystery set over a July 4th holiday weekend is free at Amazon today! It's part of a larger series, but the first in the farmers' market subseries and stands alone. www.amazon.com/Death-Flower... #Booksky

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Came across an obviously "AI"-made article of "Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels of 2025" where every one of the books doesn't actually exist, including one purported to be by me. The internet's filling up with slop, y'all. Here's a canonical list of my work, btw: whatever.scalzi.com/about/books-...

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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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I would be genuinely happy if the only, the only lesson the Dem establishment took from this was “yeet all dynasty candidates and everything/everyone associated with the Clinton Era into the sun”.

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If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Democracy dies on the shadow docket.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I made a very silly video about (hypothetical) logistics of farming dodos youtu.be/pA7uD9435tU

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

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A simple mnemonic for heat waves: IT'S HOT. DO NOT.

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If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively won’t draft you into an illegal war.

submitted 7 days ago • 679 comments

NEWS: Senate Parliamentarian says GOP scheme to limit federal court preliminary injunctions by requiring plaintiffs challenging government actions to post large bonds cannot be part of reconciliation bill. A victory for Democrats, rule of law and the courts and a defeat for Trump and the GOP.

submitted 7 days ago • 188 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

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The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

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PHEX protein in the parathyroid gland contributes to phosphate sensing ...wouldn't say "sensing" per se, but probably "regulation" academic.oup.com/jcem/advance...

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By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

The United States should not wage war against Iran. Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war. This is a horrific war of choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 827 comments

I'll be honest, folks. I didn't even KNOW there was a Nobel Prize in Epic Meltdown. He might deserve it.

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It’s not okay to ignore #osteoporosis

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I will never again see an ICE agent without assuming they're from Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, a pardoned Jan 6 rioter or a member of the KKK.

submitted 11 days ago • 731 comments

"Peace president."

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This twice-yearly shot almost completely prevents HIV and is now approved. It could shut down HIV. It needs to roll out in at risk groups. But Trump has gutted HIV prevention at home and abroad. That could be stopped, however. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

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I understand the need to yell at this fucker, but I need everyone on this site to reach as deep as they can into their spite reserves and do the thing these attention-seeking trolls HATE MORE THAN ANYTHING ON EARTH: pretend he doesn't fucking exist.

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Our Constitution is clear: Only Congress has the power to declare war. Yet, administrations too often bypass this fundamental check, plunging us into conflicts that cost countless lives, drain our resources, and destabilize entire regions. We cannot allow this to happen again.

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Trump's pardons cost victims and taxpayers $1.3 billion, House Judiciary Committee Democrats' review says www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-...

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

Universal rule -- any time you post to critique the social media competence of someone else, you make your own gaffe. Sigh. Still annoyed by poster who repeats the skeet in the Alt text instead of describing the picture, but I suppose glass houses and all that.

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Over 25,000 people showed up at the MN State Capitol yesterday. Plus the thousands who rallied, marched, and protested elsewhere in the state. Despite being told to stay home. Despite being afraid and grieving. Rather, because we were afraid and grieving, we came together and showed the fuck up.

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@npr.org: You are now a pathetic, disinformation-peddling shadow of what you once were. 1. The parade was anything but “massive” 2. The protests were not a backdrop; they were the lede 3. To say that the protests “savaged” Trump frames him as the victim This isn’t journalism. This is propaganda.

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