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Good: attorneys streaming out of the firms that caved and offered pro bono services out of cowardice https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/13/7-partners-leave-willkie-farr-firm-that-made-trump-deal-cooley-which-fought-him/

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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Republicans are proposing $1 Trillion dollars for the Department of Defense next year, while we’re watching a few million dollars of drones destroy the same kinds of weapons https://www.newscientist.com/article/2484024-can-any-nation-protect-against-a-ukraine-style-drone-smuggling-attack/

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The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

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Representation matters. Having read and listened to some interviews with Ryan Coogler, it is no surprise that they went deep on research to get this right 👏 thegrio.com/2025/06/06/s...

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A diplomat in the US embassy noted that the program had been “delivering important services” and warned… “The quality and continuity of care have markedly declined—placing approximately 125,000 (people) at risk of illness and death.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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This whole 'I'll take the money away from Harvard and give it to trade schools' rhetoric completely ignores how the money is granted. For folks outside academia, most NASA research grant calls these days are dual anonymous. The review panel doesn't even know it's from someone at Harvard.

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We could even start with basic things like how often you have to pay for water or cough minimum wage

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Another attack on those who most need and deserve help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/27/americorps-doge-layoffs-budget-cuts/

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Kyiv is currently under a massive attack. Rockets are launched from the Black Sea. As of now, there are 11 victims.

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Another day with the very creative Supreme Court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“Of the fifteen books recommended in the list, a full ten of them are entirely made up.” https://open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/p/the-chicago-sun-times-published-an

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Fire season is going to be terrible due to these cuts

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Amazing progress that I hope this administration does not manage to ruin. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480206-norovirus-vaccine-pill-protects-against-winter-vomiting-bug/

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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another issue where normal ppl whose morality does not extend to the fate of homeless people can nevertheless be moved simply by explaining the difference between solving problems and solving causes. it's also the first thing anyone should ask about any new policy: does this address the cause

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

submitted 35 days ago • 290 comments

Infuriating. “Of the 469 large renewable projects that applied to connect to Bonneville’s grid since 2015, only one has reached approval” https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/12/oregon-washington-green-energy-bonneville/

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“Nandudu adds an extra 200 shillings to the price of every kilogram she buys from a woman. It’s enough of an incentive that more women are joining” hope that this is as good as it sounds https://apnews.com/article/uganda-coffee-sales-sisterhood-women-acbac4d87494563c99516dbf6f522f22

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Which intrepid journalist is going to ask Pope Leo whether he prefers Malort or Pisco

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This is a disaster for science globally and a disaster for the country when our innovation pipeline withers

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“Last July, the cost of my monthly Revlimid prescription increased by 7% to $19,660.” The pill costs 25 cents to manufacture. Absolutely abusive. https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma

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The Trump administration has shut down the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. via @nbcnews

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Hold steady folks. An EO is not law and “Trump says” is not the last word.

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“NIH research contributed to 354 of 356 of the drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 2010-2019” They don’t even have an explanation. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/01/private-companies-public-research-funds-cut

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Good reporting by @miasato.bsky.social on how stupid these tariffs are. “Here again, the washing machine study offers an eye-opening detail. In that example, about 1,800 jobs were created. But researchers estimate that it cost consumers about $815,000 per job.” www.theverge.com/tech/607947/...

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This section of @davekaufman.bsky.social and my talk with @waub.bsky.social has been playing in my head on repeat ever since. Reconciliation implies two sides to a grievance. Even the word describing the process of moving forward is on the colonizer’s terms. Words matter.

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Would be nice to see Hollywood Theater in Portland run a Black women directors series https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/29/as-a-film-lover-i-want-more-the-black-female-directors-take-centre-stage

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Has anybody checked RFK Jr’s van www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/s...

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Equally infuriating and well-done reporting by @bethnakamura.bsky.social for @oregonian.com. It’s hard to believe that a kid would randomly accuse someone of calling him the N-word, and yet this principal did

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No surprise. Let’s get more air filters in schools www.newscientist.com/article/2478...

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“Silenced Science Stories is a collaboration between scientists and artists to tell the stories of scientific experts who have been affected by the Trump regime’s purge of their ranks.” https://kottke.org/25/04/silenced-science-stories

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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

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