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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans. Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect. I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”

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I hate to break it to you but a circle pit is just a hora.

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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

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Read my chat with @nikostratis.com from the other day at the Harvard Book Store in today's HW. "I am not trying to tell you how to live. I am just showing you how I have gotten here, and if you try, maybe you can avoid some of the pitfalls I found." www.welcometohellworld.com/reverse-engi...

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Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

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It's actually the Gulf of HBO now Remind me why David Zaslav makes so much money again? gizmodo.com/hbo-go-hbo-n...

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"will depend on whether American citizens are harmed" Meanwhile, they still won't acknowledge the teenage Palestinian-American citizen who was murdered by the IDF last month.

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Make America Pope Again?

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Sure we might not have American factories anymore, but we can still exploit your privacy to profit off the data and then usher you into a literal concentration camp!

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[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.

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Me 🤝 Magneto Using Adderall to reach the height of our extraordinary mutant abilities #xspoilers #adhd #magnetowasright

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This is incredible and inspiring.

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This is absolutely wild

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Watching THE WIZ for the first time in years, I only just realized that Michael Jackson's nose is literally a Reese's wrapper. And yet somehow, that's not the weirdest thing that ever happened to his nose.

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Weirdly the most normal thing I've ever seen published in the Times

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How has Pixar not made this into a movie yet

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If you can't control your boners when you see a naked statue, that's a you problem, bro

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THEY DEPORTED A FUCKING TODDLER WHO WAS ALREADY A CITIZEN

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I sure hope this includes Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk and every other international student who's been unlawfully detained for defending the basic rights of human beings www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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Can anyone explain to me why the price of an American-made Fender guitar might be going up some time soon?

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"Never saw a caveman get hit by a car, did you?" RFK Jr. asked, as he took a break from gnawing the leg of his coffee table. "That's because they didn't eat food dyes." In the corner of the room stood a man only known as Doctor Cowabunga. Together they would decide the future of medical research

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Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

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When I went to Hamden Middle, all we got was a toxic waste dump discovered underneath the soil. Kids these days don't know how good they have it! www.wtnh.com/news/connect...

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The sky was down when I found this meme earlier, but lucky for you it came back online before I forgot about it.

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No one deserved it then, no one deserves it now

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It has long been apparent that Trump's "anti-antisemitism" policies have nothing to do with what actual American Jews want, but now we have the first polling data of American Jews showing that: www.jns.org/us-jews-disa...

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"It is worth noting that the enormous US trade deficit has only one precedent for an economy of this size: It corresponds roughly to the average trade deficit of the major European colonial powers between 1880 and 1914. " www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...

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they are absolutely trying to re-establish jim crow

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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

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Okay but can we also acknowledge the irony of the moron behind the fraudulent Trump University suddenly complaining that college accreditation has become too lax?

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This is unbelievable. DOD is engaged in illegal removals to evade judicial orders. We are reaching new lows every day

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As @jamellebouie.net has been saying, they are absolutely trying to bring back segregation.

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Not all heroes drink a lodge reguhluh from Dunks

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Ugh this HOTEL RWANDA sequel sucks

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The year is 2025. The Vatican announces plans to select a new pope through a BACHELOR-style reality TV show.

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There is more evidence behind the claim "JD Vance killed the pope" than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

submitted 31 days ago • 27 comments

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

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I kind of love the idea that you could be allowed to play old video games for historical research purposes but if you have fun, the government sends you to jail.

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What's so critical about this @ndscongress.bsky.social statement is that it isn't, "oh yeah, I know a tax-paying autistic poet," but [affirming the] "inherent worth, dignity, and potential of every individual, including the 10-20% of people with Down syndrome who also have autism spectrum disorder."

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This is, weirdly, the most purely fascist shit anyone in the administration has said so far - Your health is an asset of the fatherland - Illness is a failure or a moral failing - You have a duty to maintain your health - Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource - Die for the fatherland

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"Please sign the anti--DEI pledge to help my poor black students.The specific needs of the children are best served when you promise not to talk about their specific needs."

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