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lol www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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"In this way, Medicaid isn’t just a safety net for the poor—it’s an invisible subsidy for everyone. When it shrinks, costs don’t disappear. They move to households, employers, local governments, school systems, ERs, jails. Everyone pays." prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 24 comments

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

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Thank you for your attention to this matter

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I remember learning in school about the concentration camps set up for ethnic Japanese people on the West Coast duing WWII. I wondered, how did people let their neighbors get taken away? What fever or mania had gripped the country? I don't wonder anymore.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Since November 5, many of us warned that everything from secret-police raids to foreign wars were very likely. And there were always people—some ostensibly “on our side of the divide”—telling us to stop overreacting, stop irresponsibly speculating, stop stoking fear. You all may kindly shut up now.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Yet again America is bombing the Middle East and yet again we the American people are given a very lame excuse as to why.

submitted 1 day ago • 619 comments

Take note.

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

People are like books 📚

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

2024 was the hottest year on this planet in over 125 THOUSAND YEARS. 2025 is on track to be the second hottest. 1976. WAS. NOT. HOTTER.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salary theonion.com/ceo-s-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Hodgkin’s lymphoma had a 56% survival in the 1970s. Today, survival rate is 87%. Thanks to: Chemotherapies Scientific research Biopharmaceutical therapies Evidence-based medicine Not: "Alternative" treatments Wellness grifting Defunding research Undermining oncologists 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

That extra fee at the grocery store for a plastic shopping bag isn’t just an inconvenience –– it is actually making a difference for marine ecosystems, according to a new study. cnn.it/4le6Y1q

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It’s instructive about where we’re at that the right likes to accuse people of virtue signaling, where people talk about seemingly positive or noble personal virtues, while this guy sends out a tweet saying “no one asked but I feel the need to tell you all that I don’t care about emancipation”

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Are there any examples of patients receiving BETTER long-term outcomes when judges dictate their healthcare instead of doctors?

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

submitted 8 days ago • 231 comments

Got a where’s Waldo book from the library. Circled him in all the pages to save time for the next person…

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Free Market is when the entire country is owned by a handful of insane ravenous assholes who use the government to protect them from competition

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

submitted 10 days ago • 303 comments

If 2025 has taught me anything, it's that the Constitution only matters if it involves guns.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 10 days ago • 397 comments

Just fell down a depressing rabbit hole of people believing a lie from RFK Jr that the reconciliation bill will give them a concierge doctor for $75/month. People are desperate for it. It's not even a manipulation of a kernel of a half truth. Pure cruel lie. The bill will gut them & they're excited.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

submitted 10 days ago • 845 comments

Weird how no one is talking about the trade war/ tariff debacle in the last few days.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

submitted 11 days ago • 289 comments

Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!

submitted 11 days ago • 2954 comments

🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 11 days ago • 420 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 12 days ago • 292 comments

This Texas mail carrier rushed to be first in line to adopt a dog from his mail route. 13/10

submitted 12 days ago • 126 comments

Every professional society should absolutely demand the same ⤵️

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

WTF? Trump is now threatening the American people. He warned protesters to stay away from his birthday/military parade in D.C. this Saturday, claiming anyone who shows up to protest “hates our country” and will be met with “very heavy force.” This is authoritarian behavior, plain and simple.

submitted 13 days ago • 551 comments

You have no obligation to defend or explain the behavior of random street protesters. We have a lawless government that is flagrantly violating its legal, moral, even philosophical obligations to us. Everything else is secondary

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

new youtube video! will the l.a. protests help or hurt trump politically? i say hurt! youtu.be/mOP_5IigrzE

submitted 13 days ago • 68 comments

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

submitted 13 days ago • 356 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

submitted 13 days ago • 77 comments

They’re not just defunding the Park Service—they’re dismantling it. The White House budget proposes a $1.2 billion cut, including $900 million from operations. Then they turn around and claim we can’t afford to protect “less popular” parks. It’s not a budget crisis. It’s sabotage.

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