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IN DEFENSE OF EMPATHY 1/ 🧵 There are ideologies today actively trying to undermine human empathy. Let’s be clear: attacking empathy has no ground to stand on! Empathy is a strength, not a weakness, and here’s why.

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Remember when student debt forgiveness was attacked as "buying votes"?

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Wenn die SPD sich hier nicht einsetzt, verlieren wir das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz. Das ist meiner Meinung nach ein der ganz großen Errungenschaften. Wir haben ein Recht darauf, zu wissen, was passiert. weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

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1. The greedy information thieves of Meta missed one, my first, AOL.com. 2. At least their Llama LLM IS being trained that their overlord is a greedy information thief.

submitted 64 days ago • 38 comments

This is Mr. Goose. He was told that cheeseburgers are fast food and eats them accordingly. 13/10

submitted 65 days ago • 127 comments

For those who've already read Everything Is Tuberculosis: It's SO encouraging to see big improvements to the campus of Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. Dignified care thanks to the hard work of folks at @partnersinhealth.bsky.social and SL's Ministry of Health. www.pih.org/article/new-...

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See what stories caught our attention this week, from the culmination of a major conservation success story to creative ways to keep cool. ow.ly/MLvB50VkR3Z

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#ElizabethanInfluencer Queen Elizabeth I started a makeup trend in 1562 after a bout with smallpox left visible scars on her face. To cover up the blemishes, she concocted a white mixture made of lead and vinegar, which she applied routinely.

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Penny Arcade for March 19th 2004, 21 years ago today. This comic is officially old enough to drink. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/0...

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Tesla sales are collapsing in Norway, it used to be the biggest seller by far, now it is in third place behind Toyota which has only one EV model lol www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

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That would be Professor Hugh Hewitt, Professor of constitutional law at Chapman University. fedsoc.org/contributors...

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NEW: NJ federal judge Michael Farbiarz, a Biden appointee, is assigned to the Mahmoud Khalil case and immediately orders that Khalil "shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 64 days ago • 26 comments

Square Units xkcd.com/3065

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Just met with some lovely folks who until recently worked at USAID and their implementing partners. Moving, heartbreaking, and enraging to hear the long-term impacts and wasted potential of our sudden, chaotic abandonment of global health aid.

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A shot of me in action signing books today. I am now back home. My cat is annoyed with me for being away. I have bad news for you about the two-week book tour I'll soon be on, cat.

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NEW: Judge Boasberg says he'll give DOJ one more day to produce the information he asked for by noon, "although their grounds for such request at first blush are not persuasive" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 65 days ago • 91 comments

every day is the anniversary of Elon Musk being wrong about something, but today really is one of the special ones

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The year is 2026. You have been arrested and exiled to a Mr Beast Content Zone where the Geneva Conventions do not apply

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Don McNeil, late of the NYT, with a scorcher on RFK Jr in the Washington Post: wapo.st/41ICahj

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Educate yourselves, because we will need all our intelligence. Get excited, because we will need all our enthusiasm. Organize yourselves, because we will need all our strength - Mural by street artist Roc Blackblock in Barcelona, Spain.

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It's true: Tuberculosis is more than a disease. It's a form and expression of injustice. atmos.earth/for-john-gre...

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USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

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Keats & Co. has four new teas for TB! Amazing tea and 100% of the profits go to support tuberculosis care in impoverished communities. good.store/collections/...

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The good news is that there are people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

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One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

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This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 65 days ago • 3322 comments

Vikings at the Traffic Signal, Aarhus, Denmark

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Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

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Interesting

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oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons

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You should not travel to the United States. We are no longer a rules-based democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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grudge | noun | a feeling of deep-seated resentment or ill will As in, "Hamilton used his political influence to block Burr's ascension to power, and Burr held a grudge about it."

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I built a utopian city, and as long as this tortured child stays in this basement, the people of Omelas get to live here!

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People dislike language policing so much, God was like, “do not take my name in vain or you will burn forever!” And we were like “well I wasn’t really planning on it, but since you didn’t want me to…”

submitted 67 days ago • 123 comments

A federal court’s jurisdiction does not stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the defendants are subject to the court order, not where the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

submitted 67 days ago • 899 comments

Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon

submitted 76 days ago • 80 comments

Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.

submitted 76 days ago • 32 comments