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submitted 5 hours ago • 289 comments

Keep in mind that the messy, non-binary realities of biology don't just inescapably complicate the question "what is a 'woman'" - they also complicate the question "what is 'a' woman": "the meaning of individuality is one of the oldest and most vexing problems in biology" aeon.co/essays/what-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump 1.0: “The nation of Qatar has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level” Trump 2.0: “We’re the United States of America. I believe we should have the most impressive plane” Narcissism wins out every time - selfishness, sense of entitlement & a need for constant admiration

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

🦋 AOC: The bill bans 13.7 million Americans from buying their own insurance from the Affordable Care Act Exchange. So after being kicked off #Medicaid, you then can't even buy your own health insurance. Republican Budget Bill is being debated in Congress, Trump wants to sign on July 4 🦋 #AOC #ACA

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

GOP tax bill on track to add more than $2.5 trillion to U.S. deficit But, on the other hand, it will kill many children.

submitted 10 hours ago • 41 comments

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid

submitted 2 days ago • 357 comments

Jasmine Crockett responds to Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for Derek Chauvin to be pardoned: “Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain't your strong suit so let me break it down real slow. George Floyd didn't die from drugs.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

🦋 Indian government rejects Trump's claims 1. Trump did not broker a ceasefire, neither he nor the US were involved in the agreement with Pakistan 2. Trump made no threats on trade, trade was not mentioned at any time 3. There was no risk of nuclear war, Trump did not save millions of lives 🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump’s brand has become so politically poisonous that the Republican Mayor of Omaha lost her race for a fourth term, simply because she had endorsed him in 2024. 100 days in and the voters have already had enough.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

I wouldn't be out there if I didn't believe that America can come through this moment, if each of us is prepared to play our role in demanding and delivering a better future.

submitted 19 hours ago • 735 comments

🦋 New/revised tariffs 55 times in 112 days: 1. 6 tariffs didn’t last more than a week 2. Tariffs on China, Canada & Mexico changed 6+ times 3. Tariffs reversed 3+ times on auto, steel, aluminium, agriculture & energy 4. Promised tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals & others didn't appear 🦋

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The Supreme Court will hold a special session Thursday morning to review a case involving President Donald Trump’s effort to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors. Here’s what to know about the case:

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

This is a big deal.

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

😡😡🤬🤬😡😡

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

UPDATE: "The executive order and the SAVE Act try to make it more difficult for American voters, particularly women voters, to participate in our elections, but the League hasn't and will not back down.”-Marcia Johnson, Chief Counsel for the LWV Work with us! @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

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submitted 23 hours ago • 60 comments

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Oh now he tells y’all?? After spreading lies and conspiracy theories, RFK Jr. says don’t listen to his advice—as head of HHS. Sir, we already knew. We were just waiting on you to admit you’re unqualified.

submitted 23 hours ago • 733 comments

1. Huge news: A Montana judge has issued the final blow to the state's gender affirming care ban for trans youth as unconstitutional. Because it was a state court, it doesn't even matter what SCOTUS says - it will remain blockd. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

There’s not a single congressional district where more than 15% of Americans want to cut Medicaid. Yet 100% of House Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid. They’re not representing the people. They’re trying to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

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JUST IN: Judge rules DOJ canceled grants to the American Bar Association in retaliation for criticizing the Trump administration. He has enjoined the department from terminating the grants on that basis. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

A Georgetown University researcher who was been held in a Texas immigration detention center since March, must be released from custody and returned to Virginia as he challenges the legal basis for his deportation, a federal judge ruled.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

SCOOP: CFBP just cancelled plans to implement new rules that would have tightened restrictions on what sensitive personal info data brokers are allowed to sell. The rule was proposed after data about US servicemembers was repeatedly exposed in which experts term a national security nightmare.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

🦋 Senators to press for vote against $400m 'gift' from Qatar Cory Booker (D-NJ) Brian Schatz (D-HI) Chris Coons (D-DE) Chris Murphy (D-CT) Joint Statement “Air Force Once is more than just a plane – it’s a symbol of the presidency & of the United States itself" Murphy: It's just wildly illegal 🦋

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Some folks think we should accept AI, as it kills jobs, steals work and is rammed down our throat, because it's a trend and 'you can't stop trends'. You know what else is a trend? Tech oligarchs destroying our democracy and the planet for personal gain. We'll reject them and we'll reject AI trash.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Trans Actual has been keeping a running list of critiques and analyses of Cass.

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Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review. Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal. This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

It's official. I filed a Senate Resolution of Disapproval. RFK is CLEARLY in violation of his constitutional oath. He must resign.

submitted 2 days ago • 743 comments

Under court order, the government has released a nearly unredacted copy of the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and Homeland Security revealing how taxpayer data was shared for immigration enforcement.

submitted 1 day ago • 151 comments

If there were ever a time to call your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on a bill, now would be the time. 202-224-3121

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Why are the rich more important than the rest of us?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Someone commented that it was a lot of on a “really boring” topic offering me a rare moment of missing academia

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

"Three of the bills Trump signed this year were measures to terminate regulations established by Biden, which the GOP fast-tracked... Another was a stopgap bill to keep the government funded for six months. And one was a strict immigration detention measure called the Laken Riley Act."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🦋 How to cut Medicaid when you've told your supporters that you won't? Make announcement on drug prices being reduced bigly to lowest developed country price You then cut the Medicaid budget to 'account' for a drug price drop - it'll never happen but it'll be someone else's fault when it doesn't 🦋

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The. More. You. Know. 💫

submitted 3 days ago • 174 comments

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Trump’s “very public and transparent transaction” on the Qatar jet grift only came to light after confidential sources told ABC about it.

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It’s wild that ostensibly neutral outlets would call a brief suspension of some tariffs during ongoing negotiations a “trade deal.” It just objectively isn’t that. If there’s an explanation for it other than Trump and the WH press shop claiming they struck a deal, I don’t know what it would be.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump HHS approach to transgender youth is not "greater emphasis on psychtherapy." It is "ONLY psychotherapy," with the explicit goal of making trans youth no longer transgender. It IS conversion therapy. Washington post is an absolute right wing rag at this point.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

Accepting a $400 million 747-8 from the Qatari Royal Family is clearly a violation of The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Will be interesting to see how MAGA Republicans who claim to follow the literal interpretation of the Constitution spin this clear impeachable offense by Trump #ProudBlue

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

No kings. Not ever. Saturday, June 14

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

submitted 4 days ago • 151 comments

This didn't happen with Sec. Pete.

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"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 737 comments

It's obviously true that this is illegal corruption. So the whole political establishment ought to start acting like it and attempt to impeach or arrest this man. Of course that will not happen, because Trump has around him a cult of the personality. But I think it might be worth being seen to try.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments