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“I feel like I’m dying” “I feel like I’ve been lied to” The words of an anti-vax chiropractor who become seriously ill with measles and spread it to his kids, who then also became seriously ill. All four kids were hospitalized. You were lied to. And you wanted to believe that lie.

submitted 18 hours ago • 268 comments

Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

submitted 5 days ago • 445 comments

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 5 days ago • 812 comments

If this Iran nonsense wasn’t so scary I could enjoy watching the shit heads fight

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A very important story. Pam Hemphill, who is a hero, was disinvited from a rally because the organizers would not “forgive” her. This is how oppositions fail reedgalen.substack.com/p/dear-rally...

submitted 10 days ago • 338 comments

I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.

submitted 17 days ago • 1571 comments

Hey, Drake and Kendrick, hold our beer...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

One thing about SpaceX is that in the near and perhaps medium term the USG really can’t cut those contracts. It doesn’t have an alternative, which has always been a very dangerous situation. What’s more viable is some kind of expropriation or nationalization.

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

This is some of the best YIMBY messaging and policy explanation out there.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Joni Ernst says the quiet part out loud and, in one short sentence, summarizes Republicans’ governing strategy. #joniernst

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments

NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

The GOP Medicaid Cuts Are a Big F*cking Deal open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

“the moment when the regime begins to really earn money is also often the moment when they really feel the need to crack down on civil liberties." - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

submitted 47 days ago • 132 comments

"Yes, lethality can be found in a rifle shot or a perfectly executed combined-arms maneuver. But at the strategic level, lethality also depends on the ability to secure populations, disrupt enemy networks, and build coalitions of trust." @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-commande...

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments

✅ Here are 13 companies that are still committed to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI or by any other name. The list includes Ben & Jerry's, e.l.f. Beauty and others. And here are 300 more: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer... www.theroot.com/a-llist-of-c...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

submitted 67 days ago • 60 comments

New from me: It's very in vogue for tech bros to talk about "network states," where likeminded people get together to form their own alternative nations, often with crypto fueling the economy. The TheoBros are actually doing something like this now in Appalachia. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 76 days ago • 45 comments

Every live shot of a financial reporter watching the markets this morning

submitted 77 days ago • 22 comments

Bessent tells reporter he as Treasury Secretary isn’t involved in tariff discussions plus other anxiety inducing gems.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The people in power want to destroy all that Frances Perkins was able to accomplish for millions back in the 20s & 30s & tens of millions since. Worker safety, SSA, unemployment ins, labor laws & more are threatened today. Never forget the Triangle Shirtwaist fire 147. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

The President does not have the constitutional or statutory authority to dictate the content of voter registration forms. This EO is an incredibly dangerous power grab. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 89 days ago • 349 comments

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Imagine if Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Canada or some other popular resettlement destinations (Costa Rica, The Cayman Islands, The Bahamas) started "deporting" United States ex-pats into foreign prisons. What would the blowback be for that?

submitted 90 days ago • 25 comments

Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) on Kristi Noem's call to eliminate FEMA: "The states cannot do what FEMA does without duplicating certain tasks 50 times over. If you've got an operation that's running well, work with it, improve it, don't eliminate it."

submitted 90 days ago • 164 comments

If the word "inclusion" makes your ass mad, I'm sorry for you. Go relearn that shit at your nearest Kindergarten, if it hasn't already been defunded and whatnot.

submitted 94 days ago • 166 comments

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

submitted 101 days ago • 703 comments

I remember the first time I went to las Angeles in the early 80’s. We took the train and as it dropped over the ridge into the valley I gasped at the smog and never forgot it. This is shameful

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

asked the husband how many likes to get a kitty… 😮‍💨🫠😬 bluesky, help a girl out

submitted 103 days ago • 50 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled. This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.

submitted 104 days ago • 1080 comments

What could go wrong?

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

The South's democracy deficit is becoming our country's democracy deficit.

submitted 106 days ago • 35 comments

NEW: The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD official derided it as “monopoly money.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 88 comments