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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

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There have been young douchebros around my entire life. It’s just that until recently there wasn’t an industry telling them that they were entitled to be douchebros without anyone calling them douchebros.

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Steven J. Fleischman, MD, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said in a statement, “The science has not changed. It is very clear that #COVID infection during pregnancy can be catastrophic and lead to major disability." @acog.org

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Gearing up to try the “ignore it and hope it goes away” approach on the next pandemic virus

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RFK Jr. is quite possibly the most dangerous man on the planet. And there is a lot of competition for that spot.

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Influencers plead that they are raising awareness. “Raising awareness of incorrect information is called lying”, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social reminds us at #ssp2025 while talking about the importance of clear messaging around science

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reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 3 days ago • 512 comments

It’s not possible for “illegal” immigrants to receive federal benefits like Medicaid. There are no examples of this happening; they just keep lying about it as an excuse to take healthcare from vulnerable Americans. I don’t understand why mainstream media chooses not to push back on this obvious lie

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

submitted 3 days ago • 664 comments

so I can request a woman-only car, but it costs more lmao how is this not discriminatory

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WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!

submitted 10 days ago • 1392 comments

maybe next time he shouldn’t be dressed so flammable

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

I can't imagine looking at this and feeling anything other than nausea and despair. It's an ad for voluntarily surrendering your humanity in exchange for a low-intensity jerkoff machine.

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 4 days ago • 111 comments

It’s also a bigger problem that folks are focused on “ WHO ARE THE BOTS “ Than how do legitimate accounts get protected and what is the plan for making that happen Besides A pretty broad racial brush stroke that conforms to our stereotypes

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This is one of the things that's most clear to me in the CSU's announcement about it's OpenAI/Google/Adobe/Amazon "partnership": there's no specifics about value but a lot of big claims about some vague future.

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This decision says it's okay to remove books from a public library due to their content because patrons can always just buy them or "borrow from a friend". www.upi.com/amp/Top_News...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Texas please, please call! (And everyone else, please share!)

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PSA: it’s halloumi season at Trader Joe’s! Stock up now before it goes away!!

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I know I’ve been harping a bit on this, but a journalistic institution that would defend a patently absurd and racist claim such as “Chinese women have small fingers” rather than simply admit error and correct is fundamentally unwell.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

I’ll say this and then I’m gonna step back b/c 2026 IS THE ONLY NATIONAL ELECTION THAT’S IMPORTANT NOW. No Dem presidential candidate wins w/o high Black turnout & vote. So stop making it like Black voters are expendable or that you can serve up any candidate chosen by Pelosi, Clooney or MSM & win.

submitted 6 days ago • 578 comments

From November: “The vast majority of mainstream media pundits,& the most prominent political party analysts are simply ill-equipped to speak or report w/knowledge, context, sophistication,or authority about how race shapes American politics & electoral outcomes.” open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

If you live in Oakland or the East Bay, or know people who do, you should know what’s being done in your name — and who you can contact if you care:

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Actually, I am becoming as anti-cellphone as I am anti-car. I should not need a $500 phone in my pocket AT ALL TIMES to answer my door, turn on my lights, pay my bar tab, place my order in a restaurant. That's YOUR BUSINESS. You provide the damn infrastructure to handle it.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Heads up! Food recall!!! www.nbcnews.com/health/recal...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

submitted 7 days ago • 196 comments

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ever observed in land animals.

submitted 7 days ago • 71 comments

What exactly did House Republicans just vote for? -14 million Americans to lose their health care -18 million kids to lose their free school meals -5.4 million people to lose food assistance It’s not about waste or fraud or abuse. It’s about a bigger tax cut for the rich.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

#youarebeingwatched

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A major escalation of the ongoing weaponization of the federal government against institutions that are deemed insufficiently obedient. This isn't about Harvard, specifically: This is an authoritarian regime weaponizing the state to force civil society institutions into submission.

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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

As a conservation scientist, I am perhaps more used to the idea of “wow, a neat visualization of some fucking horrible disaster” than some of the scientists on my feed seem to be. But yeah this is a great visual

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I do not want your AI scam I do not want it Sam-I-Am I will not have it in my house I will not use it with a mouse I will not put it on my desk I think that it is quite grotesque I do not want it in my life Using it would cause me strife I do not want your AI scam Stop making this shit Sam-I-Am

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Oh Target no. There is nothing happening here that an application of "AI" will make better. Just… Just reverse course, y'all. Some people will take you back if you just fix this and publicly amend your corporate charter to say nothing like it will ever happen again. JFC this is absurd.

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Analysis | The Republicans' tax bill is projected to add another $3 trillion to the national debt, topping the $2 trillion from their last tax bill. But they also laid off a bunch of park rangers making $50,000 a year, which means they're still the party that cares about deficits.

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After I published this story last week, I heard from readers, tech policy experts, even tech workers who were angry the tech industry was pushing this bill, and many sent thanks for reporting the story. I also lost paying subscribers, who, I surmise, prefer to think of AI as apolitical.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I simply do not tire of looking at this

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments