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It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Pontiff got Creole in him www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/pope-leo-xiv...

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Laser focused on reducing prices for everyday Americans from Day One, the President has struck a deal that will lower the price of Rolls Royces, Bentleys, Jaguars, Aston Martin's, Range Rovers, and Minis. *No other consumer good received carveouts.

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Cancer drug Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, Revlimid costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply... Even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. New: @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @propublica.org

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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They’re doing what they said they were going to do. Imagine that.

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#TeamOrca

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“Officers reportedly ordered performers and all 133 patrons to wait outside while they conducted what they called a ‘compliance check.’ “ Everything old is new again. History repeats itself. Etc.

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Cis women: when we tell y'all that your transphobia harms you, too, this is what we mean.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Sick fucks.

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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

submitted 5 days ago • 951 comments

Pregnant people living in states with abortion bans are almost twice as likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth, according to a new Gender Equity Policy Institute report. The report found the risk is even higher for Black women in those states.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

#MayTheFourth be with you

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Girl you garden girls are EXHAUSTING That’s not even allowed where I live. And for people in section 8 housing it’s BANNED outright. They pour bleach on that shit in some places.

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Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

This is devastating news for students. Our children’s mental health is not a political game President Trump! Investing in mental healthcare saves children’s lives. Canceling $1B in mental health grants means fewer counselors & more kids slipping through the cracks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

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The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are piled up at Gaza’s border, unable to cross due to Israel’s now two-month blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/aszkn6

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

submitted 11 days ago • 3171 comments

Greyhound been the getaway bus of choice since segregation. They know what it is.

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The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

submitted 12 days ago • 200 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 11 days ago • 518 comments

“‘There are clearly going to be tariffs that impact pharmaceutical supply chains’….Generic drugs − which account for the vast majority of prescriptions filled by U.S. consumers… are more likely to feel the financial squeeze” www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

This is why it’s so frustrating that RFK’s food dye distraction is getting so much coverage. Salmonella is much worse for you! www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

submitted 14 days ago • 45 comments

Good god.

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It really is that simple. Oppose everything, resist everything, grind up the gears at every opportunity. And Dems should be leading that action.

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Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

submitted 15 days ago • 2573 comments

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President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales. Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68

submitted 22 days ago • 117 comments

Family values party

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RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

submitted 24 days ago • 2050 comments

Today in weird statistical coincidences

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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“Longstanding threats to the Mississippi River include chemical runoff that has led to frequent toxic algae outbreaks and hypoxic dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, sea level rise that is hastening wetland loss and saltwater intrusion…”

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Just so I am keeping everything straight…the government can’t tell you to wear a mask because FREEDOM!!!!, but it can decide you are a “terrorist” and send you to a foreign gulag without due process and throw away the key. That right?

submitted 24 days ago • 412 comments

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

submitted 26 days ago • 137 comments

The Trump admin wants to close an EPA office in Ada, OK that helps make sure our drinking water is safe. This will have disproportionate impacts for tribes, where the majority of drinking water systems utilize groundwater.

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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 26 days ago • 1988 comments

I'm tired of hearing "we need to start somewhere" from people who ignore existing movements and refuse to learn from the history and veterans of the struggle. We already started. We don't need to "start somewhere" multiple times a year because you just discovered activism. Start by learning.

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 31 days ago • 203 comments

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

submitted 31 days ago • 76 comments

oh god we've been talking about 401ks but the college funds jfc

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I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place.

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments