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#RepublicanPriorities

submitted 20 days ago • 90 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 26 days ago • 362 comments

Climate change discourse has gone backwards in Australia. We now have an opposition leader who wants to incentivise the burning of fossil fuels — and the incumbent government isn't much better.

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Daniel Levy is Great! Having him write for Zeteo is yet another bonus for my paid subscription. [my gift link] open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

submitted 87 days ago • 241 comments

A great article & video below, If I was going to rob the US Treasury or the US Federal Reserve bank … I wouldn’t need a gun, I wouldn’t even need a Uni degree … I would just need a laptop & need the Administrator password .. #auspol

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 132 days ago • 74 comments

So, if I understand this correctly: A cheaper plagiarism machine, built partly by taking outputs generated by the more expensive plagiarism machines, has caused the S&P to lose a percent and a half of its total value. Yes?

submitted 134 days ago • 29 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 143 days ago • 674 comments

I think of this Marjane Satrapi quote a lot.

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

‘América Mexicana’: Mexico’s president responds to Trump with renaming of her own

submitted 153 days ago • 2 comments

Motherfucker thought he'd make money taking ARTISTS jobs?!

submitted 156 days ago • 4 comments

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