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Amazing. Respect the lede.

submitted 5 days ago • 322 comments

NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers. By @maxblau.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 354 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 15 days ago • 1151 comments

occasionally, the bad place serves up something good, like this photo collection from an ISS astronaut.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Tax cuts in House Republicans’ megabill would lead to increased assets for the richest Americans, while reducing them for the lowest-income households, a new analysis found.

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

Fact checking alone isn't enough when these people speak Fact-twist-checking is the new gold standard. Sheesh.

submitted 21 days ago • 406 comments

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

submitted 21 days ago • 1332 comments

GUARDIAN: UNH "has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents .. cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health .." @theguardian.com $UNH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 82 comments

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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%.

submitted 34 days ago • 635 comments

Good Night World

submitted 41 days ago • 483 comments

🧵 It’s the 100th day of Trump 2.0, so here are 100 times Trump and those close to him have attacked press freedom and transparency. That doesn’t mean they’re only averaging one per day – we had to make cuts. There will probably be more attacks while we’re posting this.

submitted 42 days ago • 27 comments

If anyone in the legacy media wants to know why they have lost the trust of the American public, I suggest they tune into C-SPAN at 8pm tonight for a tutorial. Support pro-democracy, independent media.

submitted 45 days ago • 131 comments

Courageous and correct.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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This is actually a boycott that could matter.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 57 days ago • 216 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 56 days ago • 591 comments

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

submitted 57 days ago • 368 comments

Jaelin Kauf zipped through bumps and jumps to win four world freestyle mogul skiing honors this winter, a U.S. record for the 28-year-old who calls Alta and Grand Targhee home. She got her zest for the sport while growing up on the west side of the Tetons.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

“Who in the administration knew about Trump’s latest tariff flip flop ahead of time? Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’s expense? I’m writing to the White House—the public has a right to know.”

submitted 62 days ago • 88 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 64 days ago • 1653 comments

This is high art

submitted 65 days ago • 545 comments

To Recap: You can commit a crime by negligently divulging military secrets, in violation of the Espionage Act, and you will not be arrested. But if you have an autism awareness tattoo to support your autistic brother, you will be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp in another country.

submitted 73 days ago • 194 comments

Someone tell DOGE! Brutal photo by huff post i love it

submitted 73 days ago • 1275 comments

Dear American friends. We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option. So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together. Lars Løkke Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister

submitted 74 days ago • 78 comments

From our Danish and Greenlandic friends, who are being bullied as we all are here at home. In. America.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 74 days ago • 84 comments

@agb2g.bsky.social Thank you for this info! #DOGE is to #FOIA as #ProfHinkle is to #Frosty-the-Snowman (A legal or philosophical argument with no piece of its foundation grounded in reality is not a valid one.)

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

WE HAVE POWER This was a hell of a moment to witness. You could see the shift—the moment this constituent realized her voice had power. She spoke louder, stood taller, and owned that room. 🔥 Republican Rep Victoria Spartz’s SignalGate response did not land well with the crowd.

submitted 73 days ago • 416 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the company at $33 billion, including $12 billion worth of debt, the centibillionaire announced Friday.

submitted 74 days ago • 128 comments

This angle is more horrifying than the other.

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“May have a conflict” is rather understated… www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/t...

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 76 days ago • 1610 comments

From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason.

submitted 76 days ago • 396 comments

We've just updated the @wired.com guide for how to better protect your privacy when you cross the US border: www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

submitted 78 days ago • 29 comments

Trump did in a flash what the Castro brothers in Cuba couldn’t do in four decades: he took Radio Marti, a news station that had long drawn the communist regime’s fury, off the air. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

Several European countries are offering a sort of asylum to American scientists who feel they can no longer do their work here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite. My full interview here:

submitted 77 days ago • 386 comments

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

submitted 78 days ago • 1303 comments