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submitted 11 days ago • 205 comments

doctors after 4 years of medical school and 4 years at least of residency wait do women feel pain?

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

The arguments against birthright citizenship aren't credible exercises of intellectual exploration; they are anti-constitutional themselves. The purpose of the Citizenship Clause was to end the debate. Entertaining anything other than citizenship by native birth is an attack on the 14th Amendment.

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments

Requiring people to work to access healthcare is a classic eugenicist platform. It says that only those who are healthy and fit enough for jobs are worthy of care. The GOP plan to impose Medicaid work requirements is cruel and grotesque; it should be labelled as such by media.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

No, you’re not crazy. They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

submitted 17 days ago • 584 comments

The GOP says they’re going after “fraud and abuse” in Medicaid, but what they’re really doing is cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from a program that delivers care to the poorest Americans.

submitted 18 days ago • 476 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 20 days ago • 1687 comments

The US has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year. It’s only the second time the US has hit this dangerous milestone in the past 30 years and it’s only May. This is the Make America Sick Again agenda.

submitted 21 days ago • 94 comments

The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.

submitted 21 days ago • 589 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.

submitted 21 days ago • 879 comments

Bad: Wearing a mask to avoid catching or transmitting infectious disease. Good: Wearing a mask to conceal your identity while carrying out authoritarian repression.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

A Christianity that is offended by someone advocating for the poor, the immigrant, the hungry, the sick, the marginalized, and the oppressed, is a Christianity that is offended by Jesus. Therefore, it is no longer Christianity.

submitted 22 days ago • 84 comments

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

submitted 23 days ago • 363 comments

Sometimes it feels like we all live in an enormous car and they keep yelling “we’re defunding the brakes!”

submitted 28 days ago • 107 comments

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 77 days ago • 2105 comments

I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.

submitted 88 days ago • 401 comments

No matter what happened in the Oval Office, I am proud to be a Ukranian American. Today and everyday.

submitted 92 days ago • 1158 comments

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

submitted 102 days ago • 596 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 111 days ago • 528 comments

If DOGE was really looking for fraud, wouldn't they have hired accountants instead of programmers?

submitted 111 days ago • 125 comments

No one is handling things well. I remind folks: this is abnormal, disturbing, but you’re not powerless. Host a dinner, educate loved ones. Media: challenge the status quo. Lawyers: sign up for pro bono work. Corporate friends: affirm human rights, equity & benefits. Start small, but start now.

submitted 113 days ago • 15 comments

All government agencies submit audited financial every single year. So, the last time USAID was audited was ... this past December! oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul... Who does the audits? The Inspectors General. Who are presently under attack, so that future crimes won't be seen.

submitted 114 days ago • 78 comments

Listen friends - gather your hope where you can. People showed up in all 50 states on a moments notice. Voicemail boxes of senators are filling up. Lawsuits are being filed. Look at all the good people. And do not forget to take care of yourselves. Seriously. This is a long haul.

submitted 114 days ago • 239 comments

Don’t grow complacent. Prepare for the worst. Stay active in your resistance. But never forget—the mind is powerful, even more so for the magickal practitioner. Hold fast to the vision of the world you want to bring into being—while fighting to make it real.

submitted 115 days ago • 14 comments

Leonard Medical School at Shaw University was the first four-year medical school in the U.S., training nearly 400 African American physicians from 1882 to 1918. #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 118 days ago • 8 comments

wow just logged off and there are problems there too

submitted 116 days ago • 58 comments

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it should be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

submitted 118 days ago • 402 comments

First the far right was obsessed with “BLM.” Not just the organization, which was reportedly pretty small, but with anything black. They just called it “BLM!” Then they learned the term “CRT.” And became obsessed with hating that. Then they learned the term “DEI.” And loved to hate that new term.

submitted 119 days ago • 35 comments

Deleting DEI from gov & workplaces is one thing. Deleting DEI from health data can significantly harm & even kill millions of people. There are loads of conditions that present differently to people from different geocultural backgrounds. This data helps docs make better decisions! #medsky #polsky

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 126 days ago • 913 comments

Just because there isn’t a bonfire, don’t trick yourself into thinking that the purging of gigantic databases isn’t the modern equivalent of burning books

submitted 120 days ago • 11 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 121 days ago • 1034 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 121 days ago • 541 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 121 days ago • 2276 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 121 days ago • 1393 comments

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

submitted 121 days ago • 2815 comments

We’re all angry and worried and maybe some don’t feel like creating or no longer feel like it matters, but keep writing, painting, dancing, making music, making art. Not doing the things that bring you joy—not making art—doesn’t help. Do what you love harder than ever.

submitted 121 days ago • 19 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 121 days ago • 2407 comments

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submitted 122 days ago • 11 comments

I just want to say, I am so glad to have found so many kind people here, of all demographics. You are the world I want to see and protect. Your existence has made me forget my personal woes for hours on end and focus on what beauty and humor there is Out There.

submitted 122 days ago • 8 comments