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Americans have no idea how capricious, complex, and opaque our immigration process really is. Your barely literate ancestors just stepped off a boat---today it's decades of forms, interviews, and yes THOUSANDS of dollars.

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Nice work guys 🫣

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Peters to Noem: "It's costing about $100,000 a day to keep someone in Guantanamo Bay. This is like ripe for DOGE. Why is DOGE not down there? ... we could keep them here for $165 a day."

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

In addition to healthy people who just, you know, DON'T WANT TO GET COVID with the attendant risk of long covid (which can happen to anyone, no matter how previously healthy) — this will hurt households where one person is at high risk and their loved ones can't get vaccinated to help protect them

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Brad Holmes gave the commencement speech at North Carolina A&T last week. I went to watch him deliver it. What I got was a true sense of what the university means to him and him to the university. My Sunday long read on the Lions GM and the school that shaped him www.freep.com/story/sports...

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This slippery slope is steep as hell. Justice Sotomayor called it: if the government can strip birthright citizenship from kids born here, what stops them from stripping gun rights too? Remember this later; Trump and Republicans opened the door. Watch til the end…

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

Eliminating a famous program that cost just $32 million but delivers an estimated $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills just as our nation faces increasing costs & soaring demands has to be one of the dumbest public policy choices on a very competitive list. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Used this example to explain to my daughter why the West Wing episode I was watching was . . . set in a different world.

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For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 10 days ago • 319 comments

I need you to make calls to Congress because on Tuesday, the House Committee responsible for Medicaid is meeting to slash funding for Medicaid—the health program 80 million Americans rely on, the health program that has kept me alive. This piece is not paywalled, it is not locked—please share it.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Interesting-looking liturgical studies book by the author of the @ncronline.bsky.social article shared by then Cardinal Prevost, now Pope Leo. www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

proof that catholic god is real and He wants you to stop doing online betting

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

RFK Jr. is tasking scientists with finding "the cause" of autism—using Medicare and Medicaid data. Yes, insurance billing records. Let’s discuss why that’s preposterous. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

To be a Christian is to be Entirely Done and Truly Hopeful at the same exact time

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

The civil war in Sudan has killed over 150K, displaced over 14M and left over half the population facing starvation — while Trump's foreign aid cuts have forced 80% of emergency kitchens to close. We must use all leverage we have to help end the violence and we MUST restore U.S. aid.

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

"What did PBS shows teach you?" Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable. Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy. Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends. Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.

submitted 14 days ago • 87 comments

Ohio Woman should get together with Florida Man.

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Fondly remembering my Vatican tour last year where we were herded like cattle through the Sistine Chapel for about 3 minutes.

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Old enough to remember when the line from the right was providing more information to consumers was a better, more market friendly approach than regulating products.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

A new paper using administrative income data finds evidence that Medicaid expansion differentially increased income among low-income adults in expansion states academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

1. Alt text is always a kindness and also extends the audience for what you want to present. 2. Screenshot the material, then go to the original and copy the text with your cursor, post the screenshot, then paste the text into the ALT field. Super-simple and takes only a couple of seconds.

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

See again: If they’ll do it for you, they’ll do it to you.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

There it is, in a nutshell.

submitted 23 days ago • 830 comments

Relieved to hear this. Things are bad enough without jumping ahead to what could be. Still…hoping to get to the museum ASAP.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

A Yellow Warbler wings his way through the Maple tree branches.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

OPINION: If our new political order is so against us, then why or how should Christians work to “renew” or “redeem” it? If our neighbors despise us this much, it seems foolish, naive, or “weak” to try to engage them winsomely. religionnews.com/2025/04/25/w...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! #IndieBookstoreDay

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 27 days ago • 57 comments

Pope Francis' words to live by: "Tenderness is not weakness; it is fortitude. It is the path of solidarity, the path of humility. Please, allow me to say it loud and clear: the more powerful you are, the more your actions will have an impact on people, the more responsible you are to act humbly."

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Scene: Easter service children's message Pastor: "What else happens because of Easter?" Child with severe autism: "I play baseball!" Pastor: "Yes, I know you do play baseball!" Here ends the lesson of the gospel of grace. Let those who have ears to hear and lead public health agencies hear.

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If one quote from a insurance exec ever summed up the American healthcare experience, this might be that quote: www.propublica.org/article/blue...

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

submitted 31 days ago • 365 comments

The next generation will absolutely not believe how good pre-AI Google was.

submitted 32 days ago • 80 comments

I found donation links for both these companies -- here they are for anyone who'd like to help. #USAID www.edesianutrition.org?fbclid=IwY2x... mananutrition.org/support-the-...

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