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relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

submitted 17 hours ago • 258 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

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hi @utahroyalsfc.com

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Republicans in Congress are trying to make sure $50 billion in medical debt isn't removed from credit reports. Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Mike Rounds have introduced a resolution to overturn the CFPB rule to remove that debt from your credit score.

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The Bibas family demands the Israeli government cease exploiting the deaths of their family members for propaganda purposes as layers of evidence support claims an Israeli airstrike killed them.

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So that’s just animus.

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This Japan team is FUN and DANGEROUS and capitalize on any opportunity! #SheBelievesCup

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ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

Breaking News: The actress Michelle Trachtenberg, best known for roles in “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died at 39. nyti.ms/3EXH0Q0

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

submitted 3 days ago • 732 comments

Congressional Republicans tried to pull a fast one. They called off the budget vote that cuts healthcare for over 38 million children and just put it back up after everyone left to try and make some Democrats miss the vote. Many Dems are voting by card to keep the vote open. I just did mine.

submitted 3 days ago • 338 comments

FIFA and the IOC are also complete trash, so they won’t take the 2026 World Cup or the 2028 Olympics away. Even still. The USA doesn’t deserve to host them.

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So are we losing the World Cup or Olympics over this? Because if another country did it, it would be an outrage

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

We should lose the WC and Olympics over this

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EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

submitted 4 days ago • 79 comments

It’s wild to me that any professional DC journalist ever believed this.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

Once again, it needs to be said that the Government Accountability Office is the legitimate part of the federal government whose actual responsibility it is to do audits and find efficiencies in how money is spent. They report to Congress, as is appropriate since they have the power of the purse.

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Someone apparently hacked the televisions at HUD today -->

submitted 5 days ago • 225 comments

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 5 days ago • 248 comments

DoD guidance is out: do not respond

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

This is what real leadership and patriotism looks like. No wonder Trump can’t stand him. “Zelensky says he would give up his presidency in exchange for Ukraine Nato membership” “it is not his "dream" to be president for a decade, and he would leave his position if it led to peace for Ukraine”

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This Japan team is really so fun #SheBelieves

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The classic rock station is playing “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback 😳

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE has spent $40 million in one month

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 7 days ago • 2301 comments

Former (and forever) teacher-librarian, can confirm! Hit up your public library's website to see all the online resources they have. Using those definitely counts for membership/circulation/activity numbers, and that helps sustain the library as a whole!

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So, I think we need Cat Macario to show off that wristband to protect trans kids again, while KA is on the roster. #USWNT #SheBelievesCup

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Punchbowl News reporting that Trump and Hegseth plan to start firing top generals, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was overwhelmingly Senate-approved for a 4-year term back in 2023. No one can say they weren’t warned.

submitted 8 days ago • 149 comments

For parents of kids and adult children with immunocompromised systems, the consequences of fewer people vaccinating themselves and their children could be life-threatening.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

is masculinity when you never stop fucking whining about everything? that seems to be the vance demo

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 9 days ago • 1996 comments

This is a more clear, emphatic, and politically potent bit of messaging than we have gotten from basically any Democratic representative

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During a hearing on Wednesday, Judge Dale Ho questioned federal prosecutors over their decision to suspend criminal charges against Mayor Eric Adams. Judge Ho's ruling is expected soon.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.

submitted 10 days ago • 261 comments

Kill. Me. Now.

submitted 10 days ago • 608 comments

Finally sat down and read this piece by @marisakabas.bsky.social and so should you. You should also follow her for incredible reposting on what's happening in the US atm.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.

submitted 12 days ago • 304 comments

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 13 days ago • 940 comments

While I know the price of eggs is something tangible we can all be upset about, I think people know prices can't change immediately and don't blame Trump yet. To me the loudest message to be touted is that they're going to cut your healthcare and social security to pay for tax cuts to billionaires.

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We now have a website. udm14.com

submitted 282 days ago • 139 comments

They bombed the Black communities we created. We were all in one place and they took the land and built highways, railroads and airports over it, whenever we began to thrive.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

They shout against censorship while erasing trans people from the history.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t pussy foot around it. Say her name: Marsha P. Johnson.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

What does a funeral look like on another planet? Don't miss @amalsingh.bsky.social's short fiction "Notes from a Pyre," a meditative, deeply tender exploration of funerary practices across the cosmos 🪐 Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

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The argument appears to be that refugees will be allowed to apply for citizenship, but that they will be refused as standard unless they can detail "exceptional" circumstances. Which a) is quite clearly not what the Refugee Convention requires and b) poses the question of what "exceptional" means.

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