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partied out

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Dad of two young girls here and I was already a feminist but still shocked by how much the boys are coddled and how the girls are expected to accommodate their behavior even in grade school

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This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. She sits on the Committee of Homeland Security Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

submitted 5 days ago • 516 comments

DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts. And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

submitted 5 days ago • 266 comments

Trump's budget plan includes a record $1 trillion in military spending. At the same time, he wants to cut $163 billion in housing, education, healthcare, climate, and labor programs to pay for tax cuts that will mostly go to the rich. "Fiscal responsibility."

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

submitted 5 days ago • 143 comments

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia has no criminal record and experts have said his tattoos are not tied to MS-13. The administration pushed out a doctored image to try and prove a connection after they unlawfully abducted him. Trump is either confused or deliberately lying to the public.

submitted 8 days ago • 321 comments

We’re cooked

submitted 7 days ago • 991 comments

Good Night World

submitted 8 days ago • 481 comments

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

submitted 8 days ago • 1816 comments

At a time when we are all hurting, the GOP budget cuts everything that helps us and supports our infrastructure m, to pay for MORE tax cuts for the wealthy. That’s the bad news. They are simultaneously making it impossible for us to vote them out. That’s the catastrophic news.

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

submitted 8 days ago • 606 comments

Trump's first 100 days: -Start a costly trade war. -Fire thousands of food safety, medical, and weather experts. -Let the world's richest man effectively cut Social Security. -Bill taxpayers $26M for golf trips. -Shred the Constitution. So much winning. youtu.be/yxtrhzW1ZTs?...

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

Victory for justice! Federal judge orders activist Mohsen Mahdawi's release from detention, allowing him to reunite with his community and continue his studies. Despite an alleged "trap" during his naturalization interview, the court ruled he poses no risk.A powerful win for human rights

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submitted 7 days ago • 249 comments

To call Francis “the peoples pope“ implies that the Catholic Church knows that previous popes weren’t that into people

submitted 10 days ago • 467 comments

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 10 days ago • 609 comments

On Friday, ICE unlawfully deported an American child with cancer. The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports. This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer. The cruelty is staggering.

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He’s right.

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

day instantly made better by walking past a woman wearing a t-shirt that said "can't today, I'm swamped" alongside a large collage of pictures of Shrek

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

All people residing in the U.S. — documented or undocumented — are supposed to have access to the courts and due process. The Trump regime arresting Judge Hannah Dugan for defending those rights puts us in very dangerous territory.

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that had distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states had depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

I couldn’t care less whether companies use synthetic or naturally-derived dyes — I have zero skin in the game. The issue? The war on “synthetic food dyes” isn’t about food dyes: It’s about letting uninformed opinions & misinformation undermine science, data, & public health. A thread 👇🏻 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

"When a President fills his administration with nothing but loyal minions, it's the American people that lose. You are trading competency for cronyism. You are no longer flirting with disaster. The disaster has already arrived." - Barack Obama, 2009

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

“I want a baby boom,” Trump said. But his FDA suspended one of its quality-control programs for milk. He's trying to repeal limits on lead exposure and cancel grants that protect kids from chemicals. And prices for car seats and strollers are up due to his tariffs. Hello?

submitted 10 days ago • 276 comments

Do not ever say "team building" to me. Are you trying to piss me off

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Amazing how so on point Andor is.

submitted 10 days ago • 166 comments

While planning to gut Medicaid and SNAP to pay for more tax cuts for the rich, Republicans are pushing to give the Pentagon an additional $150 billion in funding. Trump has already promised a record $1 trillion military budget. Their priorities couldn’t be more clear.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

So this is where we are now? This nation was founded on checks and balances. The Trump regime is deliberately trying to undercut these founding principles as it unleashes an authoritarian power grab.

submitted 13 days ago • 144 comments

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

submitted 14 days ago • 29 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 14 days ago • 922 comments

I love my horribly accented people.

submitted 14 days ago • 375 comments

I think there's bad milk in here.

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I thought they were going to release the Epstein files? What happened to that whole thing?

submitted 15 days ago • 858 comments

China is treating the orange felon like the moronic unhinged buffoon that he is and is using his temper tantrums against him. How embarrassing.

submitted 14 days ago • 444 comments

If you're excited about RFK2 banning a handful of artificial dyes but silent on RFK2 killing food safety inspections and gutting research on cancer, infectious diseases and Alzheimer's, you might not actually be all that interested in public health.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.