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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

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"Menstrual equity, or equitable access to menstrual products, should be an inherent right for all menstruators. But I believe we need to go a step further. We must address the root causes of why menstruators don’t have access to basic necessities in the first place....we need menstrual freedom."

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Incredibly disappointing behavior here

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California deserves better statewide leaders. What a fucking coward.

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This story was already terrifying and this is also a reproductive justice issue. People have a right to parent and raise their family in safe environments, free from state violence and oppression.

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59% of children with disabilities rely on Medicaid to access the care they need. Call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them Americans don't want to steal health care from disabled children to fund tax breaks for the rich.

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Saving U.S. Climate and Environmental Data Before It Goes Away: Approx. 2,000 records went missing from government data sets after Trump took office in January. Canadian geographer Eric Nost discusses how he and colleagues archiving climate and environmental data. e360.yale.edu/features/eri...

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A lot of people hate Democrats because they take clear and horrific issues and then say some shit like “we don’t know fully whether this extrajudicial kidnapping by our political opponents was justified, but we want to assure you that the victim was a bad person”

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I thought these fascists wanted to support healthy, local food sources

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A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.

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The body approved, via voice vote, “an alternate amendment…that will only allow a ‘treating health care provider’ to ‘visually or physically examine a minor child’ for the purpose of verifying their ‘biological sex’ without” their parent or guardian’s consent. This is disgustingly evil.

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some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

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Don’t Say ‘Gay’ is now federal policy. Literally. Not critics’ characterization of anti-speech government policies, as in the state of Florida, but an actual order from the top of the federal government—not only to avoid saying the word, but also to delete past uses of it.

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This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act. It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.

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It’s so frustrating to hear about amazing breakthroughs like this, that we may never see applied at scale, given how budgets and whole orgs of people in all areas of the federal govt are being upended and slashed by an unelected billionaire

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Where is Mahmoud?! Horrifying and illegal abuse of power. ICE disappearing a permanent resident with a green card over speech the government objects to. Speak loudly now if you want to keep that right.

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Getting Watch Duty notifications hits differently after the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, and Sunset Fires. So triggering to get a Watch Duty notification (especially living in a fire-prone area).

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Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On #DurhamNC’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History Numerous National Park Service websites have been censored in recent weeks, including pages on Pauli Murray and the Stonewall Uprising indyweek.com/culture/fede...

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30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers." Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.

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Quite a choice for this LA Times story to omit the fact that some of these “increasingly personal attacks” on LADWP CEO Janisse Quiñones were made by Rick Caruso to the largest podcast audience in the country

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I’m convinced that the decline of human civilization can be traced back to the moment artists stopped featuring saxophone solos on their songs.

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A century ago, there was none of this woke food safety. Listeria and Cronobacter contamination was just a fact of life! Sure, way more people died horribly, but

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One thing about international women’s day that has been the same since before international women’s day existed: abortion should be free on demand.

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Anti-DEI policies aren’t just about Black people. We’re a key group being targeted by the policies, but saying “anti-DEI” is code for “anti-Black” fails to address other marginalized groups who’ve been targeted by DEI bans (e.g., disabled folks, which include, but are not limited to Black people).

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Christmas in March

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The short version: Trump wants to destroy Canada's domestic dairy production by flooding Canada with dirt cheap U.S. milk But doing that wouldn't even actually help American dairy farmers because Canada's 41M people is a small market given just how much dairy the U.S. produces (A LOT)

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Irish honey bee under threat from imported species, say keepers "'We are the last bastion of Europe for this very special bee, the Apis mellifera melifera, and we should be doing more to protect it.'" www.rte.ie/news/environ...

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"Let’s be clear–the US has never been a climate champion. Yet the Trump administration’s anti-climate action agenda–incl its withdrawal from the loss and damage fund board–is a wrecking ball made of dynamite. It’s dangerous, it’s malicious&it will destroy lives." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It is your patriotic duty to listen to this speech. Every single word. An essential guide to the deep, unfathomable corruption the new Trump administration is carrying out on a daily basis.

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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Clean Water Act doesn't actually empower the EPA to make San Francisco clean its water and no matter how brainless you imagine their justification must have been, I assure you it was even more brainless than that ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sf-v-...

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Oh no... RIP D’Wayne Wiggins, prayers to his family & his group 💙🙏🏾🥹 🗣️What makes you think that I would try to run a game on you... just as sure as my name is D’Wayne... #TonyToniTone

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Also, if you don't think this is a test case for an even worse future use, idk what to tell you. This is all so f*cked

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I guess this is a good time to remind folks that the HBCU, Tougaloo College, has a database of sundown towns throughout the U.S. justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-town...

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And the ones who do use drugs often only begin once becoming unhoused….I don’t have an LAT account anymore ever since their owner became a jerk but, hopefully, the article covered that.

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It’s almost as if skyrocketing homelessness isn’t caused by addiction or mental illness, but by millions of people being rent-gouged out of a place to live.

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The Democratic Party keeps telling you that it is dead and some of you keep performing CPR on the corpse. Y’all gotta have more respect for yourselves.

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Newsom throwing trans people under the bus while hosting a noted antisemite who defends Nazi salutes, among other disgusting things, is a low point for mainstream Democrats and hopefully the end of this guy's presidential ambitions.

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Someone really needs to ask Gavin Newsom if his newfound concern about “fairness” in sports extends to trans athletes who want to come to his state to compete in the Olympics

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