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Into biology, science, history, politics, philosophy, birds, trees. Not into anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, TERFs, right- wing Democrats.
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Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

submitted 2 days ago • 547 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 2 days ago • 1185 comments

Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

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GOP claimed that COVID contact tracing was “government overreach.” They said that background checks violated freedom. They wanted to ban data collection about gun violence. But now they have hired Palantir to track us all. This is the machinery of a surveillance state, run by billionaires.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

I am so proud to receive the #1 endorsment of @thenation.com. “Mamdani’s disciplined focus on cost-of-living issues demonstrates a commitment to making New York a city that all its residents can thrive in, afford, and even enjoy.”

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

"Red state" just means state where the government is aggressively anti-democratic, turns out.

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I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

submitted 7 days ago • 461 comments

Jeffrey Dahmer is literally one of the most popular people in history. 89% of Americans say they like to eat red meat. But they put him in jail? I can’t believe this.

submitted 9 days ago • 132 comments

Shareholders literally demanding blood sacrifices.

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the deportations are not final. the regime and security forces fuck up constantly. escape and survival are not just possible but probable. this nightmare engine can be fought and is being fought. don't forget.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

The guy who opened a fake university trying to take down Harvard is peak comedy.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

Jong-Fast: This would be the largest cut to food assistance in US history—and it will result in hungry kids. It’s also important to mention that this bill grows the deficit. I don’t know how it manages to do the two things you absolutely don’t want—starve children and grow the deficit—but it does.

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Here's the assignment. Submit a comment by June 7th here (see link below to Federal Register). Spread the word. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.statnews.com/2025/05/23/n...

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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

submitted 12 days ago • 934 comments

House Republicans have passed the budget bill that extends the Trump tax cuts, guts Medicaid and other services, and dramatically expands spending on immigration enforcement and the military. Chris Lehmann of @thenation.com calls it "a mugging conducted by the 1% against the rest of us."

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments