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“I want to be clear to all LGBTQ+ young people: This news, while upsetting, is not final,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project. “And regardless of federal funding shifts, The Trevor Project remains available 24/7 for anyone who needs us, just as we always have.”

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Concentration camp

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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

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Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway

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Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

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Generations of poor kids were sold the idea that taking out a student loan was an investment on their future and one they couldn’t afford to pass. Now after multiple once-in-a-lifetime economic downturns and endless avocado toast pieces those same poor kids are being targeted for immiseration.

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Even if you’re not autistic, you should be VERY worried about your private medical data being used to “track” anything.

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From the 1930's to the 1970's, the US coercively sterilized 1 out of 3 Puerto Rican women. In the 70's, the Indian Health Service coercively sterilized a quarter of all Native American women.

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If the Trump/Musk administration really wanted “government efficiency,” then they wouldn’t be collecting on debts people cannot and will not pay. They would just cancel it and boost the economy.

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This is going to hit a lot of people very very hard.

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it seems more and more obvious that there are a bunch of celebrities who for whatever reason just don't actually have real friends

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RFK Jr viscerally hates disability and disabled people at a fundamental level; he considers having to think about them an imposition and the idea of care and support for them as monstrous. He’s got this very old fashioned magical idea about health as a virtue and its absence as an insult

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i am ONCE AGAIN FOR NO REASON posting this

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As promised, Russian punk and post-punk: a personal essay. Punk in USSR really took off in early 1980s, late Brezhnev era, for two reasons: 1) Afghanistan war; 2) Brezhnev's power grab and ensuing empire-building and stagnation. Young people with no future (me) realted. 🧵

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They’re going to start garnishing wages for past due student loan payments in two weeks

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NIH can register deez nuts

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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

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went through a big JCVD phase last year and while I was researching Hard Target, I found an interview with John Woo where he discusses what it was like working with Sam Raimi on that set. it's become one of my all-time favorite behind-the-scenes stories.

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my slate is open! hit me up!

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A few weeks ago, chemical lobbyists asked the Trump administration to shut down an EPA website showing the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities. The EPA just took it down.

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I have good news for people looking for the example that best illustrates the current VC/ai landscape.

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Only a fool yearns to be "Verified" by a website rather than being verified by the Lord

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Columbia cancelled her course on "Race, Media and International Affairs 101." So she decided to teach it over the summer— online.

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"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

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the worst part of any pope dying is they can only do it once

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read this fucking thread.

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Dept of Education student loan defaults are about to be handed over to debt collectors. How likely is it Trump was bribed to push DOE debt collection business to his well documented friends in the debt collection industry? Food for thought. Corruption 24/7/365

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odd that dril hasn't posted since the pope died

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Why buy the pronatalist premise while reporting on it? “Here’s why Musk, Vance and the right want women to have more babies” actually there are some women they DON’T want to have more babies! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Hopefully it's been long enough i can share the possible spoiler that in tonight's episode of "The Last of Us" humanity has been mostly destroyed and the only people left are the last remaining survivors of humanity, around which the story is oriented

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Trump has revoked a U.S. citizen’s Social Security benefits in the hopes they would leave the country. This comes after the administration filed 6,000 immigrants into the SSA’s “death master file,” stripping them of their legal ability to work and receive benefits.

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I open my oven to show the camera how badass it is, in order to own the libs for my YouTube channel, and out hops another, smaller oven

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Garlic lowkey hits different when you're a Dracula

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Hopefully it's been long enough i can share the possible spoiler that in tonight's episode of "The Last of Us" humanity has been mostly destroyed and the only people left are the last remaining survivors of humanity, around which the story is oriented

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