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submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

AOC is very generous!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Upwards of 1 MILLION new homes are expected in LA’s very-high-fire hazard zones by 2050. Real estate developers killed legislation to ban these high-risk builds, including in one of the neighborhoods incinerated last week 👇

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

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‘I am deeply sorry’: South Korea president apologizes for declaring martial law. He is not. He is sorry because it failed miserably.

submitted 86 days ago • 15 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 91 days ago • 2302 comments

“I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.” - Carl Sagan, interview from May 1996

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submitted 96 days ago • 372 comments

Hi, I’m God. Healthcare should be free. Love, God

submitted 95 days ago • 258 comments

“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. ~ Carl Sagan

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

When democracy is in danger, knowledge is power. Educate yourself and others about the issues. A well-informed community is the foundation of resistance.

submitted 103 days ago • 9 comments

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The IRS rolled out its first-ever free filing program thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act — which every Republican voted against. This "efficiency" department kicked things off by announcing two people will run it. Now it's recreating services that already exist. Efficient!

submitted 104 days ago • 50 comments

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter/X. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy

submitted 104 days ago • 494 comments

No honest journalist would be willing to describe himself or herself as “embedded.” To say “I’m an embedded journalist” is to say “I’m a government propagandist.” But it’s accepted.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas" - Carl Sagan 🧠

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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"House Republicans have revived HR 9495, which would give Trump power to shut down nonprofits he doesn't like under the guise of fighting “terrorism.” 52 House Dems shamefully joined the GOP in voting for it last week. Every Dem should vote against this authoritarian power-grab."

submitted 104 days ago • 141 comments