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🚨NEWS: Amid a wave of campaign cash, senators put a line in the new crypto bill that could require banks to drain money from your savings account & give it to crypto investors to reduce their losses. The bill says crypto gets "priority" over deposits. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

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22-year-old Māori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was just suspended for 7 days over the haka she initiated in New Zealand’s Parliament last year. “The rules of Parliament don't really see or fit Māori people,” she told @teenvogue.com, in the profile we ran just last week.

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DA POPE HE HAVA DA HOOKUP

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I think a life and death type article titled "How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump's America" shouldn't be behind paywalls. Thank goodness for archive dot ph. archive.ph/A26rs

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I think a lot of people don't understand that in a world where everyone uses "AI" to vomit out statistically average text, the ability to use words uniquely becomes a premium skill and a critical differentiator.

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Spot an ICE agent? Say something, do something. #3E #stopICE

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

Inexcusable. This was a completely preventable death 💔 Absolutely horrifying.

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why won't women have children? they ask

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A reminder that the UK just passed a transphobic law recently with the help of JK Rowling. A reminder that even though Rowling wasn't a part of making this game, she still gets money from it because it's her series. Don't support this at all, you're just giving her more money to harm trans people.

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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It really feels like we don’t talk enough about how much COVID has fucked up our politics, our culture, and all of us personally. It’s not surprising considering how absolutely averse this country is to confronting trauma, but sometimes it still needs to be said.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

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Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I've reported thousands of circumcisions since lunch.

submitted 3 days ago • 693 comments

This evil is because of Elon Musk and DOGE and we simply cannot forget this crime against humanity #EvilAdministration www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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nothing is ever going to make Jon Krasinski a convincing action hero, and yet they keep trying

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does anyone know how to chop up half a tree's worth of aged oak while retaining the use of their shoulders? asking for me

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The invisible work of government is going to become tragically legible if we're not careful.

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The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

submitted 5 days ago • 299 comments

I accidentally taught my 4yo to point at someone and solemnly announce "J'ACCUSE!" and now she's doing it to E V E R Y O N E

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

we're well past "fascism indicators" man, the gestapo are storming people's homes and workplaces and kidnapping people in broad daylight

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

@nkjemisin.bsky.social, who can write a plot twist so intense it really merits a different name, and @chuckwendig.bsky.social, who might have a bit of an issue with James Bond villain-y monologues, but can write one hell of a yarn and always nails the vibes

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

After my post on vaccinating my children when they were babies, I got asked to have ‘nuanced’ convos with antivaxxers. No. I’m not platforming lies that led to the drop in vaccines, sick children with lifelong impacts and dead children. Vaccines save lives and protect health. Period.

submitted 6 days ago • 277 comments

"Without science, the United States won't be ready, and the American people—and the world—will pay the price" www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

it really is one of my deepest beliefs that the extreme accumulation of wealth is a mental illness along the lines of addiction and hoarding and that we should give billionaires treatment options, never admiration

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

This is a great thread outlining what happened with Unbound, who published the first two Effin' Birds books, which they then sublicensed to a US publisher — that means they collected my US royalties, took a cut, and passed the rest to me. They owe me as much as I made in a year at my old day job.

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Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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