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Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

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riding a daily roller coaster like we can do it we can do it we can do it oh no wait brace here it comes despaiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fuck ok we can do it we can do it

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This is unfuckingbelievable

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Canada should get to annex the U.S. now

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I'm literally rooting for individuals at this point because I hate the USA generally and Binnington specifically

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I love this. He’s holding himself hostage for an actual journalist.

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This will be devastating to the disability community Telehealth was a game changer for us. It was something people had begged to access for years, because healthcare settings are so inaccessible. Remote medicine allows us to save money, spoons and avoid hospital acquired infections.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Seriously, this episode can end ANY TIME NOW

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

On “Severance,” being way too stoned, and what’s happening to history. Panic with me, won’t you? bbm11.substack.com/p/we-have-al...

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Amazing how the @mta.info can make even the apocalypse worse?

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Hi! In case this is useful to anyone, I reformatted the text from ILRC’s Red Cards as a multilingual printable folding leaflet: English statements asserting your rights on the front, text describing your rights in more languages inside. A few versions on my Neocities: gem7.neocities.org/pubs/

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This Day in Labor History: February 20, 1917. Leftist women in New York City, led by the anarchist Marie Ganz, held a big protest against high food prices. This led to a boycott to drive prices down. It is also a great window into the history of women and household organizing on the left!!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

If you're in need of a real reason to maintain hope remember that billionaire-backed propaganda campaigns and mass censorship across state and federal governments has only made the country even more queer

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

If they want to run the country like a company, may I humbly suggest that we stop giving them our money? Because I sure af don’t want to shop here any more.

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Colleges and universities continue their FEROCIOUS assaults against students who act in solidarity with Palestine; the students are being doxxed, evicted, harassed, suspended, and punished in myriad ways. Hear them in their own words: hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Totally for more efficiency in this particular sector. Just spin those puppies right out, hot off the presses! Test schmest!

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NSF fired 168 yesterday. Today its staff directory page says this:

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As someone smarter than I am said yesterday, just bc you’re not spending it doesn’t mean you’re saving it. I could “save” thousands by not paying my bills BUT THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. The avocado toast discourse has broken these people’s brains.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Show up, NYC!

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The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies

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While everyone is focused on what DOGE is doing, Elon Musk is quietly spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an April Wisconsin Supreme Court race. This race could have electoral consequences in future elections, like 2028 in a crucial swing state. Pay attention.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Short essay adapted from "Fantasies of Nina Simone" is up at The American Psychoanalyst tapmagazine.org/all-articles...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i'm at a point where i hope elon does illegal stop social security payments. i want to see what happens.

submitted 6 days ago • 244 comments

If someone shows you data saying 12 million people fraudulently collect Social Security every month simply by claiming to be 110+ years old but not dead, you could say “But that’s more people than live in New Jersey! Something’s wrong with this number.” Or you could be like Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

New idea for a show: 30 minutes of Pedro Pascal trying not to laugh

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🌲🦉❄️ Long-eared Owl in the Snow, Central Park, February 2025

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

lol I don’t even have my FIRST name on my birth certificate. My parents hadn’t named me yet. (It took them an extra day to come up with the 2nd most popular name for that year, no it’s not like they pulled out Clothilde or Ganymede or something.)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Live from Pyongyang, it's Saturday Night!

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

The nhl if it embraced Milan 2026’s marketing potential:

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The loser gets Drake

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Feels important to remember that no punitive measures from this tourney carry over into NHL play, so the likelihood of an on-ice murder grows with each increasing minute.

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