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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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The careful emphasis. "YOUR government has chosen to do this, to YOU."

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I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

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Every single time I get a fundraising email/text from a Democrat I respond asking if they're going to stand up for trans & immigrant rights. Only ONE candidate has ever responded - and he didn't give a clear answer. Ask them every time, friends. They need to understand their careers depend on it.

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I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

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How much does it cost to feed a child with SNAP benefits? $6 per day.  How much does the GOP Budget give away to the rich? $6 million — per billionaire.  The American people won’t forget the GOP's betrayal.

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Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

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In 1963, Lillian Gish gave an interview to syndicated columnist Harold Heffernan about BIRTH OF A NATION. At the time, the Civil Rights movement was well underway and the KKK had just bombed a church in Birmingham, killing five little girls. With this context in mind:

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#BostonKnitPeeps !

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

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Hey zine makers and zine librarians: Tranzmission Prison Project, an LGBTQ+-centered prison advocacy and abolition group, is looking for digital files of zines on specific topics. They will print paper copies to share. If you can help them out, please consider it! 📚

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Covid vaccine boosters are highly cost effective or cost saving, and undervalued because many models ignore reduced transmission (indirect effects) New work with some excellent colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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1/12 BREAKING: Major disruption at US health agencies as thousands face layoffs and key systems come under new oversight. A deep dive into what's happening and why public health experts are raising alarms... #PublicHealth #Healthcare

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As a parent of two kids with special needs, I'm pretty damn excited to know that a racist billionaire who routinely uses the slur "r*tards" is destroying the federal department that's a bulwark for special education and support for disabled children.

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When Trump floated the idea of removing sanctuary status from churches, this is the phrase that came to mind. Each of us has a choice of what do to when fascism comes to the places that belong to us. Say it with me. Not in my house.

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Bookshop.org is offering 20% off this collection of romances by black authors with code BHM25. We've talked about quite a few of them on the show, and two were Best of 2024 picks.

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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

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If you're gonna post photos of based actions, for the love of all that is good, crop/distort protester faces and DO post cop & fash faces (and use alt text) This is a terrific example of best practices imo

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So I put a racist white lady in her place today, with the help of another white woman... pats seat Gather 'round, kids! We're shaming a Karen! 🧵

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If you need even more persuasion to keep your cats inside

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Just a reminder that people used to put paint and formaldehyde into milk and there had to be a huge movement to get proper food regulation, and without it people will die www.eater.com/2020/1/28/21...

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Just a reminder, in case it helps: another way to think about "holding the line" and "do not comply in advance" is saying "Fuck you, make me."

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Goods Unite Us app (free) lets you track where corporations donate their money politically. It allows us to support corporations that share our values & morals. Make sure you download it . BTW Def Leppard 🤘

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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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When people say "what do you expect Senate Democrats to do when Republicans control the Senate": 1) Deny a Quorum 2) Block Unanimous Consent 3) Max Out Debate Time 4) Delay and Disrupt 5) Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump’s other nominees 6) No business as usual

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Our country is being flushed down the toilet and this is what this rag posts

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Thread. (Also applies to academia)

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Folks, if I have to call my Senator and tell them not to drink toilet cleaner and not to jam a toothpick in their ear and not to mix ammonia and bleach and then breathe real deep, it occurs to me that maybe just maybe they're a fucking useless lump of flesh and we need a new one ASAP.

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There is a weird thing in the U.S. where a Democratic President has no power to do anything ever, while a Republican president has the power to do everything and change everything within the first 5 days of being in power.

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The parts about journalists in the book I'm reading right now -- "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945" -- are very familiar and very upsetting.

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