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how it feels logging onto my little spreadsheet email job

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

If anyone wants to know what it’s like to live in the US: -I have a shoulder injury -I have insurance and a full-time job -I’m not seeing an MD about it because the expense would blow my budget for the rest of the year. Our healthcare system sucks. And my shoulder hurts.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

it’s earth day, so i rounded up the best nature documentaries to stream. what’s one i missed? @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-11...

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Totally suspected this on Threads during the election cycle. At least they're now being honest about it.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Thread 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Ok, I guess. But yeah, we all knew this. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I don’t know much about finance, but I often think about how Jerome Powell spent years making slow, cautious, deliberate moves to rein in inflation without tipping us into a recession in the aftermath of COVID, only for it all to be unraveled by a handful of guys with "ideas."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Eliminating the Medicaid expansion would likely precipitate the biggest one-time increase in the number of people uninsured ever,” said @larrylevitt.bsky.social. The Dean of Health Care Reporters @citizencohn.bsky.social gives you the state of play and the headline that tells the whole truth.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 3 days ago • 816 comments

vance going to the vatican and the pope sending jeremy from human resources to meet with him is such a fucking dagger

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

submitted 3 days ago • 487 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Trump and the GOP are gutting Social Security—not by slashing benefits, but by sabotaging your ability to access them. They're purging staff, closing offices, and crippling SSA systems. 70M Americans will not stand by while Trump slashes their benefits to pay for taxes for his billionaire cronies.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

www.thefarce.org/why-is-no-on...

submitted 4 days ago • 682 comments

Whistleblower testimony to Congress: DOGE downloaded massive amounts of confidential labor data from NLRB and disabled cyber security intended to detect malicious activity. Directly after a Russian IP address attempted to sign into the system. #ProudBlue#Voices4V m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 4 days ago • 916 comments

Let them eat data.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments