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I would like for stupid people to stop making important decisions that affect my life

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In 1975 'All in the Family' aired an episode in which Edith's friend, a female impersonator, is the victim of a fatal hate crime. Story telling was artful, a gay female impersonator was front and center, and not a single complaint received. Imagine the backlash if it aired in 2025, 50 years later.

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Those who seek to create registries of people with disabilities are never on the right side of history.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days. Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents.’ #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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THIS IS WHAT THE HUMAN SPIRIT CAN DO CONGRATULATIONS BOSTON MARATHON #MomSky

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BREAKING: The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products. The agency is citing reduced capacity. It has 20,000 fewer employees as a result of the DOGE cuts under Trump and Musk.

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Missed this when it was first reported, but the US's biggest egg producer saw its profits TRIPLE year-over-year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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No due process means he decides your guilt or innocence. Not the courts. Not a judge or a jury. No longer will you be deemed innocent until PROVEN guilty. You’ll be declared guilty and snatched off the streets with no recourse. Is the wisdom of the Constitution kicking in yet?

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I hope she sues him into oblivion. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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The Have Nots vs The Have Yachts: Another $3 billion is being ripped away from schools to pay for more tax cuts for the super-rich that let them write off things like their private jets and yachts. We’re just the piggy bank for billionaires. popular.info/p/3-billion-...

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being this openly happy the pope died is genuinely crazy there’s no way her base supports this behavior

submitted 2 days ago • 555 comments

Corporations and billionaires only donate to politicians because they want something in return. These are bribes. $239 million to get tax breaks, deregulations, tariff exemptions, and government contracts. Trump didn’t drain the swamp, he flooded it — drowning us all.

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NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

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This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

#ProudBlue He will destroy the economy of the entire country (read and share)

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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this isn't a drill It's a warning.

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Totally normal stuff from a totally normal man that is a totally normal orange making a totally normal face.

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This is outrageous news.yahoo.com/news/teen-gi...

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There is no way back from here… once this goes … the death camps will get filled the world will isolate us and we will be stuck

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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

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Quite possibly the most incredible interview I’ve ever seen…

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🚨NEWS: New documents show Cigna just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance - as the company denied 1 in 5 in-network medical claims on ACA plans and now faces a lawsuit alleging that it systemically denied patients coverage.

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More MAGA crimes: Dignity health RN Julie Christine Sanchez, attacked a 7 month pregnant street vendor and went on a racist tirade. She screamed "get out of my neighborhood", "you bring down my property values" and "speak English" Attorney is calling for hate crime charges.

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#Texas is spending $210 million for the surveillance of women. Fuck you #txlege #HandsOff #toxicPaternalism #Gilead open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

The incompetence is staggering

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This is a disgraceful thing to publish.

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Literally every part of this is false: - Kilmar Abrego Garcia was never found to be an MS-13 gang member - A 2019 withholding of removal gave him legal protection to stay in the U.S. - There's no deportation order They're working overtime to spread lies and smear a man to justify his abduction.

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If someone works full-time, they should be able to pay their bills with their paycheck. That’s the bare minimum. It’s not a radical belief.

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“This is cruelty. This is not war” — Pope Francis on the bombing of a refugee camp in Gaza.

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said his dream is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way Amazon trucks deliver packages. “We need to get better at treating this like a business, like Amazon Prime, but with human beings.” #3E #EndAutogenocide azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 252 comments

I need everyone to stop and admire this Louisvillian's extravagant commitment to tulips.

submitted 4 days ago • 303 comments

It doesn’t matter what your politics are. You should care that the Secretary of Defense is dangerously unqualified for this position.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments