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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

NYC— the deadline to register as a Democrat is this Friday. It’s a frustratingly stupid system but the long and short is you CANNOT VOTE IN THE MAYORAL PRIMARY UNLESS YOU ARE A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT BY THIS FRIDAY 2/14. Please update your registration— you can do it on the DMV website. Vote him out!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Human beings cannot afford journalism to be euphemistic or blinkered about what the US is proposing in Gaza, nor about what that proposal will unleash.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

This is 100% illegal. It’s a new escalation in Trump’s battle for absolute control over the administrative state. Federal law explicitly protects Wilcox against termination. That law is constitutional under binding Supreme Court precedent. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 26 days ago • 78 comments

The Lancet estimates that 68,000 people die annually due to lack of healthcare or denied healthcare. Since corporations are people, then why are health insurance corporate policies that deny life saving medicine to patients who will die without that medicine, not deemed as intentional murder?

submitted 74 days ago • 30 comments

A deeply personal piece by my wife Ayesha and I about the hell insurance companies have put us through to get the life saving care our daughter needs to live. We're sharing because her story is sadly all too common. I have a platform & I intend to use it: www.qasimrashid.com/p/when-insur...

submitted 75 days ago • 26 comments

As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.

submitted 77 days ago • 13 comments