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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.' A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

submitted 18 days ago • 267 comments

I progressively lose more hope for my future and lose more faith in humanity with each passing day.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

pleas share the ever loving fuck out of this so all 30 million people see it please

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and offer them to small to medium size businesses. Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations . Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ? Thoughts ?

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plutocracy - rule by the wealthy kleptocracy - rule by corrupt thieves kakistocracy - rule by the worst, least qualified But what if it's all 3 -- what's the word for that?

submitted 39 days ago • 55 comments

I hate it here. Can I please just opt out of the next 4 years? I have no desire to experience the American Fascism Experiment.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Capitalism killed democracy.

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submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

Quick question. Does anyone else think January is actually the worst month of the entire year? Or is it just me? 🤷🏼‍♀️

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned that men’s birth control is approved with localized anesthetic for the procedure… I got my IUD swapped out yesterday and you know what they gave me when I was sweating through my clothes, puking and paler than the snow from the pain of the procedure? A juice box and a wet washcloth.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

submitted 51 days ago • 491 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 51 days ago • 619 comments

My message to Zuck

submitted 52 days ago • 3738 comments

January 6, 2025, by the numbers: ONE certification of election completed ZERO Dems rioting in DC ZERO Capitol Police assaulted ZERO walls smeared with feces ZERO fire extinguishers used as weapons ZERO people chanting "Hang Kamala Harris" ZERO fist-pumping Senators running for his life...

submitted 53 days ago • 153 comments

This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago. In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists. Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.

submitted 53 days ago • 1238 comments

Ann Telnaes resigned after the Washington Post editorial page killed her cartoon. It’s worth a share. Big Tech executives are bending the knee to Donald Trump and it’s no surprise why: Billionaires like Jeff Bezos like paying a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

submitted 55 days ago • 98 comments

Does Trump think “windfall” is a type of windmill? (The piece he links to does not mention wind energy.)

submitted 55 days ago • 1141 comments

Wow!!! Liz Cheney knows the FACTS!

submitted 55 days ago • 167 comments

THIS, ALL FUCKING DAY.

submitted 55 days ago • 180 comments

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui... Cartoonist Ann Telnaes is quitting the Washington Post because the paper killed her cartoon about billionaires in tech and media kowtowing to Trump. Sadly, the Jeff Bezos-owned Post proved her point.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Well, 2025 is already a dumpster fire, can we just skip to the next track?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Who had Homan profiting from deportations on their bingo card?

submitted 60 days ago • 765 comments

I can’t tell if it’s winter blues, the weirdness that lies in the Christmas/New Years taint, or the impending dread I feel about the start of 2025 but I’m feeling particularly low and bummed out these days. Anyone else?

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Grateful today for a Georgia peanut farmer who lived the teachings of his faith.

submitted 61 days ago • 74 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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From @saneman.bsky.social

submitted 76 days ago • 861 comments

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

submitted 76 days ago • 1591 comments

My Person of the Year is every election worker who risked their sanity (and safety) so democracy could keep limping along.

submitted 77 days ago • 150 comments

Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.

submitted 77 days ago • 53 comments

Kroger and Albertsons claimed they wanted to merge into one grocery giant in order to keep prices low. But after the merger was blocked, they approved spending a combined $10 billion on stock buybacks. They each paid their CEOs over $15 million in 2023, by the way. Hello?

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Merely existing is not the same as having or pushing an agenda…

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Please.

submitted 84 days ago • 852 comments

As far as school vouchers go, you can give me 20 of them. It doesn’t matter. There is nowhere to use a voucher in rural Missouri. Vouchers just defund our already struggling rural schools.

submitted 85 days ago • 15 comments

UnitedHealth Group has bought back FOUR BILLION dollars of stock so far this year and paid its shareholders an almost SIX BILLION dollar dividend - all money given mostly to the rich by collecting premiums and denying claims. Fuck health"care" corps

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

As a sociologist (whose name I cannot recall) said back in the 1990s about the future "The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, and the ground in between will become more violent"

submitted 85 days ago • 149 comments

I personally don’t celebrate gun wielding assassins in broad daylight under any circumstances. That being said: United HealthCare absolutely did try to kill me by trying to cut my chemotherapy dosage and I had to get my senator to intervene and it was one of the most traumatic weeks of my life.

submitted 86 days ago • 116 comments

Live your life in such a way that your mommy doesn't have to go on national tv and call you a good boy. 🙄

submitted 86 days ago • 419 comments

No shit murder is bad. The jokes about the United CEO aren’t really about him; they’re about the rapacious healthcare system he personified and which Americans feel deep pain and humiliation about

submitted 86 days ago • 663 comments

Dear President Biden, In the spirit of Dark Brandon, please use one of your Executive Orders to CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT. That way, if trump wanted to reverse it, he'd have to disappoint all those families and reinstate all that debt. You have immunity. Just do it. Signed, US

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Reminder: all of these people requested pardons.

submitted 87 days ago • 272 comments