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The warnings were clear: * 1 million kids untreated for severe acute malnutrition; * Up to 166,000 malaria deaths; * TB cases up 30% * 200,000 more polio-induced paralysis cases in 10 years. The Trump team killed USAID anyway. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 13 hours ago • 39 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

At least the rich guys around the turn of the 20th built libraries and stuff as extracurriculars. The guys today seem largely focused on being upset that some people find them obnoxious

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

The decline of union density is a mirror image of the growing concentration of wealth in the U.S. And a clear indicator of the urgent need for a revitalized labor movement.

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 9 days ago • 254 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 10 days ago • 487 comments

A facility run by Elon Musk’s xAI is spewing harmful air pollution in South Memphis, worsening air quality and endangering families living in the predominantly Black neighborhoods nearby. Learn more: www.southernenvironment.org/news/elon-mu...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Greatest SNL sketch of all time is Billy Bob Thorton’s “Fenced-In Area”

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 16 days ago • 5653 comments

www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 17 days ago • 1086 comments

Very good read.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Anthony Sledwards is officially ready for Minnesota winter. A big thank you to the 1,600 snowplow drivers who keep us safe and our roads cleared all winter long, and the Minnesotans who continue to demonstrate unrivaled creativity in naming our snowplows.

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It looks to me like a lot of people need to reread or open this book for the first time

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.

submitted 20 days ago • 98 comments

Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

submitted 20 days ago • 476 comments

"As Musk became more and more obsessed with woke, his right-wing friends cheered him on. Always desperately in need of approval, the world’s richest man lapped up the praise and decided it was time to get more involved in Twitter."

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Now, what you love here about Hubie Brown calling his last NBA game tomorrow is that he's still doing it at 91 years old. OK? He's teaching you the game of basketball. And so you say, you're learning the game. And he's done this at a high level for six decades, and for that, you have to thank him.

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

Read this thread.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

submitted 26 days ago • 195 comments

all of this is careening toward "we're gonna use AI to traffic control airplanes" and eventually we all just get used to a major crash once every week or so just like we did with school shootings

submitted 32 days ago • 59 comments

by putting the most mediocre men in world history in charge of everything important, these guys may indirectly do more to promote diversity than any single initiative before them

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Mister Rogers never misses

submitted 60 days ago • 169 comments

After a shooting in Nashville last week, students are marching on the Tennessee Capitol, but the governor has called the special session to focus on school vouchers and immigration enforcement. via @wpln.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 31 comments

Hundreds have turned out to protest for gun reform after the Antioch High School shooting. Students will march to the statehouse, as lawmakers convene for a special legislative session on vouchers, disaster relief and immigration.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for this very important context.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Taking from one person to give to another is robbing Peter to pay Paul. But when you hire Peter Gabriel to cover “Call Me Al” without getting the rights that’s paying Peter to rob Paul. And hiring Paul Simon to cover “This Is How a Heart Breaks” is paying Paul to Rob Thomas.

submitted 609 days ago • 4 comments

My school board banned Ready Player One? We get a new list every week or so of books to remove. Can’t think of what their problem would be with that one.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

이렇게 수정된 짤 발견! 누가 만들었나 🤣

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

I’m ready for the generation of writers who think it’s cute or edgy to put an F-bomb in their book title to go to pasture.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

“Why would Musk do a Nazi salute?” Well aside from the fact he agrees with a lot of Nazi ideology he’s a heartless troll who knows he can get away with it then giggle about it with his gamer friends later. Because he knows he’s Too Big To Fail. Because he knows the ADL, media, etc will brush it off.

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

My terrible wife and I are looking forward to being emboldened when Trump takes office

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

submitted 52 days ago • 464 comments

Folks are gonna pay these vultures to take their money.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

As an ally I will be sitting my ass down and LISTENING to these AI accounts. I want to know how best to support their communities, whether that's somehow donating an AI-generated coat or just cutting down an acre of old-growth forest so Meta gets an additional $0.07 from Unilever.

submitted 59 days ago • 22 comments