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Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

submitted 10 hours ago • 434 comments

I really appreciate @marisakabas.bsky.social reporting on the trauma and physical and psychological effects of how Musk is harassing workers. This kind of workplace abuse wreaks devastating havoc on peoples' lives www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-opm-5...

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

A month ago, the idea that the new German chancellor would talk about "independence from the US" would have been unbelievable

submitted 10 hours ago • 223 comments

Friends in Texas, call your R reps. Their phones should never stop ringing over this. reps.fyi

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The news of the cancellation by the National Archives sent me to order this book (from local indie store, not Amazon…) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...

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This is more than a "cap" on the National Institutes of Health. This is an attack on future research for cancer and heart disease. This is an attack on vaccine development. This is an attack on medical experts, scientists, students, and teachers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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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.”

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We go now live to BREAKING CAT NEWS! www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat...

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DANCE FOR ME, PEASANTS! DANCE!

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Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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This is who Republicans just made FBI Director. Kash Patel calls for “offensive operations” to jail Americans who they consider “the enemy.” “We will go out and find the conspirators... Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media”

submitted 3 days ago • 907 comments

I'm guessing at least a few voted for this. "More than 6.9 million Americans aged 65 or old are living with Alzheimer’s...Nearly a million Americans are living with Parkinson’s. Musk’s cuts now ‘hobbling’ major Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research facility: report www.rawstory.com/musks-cuts-n...

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"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Republicans just shot down my amendment to ensure we don’t cut Medicaid and kick millions of seniors off of their healthcare.

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If you know someone considering to NOT get their child vaccinated for #measles, remember that measles virus (but not the vaccine) erases the existing immunoligical memory. This "immune amnesia" puts someone at GREAT risk for other diseases after. asm.org/articles/201...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 3 days ago • 1028 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

you know we’re down bad when americans care about hockey

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

Beginnings

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make litters of babies and then force their mothers to apologetically beg for your attention on social media like only the very best fathers do

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

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Telling people to ask an algorithm questions instead of just asking other people sounds really stupid until you notice that the idea is to make employees whole livelihood dependent on machines owned by the boss instead of on each other's skills

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only two things on Earth are truly subject to the law of diminishing returns at all points until the end if time where each new iteration must always be worse than the one that directly preceded it; Ayn Rand books and NYC mayors

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This is the now third deportation “detention” site outside the U.S. that the administration has disclosed. These are more than concentration camps; they’re what’s called “zones of lawlessness.” People being held in isolated facilities. Some if not all are de facto stateless.

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Lol

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“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

Yep

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Yesterday I was at LA City Hall with 100s of striking fast food workers Then I drove 300 miles to Yosemite I didn't understand parking, but I got this out of my sunroof while driving! This is what Musk, at best, wants to privatize for profit, and at worst, wants to destroy We wont let them! 🧵

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“Not wavering” under the pressure of the White House actually is an achievement and one that’s worth praising. It’d be nice if other media outlets cared about journalism enough to stand alongside them.

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Aviation’s first responders save lives. Listen to your Flight Attendants.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 4 days ago • 586 comments

Everybody thinks the "Gulf of America" thing is petty nonsense, but it's just prelude for this motherfucker changing his honorific to "His Excellency" and banning news organizations that refuse to refer to him that way.

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On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

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ON (JUST A FRACTION OF) THE RECENT MAGA MADNESS (Part 1 of 3)

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Wyden: "Nobody should lose sight of what happened this morning. Trump endorsed the House budget resolution. This resolution mandates that $880b in cuts come from the House Energy & Commerce Committee ... there is no plausible way to hit that target without hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid."

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 4 days ago • 1465 comments

i hope new jersey democratic governor phil murphy is proud of himself for working with trump to doom NYC congestion pricing. hope aligning with a fascist was worth it, phil.

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The wonderful @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social here in Vermont is almost to 20k followers. Can you help them reach that milestone? They do amazing work for hoofcats, snoutcats, moocats, woolcats, and more!

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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Trump calls himself “THE KING”

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A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

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By "they," Elon Musk means the peasant class of non-billionaires.

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