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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 5 days ago • 1924 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 8 days ago • 1477 comments

The Trump administration appears to be punishing Department of Education employees for attending diversity training sessions that were held during his first term. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-i...

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.

submitted 24 days ago • 2358 comments

Dear Ministers in America, Bishop Budde did something awe-inspiring, something sadly rare, and something you are also capable of doing. Sunday is here. May you greet it with courage. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-let-b... #Bishopbudde

submitted 28 days ago • 340 comments

President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, delivering on a campaign promise he made to court the cryptocurrency community and libertarian voters

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk’s SpaceX (whose spaceship just exploded) “has benefited from nearly $19.8 billion in federal contracts since 2008.” www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

submitted 38 days ago • 84 comments

Washington’s rent stabilization bill is back! #HB1217 would cap rent increases at no more than 7%/year, while exempting new builds subsidized housing where rent is determined based on income. This is a sensible solution that minimizes the risk of unintended consequences. Let’s get it done! #waleg

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Scoop: President Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some US coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections during his final weeks in the White House. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #climate #oil

submitted 52 days ago • 18 comments

Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.

submitted 54 days ago • 619 comments

Day after day for the past nine years, we crafted every urgent plea possible to persuade them: appealing to their intellects and their hearts and their humanity and their patriotism. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-sky-is...

submitted 65 days ago • 76 comments

In Opinion “I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care,” writes Wendell Potter, a former health insurance executive.

submitted 67 days ago • 30 comments

So anyway 12 years ago today someone shot 6 teachers and 20 kindergartners in their classroom and America deemed them as acceptable sacrifices to its misinterpretation of some sketchy sentence fragments and I’ll never forgive it for that

submitted 71 days ago • 15 comments

Nearly three dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to serve in his incoming administration donated to his campaign or to the deep-pocketed outside groups that worked to elect him, a CNN analysis of federal campaign records shows

submitted 71 days ago • 192 comments

If you’re going to mourn, mourn for the parents bankrupted trying to save their children. Mourn for the cancer patients who died because their treatment was “too expensive.”

submitted 73 days ago • 476 comments

This kind of promise is always the death rattle of a nomination

submitted 81 days ago • 221 comments

The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him.

submitted 86 days ago • 123 comments

Reminder: you didn’t dream this

submitted 87 days ago • 473 comments

@davidpsamson.bsky.social Snell. 182 for 5 years. Sounds like the agent is doing a great job.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

@minakimes.bsky.social Really enjoying your comments on PTFO.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Or as Goldfinger says to Bond: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

submitted 92 days ago • 91 comments

Legit question for rural Americans - How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Ohio officials have denounced a small contingent of neo-Nazis who paraded Saturday afternoon through a Columbus neighborhood – waving flags featuring swastikas and shouting a racist slur – in the latest public demonstration by White nationalists in recent years across the United States.

submitted 97 days ago • 160 comments

So did all these news orgs just schedule these pieces for after the election or what

submitted 97 days ago • 1569 comments