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Police in Waterbury, Conn., allege the man's stepmother locked him in his room with limited food and water for over 20 years, until he started a fire using hand sanitizer, printer paper and a lighter.

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Trump admin begins its work to claw back access to health insurance. Newly proposed HHS rule would restrict ACA marketplace eligibility, enrollment, and affordability. For example, it would shorten the annual open enrollment period. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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PLEASE SHARE U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

submitted 45 days ago • 27 comments

And they wonder why we worry…. www.yahoo.com/news/fact-ch...

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Perkins Coie's lawsuit is in response to President Trump's executive order that accused the firm of "dishonest and dangerous activity" that sought to overturn laws and elections and of allegedly discriminatory DEI policies.

submitted 46 days ago • 46 comments

Can someone please explain to people why who think our country should be run like a business that businesses make profits. There’s nothing profitable about feeding disadvantaged children or caring for the elderly. Cut waste? Sure. Run the government like a business? No

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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

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Star Trek, always ahead of its time.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

One for our side.

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submitted 47 days ago • 24 comments

Republicans are going to learn that hitting their opponents on the economy means they have to deliver on the economy while they’re in power. It’s not looking good.

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

In a memo posted to X on Monday morning, the secretary of state said 5,200 contracts had been canceled following a six-week review.

submitted 47 days ago • 247 comments

Classic grift www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/p...

submitted 47 days ago • 52 comments

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

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The party of “Free Speech Absolutists” wants to deport an American resident over political speech? It doesn’t matter if you agree with the speech or not, the First Amendment exists and is crystal clear.

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

Reminder: taxing the ultra-wealthy is fiscally responsible.

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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The notion that entitlement are a way for democrats to attract undocumented immigrants, to pay those immigrants, and turn them into voters (ie the great replacement theory repeated) is concerning and disgusting. This is how they will justify cuts apnews.com/article/elon...

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Utterly outrageous. This is un-American. The forced disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil for nothing more than constitutionally protected speech is a clear assault on first amendment rights and a blatant act of authoritarianism. Khalil must be released. apnews.com/article/colu...

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What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

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Md. confirms measles case; Dulles Airport travelers may have been exposed www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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For people who need a history lesson about assurances made by the US to Ukraine when they reliquished their nuclear arsenal after the fall of the soviet union: www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

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