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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

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we love attentive blocking

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The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

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The CEO of the Lesser Evil popcorn brand is the father of one of Elon’s little rats. Demand your grocery store stop carrying rat popcorn. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LesserE...

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

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If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

submitted 26 days ago • 178 comments

Reality cannot be legislated away. Reality cannot be banished. It will always assert itself in the end.

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Meanwhile looting rumors, usually spread by right-wingers to justify shifting the focus rescue to protecting property and punishing poor/nonwhite people, are being spread on social media (as they were during the big Buffalo blizzard). Wrote this in 2010: www.guernicamag.com/when_the_med...

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have all pulled out of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance this week. The global alliance, which is backed by the UN, is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo also left the group last month.

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So many people who call themselves “tough” are just numbed out, lacking social awareness, and able to dissociate at an expert level. You’re not tough. Your connection to humanity in yourself and others is hanging by a frayed thread. That’s actually extremely fragile.

submitted 54 days ago • 47 comments

This is a good good start to a podcast that just may help me, (you? us?) think well through what’s next. And Virginia’s Substack is worth the price of admission.

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Strikes are more my kink than assassinations. It’s brave AF #solidarityseason

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Say hi to our union baristas on ULP strike across New England today!

submitted 62 days ago • 41 comments

I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.

submitted 63 days ago • 36 comments

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

submitted 67 days ago • 478 comments

If more powerful people were willing to really face the existential fear of their own inevitable impermanence and death, it would be so easy to create a world where everyone has what they need.

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how many years will Americans allow themselves to live in a country where guns are the leading cause of death of children? 30 years? 50? 100?

submitted 69 days ago • 521 comments

What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.

submitted 74 days ago • 2726 comments

spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

This is just as sexy. But more people. And so brave.

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The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn anyone who might need to know.

submitted 76 days ago • 100 comments

If there's one thing I want folks to grasp about this election, it's this: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

submitted 91 days ago • 63 comments

Realizing that I don’t want to just be a reskeet princess, so I gotta find something to talk about around here. I contain multitudes. Not sure which tude to bust out. Stay tuned?

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🇲🇽 Sheinbaum: "Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours."

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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 94 days ago • 157 comments

honestly you have an unprecedented opportunity to do what the government won't bc the supplement trade is totally unregulated: tell us what's IN those things

submitted 101 days ago • 91 comments

To a lot of Americans, everyone who isn’t a white straight cis guy is an “elitist.” Our culture unquestionably accepts it when millionaire MAGA dudes who own car dealerships claim THEY’RE not elite, but librarians who make $30K and listen to NPR ARE “elite.” We should stop accepting it.

submitted 106 days ago • 70 comments

Don’t forget to visit our National Parks while you still can.

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