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New investigation: After Oregon invested $20m for drug addiction services, counties spent the funds on prosecutors, sheriffs, police gadgets + cars. I got records revealing how law enforcement used $ meant for treatment, as providers face major cuts + patients are stuck on waiting lists to get help

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Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

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Now is a great time to reach out to your member of Congress who promised not to cut Medicaid. Or to your conservative friends who don't think we should be exploding the debt. Because today, Donald Trump met with Republicans on Capitol Hill, trying to pass a bill that would do both.

submitted 22 hours ago • 193 comments

Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

This is an alarming development and deserves more attention.

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I feel really badly for Biden, that family has been through it.

submitted 2 days ago • 198 comments

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

submitted 3 days ago • 316 comments

just remembered that the girls sports teams at my high school (2000-2004) raised money by doing school sanctioned bikini car washes - on school property!! - and had to just, like. TAKE a moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

typical corrupt science

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

JFC

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At this time of year, light extends further each day.We call this lingering daylight the simmer dim. To walk in the simmer dim is to be suspended between day and night. In the stillness it seems worlds combine, the boundaries of the everyday are thinner and there is magic everywhere #Shetland

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Also, the refusal to bring back Abrego Garcia, which traces straight back to Stephen Miller, is biting the administration in the ass because that’s why the Court recognizes it cannot let these men get deported.

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At least I probably won't get heat stroke this week

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My heart broke reading the Disability subreddit posts today. People are losing SNAP, housing, healthcare, mental healthcare and more with this bill mark up. This mark up is eugenics by pen. You can’t tell me differently.

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I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

submitted 7 days ago • 954 comments

It’s a violation of the constitution readsludge.com/2025/05/12/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 409 comments

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

submitted 9 days ago • 651 comments

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1462 comments

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

submitted 11 days ago • 1407 comments

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

submitted 12 days ago • 624 comments

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

submitted 12 days ago • 1561 comments

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

submitted 13 days ago • 386 comments

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

submitted 15 days ago • 98 comments

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

submitted 15 days ago • 693 comments

Politicizing civil servants is a danger to our national security that no American should feel safe about. And you can help stop it TODAY as a part of hashtag#PublicServiceRecognition Week. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

submitted 16 days ago • 991 comments

I’m 46 but I had my shingrix shot because I’m worried about what RFK jr is going to do with vaccines. Shingles is a preventable illness like measles. We are so lucky to have these vaccines! I for one will not forgo them because the guy who runs government health services has a 🐛 in his 🧠

submitted 18 days ago • 1584 comments

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

submitted 18 days ago • 986 comments

One of the arguments neoliberals made about "free trade" in the late 1990s, was that it would reduce military conflict. I don't think that quite bore out the way they said, but it does strike me as true that destroying the US-China trade relationship WILL make military confrontation much more likely

submitted 19 days ago • 468 comments

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

The proposal that your unhappiness can be cured by blaming a minority and treating them cruelly is made afresh to each new generation. It has never worked but that never seems to stop people falling for it.

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

Overheard in the group chat: William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.

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Remember, to throughly cook all meat products, for safety’s sake…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 22 days ago • 1146 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 21 days ago • 1138 comments

Sleepy Don is ruining the air of authoritarian invincibility with every front row public nap.

submitted 24 days ago • 38 comments

👇👇

submitted 25 days ago • 595 comments

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

This seems like a unilateral expansion of the "100 mile zone" to include not just vessels, transportation, & border entry but people's homes. I wrote this #BoomLawyered explainer about immigrants' constitutional rights in 2018. It's still devastatingly relevant. rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/01/31/b...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Every time I see this stuff, I have to wonder: is this another #MuskySkidmark? 🧐🤔

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Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.

submitted 26 days ago • 347 comments

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

submitted 28 days ago • 525 comments

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments