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come on, now, if you wrote this in a spy thriller your editor would tell you its a tad unbelievable

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Believe them. (What’s “the job”? Ending our democracy, and 🇺🇸 as we know it?)

submitted 1 day ago • 299 comments

Deaths aren't the problem; SURVIVING viruses with the disability they create IS

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

#ScienceCommunicators Owensboro museum hiring #JobOoenings

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People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

WSJ says Twitter is telling advertisers to spend more with them “or else” — “They are afraid of the legal/political ramifications of not doing so.” Do y’all get it yet? www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 451 comments

🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1303 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

BREAKING: U.S.-Russia peace negotiations include discussions on withdrawing from or not deploying U.S. troops in countries that joined NATO after 1990

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

I'd point to something deeper I think this thread is touching on: the (US) popular imagination has lost the concept that a system or society can be good, worth representing or defending, the underdog narrative that individuals are good and systems are bad or corrupt runs very deep in US storytelling

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 740 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 4 days ago • 152 comments

A system already overburdened and understaffed. The consequences are going to be devastating.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The most epic of epic is a silly program

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He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 4 days ago • 1263 comments

if you haven't heard the EDM remix of this VERY catchy song, I really would recommend it, it really is the soundtrack to the apocalypse I never knew I needed: www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

submitted 6 days ago • 812 comments

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 5 days ago • 819 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2110 comments

as musk and the hitler youth demand access to “detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country,” remember that “in his first term, Trump openly mused about sending IRS agents after political opponents.” (gift link) wapo.st/3QizwcN

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

Asheville city council met for a whole two days to discuss Helene recovery. What emerged? ❌ Immediate rental aid ❌ Cash relief for desperate locals ✅ Consultant gibberish Surely the people facing hypothermia are heartened by the thought of well-off government officials "rising in unity." #avlnews

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

He clearly didn't think about the implications here

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

Madam Sharkey Malarkey has an interesting way of "helping" me change the sheets here #Dogs

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 8 days ago • 452 comments

Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them. That's nasty work. Hope this helps!

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Everyday, it somehow gets worse. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

🚨 CDC Folks 🚨 If you are being terminated we have heard that you will be losing access to CDC systems immediately. Download your documents to a personal device before you leave today!

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

“I want the reader to feel something. To be moved. The best reason to read a novel is to feel life more fully.” @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews author Jack Wang.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 8 days ago • 844 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 8 days ago • 559 comments

Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

Why is it that the majority of the times I see a #Swasticar around here, they're on a tow truck? 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Please remember that the absolute best thing you can do to support the immunocompromised, disabled, children, elderly, and medically vulernable people you love who will be directly affected but RFK’s tenure is to simply wear a mask in public spaces. That’s it Mild inconvenience to you Saves lives

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments