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TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR SPIRITUAL MAINTENANCE it’s family focus time for a bit 💗

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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Every I.R.S. commissioners in Republican and Democratic administrations since Ronald Reagan: Cuts "will shift the burden of funding the government from people who shirk their taxes to the honest people who pay them."

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1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry. A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 134 comments

This man has absolutely no idea whatsoever what Musk is doing, he doesn’t care, and he’s absolutely without question not currently in charge of our government.

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Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy to retire later this year. Grifters on the internet take victory lap for no reason. dorksideoftheforce.com/lucasfilm-s-...

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JD Vance has just used the phrase, "old ethnic rivalry" in characterizing the Russian war in Ukraine. This is explicitly Putinesque rhetoric. These men literally sound like Russian agents. They don't don't like the person being influenced. They sound like the person doing the influencing.

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

submitted 6 days ago • 688 comments

What she said.

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BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner nypost.com/2025/02/24/m...

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Marion Ironquill Meadmore, the first Indigenous woman to become a lawyer in Canada, has passed away at 89 years of age.

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Macron the Bard, exaggerating his French accent for an extra charisma roll and landing a D20.

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(jazzy baseline underneath) "The score will be moving in refrigerated 20 foot storage containers on the Liberian flagged freighter, it'll be too far from aid three days past the Straights of Gibraltar, that's when we jam the cells and hit it." "We blow the locks on the containers?" "Wellll ..."

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In the Maintenance Phase Snackwells ep @yrfatfriend.bsky.social & @michaelhobbes.bsky.social discuss the obsession with no/low-fat diets in 80s/90s; has any research been done looking at the huge increase in dementia onset in the generation of adults that adopted low/no fat diets and never let go?

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Our insurance company just wrote to us that the life saving medication our 9-year-old daughter needs to live is rejected because they decided—CONTRARY TO HER DOCTOR—that it is "Not Medically Necessary." Her meds costs ~$200K/year. Insurance industry raked in $88 BILLION in profits last year. 1/2

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What's this you say about censorship, Elon? Just today, Twitter hit famed political cartoonist Mike Luckovich with an account violation and REMOVED this "free speech" from your own platform.

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They genuinely think it's cringe to care about whether or not you are an independent country

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

I’m seeing an awful lot of posts from people on Bluesky responding to despairing scientists with the words “please keep going, the world needs you”. Scientists cannot keep going if we can’t keep a roof over our heads and our mouths fed.

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Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

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It should go without saying, but perhaps not: Removing uncomfortable histories because they fail to glorify the dominant group in power is not the sign of a healthy and free society.

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Happy Saint Valentine's Day!

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I’m into this whole “Dudes writing romances for dudes in which dudes are not total pricks,” thing, à la #TWISTERS / #THEGORGE / #THEGENTLEMEN (2024) / #SHORESY / #THEFALLGUY. “What if I looked great in twill, Trent Reznor scored my life, and I was tough, but not terrifying?” is decent, as goals go.

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NOT AI: AI steals from real artists, & writers and is horrible for the environment. And encouraging the blurring of real and fake is bad for everyone, we have enough propaganda as it is Please, everyone, make shitty Canva art Design websites that look like 1998 earthlink sites Use human skills

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“Canadian politeness should never be mistaken for weakness; military history proves that Canada’s resolve is unyielding”

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#ReyloValentine

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Not dismissing OP’s point, just speaking for myself: after spending 5 years trying to explain to people how gen z and millennial men were radicalized by top white nationalist orgs pushing lucrative hate of the Star Wars sequels, what is going on now is much easier to explain.

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Such whiny little babies.

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Depriving Native Americans of critical health and educational services is nothing but I returned to cultural and physical genocide.

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This is so frustrating. If you tell people that you're going to put tariffs on everything as soon as you come into office, people will go out and buy everything they can BEFORE YOU COME INTO OFFICE. We all saw this. We told you this was happening. But now reporters are like "gosh what happun"

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Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America. Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

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Call me naive but I think this show continuing to flourish with its largely queer and BIPOC cast and the simple message that Love Wins is subversively badass and I'm relishing it. Especially after Shonda bailed on the Trump-run Kennedy Center. I'm going to enjoy S4 even harder just out of spite.

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