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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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In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This chart (and the thread around it) should be every reason you need to start masking.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Well this sucks. A new paper in a Springer journal has plagiarized verbatim an entire paragraph from something I published a few years ago. Before I write the editors, does anyone know of a good tool for checking to see if other parts of the paper are plagiarized form other sources?

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

New: CBP seized a shipment of t-shirts from @cola.baby featuring a swarm of bees attacking a cop. The company also sells "ELIMINATE ICE" t-shirt and previously was threatened by LAPD for "FUCK THE LAPD" shirts and hats. Shirts to be "destroyed under CBP supervision" www.404media.co/cbp-seizes-s...

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

This is great. Everyone in the House has to put their name next to a yes or no on impeachment (even if by proxy) and I look forward to every D who votes to table (ie kill) the resolution today explaining to the electorate over the next 18 months why they shouldn't be primaried

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 6 days ago • 439 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France. The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

Alabama GOP chair (and RNC vice-chair) John Wahl will help decide whether Tommy Tuberville lives in Alabama or Florida. Turns out, he uses a Tennessee driver’s license under a different name. www.al.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

If a gal was gonna try to do a cool book event in Denver on June 12, what bookstores and/or local labor orgs should she get in touch with?

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

submitted 7 days ago • 685 comments

This is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs

submitted 8 days ago • 161 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

how every dem elected official isn’t losing their damn mind right now is beyond me. they want to arrest all of you!!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 201 comments

boy tip: If you have a girlfriend, order the fries. Listen to me: she’s going to say “I don’t want fries” and she will say it again. And as soon as you get your fries she’s gonna hit you with the 🥺 face So head this off at the pass. Get her some fries

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: President Donald Trump directs the DOJ "to take all necessary action to help secure the release" of Tina Peters, calling her a "hostage." The former GOP elections clerk serving a nine-year sentence in Colorado for tampering with voting systems. #copolitics

submitted 14 days ago • 163 comments

@propublica.org wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

Today's episode of Why is Willi So Tired: "Who Wants to be A Racist Millionaire?" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... The child is 5 and has autism, BTW.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

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submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

God I love stories like this. 'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Welcome, my lovelies. I've misplaced my welcome post (prolly under a cat or a pile of books), so, here's a new one. I'm a food writer, omnivorously rambling here in Waterloo Region (Canada). My posts are disparate, and range from current affairs to art to food to whatever's happening in my life.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 18 days ago • 572 comments

lao gan ma chili crisp needs to be sold in gallon jugs. what if i have an emergency

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Trump bogart egg

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I do miss from Mastodon is the ability to save little notes to yourself on people's profiles, for only you to see. This person I'm not following, that I recognize with a vaguely positive association -- did I unfollow them for a reason? Or forget to follow them? Who knows?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!

submitted 19 days ago • 193 comments

BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. @liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown. Details TK

submitted 19 days ago • 58 comments

Should I be worried that these IKEA instructions say “Front Toward Enemy”?

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

submitted 20 days ago • 1359 comments

I only realized this morning that I have never once spelled Pierre Pollievre's last name correctly. And now I'll never have to learn the proper spelling.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I’m already forgetting the Canadian assholes name. It was Peter Plumpkin or something

submitted 20 days ago • 116 comments

At least Canadian news outlets don't have any version of "The Needle" (or "L'Aiguille")

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