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I encourage people to engage in good faith on queer discourse even if you haven’t seen these images. I think it’s okay to not know things and have an open heart and want to talk about queerness. That’s how we all learn from each other.

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Yup.

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Yikes. This won't end well.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

This is absolute horror.

submitted 13 hours ago • 63 comments

“.. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon had previously .. stopped short of confirming that Walmart would join” other retailers with price hikes. “He changed his tune on Thursday.” @barrons.com $WMT www.barrons.com/articles/wal...

submitted 14 hours ago • 33 comments

This man is a green card holder. The white supremacists in the Trump regime are going after anyone and everyone deemed a threat and an invader. variety.com/2025/music/n...

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3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated the state with harmful “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, affecting drinking water.

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The plan to defund Planned Parenthood would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Yes. Expose the incompetence.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

This should be today’s headline. The question is: why are so many business leaders, journalists and politicos pretending they don’t know this?

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

NYT: “.. The United States is the only country .. that is forecast to see an international visitor decline in 2025.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

Before we all get carried away by cool Pope vibes... Washington State just adopted a new law that forces clergy to become mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse, and the Vatican says it will excommunicate priests who obey the law. www.kptv.com/2025/05/09/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Women make up 85% of the nursing workforce, yet in most countries, they still earn less than men doing the same job. It’s time to close the gap because equal work deserves equal pay. 👉 bit.ly/42SkqBL #InternationalNursesDay

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Funny how there’s always money for banks and wars, but not enough for wounded, injured and ill veterans. www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2025... #ThisIsWhyWeProtest @unite4vets.bsky.social

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BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

submitted 7 days ago • 1092 comments

In the 1980s, the US experienced one billion-plus dollar extreme weather disaster on average every 4 months. Today? There’s one every 2 weeks, and 9 in 10 Americans say they’ve felt the impacts. Clearly, this is the record to cut—if you don’t want to show how climate change is hitting home.

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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

submitted 9 days ago • 872 comments

the president’s policies will carpet bomb the economy and ruin millions of lives but don’t worry, he and his failchildren will come away from everything as rich as ever

submitted 10 days ago • 302 comments

IT’S HERE!!! 📗💚📘💙 After all the hours of interviews, all the research and reading, and all the days spent writing (with my canine co-authors sleeping at my feet), I’m actually holding the very first hardcover, FINAL copy of “Runs In The Family.” Surreal! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Runs-i...

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

Day 23. 🇺🇸

submitted 11 days ago • 104 comments

“The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of LGBTQ people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that tend to affect members of sexual minority groups and setting back efforts to defeat a resurgence of sexually transmitted infections.”

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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“Nearly 2000 children under 5 are dying every day from air pollution, which has become the 2nd biggest health risk factor for young children around the world.” “More than 8 million deaths of children & adults were caused by air pollution in 2021.” @TheGuardian.com

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Never give up. Never surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

(1/9) When did disinformation in American politics start? Thread -->

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD. We are in a very, very dark place.

submitted 13 days ago • 319 comments

A mass shooting was just prevented in Florida. Because of DUE PROCESS built into the Red Flag laws, the Sheriff could not just take the weapons from this person. To the Trumpers who do not understand DUE PROCESS, should we eliminate it here as well? people.com/florida-auth...

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The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

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Because the reporting across outlets hasn’t mentioned it I want to stress that Justice Jackson referenced the courageous & resolute stance of federal judges J. Shelly Wright in Louisiana and Frank Johnson in Alabama who issued school desegregation orders in the face of “Massive Resistance” to Brown.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

submitted 14 days ago • 445 comments

An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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“.. ‘The world hasn't been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,’ CEO Carol Tome said on the company's earnings call.” @reuters.com $UPS www.reuters.com/markets/us/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 97 comments

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 1497 comments

Would love to see someone even attempt to spin this. Would love to see someone claim they’re willing for it to happen to them in the name of supporting/defending ICE. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

submitted 16 days ago • 430 comments

Your government has the explicit authority to arrest, imprison, and even kill you. Despite that immense power, politicians continue to sneakily & shamelessly weaken laws that provide transparency re: law enforcement. Ohioans deserves more, not less. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/04...

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If Biden had done this, Republicans would be drawing up articles of impeachment right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! I’ll be celebrating book launch day (a day early!) for my book with Deland McCullough, “Runs In The Family,” at my local independent bookstore, Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park, on Monday, June 2nd. Doors at 6:30! More details to come!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Family separations are back. As some of us warned they would be. Utter cruelty and deception here from Trump and ICE:

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ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 19 days ago • 332 comments

It’s perfect.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

Awful. Horrible. I don’t know if this judge did anything wrong. But I can say that if this Admin insists on disappearing migrants to foreign gulags in violation of court orders, more & more ppl will feel compelled to thwart ICE. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

🚨 WOW our live NFL Draft reaction to cleveland’s number 2 and the trade that prevailed

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

No exaggeration, deep sea mining could cause the massive collapse of the entire deep sea ecosystem and food chain. This is an existential risk to every person on this planet. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/c...

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Called it. www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/p...

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(cc @arik.org) @economist.com www.economist.com/weeklyeditio...

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The Trump admin doesn’t want the National Center for Victims of Crime to be able to operate a CRIME VICTIM SUPPORT HOTLINE. victimconnect.org

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This fails the common sense test. Tax the rich. Invest in families. Lower costs for working people. And reject this Republican trickle-down economic nonsense.

submitted 22 days ago • 212 comments