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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

I need a support group after watching S2 E2 of The Last of Us 😳

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

Nothing will change until the people in thrall to him awaken from their deep slumber and realize what a delusional fool he is. The way it’s going the planet may be in ashes by then.

Sign of the day…

FFS

flippers up

Going to change my retirement account to duffel bag in closet

The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling. People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯. America, we have a problem!

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

This having an insane person as president isn’t working out

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Can’t help but notice how Senator Booker is giving an actual speech rather than lamely reading Dr. Seuss

Presidents are temporary...

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

Well we are that much closer now to having a presidential administration that just might butt dial us into war

If NBC hadn’t canceled his stupid show maybe we could have been spared all this.

“Right now, the answer to authoritarianism isn’t to be quiet." - @katmabu.bsky.social Exclusive interview ⤵️

“What if we didn’t suck?”

Judge Reyes exploded at a DOJ lawyer in a hearing on Trump's transgender troops ban: "I am not going to abide by government officials saying one thing to the public - saying what they really mean to the public - and coming in here to the court and telling me something different like I'm an idiot."

Looking forward to the inevitable torches and pitchforks part of the timeline

Although she applied it to an individual, arguably, Arendt's "banality of evil" applies to the broader experience of living under authoritarianism. Mostly, you're still clocking in, running errands & living ordinary life while the regime targets, terrorizes & takes over.

“Leftists cannot tolerate other ideas” said the people who disappear their political enemies

Protesters in Belgrade, Serbia protesting President Aleksandar Vucic and his government! Incredible.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia, demanding the resignation of pro-Russia President Aleksandar Vučić.

Chuck Schumer right now:

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

Sounds bad

I’m all for saving the country and all that but at the rate we’re going there won’t be a country left to save

When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.

Unbelievably this dumpster fire of a country has found a worse president than #45, and that guy was a catastrophe