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COMMENTARY: When government shuts out journalists and the public we serve, it's not a sign of strength. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldZ...

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

Right so, this is what you replied to. Not sure how your words relate to this and don’t REALLY care, other than to point out you’re not making much sense—but, unsurprisingly, seem to be trying to impart some greater wisdom on me. Sigh

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Every time someone complains that "the postal service is losing money" what they're actually saying is "the postal service should lower the quality of its services and also charge more."

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

A Pleiades taken last month from by backyard, in a very clear, dry and cold night (my Canon 6D MarkII loooves when it's cold!), Redcat 51, guided with PHD. 2 hours of acquisition at iso 1600. Left it almost untouched in term of noise, so to leave all that haze express itself. #astrophotography

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Tucson cops trying to arrest a stud lesbian because they thought she was a man using the women’s restroom

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Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 115 comments

“Why aren’t people protesting?” Bitch we showed up for three weeks at children’s hospital and they caved and kids are getting their gender affirming care now from checks notes protests

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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End the Millennium Scoop! "Today, the number of First Nations children in Canada's child welfare system exceeds the height of attendance in the Residential Schools era. The rigged system was implemented, by design to profit off of each kidnapping of a First Nations and Inuit child."

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

My cousin was taken out in the middle of nowhere Canada in the freezing cold and abandoned by the RCMP, several miles away from where she was living and she almost died. If she died, she would've been another one who "died of hypothermia" and would've been labeled as just another drunk Native.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Tommy Tuberville got so excited at the thought of firing government workers that he invented a new shape

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NEW: HHS launches anti-transgender campaign featuring Riley Gaines. It seeks to ban gender affirming care and require the federal health agencies to eliminate recognition of trans people. womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...

submitted 3 days ago • 189 comments

I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

In your opinion, what’s a cover version of a song that not only holds up to the original but exceeds it? "Hurricane". The Band of Heathens covering... The Band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=75X4...

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"Don't get distracted by the government disappearing and dehumanizing trans people. That's a deliberate strategy to distract and overwhelm you" is how some of you sound lately

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

I’m not on substack and I’m not a journalist or a politician with OpEd space in WaPo, but if ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE who have a REAL PLATFORM that’s not a 20+ year old blog want to give boosting such stories a shot, here’s what my version of that looks like: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

#Adoptee here. The very idea of a registry of infant suppliers—of breeders for baby buyers—is fascism. Coercing people to relinquish to strangers the children they were forced to give birth to does not redress the injustice of forcing births; it compounds the injustice.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

one of the vilest lies told about abortion is that which inflates and exaggerates “abortion regret” in order to depict #adoption as the humane alternative. This is the exact reverse of the truth. It is adoption that is brutal. Adoption has broken more lives than abortion ever will.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

If you're a white liberal who's super angry after reading this, I'm gonna ask you to consider what exactly you think happens in our current child welfare system? We separate families due to poverty, pay mostly white people to be foster parents, and give those same white people tax credits to adopt.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

No. This is why racism persists. Literally every white person says this. You ARE part of a larger collective.

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Susan Collins in her newsletter implicitly confirming she won't use her power to push Trump over tariffs -- e.g. by threatening to withhold her vote from his initiatives/nominees -- but will instead merely "advocate" for Maine-friendly policy. Might as well retire and be a pundit. #MEpolitics

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100% Jean Paton's "...attitude toward adoption changed in the 1990s...'becoming more radical with her advancing age'. She advocated for an end to adoption altogether in favor of guardianship where a child retained his ancestry and knowledge of family and his original name, 'for indeed it is his'." 🥚

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And for god’s sake, if you’re putting political information into the world, add alt text. Blind and low vision people are part of the people getting targeted. Don’t you think they should know?

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

For the first time in five decades, our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard has put his feet down in so-called North Dakota, the ancestral lands of his Anishinaabe and Dakota Ancestors.

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JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: exciting newsss out of America these daysss! Rowling: we're banning transs women from ssport because of their innate biological advantage Rowling: we're also banning ciss women from ssport because really we should all be back in the kitchen Rowling: everyone wins!

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"shooting colorful firecrackers at the black drone which circles overhead and rapidly fires back." SO FUN! LOOK AT THE COLORFUL FIRECRACKERS! HAHAHAHAHA! pours 2 fingers of whiskey

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Who killed the journalists, Mr. Congressman? 🤔

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I love to joke about OSHA (and NIOSH) but every single OSHA regulation was written with someone’s blood

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

Kleptocracy

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Journalists at the national and local level should be clear-eyed about the challenges of political accountability reporting today. We should be equally clear that we won’t be dissuaded from that reporting.

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

The Sunny Brook, Chester, Vermont https://www.wikiart.org/en/willard-metcalf/the-sunny-brook-chester-vermont

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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994. We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

"Jessica deeply respects and embodies the Native American culture." "The Native American culture" www.earthlightwellness.com/event-detail...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

And your ‘pro-life’ god won’t save you.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

An issue right now is that I can explain the worldviews of a neo-feudalist or a generic white Christian nationalist to even folks on the lefty left, and I sound like I'm _insane_. If you believe society is worth having, it is _so difficult_ to imagine being someone who thinks it must be destroyed.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments