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For older adults, housing is their greatest expense. In 2021, over half of older renter households (56% or over four million households) were cost burdened, and more than 4 in 10 older renters had less than $1,000 in cash savings. @justiceinaging.org justiceinaging.org/the-importan...

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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...

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For the past decade+, people have been begging for data privacy regulation to prevent this from being possible

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This is a genuinely good thing Ferguson did and huge credit to him for signing it.

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Have you gotten a notice that your federal student loans are at risk of being garnished? Share it with us. We want to check it out — and help you.

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Kauft euch den Spiegel. Mit welcher Akribie der Verfassungsschutz in Deutschland Rechtsextremisten beobachtet ist beispielgebend. Da hinken wir enorm nach. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Oceans act as the largest carbon sink in the world. Oceans host 80% of life on earth. Oceans provide half of the world’s oxygen Protect them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #nature

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Well, that's an interesting read indeed. www.news.at/wirtschaft/s...

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the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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It's notable that Ferguson is not also signing the transit-oriented development bill along with all of these other housing bills today.

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BREAKING: The Chicago City Council has voted to create a city-owned nonprofit housing developer. The city will now move ahead with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build affordable, mixed-income, sustainable housing.

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Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

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"In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a 'poverty wage.' The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650." @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

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Why haters hate – Kierkegaard, born on this day in 1813, explains the psychology of bullying and online trolling two centuries before the social web www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/13/k...

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this is in response to kids sitting in a building

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THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

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"A country is judged by how treats its young and its old. The cuts to Social Security affect everyone."- Chuck Donaldson @afscme.bsky.social

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Two disgraced politicians—Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams—are running for mayor of New York City with hopes of salvaging their careers. Eric Lach reports on the state of the race.

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Square root days happen only a few times in a century, and the man who brought the day fame is celebrating his sixth one.

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If passed, the SAVE Act would make it significantly harder for millions of eligible citizens to vote. The House has already passed it — tell your Senator now to reject this bill and defend our democracy.

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Microsoft fumbled Skype so fucking bad. You remember people used to say "I'll Skype you!" that's how big of a brand they had going internet telephony was literally synonymous with their brand and THEY FUCKED IT UP SO FUCKING BAD!!!

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Because movie tickets weren’t expensive enough.

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Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.

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In last place? “Relocating production or services to the U.S.”

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If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.

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“Do not mock us.”

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the PNW is cooked, folks. let's keep driving 13,500 miles a year. i'm sure it's fine. btw: order your filters while you still can and before tariffs make them more expensive than they already are.

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Looks like we'll likely have to wait another week for Governor Ferguson to sign any of the big three housing bills (rent stabilization, transit-oriented development and parking). None are listed for bill action tomorrow.

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plot einer durchschnittlichen Folge Benjamin Blümchen

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We do not have to tariff our economy into oblivion to get good-paying manufacturing jobs here in America. We can invest in things like national high-speed rail and diversifying our energy sector to create jobs in every state while allowing us to compete with other nations.

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Microsoft drops law firm that made a deal with Trump, engaging a firm that is fighting his executive orders

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This sort of unambiguous, unapologetic pro-immigration message is so much more effective than unconvincing hemming and hawing about how actually Democrats would do a better and more effective job of being anti-immigration.

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Just an update to show y'all where the urban growth boundary, which Cathy Moore said prevents sprawl outside Seattle, actually is. It goes all the way out to North Bend and includes all of the sprawl areas outside Seattle.

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💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

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The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

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If anyone in the US was considering giving up meat, it seems like a good time to give that a go.

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” -Carl Sagan. (📷: Michael Okoniewski)

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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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People are tax averse because they get nickeled and dimed and it's exhausting. We nickel and dime everyone into exhaustion because we don't just tax the money.

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

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Sehr schöner, berührender Text:

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This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

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Bothell Man doing us proud ❤️ www.king5.com/article/news...

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Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

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