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Massive die-in in front of the New York Stock Exchange to protest the illegal cuts by DOGE and the Trump administration.

this entire article is an argument for dems to refuse to lift a single fucking finger to help republicans pass a dirty CR. if congressional republicans can go straight to musk to get relief for their districts but congressional democrats can't, then there's absolutely no reason to help, at all.

folks someone put together a "Trump crash plane" tracker trumpcrashedthis.com

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

there it is, again that funny feeling

“both parties are the same”

Scenes from a pro-life country

This dissonance is what radicalized me enough to quit DCS two years ago and get a Master's in social work

"Sen. JD Vance of Ohio famously and repeatedly insisted that such women are 'miserable cat ladies,' even though it's self-evident that cats make better company than MAGA men."

The Blake Lively story just takes me back to this tumblr screenshot whose author I was never able to find

wow are you telling me that dems moving right on an issue didnt take it off the table and only resulted in republicans moving even farther right?

Absolutely not.

A sobering empirical piece in JAMA. Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death. Here they show: * restrictions on divorce * restrictions on abortion… both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Been thinking a lot about this George Saunders piece and how they—my imaginary MAGA foil—wants me to feel

Of course Kieran Culkin is in a Holocaust movie; Jewish actors are famously difficult to come by

Michelle Obama's brilliant speech tonight in Michigan: "If we don't get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage.So are you as men prepared to look into the eyes of the women you love & tell them you supported this assault?"

That speech Michelle Obama gave yesterday was one of the best of this entire cycle. She is unbelievable. Here’s how she brought it home.

"Harris looks and sounds like a president even though no other president has ever looked like her. That in itself takes a remarkably nuanced appreciation for how race, gender, class, power, leadership, perception and politics actually work." www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/o...

The fantasy of cis men transitioning just so they can hit women in combat sports seems awfully naive about the meaningful consequences for cis men hitting women in other contexts

taxes