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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Todays hero

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"Vaccines have allowed us to live longer. The only reason frankly that we now question them is because at some level vaccines have been a victim of their own success." Watch Dr. Paul Offit in VIRULENT: THE VACCINE WAR this weekend! watch.eventive.org/virulentmovi...

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Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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I need people to appreciate that the fact that one of the DOGE kiddies was asking for suggestions on an LLM to use for document format conversion, shows that they know less about programming than anyone who's ever booted Windows into safe mode to fix a problem

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A hole in a soil pond wall in north Queensland has allowed potentially toxic material to seep through to two world heritage areas.

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The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

submitted 29 days ago • 4898 comments

🤣 😜

submitted 29 days ago • 450 comments

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

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Police have recovered the bodies of two people in separate suspected drowning incidents in inland rivers in Victoria and NSW.

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In 2004, I interviewed for a teaching position. The principal asked me how many kids I had. I answered. He asked if I was planning to have more —said he couldn’t afford to have another teacher out on maternity leave. This is why women need protections, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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US women in 2025: Get long acting birth control, don’t delay the divorce, make sure your finances are in order and you have cash on hand, make a “go bag”, make a list of trusted contacts, make sure your passports and IDs are up to date. What else? (Obvs, I’ve been reading Handmaid’s Tale. 😬)

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Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

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Free speech absolutists

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A linguistics professor was lecturing his class. "In English, a double negative is a positive. In some languages, like Russian, a double negative is still a negative. But, there is no language wherein a double positive can be a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

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This is the stuff they feed the cult to keep them from noticing that the only reason why they wanted power was to stay out of prison, have immunity from prosecution, then use the levers of power to enrich themselves exponentially faster than any group of people in human history.

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Only in Merica...

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BBC...love y'all! Here we go again, being an international embarrassment.

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A man who police say killed his ex-girlfriend and then put her body in a box in the trunk of his car, which wasn't discovered for several hours, has been charged with aggravated murder.

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An incumbent Democrat narrowly won re-election — after three vote counts — to North Carolina's highest court. But the Republican-controlled court is considering an unusual protest from her challenger that seeks to nullify more than 60,000 votes and could flip the result. nyti.ms/40u4ULk

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