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been workshopping a new way to stand that will make me seem more normal

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

Btw, this is a major reason for the helicoptering and excessive screen time. Where are kids going and what can they do that doesn’t cost a ton of money/isn’t criminalized? And,the monstrous racist carcerality that it takes to be the prosecutor who does this to grieving parents? Cursed.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”

submitted 18 hours ago • 38 comments

Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

I was so scared that when it happened it would be anticlimactic or quiet and, gang, it's nice to have a pleasant surprise!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Such beauty in life

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

www.teenvogue.com/story/privat...

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“Taken together, proposed changes and the expiration of the subsidies could threaten the viability of the Obamacare markets themselves… “This bill poses a seriously existential threat to the future of the Affordable Care Act marketplaces in a way that we haven’t seen since 2017”

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22-year-old Māori lawmaker Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was just suspended for 7 days over the haka she initiated in New Zealand’s Parliament last year. “The rules of Parliament don't really see or fit Māori people,” she told @teenvogue.com, in the profile we ran just last week.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

the masked cops thing feels very jarring, it is clear and it's scary, but also the masks also feel like just the most obvious demonstration of how police are already a near-total black box into which public information disappears and that's just routine

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

I remember this incident vividly. So many white people posted that this was somehow going to "change things" re US policing. Other people knew it would not. I'm so sorry Martin was so badly hurt.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

"To me, it’s clear that this isn’t a story about bad choices. It’s a story about survival in a world that too often mistakes coercion for consent." Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/cassie...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The UN has called the food distribution points 'death traps' This is genocide.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"Having a loved one in prison or jail is estimated to cost families across the country nearly $350 billion each year — about four times the amount the federal government estimates it costs taxpayers annually to operate the nation's prisons and jails."

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Peru’s Supreme Court has upheld the land rights of the Kichwa people, affirming their legal claim to ancestral territories in the Amazon. The case is a major precedent for Indigenous land tenure and will protect thousands of hectares of primary rainforest. buff.ly/zpNKo4o #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Coverage of student walkout in support of Marcelo Gomes, the high school junior that ICE kidnapped on his way to volleyball practice Saturday morning. I'm pulling the photos out in the comments bc I want to make sure you guys can see the signs & shirts that these kids made.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

submitted 4 days ago • 455 comments

i've never gotten into short form video or chatgpt and im so hyped to eventually be one of the last remaining people with attention span and analytical skills, i think it's really going to increase my value to enterprising warlords during the water wars

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

ICYMI: I wrote about ongoing Republican attacks on COVID vaccines, which make use of years of state propaganda claiming COVID is mild, COVID is over, Long COVID isn't real, and that healthy people have nothing to fear from COVID. www.thegauntlet.news/p/republican...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

You Might Think Trump Has Destroyed Gay Pride in Conservative America, It’s Quite the Opposite. Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most conservative areas. slate.com/life/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

WSJ: “Support for law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing — At least 11 big companies are moving work away from law firms that settled with Trump or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals…” www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

www.whec.com/local/protes... - people in motion.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

submitted 5 days ago • 415 comments

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders at their homes. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

A community-led initiative has implemented 150 green infrastructure projects across New Orleans, making the city more 'spongy'. These affordable solutions collectively retain around 720,000 litres per storm, and give the city's drainage system time to catch up. buff.ly/B52ezKu #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

setting everything else aside, "Vermin were not a problem prior to March 17, 2025" was a very funny line to read in a court doc h/t to @courtwatch.bsky.social for digging up this gem in this week's newsletter (and go subscribe!)

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

What a total mess. CDC Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

love to have people arrested by a private shadow police force in my functioning democracy

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

The press continues to credulously report that Elon Musk is "leaving" the White House. The first rule of writing about Musk: His words are meaningless. There are 20 years of Musk's broken promises. Be skeptical, folks. www.salon.com/2025/05/30/e...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

submitted 8 days ago • 56 comments

There’s your empty shelf. US goods imports drop 19.8% in April — largest on record

submitted 7 days ago • 195 comments

"Some references include 'oaicite' attached to URLs — a definitive sign that the research was collected using artificial intelligence. The presence of 'oaicite' is a marker indicating use of OpenAI, a U.S. artificial intelligence company."

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Jesus tapdancing Christ "The reason state troopers are being summoned to arrest the homeless, a WSMV4 Investigation found, is that they are working for a proprietary security organization in which the troopers are paid with private dollars by a downtown Nashville business organization."

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

technically it's a polyghoul

submitted 9 days ago • 132 comments

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Louisiana residents were warning their neighbors about polluted air—now the state could fine them $1M for doing it

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs. For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

Study (N=200K; 2016-2023) finds a 63.6% increase in fair/poor mental health for mothers who had children up to age 17. Reddit commenter: "Country that offers no support to mothers starts to notice said mothers are unhappy. Wild." people.com/moms-experie...

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Long COVID in young children may present with symptoms such as sleep disturbances, fussiness, poor appetite, cough, and low energy, differing from those seen in older children and adults. doi.org/g9mjpr

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A blueprint for how advocates can make it illegal to ban masks: thesicktimes.org/2025/05/27/i... @thesicktimes.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments