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The premise of all the concern over pediatric transgender medicine is that it's being given too quickly to too many children, and I continue to find it odd that every scrap of evidence I can find suggests that this isn't happening and never was.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

submitted 6 days ago • 1397 comments

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 6 days ago • 1243 comments

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

submitted 10 days ago • 92 comments

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

submitted 10 days ago • 356 comments

Arresting judges. Threatening allies. Lying about trade deals. Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House. Floating a 2028 run. Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic. We must retake our democracy.

submitted 10 days ago • 941 comments

Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

submitted 10 days ago • 424 comments

Dear #GOP You are running out of time to decide if you take him down or he is the concrete shoes that drown you. Thanks, Sane America

submitted 10 days ago • 291 comments

Chuck Grassley gets called out at a town hall… " Stop the use of the word entitlement because it's insulting to all of us." 🔥 #HandsOffMySocialSecurity

submitted 10 days ago • 625 comments

Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the leading platform through which Democrats raise money for their campaigns. Less that 100 days in, Trump is weaponizing DOJ to prevent his political opponents from funding opposition campaigns. Where is the outrage?

submitted 10 days ago • 459 comments

There is an entire political movement that believes the statement “if you work full-time in America, you should be able to pay your bills and have a savings account with your paycheck” is radical. We must come to an agreement that it’s not radical to demand that.

submitted 11 days ago • 303 comments

Just heard someone say “he sounds like he spends a lot of time on Facebook” and hooo boy everyone’s immediate understanding of what that means should be a brand crisis for Meta

submitted 11 days ago • 131 comments

Every state needs to do this ASAP

submitted 12 days ago • 692 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 13 days ago • 757 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 13 days ago • 1430 comments

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

submitted 13 days ago • 89 comments

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi -

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

His whole presidency (both the past and present) has been about ripping off the American people for as much as he possibly could get away with…👇 And now, there’s this BULLSHIT!

submitted 15 days ago • 450 comments

I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

submitted 16 days ago • 560 comments

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 18 days ago • 283 comments

The narrative that to be religious is to be against abortion rights is false. The majority of people of faith in the United States support abortion being legal.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 21 days ago • 2844 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 20 days ago • 595 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 20 days ago • 1661 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 21 days ago • 694 comments

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

submitted 24 days ago • 807 comments

These experiments always work bc UBI works.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

submitted 24 days ago • 68 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 27 days ago • 253 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 28 days ago • 1112 comments

Canada's own Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world Neil. #handsoff #elbowsup

submitted 28 days ago • 488 comments

Berlin has entered the chat. #HandsOff

submitted 30 days ago • 115 comments

You effin’ dummies who voted for him trying to spin this shit show all because you can’t simply admit you were wrong are pathetic.

submitted 31 days ago • 410 comments

Here are the 15 Senators—all Democrats—who voted to stop arming Netanyahu: Murphy (CT) Hirono (HI) Schatz (HI) Durbin (IL) Markey (MA) Warren (MA) Van Hollen (MD) Smith (MN) Kim (NJ) Heinrich (NM) Ray Luján (NM) Merkley (OR) Kaine (VA) Sanders (VT) Welch (VT) The other 85 voted to fund genocide.

submitted 31 days ago • 70 comments

Bullshit.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

America, you f**ked up! She warned us. She had a plan that would have benefited everyday Americans. But too many ignored her—because it was never really about the economy. Now folks are scared, struggling—and we’re cooked.

submitted 32 days ago • 1218 comments

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 120 comments

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

submitted 40 days ago • 617 comments

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

submitted 42 days ago • 196 comments

Libraries are vital, providing access to information, technology, and learning. Cutting IMLS funding threatens these services, especially in underserved areas. Library funding isn’t political—it’s an investment in education, opportunity, and civic engagement. #LibraryLove #ForOurLibraries ala.org

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments