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I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person. What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals. That domestic supply of infants.

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

Super Bowl halftime show generating big “Trump won, why am I still seeing black people” energy from the indignant grifter class

submitted 17 days ago • 99 comments

When you start a new job, you have a lot of firsts. Many of them are good or neutral. But some are not so good and today is one for me. My first time having my period at this new job. 🙄 Am I going to be questioned about going to the bathroom more often in the next few days? We'll find out.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"It's only til the midterms" is not a plan

submitted 25 days ago • 75 comments

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 26 days ago • 1063 comments

Happy Black History Month! Here is my favorite story about a Black American you may not know about: Robert Smalls. He commandeered a confederate ship and sailed himself, his family, and the other enslaved crew and their families to freedom. THROUGH waters controlled by the Confederacy.

submitted 26 days ago • 647 comments

#Blacksky post your favorite pics from Black History

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Do not expect the institutions to hold. Anyone who is citing law or policy as a reason why Trump can’t or won’t do X, Y, Z is either delusional themselves, or an institutionalist—whether by belief or necessity because of their job— and is not to be trusted.

submitted 80 days ago • 46 comments

Target rolls back DEI initiatives, the latest big company to retreat cnb.cx/3POyGEd

submitted 34 days ago • 483 comments

They will go after Wikipedia. They will go after libraries. They will go after school boards and public extracurricular activities that are anything but sports. They will go after archives. Because knowledge, education, culture, and progressives are all the enemy. Thinking is the enemy.

submitted 36 days ago • 294 comments

I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means. "He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"

submitted 38 days ago • 202 comments

There are 510,000 NCAA athletes. Less than ten are transgender. The GOP doesn’t care about protecting women. They celebrate and empower men who assault women. They force pregnant women to carry their rapist’s child to term. They target a tiny, vulnerable community to scare us and consolidate power.

submitted 41 days ago • 28 comments

I got this job! I start on Monday! 🎉

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

submitted 45 days ago • 620 comments

I just started rewatching Queer Eye, first episode. I forgot how judgmental Antoni was about people's food choices in the early years. It took him awhile before he started realizing that not everyone has the money and/or time to be organic chefs.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I've been really hating insta lately because I never see anything recent. Right now, my whole feed is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day posts. Wtf.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

submitted 55 days ago • 572 comments

In this special episode of Up First, we consider the legacy of the man widely called "America's greatest former president."

submitted 59 days ago • 23 comments

Unhoused would be the 17th most populous city in the US

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

This is good. I think it should have been all 40, because the death penalty is a black mark on all of our souls, but I do at least understand why he excluded those 3.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Another 2nd interview set up for after Christmas. I don't know if I'm more hopeful about getting a job offer or just not getting ghosted afterwards. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

submitted 70 days ago • 1007 comments

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

submitted 416 days ago • 184 comments

Im not American at all, but it is striking to me having lived there for years, how American politicians and journalists baby their billionaires while treating school shooting survivors, victims and their families like annoying pests

submitted 73 days ago • 34 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 73 days ago • 1004 comments

One of the jobs I applied for, had 2 interviews, and then never heard from them for over a month…is listed in Indeed again. I applied again. 😂

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Got tired of being scolded by out-of-touch traditional media and wrote about Mangione, American healthcare, and what we define as violent. open.substack.com/pub/thespite...

submitted 77 days ago • 178 comments

I updated my ACA thing for next year about a week ago and I am still getting multiple emails per day reminding me that the deadline is coming up. Annoying af.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

It's no wonder people vote for economic policies that actually will be detrimental to them. They can't even sort out their own personal or professional finances. The number of companies who try to pay us multiple times for the same invoice is mind boggling.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: one company updated their job website to show that I was not chosen to move forward, still haven't received anything from the other company.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite part of GBBO is always the end of the episode when the person who got Star Baker immediately calls and tells their family or friends. It's so wholesome. 😍😍

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

If someone walked into a hospital and just started pulling the plug on people, reactions would be severe and justified. When it happens from behind a desk, as a result of made up rules and regulations from companies that stand in between us and our care, it should be no different.

submitted 84 days ago • 4 comments

This healthcare ceo is hard to talk about because how much death can you cause indirectly before you’re a murderer who got murdered? How do you convince yourself it doesn’t count if you kill people with policy instead of a gun? What do you have to believe about life and systems and human worthiness?

submitted 83 days ago • 58 comments

The first time I looked at this, I just noticed UHC at the bottom. The second time, I saw my insurance company right above it. Thanks, Medica. 🙄 It's a cold comfort to know I'm not the only one getting screwed over by them.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza: www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

submitted 83 days ago • 61 comments

Last year, my health insurance company stopped paying for my Humira. Humira is a type of immunosuppressive drug called a biologic, and I take a pretty high dose of it to control my severe Crohn's Disease. Without it, I will have a bowel obstruction, and then I will die. (Cont)

submitted 84 days ago • 95 comments

Kavanaugh should never have been confirmed either.

submitted 84 days ago • 151 comments

Here I am, over a week later, having not heard back from either of the companies that I had TWO interviews with, each. It's infuriating.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I think it would be a good idea

submitted 84 days ago • 34 comments