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WATCH: “This new Republican proposal would kick millions of Americans off Medicaid and cause millions more to pay more.” When they say they’re not cutting Medicaid, they are lying. This should be obvious by now. (This means you @MarshaBlackburn & @RepHarshbarger)

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Republicans want to sell our public lands. This will devastate Utah and our environment, and not enough people are talking about it. Spread the word. Tell your rep to vote NO. www.eenews.net/articles/rep...

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

Unconscionable. politi.co/42WJqId

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1. NEWS The Trump administration plans to accept a Boeing 747 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family, which will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One. The plane will then be donated to Trump’s library when he leaves office, allowing him to continue using it as a private citizen.

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

submitted 4 days ago • 229 comments

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

submitted 4 days ago • 990 comments

www.threads.com/@turaarutura...

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Definitely read this interview with @naomiaklein.bsky.social.

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The Trump administration has shut down the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. via @nbcnews

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Every time we feel the squeeze at the grocery store, remember: Tom Kean Jr. voted against lowering costs. I won’t. Are you ready to defeat Kean and flip New Jersey’s 7th? I sure as hell am.

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It seems that the flowering plant was a tree. Many flowers have forgot how to be a tree. The Redbud Tree is a mostly edible cousin of pea plants. The Redbud is a native of North America.

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Private-equity firm Apollo has quickly become one of the most bearish voices on the Street. Yesterday, CEO Marc Rowan said the firm is focusing on cash and low-risk assets. Today, the firm’s chief economist writes: “Stagflation coming.” $APO

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

this is legitimately evil

submitted 12 days ago • 471 comments

It’s not DEI vs. merit.

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👇🏽

submitted 12 days ago • 152 comments

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 12 days ago • 571 comments

No more Amazon. No more silent paychecks to corporations funding fascism. Walk out. Sit down. Log off. They own the courts, the media, the ballots.But they don’t run without us. Mass boycott. Nationwide stop work. Civil disruption. That’s the only language power understands.

submitted 14 days ago • 59 comments

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

submitted 13 days ago • 782 comments

Even North Korea is like, "Whoa, whoa, easy, this is gross."

submitted 13 days ago • 170 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 13 days ago • 1978 comments

Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old DOGE aide who is helping the Trump administration carry out the drastic downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling.

submitted 14 days ago • 79 comments

Every year during May's AAPI month, I used to receive at least one invite (usually more) from organizations to speak to honor Asian Americans or talk about the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or why investing in such endeavors is good for the community and business. This year? ZERO.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

@colmbairead.bsky.social it would be great to have the Irish-language script for The Quiet Girl

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Today’s WSJ: #GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 373 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 25 days ago • 1745 comments

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

submitted 24 days ago • 685 comments

www.thefarce.org/why-is-no-on...

submitted 24 days ago • 682 comments

thinking of becoming a full on pocket constitution guy

submitted 24 days ago • 699 comments

David Brooks quoting Marx is the strangest plot twist of 2025 so far.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

www.mediaite.com/trump/conser...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My commute

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 26 days ago • 8464 comments

Bear in mind, Judge Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee who was repeatedly on SCOTUS shortlists. This is both an admonition and a dire warning.

submitted 26 days ago • 56 comments

The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.

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www.threads.net/@jimnuaeabhr...

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There’s just no plausible way you can describe the U.S. as a free country anymore.

submitted 28 days ago • 27 comments

My first update of 2025 for changes in land ice mass observed by GRACE(-FO) satellite in Antarctica (left) and Greenland (right)... contributing to global sea level rise + Methods can be found at climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/... + My visualization can also be downloaded zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

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The discovery of a cue that underlies fatal blood clots in cancer patients offers a therapeutic target and a way to assess clot risk https://go.nature.com/4jBbpCM

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Did you know how much of the power generation capacity added each year world-wide was in renewables? 2022 it was 80 % 2023 it was 86 % 2024 it was 92,5 % Not because the whole world suddenly turned „woke“, but because it’s the cheapest!

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AMOC Modulates Ocean Heat Content During Deglaciations. A new Antarctic ice core study has unveiled the role of AMOC in the last 4 deglaciation events which occurred over the last 340,000 years. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #amoc #climatechange #Antarctica #icecore #interglacial

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Sliabh San Jacinto agus an fheirm ghaoithe, feirm a bhfuil 666 thuirbín inti. Séideann an ghaoth gan stad trí Mhám San Gorgonio ansin. 💨💨💨⚡️⚡️⚡️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

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I have maintained for a while that the reason everything around the world (funded by petro-states and carbon oligarchs) is happening rn is because the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the Earth has no future. And so it must wipe the future out of our imaginations.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 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 29 days ago • 1663 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 29 days ago • 914 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 2844 comments