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The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

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Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

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"Hitler has won. He’s changed us Jews from being compassionate and caring, and do unto others as you’d have them do unto you, into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation pursuing and killing women and children. I’m 83 and I have never been so ashamed of Israel as I am at this moment."

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This statement from Jonathan Joss's husband is heart breaking. No, headline writers, he wasn't "killed in an argument with a neighbor." He was deliberately murdered for being gay right after his dog was decapitated. Bet the murderer calls himself a "Christian." THIS is why Pride is important.

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The broligarchy strikes again. South African billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir. This is the dude who groomed and hand delivered JD Vance to the white house. It's all a big grift at our expense.

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

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Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin. He should still be alive.

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John Fetterman- stop crying and RESlGN. If you don’t want to do your job, then f**king quit.

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

People should be SHAMED for staying in office so long they die there, leading to legislative and electoral losses. YOUR ego is NOT more important than the CAUSE. Millions of people are going to die on the altar of career goals. And yet I will be viciously attacked for stating this obvious truth.

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#NY17's very own Mike Lawler was THE DECIDING VOTE to take healthcare away both from his own constituents and from millions across the country.

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This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Welp...

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The Fort Branch Historical Society in North Carolina recently announced a large tree fell on its museum last month, completely destroying it Here’s before and after photos of the museum, which aims to “protect the ‘lifeline’ of the confederacy”

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They cut overnight weather forecasting and are getting red state voters killed.

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Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination. Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France. Sheesh.

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But I was assured that Israel is a utopia for queer people! m.jpost.com/breaking-new...

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Netflix has thrown “Sesame Street” a safety net with a new streaming deal that offers the popular children’s staple a broad reach while keeping it on its long-standing home, PBS, at the same time, the companies announced Monday. www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...

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Understand this: if Medicaid, Medicare, and/or SNAP benefits are cut, Americans will die as a result. It’s policy violence.

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

submitted 19 days ago • 401 comments

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

submitted 19 days ago • 339 comments

You deserve to make more money. You deserve lower costs. You deserve healthcare. We must not stop fighting for better just because those in power are actively trying to make things worse for working class people. In fact, it’s our time to dream even bigger & fight even harder.

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This is how for-profit healthcare works: You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses. Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you. The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money. It’s immoral.

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In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

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JUST IN: The United States government has approved a $1.4 billion arms package destined for the United Arab Emirates. Do we get it yet?

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

submitted 22 days ago • 1293 comments

Hasan Piker was detained by ICE and chose to talk to cops instead of shutting the fuck up. Do not be like Hasan Piker. Be way smarter. Never. Talk. To. Cops.

submitted 23 days ago • 61 comments

Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.

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Pope Leo XIV on Gaza in his first Sunday blessing: “I am deeply pained by what is happening on the Gaza Strip. Let the fighting cease immediately, let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population, and may all hostages be released.” I’m glad he’s advocating for Palestine!

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Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message of unity in a polarized Catholic Church.

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested by ICE agents wearing masks to conceal their identities.

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What?!?!?? ICE arrested the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey?!?!? What exactly are they claiming Ras Baraka did?!?!

submitted 26 days ago • 171 comments

Wrote about Judge Sessions ordering Rumeysa Ozturk be freed, including the absolutely infuriating events that led up to this, the DOJ's weak defense of what they had done, and DHS's obnoxious response to all this... Oh and the absence of some high profile "free speech warriors" from all this.

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If you're still asking why so many people didn't vote for the Democrats instead of asking the Democrats why they vetoed ceasefire 4 times while arming a genocide, you are upholding the white supremacy the U.S. runs on. You are why we are here.

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