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My god. I wish I’d had her presence of mind at her age. Entire letter (extremely well-written) attached.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

submitted 4 days ago • 3353 comments

Trump over and over undermines the Constitution by targeting individuals and groups he believes to be unpopular -- undocumented immigrants, government bureaucracies, LGBT people. He's strategic about picking enemies and fighting on politically favorable terrain.

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

New from me: I had a long chat with five guys who each served decades in prison, and now work as "peer advocates," counseling other people facing their own serious charges and long sentences. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-redeem...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Celebrated Pi Day with. Pie flight from Pie Falootin in Garland TX. Incredible pie!!!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians. ...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr…

submitted 11 days ago • 384 comments

“I’m the villain,” acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek said in the recording. “I’m not going to have a job after this. I get it.” @propublica.org

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

EXCLUSIVE: The source with knowledge of the FAA tells Rolling Stone that it appears as though “someone does not want a paper trail.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 12 comments

We are Americans. We’re the most powerful nation on the planet. What defines us is not our power to dominate the weak. What demonstrates our character is not our capacity to traumatize the afflicted. What speaks our truth is not how we taunt, deride or belittle the embattled, broken or battered.

submitted 23 days ago • 100 comments

SCOOP: Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

submitted 27 days ago • 415 comments

NEW UPDATE to Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting. - a few people have written to me to ask if I could include HEADINGS and I have done so. Also added a few more ideas. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

Knowledge is power…

submitted 35 days ago • 1036 comments

Not only did the Revolutionary Americans support inoculation (and later vaccination), they claimed inoculation to have been a proud American invention up there with Franklin's lightning rod. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health and defunding scientific research is an insult to the U.S.

submitted 38 days ago • 48 comments

I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...

submitted 42 days ago • 112 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 49 days ago • 488 comments

It’s a major surprise to me that this is the first time it’s happened. The methodology in defining a top scientist was to look at the authors of the most cited papers in 129 scientific journals. Since 2020, the number of U.S. top scientists has declined by 14% while it’s up by 77% in China.

submitted 50 days ago • 192 comments

Over the next two weeks around the Super Bowl, some company, or even the NFL themselves, is going to try to get some easy PR by donating a lot of money to Second Harvest. That money will almost directly be going to payoff the archdiocese child sex abuse lawsuits www.wwltv.com/article/news...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Good day to re-up my piece from a couple years back on how the ‘lab-leak’ folks have won over much of the media & the public, without producing much hard evidence, in comparison with the scientists who still point to a natural origin for Covid. Receipts: www.msnbc.com/the-mehdi-ha...

submitted 56 days ago • 91 comments

Instant reaction to this news from a friend (as White as I am) who retired from the USAF as a colonel: "What the fuck?!"

submitted 57 days ago • 15 comments

submitted 58 days ago • 47 comments

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

submitted 61 days ago • 944 comments

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

submitted 78 days ago • 900 comments

This is how I would deal with the huge problem of Chinese companies knocking off American companies. Curious what everyone thinks

submitted 79 days ago • 475 comments

Just me or does Cee Dee Lamb give off Milli Vanilli vibes?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

For those keeping score, Trump should’ve been prosecuted by DOJ in 2017 for his crimes with Russia to become president in 2016, convicted by the Senate in Impeachment #1 for extorting Zelensky and in Impeachment #2 for trying to overturn the 2020 election, and prosecuted sooner by Garland’s DOJ.

submitted 91 days ago • 255 comments

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org

submitted 93 days ago • 859 comments

My comment on @hcrichardson.bsky.social’ December 13th Letter… open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 99 days ago • 12 comments

Remember the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma? He admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up. And that he started spinning new lies after meeting with Russian intelligence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 101 days ago • 224 comments

What he describes is one of the worst crises the American idea of government has ever faced, and yet it is also one that few Americans will feel directly

submitted 101 days ago • 62 comments

Here’s the @science.org article so that @altmetric.com picks it up :) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

submitted 103 days ago • 2151 comments

This is a nightmare scenario for trans people. If language like this gets into an HHS funding bill that becomes law, pretty much every hospital and doctor's office that treats trans people of any age would stop doing so. This is the most extreme anti-trans push yet.

submitted 103 days ago • 45 comments

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO. "It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too." www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-sol...

submitted 105 days ago • 64 comments

Wild stuff going on in Texas right now. Amid an incredibly contentious Republican fight for Speaker of the House, the Texas GOP has passed a resolution vowing to censure anyone who doesn’t vote for party leaders’ preferred candidate — which will bar any censured lawmaker from running in primaries.

submitted 106 days ago • 114 comments

I want to tell a story. In 2023, I was leaked never-before-seen interrogation videos re: the bribery and fraud case of Benjamin Netanyahu. The tapes shed light on Bibi's corruption - from expensive gifts to the way he has ruthlessly embarked on a forever war in Gaza. I asked Alexis Bloom...

submitted 110 days ago • 8 comments