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What he's doing in the federal government now is intended to make the U.S. similarly dependent on him. It won't matter who controls Congress or the presidency if he can turn off social security on a whim. That's the crisis we're all yelling about

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Most stories could be improved with the addition of “And then the bears moved in” to their opening

submitted 22 hours ago • 53 comments

This is a great handout refuting the vaccines/autism myth + I'll add a general rec to look for posters, one-pagers, pamphlets, etc. from state and large municipal health departments, who have a lot of leeway to work independently from HHS on things like this, and usually put their stuff online

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for: democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

The CDC is reportedly planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, "despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links"

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It's Bandcamp Friday! Today we are raising funds for the @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Fund. We have a very special, limited edition shirt that will ONLY be available today: bikinikill.bandcamp.com

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a good bill that would radically improve homeschooling in our state, which you can have input on even if you don't live here

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I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

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I hate making these political calls, I get so uncomfortable and anxious, but I just did this and urge all my fellow Californians to do the same. Assholes like Charlie Kirk don't need more platforms and trans people need Democrats to stand up for them, not scapegoat and fear monger.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

here's today's DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS conversation with LJ, who works in HUD and cares deeply about providing americans with affordable housing.

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IRIS made ToxMap possible 👇 projects.propublica.org/toxmap/

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Excited to see our @americansunlight.org report on the Russian Pravda network and its LLM grooming techniques referenced in this piece from @inafried.bsky.social: www.axios.com/2025/03/06/e...

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The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments

NEW: former Putin adviser Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelenskyy's White House meeting on February 28t Zelenskyy's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

If you see any brutal-yet-elegant murders on the streets of Paris, don't worry: it's just the upcoming Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I’m someone who has a hard time breaking rules (that may surprise some folks), so I absolutely endorse this recommendation. Morals and ethical obligations > arbitrarily devised and enforced rules. I’ll be practicing via small acts of rebellion. Will you join me?

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

they should invent a weekend that is restful

submitted 5 days ago • 130 comments

I'd like to announce that I'm pivoting to media criticism. Here is my critique of the media. It sucks ass. Having registered this critique I'm now pivoting back to songs about the true nature of prophecy & books where there was maybe a ghost but you're not entirely sure

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

What can one bad cop do? They can destroy a lot of lives.

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This is the room he'll be speaking in, where people plan to stand and politely clap and then blather about "respecting the office."

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

The gateway belief to this is "claiming to care about others is fake/done for clout/cringe". If you're conditioned well enough to think any empathy you see is fake, you'll soon start scoffing at the very notion of it.

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A wax museum in San Antonio, Texas, removed Trump's figure because people kept punching it. 😅😂

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"You good?" - China

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it's Claims Without Evidence's biggest night

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Hot dog I’m not watching this shit.

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Reps. Rashida Tlaib & Pramila Jayapal are leading resolutions to block $8.56 billion of new US weapons transfers to Israel. The resolutions are House companions to the Senate ones led by Bernie Sanders to block the transfers. Here are the 15 members of Congress signed on:

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

These skeins are beautiful AND they’re for a great cause, so you can make a pretty thing and support a community who really needs it while you do. (Also I’ve made several things from RoY’s yarn now, so I can confirm that their wool is both really pretty and really soft and very nice to wear)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

if your party leadership cannot galvanize a popular movement against a guy this despised, they should not be in politics.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

i just think that it's a good idea, before you explain something to someone else, to be sure that they don't understand the thing and that you do

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Isn’t This Illegal, Part 8792.

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a giveaway to tax cheats

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Chicago Fire's Near West Side Training Center Is Officially Open The training facility was built on CHA land as part of a controversial deal. Three ABLA Homes residents were escorted out of the ribbon-cutting event by police. @franciagarciah.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/04/c...

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"That’s what Crisco stands for—“crystallized cottonseed oil.”... For 70 years or so, it was made out of cotton. Part of the process was figuring out, How do we sell this as something that was made in a laboratory in places like Cincinnati and Cleveland—and not from Mississippi and Alabama?"

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holy fuck, man

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Wrote this after the election, and I think this was very much the right approach.

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Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

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Facing an uncertain financial future, many U.S. neuroscience Ph.D. programs are admitting fewer students. The Transmitter spoke with 20 programs about how the recent changes are affecting their admissions processes. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/41ptnk1

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Just a reminder that JD Vance funded a company called AcreTrader, which allows rich people to buy up farmland as an investment asset. So guess who will benefit if a bunch of farms go under and the acreage can suddenly be snapped up for pennies on the dollar?

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

the democratic party without progressives is just a group of vanilla capitalists that have agreed to only use slurs in private conversation

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“By fighting him tooth and nail for seven years, Chicagoans have established that Rahm Emanuel is garbage. No matter what he does next, that stench isn't coming off.” Today and Forever, Rahm Emanuel Is Garbage #ByeRahm jacobin.com/2018/09/rahm...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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