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Is there a feminine form of "curmudgeon" or am I good? Also fan of fantasy, sci-fi, critters, and spec-fic critters.
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So the idiots running US health policy have decided in their infinite wisdom that pregnant women don't need covid vaccines. Ladies, time to check that list of conditions that WILL get you a shot.

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We could do way worse...

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Woah. Who allowed this onto Fox? www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/te...

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I don't understand why no one is screaming out loud about all of the changes to student loans in this bill. No zero payments for unemployment or financial hardship, getting rid of all of the IBR/IDR plans, changing payment terms from 20 to 30 years, but this.... www.axios.com/2025/05/21/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I'm beginning to think that the actual "barely made the news" problem -- found here on a NYT article reposted by Rachel Maddow -- is not that things are not making the news, but that there's just too damn much news.

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Sen. Alex Padilla blocked GOP efforts to pass the SAVE Act, calling it an attack on voter access. He’s pushing new legislation to expand registration, fight Trump’s voter data order and defend free elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland... My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.

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Nothing to add here tbh

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I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows *exactly* what he is doing.

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Hey, everybody, read this!

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Appropos of nothing, here's the original recipe for Nickelodeon slime: 2 cups of oatmeal 3 cups of applesauce 4 cups of vanilla pudding 3-4 drops of green food coloring

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Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy." Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏

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The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations. I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵

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When a plan from the Left begins "But first we have to overthrow capitalism," I think of this passage from Joe Abercrombie, who understands people awfully well. H/T Goodreads.

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Oh hell yes. Led by the Congressional Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Progressive Caucuses, Dems all across the spectrum are taking Trump's attack on Rep McIver as an excuse to double down on in-person inspections of private ICE detention centers. "We are not going to stand for this intimidation."

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I swear I love Rep. Melanie Stansbury more every day🤩 She and House Dems are battling the GOP’s Reconciliation Wrecking Ball—*and* fighting to get BIG MONEY out of politics and BAN congressional stock trading. They’re holding the line on every damn front. Let’s back them up. 💙🔥

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Republicans want AI to replace workers everywhere. Musk is happy. The bill prohibits any state or subdivision from passing “any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely." Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

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Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

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