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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 7 days ago • 94 comments

The most relevant piece of information here is the R which Senator Murkowski keeps next to her name. She and three other Senators could take full control of the government out of the hands of the organization she herself describes as using terror tactics.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Donald Trump did

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 1663 comments

Accurate commentary youtu.be/I-IoVDygU98?...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Using the excuse of a single national security emergency, real or fake, the fascist dictator takes complete control… totalitarianism. Any courageous opposition is silenced or imprisoned. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

75%

submitted 18 days ago • 669 comments

Watching the congregation singing, I wondered how many would stand up to ICE officers if they came in seeking to arrest individuals in attendance. #generalconference #ldsconf

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Salt Lake City, Utah #HandsOff

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

INCREDIBLE TURNOUT with hundreds of thousands of people attending #HandsOff rallies around the US to protest illegal cuts and government corruption ✊ #nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc

submitted 19 days ago • 64 comments

#HandsOffSLC

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

A conservative estimate is 10,000 at the Capitol, with more coming. #HandsOffSLC

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

Amazing crowd here in SLC 10K?

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

#ldsconf #generalconf Hey MAGA brothers and sisters, even President Eyring is preaching that we are under covenant to care for those in need, to bear others' burdens, to mourn with those who mourn and to comfort others

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Since the entire Republican Party are full of liars, I decided to put together a short thread that proves that DOGE just makes up numbers and spreads disinformation to confuse & outrage people. #AllTheyDoIsLie #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

Who did this?

submitted 20 days ago • 1450 comments

Munchausen syndrome by proxy, now called factitious disorder imposed on another: “a mental illness in which a caregiver seeking the attention of the public creates the appearance of health problems in another person.”

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Kingman Senator Curtis, afraid to take action against Trump's Tariffs, resorts to typical circumlocution. Curtis states being "committed to listening to Utah's entrepreneurs and workers" (focusing on small business owners) rather than being concerned for ALL of his constituents.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Facing the highest tariffs of any country Vietnamese officials approved a Musk Starlink deal with startling speed, & expedited approval of a planned US$1.5 billion Trump Organization resort/golf course project in Hưng Yên Province. So much for tariffs benefiting everyday Americans. #grift

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 21 days ago • 512 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 21 days ago • 560 comments

What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 24 days ago • 134 comments

Amid lots of response to this (like the skeet below), I’ll just note that from the 1850s until the early 1900s, there was significant debate over whether Mormons — yes, Mormons — counted as white. There was even a report submitted to the U.S. Senate. archive.thinkprogress.org/what-a-19th-...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

h/t @peff.com

submitted 27 days ago • 1116 comments