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Happy Christmas to all who celebrate. If only we could all live as Jesus lived, by the principles on which he based his glorious and inspiring life.

submitted 177 days ago • 387 comments

"Trump repeatedly promised voters that he would reduce prices to pre-covid levels. This pledge, which he's already walked back, was never rooted in a real plan, but he skated by with help from a press that has spent nearly a decade normalizing his lies."

submitted 182 days ago • 166 comments

submitted 183 days ago • 279 comments

House Republicans should ask Santa for a spine for Christmas. Elon Musk isn't even eligible to become president, but now he's pulling the House GOP's strings and pushing them to throw out a clean, BIPARTISAN, spending deal and shut the government down on Christmas.

submitted 182 days ago • 184 comments

'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child”

submitted 183 days ago • 97 comments

I haven’t done anything at work for like two weeks. I’ve been waiting for someone to say something but I don’t think anyone has noticed…

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats just picked a dying, cancer-stricken 74-year-old to be ranking member of a powerful watchdog committee

submitted 184 days ago • 163 comments

Infant mortality actually increased by over 7% after the Dobbs decision. This is because women are being forced to give birth to babies with untreatable birth defects (and then they're forced to watch them die)

submitted 184 days ago • 85 comments

"Trump barely pretends to understand the broad outlines, much less the nuances, of his own agenda. Pressed on actual issues, he flatters himself and talks about how great he’s going to make everything. But he offers few details, and when he does, they're conspiracy theories and lies."

submitted 184 days ago • 438 comments

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

submitted 184 days ago • 3215 comments

Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that

submitted 185 days ago • 135 comments

Years Of Inbreeding Causes Dog To Birth British Man

submitted 186 days ago • 118 comments

The active capitulation with the incoming fascist autocrat and his billionaire backers by other wealthy elites is not just democracy dying its a murder. The wealthy and the fascist right are planning on sun setting democracy for a techno-fascist reset of society that favors only them.

submitted 186 days ago • 7 comments

Texas Bans Sale Of Luggage To Pregnant Women

submitted 187 days ago • 1708 comments

The person who supposedly “assaulted Nancy Mace” was just a foster youth advocate who literally did nothing more than shake her hand. Wow. imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

submitted 190 days ago • 1242 comments

Frost: You expect me to believe that someone like Elon Musk who is worth over $340 billion, is going to be in charge of helping us decide what my mom's social security check is going to be?

submitted 189 days ago • 161 comments

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

submitted 190 days ago • 471 comments

They are going to target Blue cities and blue states first for three reasons one to dominate blue states, two this is not as much about deportations as it is deploying a de facto police state and three they want to collapse blue states economies to try and change the election math for governors.

submitted 191 days ago • 89 comments

Got my organization their first grant in sometime, and was assigned as the project manager. Was originally really excited for the opportunity, but now it has just turned into extra work with no extra compensation…

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

My Spotify wrapped has just been the same five artists in different order for the past three years

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail”

submitted 196 days ago • 191 comments

Great piece from @wajali.bsky.social on all the "hypocritical outrage" from the GOP over the Hunter Biden pardon. He brings receipts:

submitted 199 days ago • 178 comments

Big Pharma is the only reason anyone still dies from HIV: “We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.”

submitted 201 days ago • 409 comments

Exactly correct

submitted 201 days ago • 36 comments

It happened again. An Israeli air strike targeted a World Central Kitchen (WCK) vehicle as it transported food supplies in Gaza. At least 10 Palestinians seeking aid and 3 aid workers were killed. www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaz...

submitted 201 days ago • 20 comments

D’Angelo Russel has been playing like hot garbage this season.. getting very frustrated when he’s on the floor.

submitted 204 days ago • 0 comments

Drake has launched a second legal action against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” accusing the music giant of defamation and claiming it could have halted the release of a song “falsely accusing him of being a sex offender”

submitted 205 days ago • 394 comments

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 205 days ago • 731 comments

i think Drake’s only option at this point is try to appeal to Liz Cheney

submitted 205 days ago • 99 comments

NEW GOP Rep. Nancy Mace as recently as last year called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and preferred pronouns, a stark contrast to more recent comments that have put her in the national spotlight.

submitted 206 days ago • 74 comments

“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’” www.billboard.com/pro/drake-um...

submitted 206 days ago • 826 comments

How the fuck are they still doing this? We are at a point when in the same state as University of Austin the government is literally censoring certain words and ideas from the classroom & the federal government is going to try to do the same at a national level. Absolute disconnection from reality.

submitted 207 days ago • 176 comments

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. www.propublica.org/article/pors... via @propublica.org

submitted 206 days ago • 17 comments

Really excited to listen to the new Kendrick album. I’m waiting until I have the space and attention to listen to it all the way through uninterrupted, and give it the respect it deserves. Hopefully tomorrow

submitted 207 days ago • 1189 comments