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have some pawsitive energy

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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 16 hours ago • 562 comments

The excerpt from 'The Life and Death of Ryan White' spotlights themes like the sting of rejection, the appeal of “normality,” and the search for community.

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How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 224 comments

Settling into the new digs with Bertie

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Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

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Even if I could somehow ask her I wouldn't want to know the answer

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

The American People want a bureaucratizes terror-state aimed at anyone who inconveniences them and a robust set of rights and privileges for themselves and their children, and I don't know how to convince them that that's not possible.

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

GOD: time to decide which things should cause allergies CHUBBY QUIET ANGEL: well I was thinking people should be allergic to bad things like unkindness and lying and fluorescent lighting and… GOD: flowers and kitty cats and peanut butter ANGEL: oh okay

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Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

submitted 19 days ago • 279 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security. It was … two days ago.

submitted 19 days ago • 910 comments

Treated myself to some sushi after closing on my new house

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This breakthrough study shows the antiviral drug obeldesivir administered once daily orally was effective against a lethal challenge of Ebola in non human primates. This is an NIH funded study, the likes of which are being cut by the current administration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos

submitted 25 days ago • 142 comments

1. CONFIRM YOUR SOLIDARITY NETWORKS 2. CONCENTRATE ON THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE FIRST. 3. FIGHT WHERE YOU CAN/WITHIN YOUR CAPACITY.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

Alarmed by the gutting of the federal government? Don't worry, the top Democrat in Congress is, uh...doing a book tour?

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 26 days ago • 2686 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 27 days ago • 1042 comments

ALSO, if you have a library card, you can read paywall articles for free with the Libby app.

submitted 26 days ago • 203 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 26 days ago • 1698 comments

If you're in Illinois and: - Palestinian, or protesting the genocide in Occupied Palestine; or - trans, or protesting for trans rights; and you are arrested or discriminated against, I can represent you pro bono. Please email me at [email protected]. I will take as many cases as I can.

submitted 29 days ago • 78 comments

Bertie

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An interesting theory on why Schumer supported the CR.

submitted 29 days ago • 907 comments

Kitted up a Diamond Art Club kit and the quality is simply a joy to work with. Gorgeous and i love all the special drills.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

submitted 29 days ago • 978 comments

***Taps the sign again.

submitted 35 days ago • 101 comments

Fort Lauderdale sculpture

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Reagan is a prime example of why saying "it's only 4/8 years" is bullshit. Reagan has been f*cking the country for over 40 years & from beyond the grave.

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

submitted 38 days ago • 115 comments

“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”

submitted 37 days ago • 39 comments

This party is cooked. Primary every one of them.

submitted 38 days ago • 113 comments

Everyone should watch this interview. youtu.be/H6XAwrnWADw?...

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

We offer firearms and Stop the Bleed training in CT, often in the same class. LGBTQ+ and BIPOC friendly, at the lowest cost in the state and free if you can't afford to pay at all. If you can't or won't have a gun, we also have free pepper spray (limited quantities) and can show you how to use it.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 38 days ago • 1571 comments

Everyone I know over 50 is wild for this economic blackout day on Friday. But I have not seen any of you whippersnappers (38-49 yr olds) mention it. Is it a thing on your radar? Will you be doing the thing?

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

I can’t stop staring at this tweet. It’s like the Mona Lisa.

submitted 46 days ago • 256 comments

The illustrations here rock, oh my god, everyone hire more artists www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Lambda Legal is doing a Virtual Info Session on Passports for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming People in the afternoon of Wednesday, February 26th, 12-1 PST. support.lambdalegal.org/site/SSurvey...

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 49 days ago • 2930 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 49 days ago • 663 comments

Bertie

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 50 days ago • 1484 comments

it’s true

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Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 55 days ago • 441 comments