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“Workers like Weidner would receive a bump in pay and paid time off… “If passed, it will be the very first time that our home care workers would be eligible for paid time off, so they could actually take a sick day,” said Carrie Fowler, an organizer for the United Home Care Workers Union.”

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The subway is an insane asylum now.

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As someone who took the subway every day for, I don't know, 30 years maybe, this honestly pisses me off. Whether it was Philly or NYC or DC, I rode the train every goddamn day. Never a problem. And slandering public trans as the transpo secretary while never having used it yourself is dogshit

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“Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer's two favourite maxims, ‘I will work harder’ and ‘Comrade Napoleon is always right’—maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own.” — George Orwell, “Animal Farm”

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Bluesky leftists: Silicon Valley elites have embraced eugenics Reasonable pundits with zero patience for Bluesky hyperventilating: Oh come on now, nobody believes in eugenics these days. Curtis Yarvin: Eugenics is good actually.

submitted 2 days ago • 170 comments

A lot of American universities won't survive this, full stop. And I guess that's basically the point.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts the FDA's own publication from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

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Research out of UC-Berkeley’s Terner Center: How is the US doing in building lower VMT, walkable neighborhoods? Better than recent decades but results vary dramatically across states and metro areas. And we clearly aren’t building _enough_ housing. ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/buildin...

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Driving in traffic is a frustrating and unpleasant chore; and building our society around the assumption that every adult would drive everywhere all the time was a huge mistake.

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Some good news—official data released today shows US solar generation continues to grow rapidly and is on track to set new record highs. In March, solar output was up 35% compared to the same time last year!

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher

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And I think a good amount of people are checking out from these platforms for their mental health because the news is overwhelming

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The President of the United States, everyone...

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Truly a collective badge of honor.

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Right now, today, a broadly accepted urban planning best practice is to exclusively zone for apartments near wide, high-traffic streets that produce noise, air, and particulate pollution while reserving quiet side streets for detached single family homes.

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Five yrs out “demonstrators say they are still contending w/ intense trauma and long-lasting injuries... What’s more, settlement money has been swallowed by mounting medical debt, legal fees & other costs associated w/ being wounded.” Our dear Linda Tirado and so many others stories featured here

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Goddamn eugenicists, the whole lot of em

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So this year’s college graduates were born in 2003-04, they weren’t even in kindergarten for Lehman, they weren’t even in high school when Trump won in 2016 — the relentless passage of time is trip, man.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

submitted 4 days ago • 173 comments

Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money. Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment. Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.

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While it appears we are plummeting into the abyss this is a trick of perspective, in fact all the non-abyss parts of the universe are hurling away from us

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

I think about this often.

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But Bessent said "who cares" about the downgrade!! He promised no negative impacts!!!

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So there's a new Covid variant causing a surge in cases in China but the Trump administration is refusing to allow vaccine boosters for those under 65. (And probably will punish the scientists warning of this new variant.) www.cbsnews.com/news/us-repo...

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Another quote from the “MAHA Report”: “Many vaccines on the CDC's childhood schedule involved small participant groups, had no inert placebo-controlled trials, and had limited safety monitoring…” This is just a flat-out lie, which is why no references were provided for this statement.

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And also, the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

i have one additional thought, which is that overturning humphrey’s is a good example of why the “history and tradition” test is incoherent and designed to produce specific, conservative outcomes. (cont.)

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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 7 days ago • 167 comments

in addition to being brazenly unprincipled, this is evidence that the conservatives KNOW trump is a mad king, but still want to imbue him with royal authority — against the well-documented history and tradition of the united states — out of their blinkered devotion to a narrow ideological project

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this is kind of bonkers tbh the books have actual chatGPT prompts left in the text? what the

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

There it is. 5.13% on the 30yr. An 18-year high. 🇺🇸 @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 104 comments

every day Trump says "you need to buy our exports" and every day other countries go "oh cool do you have anything worth buying" and we go "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how about natural gas"

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Honestly, the news today is really, really grim.

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments