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This is absolutely horrifying, disgusting, and cruel

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Exciting happenings in Amador County. I love seeing new folks getting into the races!

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This is so so so important and it applies to so many sectors and just life in general.

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BREAKING: A Montana court just struck down a ban on health care for trans youth, finding the law violates the state constitution.

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NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

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The Trump administration fired one of the most respected, celebrated, and qualified librarians in America. The real reasons she was fired are genuinely terrifying.

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Mother’s Day has the apostrophe before the ‘s.’ So celebrate as many mothers as you’d like, but do so one at a time to make each extra special.

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73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

submitted 4 days ago • 260 comments

This:

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This! "Copaganda" makes me crazy!

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Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Read @everylibrary.bsky.social's statement here. www.everylibrary.org/trump_fires_...

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Why do I post so much? Some of you have asked me this. I write and post every day because the stakes are so damn high. But mostly, I post every day because I believe in you. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-i-post-so-damn-often

submitted 6 days ago • 1052 comments

Die hard red white and blue vet Trump voters still won't care that he's an idiot.

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House Democrats have just launched a discharge petition to force a vote on legislation protecting Medicaid and SNAP.

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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 9 days ago • 655 comments

Nooooo. As a new pediatric nurse I held an infant while they coughed and coughed with pertussis. Before we could get him intubated and sedated they had a hemorrhage resulting in massive brain damage. From coughing.

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As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.

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1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

This is a fascist regime.

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

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Make White Babies Great Again: The GOP Handmaid's Tale is in Full Effect MAGA wants to make white babies great again at the expense of democracy, the global economy, civil rights, and women. @tarasetmayer.bsky.social joins me to break it down & connect the dots. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 16 days ago • 516 comments

I think I’m in love!

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Man I’m just so fucking proud of all the people who didn’t give up and aren’t going to give up

submitted 21 days ago • 40 comments

Some Democrats fear they’re playing into Trump’s hands by fighting his mass deportations rather than focusing on his failures on bread-and-butter issues. But it’s not either-or. Some thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ineptitude-incompetence-stupidity

submitted 21 days ago • 129 comments

We're not living through normal times. Don't try to normalize it.

submitted 22 days ago • 53 comments

Resistance is NOT futile

submitted 23 days ago • 606 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 22 days ago • 831 comments

LA! Come say HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY on Thursday, April 24, 2-4pm! actionnetwork.org/events/raisi... @indivisible.org @50501california.bsky.social @samo-indivisible.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social @repkamlagerdove.bsky.social #HandsOffSocialSecurity #AgeWithDignity #ItsOurMoney

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Great

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Eugenicists gonna do what they do

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NIH Cancels its First and Largest Study Centered on Women WHI currently enrolls 42,000 women. Launched in 1991. >160k women participated in initial clinical trials or were later tracked. Termination will "severely limit WHI’s ability to generate new insights into the health of older women."

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One of the most brilliant thinkers in the Middle Ages was John Duns Scotus. In the 1500s, his followers became a conservative element in English universities and tended to resist the new learning of humanism. They were called ‘dunsman' as an insult. Now we say 'dunce.'

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America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump did we have a president who combined all these nefarious qualities.

submitted 22 days ago • 96 comments

NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.

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History always has a lesson.

submitted 26 days ago • 644 comments

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution. Our nation was founded on resistance to arbitrary authority and monarchical power. We built a democracy in the face of impossible odds. We must continue to protect it.

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