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@aoc.bsky.social: "Listen, if your representative is not doing a town hall, give me a ring... I'll say it right here, right now: if a deep red Republican district wants to have an honest conversation, even if it's with someone they disagree with, I'm willing to do that."

submitted 1 day ago • 539 comments

Reckless. Chaotic. Illegal. These mass terminations done without regard to the impact on families and states like Arizona are exactly why I sued the Trump administration yesterday. www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-mayes-files-lawsuit-stop-mass-firings-federal-probationary-employees

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Exciting stuff!! Can't wait to see the results. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

Just in one year, just the clean air act, prevented hundreds of thousands of early deaths. The lowest possible estimate of the benefits found that benefits outweigh the costs by 3 to 1. The most likely estimate is 30 to 1. The high estimate is 90 to 1. Ninety. Nine Zero. www.epa.gov/clean-air-ac...

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

submitted 16 days ago • 164 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 18 days ago • 831 comments

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 22 days ago • 5649 comments

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

submitted 22 days ago • 298 comments

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 25 days ago • 56 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://childtaxcredit.gov Action taken by the Executive Office of the President at or around 2025-02-08 06:09:04.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: Court injunction protecting USAID Dems demand hearings on Musk's role Someone introduce articles of impeachment Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

submitted 34 days ago • 361 comments

Feel like a talented headline writer could do something with this.

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

This was done by a non-governmental 19 year old. It is illegal in every respect.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

I’m looking forward. Hope you can join us… www.wearechorus.com/dnc

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

submitted 54 days ago • 250 comments

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

submitted 60 days ago • 1073 comments

Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.

submitted 63 days ago • 553 comments

Have you heard this good news? As of January 1, every single one Chicago's 400+ municipal buildings — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on 100% renewable energy grist.org/cities/chica...

submitted 65 days ago • 414 comments

Reminder that CAPTCHA was created by the same guy who co-founded Duolingo. In TED Talk, he said that Duolingo was originally intended to be a platform to get free labor, similar to CAPTCHA. I wonder how people's voice and video data (from using new AI-enabled conversation) will be used. #LangSky

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

You can never be too careful.

submitted 69 days ago • 14 comments

Teen drug and alcohol use reached a record low this year. trib.al/9XgUFnY

submitted 69 days ago • 47 comments

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 79 days ago • 160 comments

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

submitted 82 days ago • 40 comments

If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists

submitted 86 days ago • 169 comments

NEW TODAY: My team at @americansunlight.org identified 30000+ of pieces of deepfake pornography-related content targeting 26 Members of Congress (25 women, 1 man) across 11 websties. That means ~1 in 6 women Members are targeted, compared with 1 in 386 men 1/ 19thnews.org/2024/12/ai-s...

submitted 88 days ago • 6 comments

I’m gonna be real …. I’m not paying $5/month or more for 20-30 individual newsletters We need a better media ecosystem

submitted 90 days ago • 38 comments

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

submitted 93 days ago • 130 comments

Elon Musk is reviving his campaign to kill California high-speed rail. The Hyperloop only existed to fuel opposition to the project, now he seems to want to use his leverage with Trump for another crack at ensuring it’s never completed.

submitted 98 days ago • 47 comments

A couple of years ago, we at Bolts covered one of the most Trumpian sheriffs in the nation: he sits in a Maryland county that went for Harris, roughly an hour from DC, and has been targeted immigrants for a longtime. Time to revisit our coverage: boltsmag.org/sheriff-chuc...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Has cancel culture gone too far? The person slated to lead the largest employer in the country can’t even mistreat women without his own mother complaining about it. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

submitted 99 days ago • 26 comments

🥴🥴🥴”In what appears to be an embarrassing and ironic gaffe, a top Stanford University professor has been accused of spreading AI-generated misinformation while serving as an expert witness in support of a law designed to keep AI-generated misinformation out of elections.” gizmodo.com/stanford-pro...

submitted 107 days ago • 29 comments

👏👏👏 www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

What could possibly go wrong w/a bill giving Trump-installed crackpots "power to investigate and effectively shut down any tax-exempt organization—incl news outlets, universities, and civil society groups—by stripping them of their tax-exempt status based on an unilateral accusation of wrongdoing"

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

Will this carry on past January? Will be interested to see. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 110 days ago • 3 comments

America's Mayor is back, baby!!

submitted 114 days ago • 16 comments

If Dems flip #CA45 & #CA13, then the U.S. House majority will have literally come down to the 3 NC the GOP flipped thanks to its new gerrymander. And that itself hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022. Coincidentally I just wrote this today: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...

submitted 114 days ago • 115 comments

You better fucking subscribe to The Onion. This is the kind of thing we will do with your money. It allowed us to buy InfoWars. Now help us staff it. membership.theonion.com

submitted 115 days ago • 581 comments

I just want to remind everyone that a central conspiracy theory driving the Trump - and Gaetz! - political movement is that there is a government effort to cover up public officials trafficking minors for sex

submitted 114 days ago • 35 comments