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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

submitted 3 days ago • 804 comments

Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 4 days ago • 979 comments

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

My ancestors crossed the Atlantic three centuries ago and I am an American in the exact same way as the infant child of undocumented immigrants born here yesterday. There is no difference between us, their right to this country no less than mine. We are entirely equal and I will accept nothing else.

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

It's time to end the "safe third country" agreement with the US.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“We really don’t know if we’re ever going to see her again,” he said, “because if they deport her to Russia, we may never see her again.”

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 18 days ago • 1270 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 177 comments

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 27 days ago • 1112 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 27 days ago • 845 comments

goddd the number of things that turn out to be caused (at least partly) by infectious, vaccinatable diseases. apparently some dementia is actually "long chickenpox"? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

submitted 28 days ago • 618 comments

That ‘I find myself having to defend someone I think is annoying from someone I know is dangerous’ quote really is a good distillation of our times. And many people in the center evidently think this is a difficult decision.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Ah finally, just what the people have been clamouring for: more expensive electronics and medicines. At last.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Jarred Younger has a new video out, with preliminary results showing ~30% of #ME/CFS patients have elevated lactate in the brain, suggesting neuroinflammation. His breakdown of ME/CFS subtypes here is interesting as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnK...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?

submitted 32 days ago • 878 comments

"Cuts at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products included the Office of Management and Office of Regulations in their entirety." "I think that this makes it virtually impossible for CTP to regulate tobacco products," Zeller said. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump. “Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.

submitted 32 days ago • 118 comments

go off king

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

"We thought it would be the groups that are heavily discriminated against, the poorest, that would organize and rebel, and it turns out they're not, it's the groups that were politically dominant but are now in decline." (paraphrasing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6TL...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Salute to the Canadians for putting these ads up in downtown DC, they’re right and they should say it more 🫡

submitted 35 days ago • 122 comments

The self-owning going on by the National Post here is top tier. Imagine thinking that describing existing models (or variants) with the correct terminology constitutes plagiarism. Just embarrassing stuff.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

❗Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms appear❗: www.who.int/news-room/fa.... Yet in a mouse model, these folks managed to cure it! ⚕️ Brought to you by three grants from the #NIH: U01GM109887, R01AI125552 and AI057168). RESTORE FUNDING FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH. 🧪

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

the news about remaining USAID workers being laid off is pretty bleak, if you missed it the first time, here was my conversation with jordan about working at USAID and why USAID is (or, depressingly, was) really important.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

submitted 37 days ago • 361 comments

a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that

submitted 38 days ago • 47 comments

See, they just didn't go far enough to the right. Next time... /s www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

the silver lining of this is that the default position of 90+% of Democratic primary voters has just been hardwired to "I would allow transgender for everybody"

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 38 days ago • 1917 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 38 days ago • 1710 comments