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You guys, it’s perfectly OK to primary octogenarians - even if you generally like them - even if they don’t have bad voting records the median age in Congress is 59, while the median of Americans is 39!

submitted 5 hours ago • 25 comments

One of the things that's really hobbling older liberal leadership, Bernie included, is this reflex they have to show broad mindedness by using a kind of corporate version of Rogerian argument, where you always begin by acknowledging common ground or points of agreement you share with your opponent

submitted 11 hours ago • 85 comments

I for one am nothing but grateful to live out the last decades of our biosphere waiting for Hillary Clinton to show up every 1.6 years with a smugface emoji lovingly posted from her third townhouse until the day we all turn back to dust. As it mote be.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

US Weekly COVID update: Mar 24, 2025 🔸1 in 107 people currently infected 🔸446,000 new daily infections 🔸3,122,000 new weekly infections 🔸156,000 to 624,000 Weekly Long COVID cases There is more transmission today than during 42.8% of the pandemic. Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Cishet historians really do be like "you can't just say a woman was a lesbian because she was in love with another woman!! If the only requirement to be gay is to write long letters about being in love with another woman & be vocal about loving her, why, NO woman anywhere is straight!!!"

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Hamdan Ballal, Academy Award winning co-director of No Other Land, has reportedly been kidnapped and imprisoned by the IDF

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

If any other man groomed multiple younger female subordinates into bearing his children, had the embryos gene-edited to ensure they'd all be born male, and gave them all weird "X" names, all fueled by a haze of drugs and a conspiratorial worldview detached from reality, we'd call them a cult leader.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

For Non-Natives: For tribes here in the U.S. and Canada, we have to contend with this thing called Blood Quantum, the idea that a penis and a womb has the ability to "water" down and dilute our Indigeneity. Never the opposite tho. It is an example of Eugenics and Scientific Racism and Ableism.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Do not listen to bullies. U.S. military planes arrived in Greenland at a U.S. military base — bc the PM REFUSED to meet them. Delegation includes Congressman Mike Waltz, who plan to make the islanders “an offer they can’t refuse.” HOW is this not an act of war?! This is how they annexed Hawaii.

submitted 9 hours ago • 289 comments

imagine being given a front row seat to the inner workings of an authoritarian regime led by the worst people alive and then hurriedly removing yourself because it’s not “appropriate”

submitted 7 hours ago • 67 comments

The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

Whenever I’m at the hospital, I see the most masking among patients & non medical staff (cleaners, cafeteria workers etc) Patients often in N95s, staff in surgicals, doctors & nurses wearing nothing. I’ve given free N95s to the staff, who say they’re masking because they can’t afford to be sick

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

I shouldn’t be surprised that five years on the truth about #COVID still isn’t in the press and all week we are being tortured with stories that show the press haven’t listened to any of the Covid inquiry. The anniversary has been used as a propaganda exercise to bury the truth.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Spray-Painted Penis Only Thing Holding Cybertruck Together

submitted 7 hours ago • 431 comments

The thing about the leaked Yemen texts is how disgustingly corporate it all is. American government's only business is death, and it handles that business on the saddest most pathetic Slack channels just like all the other corporate cogs in this shithole. Going out not with a bang but a 👊🔥

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm not a professional politics-knower, but as a voter I just do not find the procedural 4D chess arguments people make with respect to whether someone "should" primary an elected official at all persuasive

submitted 6 hours ago • 42 comments

i am a professional politics knower and without passing judgment on today’s little argument i will say that i agree with this. no one is entitled to a seat and if someone feels they could better represent the area they should go for it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 113 comments

27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Liberal politicians from Canada and several European countries support this btw it's not just the US/conservatives

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Five public health facts RFK Jr doesn't want you to know: 1. Vaccines work and are safe. 2. Solid fats aren't health foods. 3. Random dead animals you find lying around are not safe to touch (or eat). 4. Methylene blue is a dye, not a miracle cure. 5. Measles is bad for you.

submitted 9 hours ago • 185 comments

The US isn't "prepared to win"? China has ALREADY won. The US is behind the curve on everything, because this isn't a functioning society, and people are finally starting to realize that. You're fighting a war you've already lost.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

End the Zionist project.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I keep bitching about ya'll brewing up the summer wave with your maskless pro-virus rallies, but turns out you're really brewing up the first real spring wave we've had since '20. gjob. At this point I fully endorse your obvious effort to eugenics yourselves. Get it over with faster please.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

🚨 NEW: Vox's Kelsey Piper Is Indefensibly Ignorant About COVID-19 We review a terrible editorial in Vox that desperately attempts to rewrite the history of the pandemic & forward the agenda of the anti-vaccine crusade on public health. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/voxs-kelse...

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Israel=nazi trash that should be wiped from the map.

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Hey I wrote a super cheerful and not-at-all anxiety-inducing cartoon to start off the week! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients. My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered. Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

submitted 12 hours ago • 133 comments

Bernie should only talk about the social safety net. That's what he is able to address cogently. Absolutely NOONE wants to hear his views about immigration, the border or the carceral state. I sincerely hope that this is conveyed to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

“Your health is not my responsibility!” Has become the go to phrase for people who refuse to take any mitigation measures against the spread of Covid. They fail to understand that personal choice ends when your decision impacts MY health. “You do you” doesn’t work when we all share the air.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

🧵🛑 Don't shut the door on us. Closing Long Covid clinics without training healthcare professionals, & without clear care pathways & long-term plans, risks leaving thousands of children & young people without the support they need. And if we don't act?👇 #LCandMe #FundOurFuture

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

'“What this has evoked is a deep questioning amongst people who must ask themselves, where do they stand on the question of evil? Because I believe that what we've seen in #Gaza is evil. You cannot describe it in any other way.”' www.youtube.com/watch?v=27HR... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Israel

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My latest @kqedarts.bsky.social story about sold-out masks-required shows sums up many of my thoughts on the ongoing pandemic's fifth anniversary. Many of us are living in the actual new normal. It's never too late to start protecting your loved ones & self again! www.kqed.org/arts/1397262...

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

This is what adaptation and community care looks like. There's a market for mask mandated events. Many people will show up if you create a safe space for them. Masks, clean air and ventilation are the way forward!

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

From @mosababutoha.bsky.social: "This is a boy who, along with another +50 people, was killed in Rafah this morning as he tried to run away from the invading tanks. His identity is unknown." www.instagram.com/p/DHjOd_lyNI... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

COVID minimizers have said for years that “if” it was that dangerous we would see increases in other illnesses We’re at that stage, and no one is talking about it. Deny. Deflect. Obfuscate. “Other illnesses that weaken the immune system and allow latent TB infections to emerge may also be at play”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments