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submitted 81 days ago • 172 comments

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

submitted 93 days ago • 5066 comments

Couture: 700 billion in fraud that only he could find, yet hasn't produced the receipts… this is all about undermining your confidence in the program’s legitimacy so they can raid that trust fund

submitted 94 days ago • 297 comments

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected. That's not something you get over.

submitted 94 days ago • 663 comments

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

submitted 94 days ago • 2627 comments

never surrender

submitted 94 days ago • 129 comments

THE FATED FINALE BEGINS! 🎲 ✨ TEN YEARS of tales and countless rolls of the dice collide as Bells Hells come before the Gods of Exandria and #CriticalRole Campaign 3's legendary final episode starts RIGHT NOW! 🔔🔥 TAKE A SEAT AT OUR TABLE ⬇️ BEACON.tv YouTube.com/CriticalRole Twitch.tv/CriticalRole

submitted 137 days ago • 58 comments

Let the leopard feast BEGIN!

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤 (Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

submitted 169 days ago • 425 comments

I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.

submitted 170 days ago • 332 comments

"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the [Washington] Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 171 days ago • 25 comments

Sounds fair to me!

submitted 174 days ago • 984 comments

Chief Justice Roberts has the nerve to whine about detractors suggesting “political bias in the judge’s adverse rulings without a credible basis for such allegations.” The gaslighting is real. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

submitted 174 days ago • 1638 comments

It's very interesting to see how Netflix and Apple handle shows different. Netflix cancels everything you like, two seasons in. Apple TV has confirmed 4 seasons of Silo, finishing the story. So I'm confident watching because I know I'll get an ending.

submitted 177 days ago • 80 comments

submitted 182 days ago • 221 comments

Storytime. In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.

submitted 199 days ago • 102 comments

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is on tonight. The classic tale of when people treat you like shit until they find out you can do something for them. 🦌🦌🦌

submitted 200 days ago • 388 comments

Somehow the algorithm thinks I’m interested in cat photos. Or cats really do run the internet. Probably the later.

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

as a kid, i fixed my parent's computer. as an adult I fix my kids's computer. pretty sure we are the only gen that knows how computers work

submitted 203 days ago • 388 comments

Trump’s abuse of the office doesn’t green light Biden’s. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

submitted 204 days ago • 0 comments

We can be upset about both