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“I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is,” Robert De Niro told CNN in a statement. “I love all my children.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/e...

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Recently, when I have argued publicly for a path to permanent legal status for the undocumented, I have been making a deliberate effort to highlight the way in which legalization can reduce labor exploitation.

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NEW: We're asking a court to expand our clients' recent legal victory to ensure that all transgender, non-binary, and intersex people can be issued passports with the correct gender marker.

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ICE says it is investigating the cause of death of 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise in a Florida detention center on Friday. A local congresswoman says Blaise had complained of chest pains "for hours."

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Can’t believe this needs to be said but here we are. The MMR vaccine DOES NOT contain pieces of aborted fetuses. The vaccine contains weakened forms of measles, mumps, and rubella viruses and inactive ingredients like rHSA, neomycin, and sorbitol to stabilize the solution. That’s it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 170 comments

the media is going to assist in making youth transgender care illegal and then they’ll move onto their next goal of making it illegal across the board. anyone going along with this is a fascist

submitted 8 hours ago • 39 comments

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

submitted 12 hours ago • 41 comments

There are obvious ethical issues with knowingly exposing people to harmful diseases, but this is dumb for another reason. New vaccines aren't tested against placebo because they are tested against the prior version of the vaccine. That's how you know the efficacy is improving.

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

New on the blog, something I've been meaning to write for a long time. As we get ready for HHS to ramp up its attacks on our care, let's take a minute to remember why it matters: because we do, and we deserve lives worthy of living.

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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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Republicans are looking for ways to make sweeping cuts to Medicaid, while publicly insisting they’re not actually doing that. Enacting work requirements has emerged as one clear favorite option for the bamboozlement. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

this program could have saved my baby brother's life. the republican party is an enemy of humanity

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I won't be around today to read the HHS "Gender Dysphoria Report", but here's my comprehensive 2023 essay, "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental" (with over 100+ references) that will tell you everything that's wrong with it... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Know that when RfK JR releases his autism vaccine report the media will cover it the same way.

submitted 9 hours ago • 43 comments

New from The Downballot: Eight years ago, political scientist @jacobfhsmith.bsky.social argued that the biggest obstacle Democrats faced to taking back the House was their own self-doubt. Now, Jacob shows how those doubts have been vanquished. Read his analysis here -->

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

All you need to know about this HHS anti-trans slop pretending to be a scientific review is that they accidentally cited a 404 page.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Regular Gestapo activity.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

They totally used chatgpt to generate portions of the HHS anti-trans report. They used a made up citation style and then put 404 not found for a link. Just insane.

submitted 10 hours ago • 23 comments

This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face. This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 62 comments

This is incredibly important. Capitulating firms calculated that their behavior was necessary to benefit their own bottom line. Turns out there’s a cost side to capitulation too.

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

Jews have absolutely fuck all to do with the current “antisemitism” trend being pushed by conservatives and fascist Dems. We are just inhuman tools being leveraged to justify mask bans and civil rights violations and stifle free speech ALL WITHOUT OUR CONSENT OR VOICES.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Anyone arguing that food safety laws are minimally needed or that there's ways to stay safe by making everything from scratch...I'm sorry but where are the ingredients coming from in this scenario?

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

the chatgpt reddit is the funniest place on earth and they don't even realize it

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getting frustrated with my Pictionary partner bc im furiously drawing a skull and he won't say "3"

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

please we are so tired we cannot do all the things ourselves I want really important stuff that might kill me to be in the hands of people who studied that shit their whole life so that mastering the complexities of every aspect of human existence at once is not suddenly all on me, a theatre major

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This is a good thread that helps users understand why follow farming is such an issue.

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"inspect your own food for arsenic and e. coli"

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A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

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"You know, as an example, red lead was used to make cheddar... A can of coffee could be coffee, but it could be ground bone, or charred shells, or dirt." Deborah Blum on our bad food past -- and how to avoid it being our future: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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Also: Every court to have reached the Q over the past weeks has come to the same conclusion: The First Amendment categorically forecloses the government from deporting people solely because of their political viewpoints. Judge Young in AAUP/MESA; Judge Crawford in Mahdawi; Judge Sessions in Ozturk.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.

submitted 1 day ago • 746 comments

Gov. Pritzker talks the talk and walks the walk when it comes to LGBTQ+ allyship.

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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BREAKING: After a hearing and further briefing, Judge Brian Murphy says that, no, DHS — blocked by a prior order in the case from third-country removals w/o due process — cannot just send people to Gitmo and then let the military remove them to a third-country location with no due process.

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Get an AI clause in your contract. Make your estate planning explicit; do not leave room for interpretation by your heirs or publishers so that they can do this or anything like this. This is abuse of a corpse and it is REVOLTING.

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Mohsen Mahdawi was released on bail today from his illegal detention at the hands of the Trump administration. Good. In America, you are not supposed to end up in a jail cell for expressing your opinion. This is a major step forward in the fight against authoritarianism.

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It is so maddening. Of all the low trust pathologies of modernity this one angries me up the most, because it is so harmful, specifically to babies. Babies!

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I think people genuinely don’t actually know that kids used to die all the fucking time!

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not dunking on person posting this, but this article and many similar stories (especially about tariffs and manufacturing) are creating a false dichotomy where MAGA is inherently "masculine" & everyone/everything else "feminine". that's the bullshit premise upon which this whole movement hinges on

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as someone who was raised by aspiring christian fascists, once again: calling them evil invigorates them. because they believe you are evil, when you call them evil they hear “I am on the righteous path” stick to pointing out harm caused by policies and making historical comparisons

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baruch hatov vehametiv MAKING NOISE WORKS PUBLIC PRESSURE WORKS KEEP GOING DEMAND DUE PROCESS HUMAN RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS BASIC CONCEPTS EVERYWHERE

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If we can make more regular people aware that "the machine that can't stop getting things wrong is going to raise your power bill whether you use it or not", I think we can get more people to reject generative AI. People in Baltimore are already sick of BGE rate hikes as it is.

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Mohsen Mahdawi is free!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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