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The New Yorker: Anita Kunz’s “The Face of Justice”

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Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.

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It's an open secret that US garment factories are staffed with undocumented workers. After decades of toiling for low pay, I've yet to see a single fashion brand speak up on about the raids on LA's garment district. In 2016, Robert Geller at least made an "Immigrant" t-shirt to raise funds.

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Malone is now recycling the antivaccine gambit of "hot lots" claiming that certain vaccine lots are associated with more adverse events. vaxopedia.org/2016/09/17/h... This has been specifically examined: www.pei.de/EN/newsroom/... www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances. There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

Stan Baker, the lead plaintiff in the 2000 case that established same-sex civil unions in Vermont, died this week at the age of 79. Baker reflected on the Vermont Supreme Court decision 20 years later in an interview with Vermont Edition.

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New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

Watch this video how to be prepared if ICE tries to come to your workplace. Don’t wait to talk to supervisors until agents are on site. Make a plan now, same as you would for a fire drill. Then if ICE comes to your job follow the plan. 1/

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I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?

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1/9🧵 Fired But Fighting gives RFK Jr.’s new committee in charge of vaccine approvals (AKA: ACIP) an overall F rating. It is filled with the people who touted mis/dis-information throughout the COVID pandemic. More on each person in the thread below. #ACIP #Publichealth #vaccines

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Your CPSC "Beat the Heat" safety starter pack.

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The nyt 11,000w anti-trans hit piece runs in print tomorrow. It’s riddled with factual errors of law, baseless assertions, and bogoted personal attacks. Most insidious, tho, is the right-wing anti-science disinformation it slips cavalierly into its screed. 🧵

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A hallmark of conspiracy theories is obsession with cover-ups and "censorship" over actual evidence of their core claims. If kids were being rushed into surgeries, these articles would show it! Instead they are relitigating arcane academic drama about a review not getting published.

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"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

Please make calls to demand Trans People are protected while also demanding that the Trevor Project fight back against this evil genocidal rhetoric! #ProtectTransKids 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransMenAreMen 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransWomenAreWomen 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️

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Wuendy Bernardo, a mother and guardian of seven children, continues to face deportation proceedings after a 2019 detention on her way home from church in northern Vermont.

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ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a “secret police,” with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

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1/5 🚨 New item quietly added to the CDC ACIP agenda: a vote on thimerosal in flu shots. Let's talk about why this worries us 🧵 TL;DR: Thimerosal is safe. This debate was settled decades ago. Reopening it signals a shift toward disinfo-driven policy...and that’s dangerous.

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My piece: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believ...

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Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

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Starship blowing up is a bigger deal than you think. It’s not a prototype in a sandbox anymore, it’s a $4B NASA contract to land humans on the Moon ($2.8B initially, $4B with follow-ons). Every explosion is taxpayer-funded hardware going up in flames.

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70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

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The 'revelation' here is a bizarre NYT hit piece on a researcher who said she wanted to make sure her findings were accurate before publishing them.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

The target of our Spam in the Gears today is next level asshole shit. This poor service shit heal wants ppl to doxx “woke” service ppl in the right wing media to force their removal and generally harass them into quitting the service. I have a special hate for these kind of fucker. Info below!

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The White House just posted some wild propaganda about the overtime tax proposal in the form of... a diet coke ad. 💰🤑 They want workers to think they're not getting taxed on overtime and are taking home bigger paychecks, but here's why that's incredibly misleading.

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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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if you’re a field medic and don’t already have a blue light flashlight, pick up a mini one for your kit to help with bruise detection for people with deeper skin tones.

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This video shared on reddit shows the tail-end of PF getting run out of Springfield, MO today by community members. Note the dork who is so scared he even falls trying to get into the truck. This is the energy everyone needs to meet nazis marching in their cities with.

submitted 15 days ago • 81 comments

Because Trump is losing in the courts, Republicans are trying to change the rules to rig the system. Tucked in the Big, Ugly bill is a provision that would restrict judiciary contempt proceedings from enforcing court orders & holding Admin. officials accountable. This is textbook authoritarianism.

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This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.

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"CNN has learned that all of the Democratic members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation were on the suspect’s alleged target list, according to a law enforcement source." www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

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I have been fully focused on my project encompassing The Satanic Temple and have most of the research done - with an interview or two needed to wrap it all up. As it stands it will encompass: (1) The Genesis of the Temple: Founders, Foundations,

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Following in his parents footsteps, Shane Ortega enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2004. Shane, who is Haudenosaunee-Tuscarora, states that “Native Americans serve more than any other demographic of people.” 1/3 #AltVet #Pride #LetThemServe #HappensToBeTrans #TransMilitaryBan

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

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Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

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While we’re distracted by Trump, Newsom and the Los Angeles protests The Big Ugly Bill lurks If passed-11 million would lose health insurance 24 million could see large cost increases Medical centers will close So healthcare workers will be fired And rural towns will collapse DON’T LOSE FOCUS

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

I went through a massive reading slump in 2014. Today I typically read 30 books in a given month. And I want to offer some practical suggestions on how to get back into reading, from someone who’s done it. Thread:

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments