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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Lol

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It's official - the Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Tennessee's ban on youth gender affirming care in the case U.S. v. Skrmetti. Here's what that means for trans youth and their families. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/skrmet...

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AOC burns the unctuous, corpulent, hypocrite Ted Cruz

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In Trump’s 2025, this was a vote to deport literally half of Miami’s population under these new ICE extra-judicial guidelines. W T A F

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Now shared with thirsty alt-text

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Speaking at the annual convention of the Nat'l Assoc. of Shortwave Broadcasters today here in Cary, NC was obviously like preaching to the choir regarding HF radio’s value in reaching global audiences during times of crises as VOA did for 83 years until silenced by our own government two months ago.

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Namaste, bot. Namaste

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Covid never went away but the latest variant is highly transmissible. #MaskUp😷

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If it was good enough tactics for the OSS & anti-nazi resisters in Occupied Europe during WW2, it’s good enough for the USA

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Larry Hama put this together?! The impact he’s had on comics isn’t acknowledged enough. The most interesting legend in comics we have and without all the shady baggage a lot of the old guard tend to bring with them.

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Austin’s only and oldest queer and feminist bookstore was vandalized this weekend. Someone threw a hunk of concrete at the Pride flag painted on their front window, smashing it and damaging the inside of the building. This would be an amazing time to show them some love. Ebookwoman.com

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I just really want Andrew Cuomo to spend the last week of his campaign being forced to answer why he didn’t think it was a big deal that the NYC Comptroller was arrested by federal agents for protecting people who make up 40% of the city’s population

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my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.

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Rage with the Machine

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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

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If Lander assaulted the ICE goons, then so did oxygen, & nitrogen, & whatever else is in the atmosphere

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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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Reporter: Five fellow mayoral candidates came here within 90 minutes of you being arrested and called for your release. What does that say about the tenor of the mayor's race? Lander: Was one of them Andrew Cuomo? Reporter: It was not. Lander: Imagine that!

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In the Dirk Gently books Adams wrote of an ‘electric monk’ designed to sincerely believe things so the user didn’t have to. Things like ‘my spaceship won’t explode.’ No prizes for guessing what happens to the spaceship.

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I wrote about the No Kings protest in downtown L.A. and the people who took it upon themselves to give out free water, snacks and sunscreen to strangers.

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Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

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Thing is, Brad Lander was fucking right to be physically preventing ICE from kidnapping someone, regardless of what piece of paper they may or may not say they need or do not need. Let’s all be clear on this, at least.

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I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk

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ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

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Based on how these men are dressed how would you know who they are, who they are working for, what their authority is? No badges, no uniforms, at lease some are without masks this time.

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“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.

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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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So. The Pinkertons. That news item that went around yesterday about Emily Blunt playing Kate Warne? It's from four years ago. Last solid news about the Kate Warne biopic was from 2023. It seems clear that the movie is trapped in development hell and won't ever appear. Which is a good thing. 1/

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cough zizians et al cough

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I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

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If the federal government attempts to proceed with this, WA should pass a 1,000,000% real estate excise tax on the sale of federal lands.

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With alt text.

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UPDATE: The City of LA has spent $19.7 MILLION so far in response to the June protests against ICE. This spans a week-and-a-half thru June 16, 2025. (These do not include potential lawsuits or liability claims)

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Trump directs war planes to the Middle East. These are in transit. This is confirmed by Germans. I am seeking more confirmations

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Please enjoy this photo of our new kitten Bobby and our mostly confused dog Ralph

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Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

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@smith.senate.gov: "I think [Mike Lee] was sort of stunned to be coming face to face with somebody who was really calling him out on his bullshit... The way that people like Mike Lee and others on the right take advantage of the worst kind of human tragedy and political violence... is unacceptable."

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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

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