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If sex workers disappeared tomorrow, half of Wall Street would collapse by the weekend.

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Y’all call us dirty but would sell your left kidney for our bank statements.

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I replied to this last night and I'm going to send one more slightly desperate post now. My ex is really terrified of this move and this fundraiser is basically the only carrot I have. Every dollar makes it easier for me to get my trans daughter to safety before puberty. gofund.me/8664c1dc

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I know it’s been treated as a sideshow but Musk’s insane breeding fetish, the high likelihood that his actual number of children is far, far higher than known, and the fact he has effectively abandoned almost all of them is actually one of the most damning things people can learn about the man

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this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

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The stock market impacts the economy but it isn’t the economy. The very wealthy view it as a church casino night and truly give no shits if Trump and his Nazi horde wipe out your retirement.

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This is sick.

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Sex work existed before your morality, and it’ll outlast your judgment.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Republican reps should never know peace in public for what they've done

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Measles is particularly bad because not only is it deadly and highly contagious itself, it seems to wipe your bodies immunity ‘history’. So suddenly you can catch EVERYTHING again. People who survive are extremely susceptible to death by something else shortly after www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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For All Mankind, Severance, Foundation, Murderbot: Don't forget that AppleTV+ is also working on an adaptation of William Gibson's 1984 classic, Neuromancer. Here you can read an interesting reflection on how to approach this sci-fi universe, which is inevitably very... 1984, in a 2025 adaptation.

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

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Thread. Reminds me of the Bundy Occupation and how ranchers will complain/break the law over paying meager grazing fees and never say a word about meat packagers and Walmart.

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Context that Corporate Media won’t say: Musk/Trump are firing anyone in a leadership position who is not a white male.

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The occasional #MurdochJournal editorial or NYPost front page disagreeing with Trump is a smokescreen. Murdoch is devoted to the crowning of Trump as the dictator-king he created. This does not echo the Founders. It shouts fascism. #FührerFluffing

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Not the biggest outrage of the last 3 weeks, or even last 3 days. But on what planet is it "efficient" or in taxpayer interest to shut down already installed EV chargers? The Trump Admin continues to cede leadership to China and harm US industry and consumers. www.theverge.com/news/617235/...

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I attempted to write '𰻞' (biáng), the Chinese character with the most strokes in the world, using a fountain pen.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This is the clarity we need from @gorskon.bsky.social and many others.

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Fabulous defeat for the fascists!

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Wha!!!???!?!? 28 years?

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one more share because that's what starter packs are for!

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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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They fired a non-probationary, highly qualified epidemiologist. For no reason. Most likely because he was gay, or not MAGA, or both. We are in the darkest times.

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You're saying the billionaire's operation is like an octopus? An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?

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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

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Capitol police arrested him? ‘Hey Enrique. Remember when you and your pals got my friends killed? Pepperspray Farms remembers.”

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Originalism achieves its final argument: the Constitution is not a living document but rather a dying old man

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

it is so weird how purposefully zero day on netflix makes their right wing tucker carlson character both anti-authoritarian and class conscious when the actual right wing is neither

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Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 18 hours ago • 187 comments

major props to the associated press for not capitulating to trump. they're setting the standard for what news should be - independent, committed to the truth, and ready to stand against authoritarian governments.

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