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“Let them suffer the consequences of their actions.” I see this so much in my mentions, often from anonymous accounts who could be bots or ops for all I know, but whatever they are, they are trying to normalize a false bifurcation. If “they” are suffering, so are people you consider to be “us.”

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

Weihong Hu, a hotelier with close ties to Mayor Eric Adams, stole tens of millions from a temporary housing program that was designed to stop the spread of Covid-19 in New York’s jails, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Perspective: Voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong, writes former U.S. Comptroller Gene Ludwig. Ludwig on why inflation and unemployment are worse than they seem👇

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients as much as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients. They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde doing God's work and showing more strength and courage than billionaires. Bishop at inaugural prayer service urges Trump to 'have mercy' on LGBTQ children, immigrants nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 32 days ago • 82 comments

Is it fine to call everyone who voted for this president racist, bigoted fuckwads, or are people still trying to pretend this had something to do with groceries??

submitted 33 days ago • 183 comments

To be clear, this is about getting people to quit so they can shrink the federal workforce and fuck up services that everyone depends on, from social security and Medicare to FEMA and national parks management. They want civil servants to quit. That’s the whole plan. www.npr.org/2025/01/20/n...

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

When you're listening do people whose only response to Trump is "he can't do that" then you're ignoring the people who are telling you that there are ways that he can do it and that you should be preparing for it. I'm just saying.

submitted 33 days ago • 36 comments

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

submitted 38 days ago • 642 comments

Israeli forces have killed at least 82 people in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, including at least 30 people in Gaza City in the hours since Hamas and Israel announced they had reached a ceasefire agreement. 🔗: aje.io/gmd5u4

submitted 38 days ago • 70 comments

They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.

submitted 40 days ago • 225 comments

Apparently the Church of Scientology has sent out “volunteer ministers” in bright yellow shirts to steal tons of supplies donated to at least 1 fire recovery resource site (Santa Anita race track) to redistribute to their “low income community.” Reads like stealing stuff to use to proselytize.

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

"Luckiest"

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

I know people have said this but want to underline — disasters like the LA fires just show me over and over that people want to help each other so badly. it’s our natural inclination and we live in a place that stamps it out on a government level, but it doesn’t change the desire

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Gone too late

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Compared to the other speakers, Biden’s speech is very Biden: vapid, empty, cliché, rambling, generic, uncharismatic, soulless.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 45 days ago • 126 comments

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

submitted 45 days ago • 83 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 45 days ago • 458 comments

Is Adolfo Franco his real name? Seems a little on the nose

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Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

submitted 45 days ago • 172 comments

Umm

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A bald eagle dying of bird flu is an apt symbol for the state of the US in 2025.

submitted 46 days ago • 68 comments

“Only racists who do not view people of color as equally human, and sociopaths who delight in funding mass slaughter, could send Netanyahu even more bombs while his government openly kidnaps doctors, destroys hospitals, and exterminates the last survivors in northern Gaza.”

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

Universal programs + progressive taxation is so much more efficient and equitable than means testing. www.vox.com/policy/39322...

submitted 49 days ago • 40 comments

Let's build bridges with fascists!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

A Palestinian child was injured following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. #Gaza

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Say his name: Hassan Al-Qishaoui, one of two journalists killed in the first two days of 2025. Murdered by drone strike in western Gaza City. He is among more than 200 journalists killed by US-backed-Israel since Oct 2023.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

submitted 52 days ago • 1322 comments

Absolutely terrifying literacy statistics. Global: 86.3% literate Developed nations: 96%+ U.S.: 79% - 21% of adults are illiterate, and 54% read below a 6th grade level. 20% read below a 5th grade level. Add this into the “how did we get here politically?” calculus.

submitted 59 days ago • 36 comments

“Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione” (It’s the NY Post, but nonetheless…) nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments