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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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Slugged in the sun.

#HEYHEYHEYHEY

After years of falsely claiming that MMR vaccines cause autism, RFK Jr. has published a new op-ed on Fox’s website encouraging people to get the vaccine amid a measles outbreak that has already resulted in the death of a school-aged child.

Frustrated Democrats Urge Leaders to Show More Fight Against Trump Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach.

Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach

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A graphic with a photo of an older white man working in a factory with text that says, "For the record, you deserve every cent of every promised Social Security payment after you spend a lifetime earning benefits."

If you've paid into Social Security, you deserve Social Security when it's your time to collect. Period.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

@warren.senate.gov Thank you for fighting for the little people!

Go get them @warren.senate.gov.

How can the government as as though this is “welfare.”We’ve paid into this our entire lives? We expect them to pay after taking our money all these years but now some act like some type of negotiation is in order when it comes time to pay. Sad.

“It’s like driving through hell itself”

The PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) from Palisades to Malibu is gone.
#PailsadesFire #LA #Climate

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Even her hand-washing edict is wrong since skin-contact-transmitted, highly-infectious norovirus.
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Indeed. It needs to stop.

What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.

Richard Brody on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw out their collections just yet.

Absolutely NO ONE voted for "President Musk" and absolutely NO ONE voted to cut Social Security!

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HOLY SHIT—In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield have unilaterally declared it will **no longer pay for anesthesia care** if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. Dark times ahead.

Throw away your plastic cutting board. They shed microplastics into your food once they look like this. Use wooden cutting boards only.

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What happens in China never just stays in China. There is a surge in influenza A in the U.S. as well this winter. We rarely test whether the virus is conventional flu, or H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu. But the crowded ERs seen in many places are indications something is afoot. 🧵

Thankful for this platform. I enjoy the news and info provided here without the hate. It’s refreshing.