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the US healthcare system is modern indentured servitude.

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

Whatever Loomer is saying, I'm not repeating

What Tucker Carlson’s ‘fire’ lefty merch tells us about the modern influencer economy. “What are the moral repercussions of buying dope merch from an ontological enemy?”

I wrote about Tucker Carlson's dirtbag left "NY Commie" and "I ❤️ NICOTINE" merch, the Right's efforts to infiltrate your feeds, and the dream of the modern influencer — to move from content to shelf-stable goods.

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This is true. There’s a very narrow way in which you can make the case that immigrants, at any stage in their journey, cost America more than they contribute. Racists and idjits (sometimes a two-for) love to pretend that’s the whole story when it’s more of a footnote, not even a chapter. Big net win

"I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America's society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness." ~Nina Simone

Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater dire…

AI is better than humans because AI doesn’t get cancer. So let’s build data centers that we know will cause humans to get cancer. It’s a win all around.
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We're spending $1 billion per day on war as millions of working people struggle to get by.

Meanwhile, America's ultra-rich have never been richer.

CT Republican Fazio says it’s “easy” for him “to vote against the gun control laws that have come across my desk in the Senate.”

Also easy? Voting for a Democratic governor who backs police and public safety with common-sense gun laws.

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

The DOJ is suggesting that gender-affirming care providers may be engaging in "conspiracy" because they're prescribing medications off-label. That poses danger for an important backstop in the event old restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone are restored:

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

Reuters confirmed that the elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab was bombed TWICE by the US military, 40 minutes apart. This was intentional. You don't "accidentally" bomb a school TWO TIMES. @TheLastFarm The only reason to bomb anything 40 min apart is to kill the rescuers. Doing that to an elementary school is beyond depraved. The United States is the most evil entity on the planet

Even those Dems who oppose this war, oppose it out of a sense of "us," of what is right for "us." It isn't being opposed out of an ethical position, for instance, that it is simply unforgivable to bomb another country into dust and to subject the people there to American imperial power.

Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."

🚨"Dudes, you killed that dude!" a prison inmate in Jeffrey Epstein's prison told the FBI he overheard a prison guard say to other guards as they found Epstein's dead body. The inmate added he heard prison guards plotting to "cover up" Epstein's murder. @jtcestkowski.bsky.social reports ⬇️

I do NOT want Iran.
I do NOT want Cuba.
I do NOT want Greenland.
I do NOT want Canada.
I do NOT want Venezuela.
I do NOT want the Panama Canal.
I do NOT want the Gaza Strip.
I do NOT want Mexico.
I do NOT want Colombia.

I DO want the right to vote in a fair election.
I DO want healthcare.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

I found a list of gender neutral names and liked this one (but I wont say my real name on the internet lol)

But thats it. I saw it on a list and liked it and tested it out with my friends and it felt right. Like shoes that fit perfectly.

San José State University Sues Trump Admin Over Anti-Trans Threats—Refusing to Capitulate The Trump regime said San José State had to break state law to discriminate against trans students, but the university said it isn’t budging.

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San Jose State, targeted by Trump for trans volleyball player, fighting back against new anti-trans restrictions noting that "safety" not an issue since mens/womens often play together and event occurred followed existing law AND was before new fed policy.

Trump adds pressure to pass the SAVE America Act, with new anti-trans provisions The president said he won't sign new legislation until Congress adds voter ID and mail-in ballot restrictions, as well as unrelated provisions targeting transgender athletes and children.

There are no provisions in the SAVE America Act on gender-affirming care or transgender athletes, despite Trump’s new priorities list.

House Republicans have tried to pass anti-trans laws, but barely any make it out of Congress. They get stripped in the Senate.

Trump says he won’t sign any other bills until the SAVE Act is passed, which requires voters to show proof of citizenship with expensive documents like passports.

Reminder: noncitizen voting is already illegal and incredibly rare. This is about voter suppression, plain and simple.

Art of the Deal!

I guess this is what they had in mind when they preach trickle down economics.

New survey data from ZipRecruiter reveals an alarming trend where more workers are being forced to prioritize immediate employment over salary growth.

- 27.3% of new hires took a pay cut

- Only 56.4% landed a raise

- Signing bonuses hit a 2025 low at 15%

I think people believe the point of progressive politics is to try to convince malicious, bad-faith bigots to not be violent, instead of defanging their movements and making them politically irrelevant.

It's not about "saving the souls of the lost". It's about making sure their harm is mitigated.

Woman yells 'You're lucky ICE isn't here,' man throws liquid as kids leave NW Side dance class A Belmont Gardens dance studio, parents and children feel under attack, and a couple who admit their actions were wrong feel threatened by the backlash they've received.

From Chicago to Palestine, attacks on our children must end!

I am relieved that the children attacked Friday are safe and uninjured. I am proud of the ways Ballet Folklorico de Chicago continues to create space for our community to celebrate our culture.

The moms risking arrest to protect gender-affirming care for trans youth The government wants to ban the care nationwide. Hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.

She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

More people regret having children than transitioning, where's the legislation for that?