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You may not be able to afford food, rent, or healthcare, but don’t worry about Puppy Killer Kristi Noem; she’s living it up on her taxpayer-funded private jet.

Trump Demands Netflix Oust Susan Rice From Board The president’s comments come as Netflix tries to secure a deal and antitrust approval to buy Warner’s studios and the HBO streaming service.

Another day, another instance of petty authoritarianism. Thanks, GOP Reps and Senators, for refusing to do your constitutionally-mandated jobs. Thanks, John Roberts, for your unitary-executive gibberish.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.

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With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

This one hits hard.

Maybe I’m turning into too much of a conspiracy theorist, but it’s almost as if they want her to lose. Or at the very least they want to do what they can to shape and mold her narrative to line up with those of “mainstream” democrats.

So much this.

US Citizen, Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot 3 times through the driver's side window & killed on South Padre Island in Texas by Homeland Security Investigators while celebrating his 23rd birthday on March 15th, 2025.

This DHS & #ICELawlessness must stop.

Remember his name: Ruben Ray Martinez
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Read Coming to an Arizona Neighborhood Near You: Concentration Camps; Representatives Ansari, Grijalva, and Stanton Demand Answers from Homeland Insecurity now from Blog for Arizona for Politics from ... American Concentration Camps holding mostly innocent and non-violent people, many of them children, in locations across the country, including in Mesa, Florence, and Eloy, Arizona. All of Arizona&#…

“American Concentration Camps holding mostly innocent and non-violent people, many of them children, in locations across the country, including in Mesa, Florence, and Eloy, Arizona.”

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#Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue

That’s overly simplistic. Is pregnancy always a choice? Do people give up the right to their own bodies and autonomy because they have the potential to become pregnant? Why do others feel so comfortable questioning the decisions and controlling the bodies of pregnant people?

How are more people not talking about this.

Homeownership is highway robbery in America.

We as a country, have allowed this blatant theft to continue for far to long.

And that includes wage theft.

#SheShed

Not being that sort of person is a choice we make and keep making. It helps to have a strong set of core values. But most of us aren’t inherently good or evil. We make decisions (consciously or unconsciously) every day that determine what kind of person we are.

The company you work for is NOT your family and you don't owe your job anything beyond the work you're being paid to do.

Prioritize your own growth and well-being. If you have an opportunity to better yourself, never feel guilty about taking it.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

Who knew that threatening, insulting and alienating other countries, having a gang of unregulated federal thugs terrorize and intimidate communities, and kidnapping innocent people off the street could make people not want to visit? That’s surprising.

…huh?

That response is a turd wrapped in frosting. Still not a cake.

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

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Text: MIGHTY PURSUIT: LIVING IN THE U.S. SHORTENS YOUR LIFE BY 8 YEARS. | image: person wrapped in American flag, lying face down in a coffin

Text: It's weird, isn't it? The United States is the world's top superpower. It spends $5 trillion on health care each year. And yet if you live in America, you could lose as much as eight years of your life. Just by being here. | image: person wrapped in American flag, lying face down in a coffin

Text: Japan's average lifespan is 85. The United States bottomed out at 77 a few years ago. And yet Japan spends a third on healthcare than the United States. Translation... You're more likely to die sooner AND pay far more for it. | image: person wrapped in American flag, lying face down in a coffin

But it gets worse. The U.S. is the only developed country where the majority of adults are chronically ill. 60% of adults live with at least one chronic disease. Cancer. Diabetes. Heart disease. So it's not just lifespan that's shorter. It's your healthy years too.

Thinking of leaving? Here’s another reason:

Living in the United States will shorten your life span, by EIGHT YEARS

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Universal healthcare saves more money than making people pay for it, and most of the benefits of are downriver from being the sort of people who make health a public duty, thereby avoiding the terrible expenses inherent to being the sort of people who treat sickness as a way to make money.

Universal higher education saves more money than making people pay for it, and most of the benefits of are downriver from being the sort of people who treat education as an investment, thereby avoiding the terrible expenses inherent to being the sort of people who treat education as a profit center.

Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.

Wow.

This is it exactly. I’ve done this many times. It’s not about the idiot spewing ignorant views. It’s about theirs not being the only voice the people they target with their hate hear, and you lending their argument validity with your silence.

What, and I say this with my full chest, the heck?

That’s an impressive display of a lack of moral compass on the part of the magazine.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Illinois has eliminated its bill backlog and debts.
Illinois has enshrined reproductive rights.
Illinois has reaffirmed labor rights.
Illinois has rebuilt its infrastructure.
Illinois has prioritized our children’s education.

Illinois has invested in our future — with more to come.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

None of this is normal

Well that’s one way to say the quiet part out loud.

Melanie D'Arrigo If you kill someone, you could go to prison for life. When corporations kill someone by denying them medical care, poisoning their food, contaminating their water, polluting their air, neglecting safety standards, they get tax breaks and their CEOs get bonuses. December 13, 2024