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A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Well, this should be a record-breaking day nokings.org

I don’t know anything about RSD besides that it exists but I’m very familiar with what you just described. I’m sorry, I hope it passes soon.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years.

Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

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Rare reverse imperial boomerang considering we don't give a shit about this in America either

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

The only reason I want Anthropic to survive is so they can pay out their class action suit to the authors and creators they stole from.

VERA WONG'S UNSOLICITED ADVICE for MURDERERS by JESSE Q. SUTANTO

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This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

Those are some huge leeks. Satisfying chop!

Deal!

Every last American needs to ask themselves why Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are so desperate to force Anthropic's AI to conduct mass surveillance of US citizens and authorize military executions without human intervention or control.

Ooh, adding this to my TBR pile.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

CW: transphobia.

See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤

This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.

But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.

In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.

Paragraph 175 and 183.

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

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i really struggle to understand how anyone could behave this way. i mean, intellectually, i get it. i research monsters for a living. i know they’re real.
but imagine slamming the cage door in a crying child’s face, having just confiscated her crayons. and then going home to your own family???

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman, translated by Roz Schwartz

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I appreciated it for those reasons as well. Instead of feeling an emotional connection, I came away feeling that I'd observed a thought experiment play out. It was successfully thought provoking. I found it a difficult read while almost academically appreciating the work.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

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It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.

It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

I struggled to enjoy it in audiobook.

I did not give permission for this cartoon biography.