Jacks Salazar

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

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Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.

We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/

‘God, please fix me’: Inside the dangerous resurgence of ‘ex-gay’ conversion therapy | CNN More than half of US states ban the discredited and harmful practice of conversion therapy for gay people. But former practitioners say it’s making a comeback.

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This is harmful
Conversion therapy is harmful
Stop this awful practice now

If you're outraged, good. But don't stop there. Donate. Volunteer. Show up. Speak out. Allyship without action is just optics.

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

An astonishing figure in this piece:

Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.

This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.

That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding.

Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year.

Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t.

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said Trump adviser Russell Vought. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down."

(Published Oct. 2024 w/ @documented.net)

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

The richest country in the world can afford Medicaid.

The richest country in the world can afford food assistance.

There’s no reason for the cruel and dehumanizing cuts in this big bill.

It’s fascism. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. It’s a cull to accelerate ethnic cleansing.

Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.

Trump once again raised his “controversial” (read: illegal) plot to widen the net of targets in his massive deportation scheme.

“‘The Homegrowns Will Be Next,’ is one of the more chilling authoritarian phrases I have heard."
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Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials

Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class

As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Mushroom Cloud Hopefully Nothing Major

Mushroom Cloud Hopefully Nothing Major
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The Israeli Pink-washing Agenda — Necessary Behavior As we close off Pride Month, you may be lulled into a false sense of security when seeing advertisements of LGBTQ-friendly venues in Israel — but you may not know about the deeper connection between p...

Latest for Necessary Behavior, and it’s a heavy one.

Closed off Pride Month talking about Zionism and its intrinsic connection to pink-washing—and how it all serves an Islamophobic agenda.

You can read at the link:
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It’s never too late to start masking again.

Covid isn’t over. Measles is spreading rapidly. We’ve got anti-vaxxers in charge if public health.

There’s a huge community of support here if you want to learn more about respirators.

You won’t be the lone masker, I promise!

Urgent! Every Dollar Counts! We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…

Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.

Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

Children’s Institute 2025: Spreading Library Joy: PW Talks with Mychal Threets The PBS Kids’ “resident librarian” and TikTok sensation is adding a picture book to his resume, I’m So Happy You’re Here! A Celebration of Library Joy, illustrated by Lorraine Nam.

"I had to write up 170 incidents in a little over a year, and I was struggling mightily with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. Since I wasn’t able to care for myself, I couldn’t take care of my team or the community’s library kids."

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you’re going to have to go to the original to appreciate the full context: https://bsky.app/profile/kents.bsky.social/post/3ls2ey3oqxk23

and people say this website is dying

If you want to make America healthy again, start with

Universal health & UBI
Masks in healthcare
Clean air & water
Affordable housing & food
Guaranteed education
Paid time off
Affordable child care

When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

"It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

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The hospital in Georgia didn’t “save a life”

They had that chance when Adriana Smith sought medical care. They could have saved her & her fetus.

What they did was carry out a medical experiment without consent.

They failed her in life & then robbed her of dignity in death 🧵

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history.

This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

The dehumanization of Arabs since 9/11 has transformed the media landscape to the point where you cant even criticize a genocidal apartheid state publically without first condemning the people doing and risking the most to fight them.