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25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts "You will kill me."

Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render more than 8 million Americans uninsured—a contingent of protesters entered the room in Washington. Here is what happened⬇️

"Empathy is a weakness" crowd is so funny. That's the meaning of life dawg. That's the one great and universal sense of joy. Playboy

Can I just take a second to thank @obsidianent.bsky.social and the folx who created Avowed. Life is so hard, but having just a little bit of time to breathe and play this beautiful game has brought me joy and comfort. Also I cried a lot. 🙏 Thank you so much for creating this. It has been a gift.

It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.

It’s state sponsored rape and murder of a disenfranchised demographic of its own people. That, folks, is a key component of fascism.

What can one person do?

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

The 28th is one day.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.

At first I thought it was just greed and mismanagement, but there are definitely individuals involved that see excess deaths of vulnerable and elderly people as an upside and have said as much publicly.

I guess one shouldn’t be surprised to find the nazis are into eugenics.

This coupled with withdrawal from WHO is extremely, extremely bad.

Communities thrive when corporations die. Sustained economic boycotts are vital to our strategy.

The dependence on corporations because of their immediately cheaper or quicker options is in the long term more costly.

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

All kidding aside, the reason he is doing this is to establish some kind of culpability by @profgalloway.com and I. We never threatened these people but it is all in service of getting his supporters to think we did. It’s not a random tweet — all planned for a larger effort to silence us or worse.

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

UnitedHealth found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland. Land access was the first step.

'[Young] farmers rank access to stable, affordable land as a top challenge. For Black, Indigenous, and other farmers of color, it’s an even more formidable barrier. And access to capital is right up there alongside—and intimately tied to—land access.'

Opinion | Abortion bans are killing women — and states like Texas want to hide the truth As the laws’ predictable harms come to light, anti-abortion groups want us to look away.

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Also, I’m just getting the hang of BlueSky, so I deleted the previous post which contained an error based on my own confusion about Irish political parties being sidelined when forming the new government.

That’s not fascist, it’s just potentially fucked up and very confusing.

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The right wing fascist shit happening in South Korea and the power of Marine Le Pen and her party in France is pretty fucking terrifying. (1 of 2)

Maybe it’s the ‘tism in me, but I never once questioned that he meant fitting a literal camel through the tiny little loopy on a literal needle—- like if I’m supposed to take “faith the size of a mustard seed” literally, there is no way the camel through the eye of a needle isn’t also literal.

Solidarity with all trans brothers and sisters today. That your future is yours is cold comfort when the state has you targeted but for whatever it’s worth we stand with you