Tom Quinn

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

Cancer experts warn of coffee enemas and juice diets amid rise in misinformation Oncologists say patients rejecting proven treatments are dying needlessly because of increase in online ‘cures’

Cancer patients are snubbing proven treatments in favour of quackery such as coffee enemas and raw juice diets amid an “alarming” increase in misinformation on the web, doctors have said.

Every 70mm IMAX screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘SINNERS’ has sold out, crashing AMC’s website.

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history."

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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

When history starts repeating itself 💔

Powerful message from Jim Acosta as he resigns from CNN today:
“It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant…Do not give in to the lies. Don’t give into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.”

How Concerned Citizens Ran a Neo-Nazi Out of Rural Maine Before he promoted lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Christopher Pohlhaus tried to build a fascist compound in America's whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.

"But unbeknownst to Hammer, he was being followed. A longtime Mainer was determined to wipe the smirk off the neo-Nazi’s face. Indeed, he hoped to run Hammer out of the state for good."

with the brain worm, it’s kind of a two-for-one opportunity

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

Trump expected to pursue demise of EV tax credits The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are expected to pursue the demolition of electric vehicle tax credits.

Trump wants to slash EV subsidies—with Musk's support. Why? Bc Musk thinks this will increase his competitive advantage.

This shows how the climate ppl who worship Musk fundamentally misunderstand capitalism. He's not trying to change the system, but to own a niche.
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While there are checks and balances to mitigate attacks on health policy, it's important not to understate the power of the bully pulpit RFK Jr will be given as head of HHS. So much harm will be done by handing him a larger platform to spread vaccine and health disinformation.

I encountered this scene on my front porch at 1AM about 8 years ago. I had no idea what I was witnessing. Great work

The number of times this account has stopped me in my tracks… The vaccine’s double edged gift was that it let people memory hole scenes like this and treat Covid like the flu. But those moments when your mind slips back to those dark days…

Just another day when I'm struck again by the terrible societal failure represented by the fact that GoFundMe has become an entirely normalized part of the process of getting critical health care for thousands of people in this country.

Tweet from Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic): We're living in this twilight zone where everyone agrees a brand new, rapidly mutating virus entered the mix four years ago, a once in a century occurrence, yet culturally we can't admit why there is so much more sickness now. You could hardly find a more solid case of 2+2=4

Twenty-somethings didn’t used to have heart attacks! Thirty-somethings didn’t used to have heart attacks! Or at least it was rare enough that it required explanation when they did! There didn’t used to be a perpetual “mystery bug” going around—that’s Covid!

View the launch video for Katrina's campaign for U.S. Senate in North Dakota in 2024, "Wolves" Wolves - Katrina for U.S. Senate

Democratic candidate for Senate in North Dakota. She’s a real long shot to win, but holy cow is this a good ad. youtu.be/I44L1pzi4gk?...

An angry Utah parent accused a high school basketball player of being transgender. Will it keep happ... A father attending a junior varsity basketball game in Canyons School District was banned from future games after he wrongly insisted a player on the opposing team was transgender.

A UT man has been barred from attending school sport events after "belligerently" accusing a 17-year-old girl of being transgender--even after being told the student had submitted their birth certificate to comply with UT's ban on trans athletes.

“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; Martin Luther King Jr Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

Only quote I ever feel like sharing on MLK Day is this one

Humans are so dumb that anything they don't personally remember doesn't seem real to them.

People have no personal experience of a virus making dogs go crazy and bite everyone that is 100% fatal to both the dog and the humans, so they think it's no big deal.

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The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved vid...

This was one of the most prescient pieces of journalism written in the last decade deadspin.com/the-future-o...

It is 1976. Conservatives are mad that music and art are political. It is 2001. Conservatives are mad that music and art are political. It is 2024. Conservatives are mad that music and art are political.

BREAKING: Norway’s United Federation of Trade Unions says it will start blocking Teslas bound for Sweden unless Musk signs a collective bargaining agreement with the Swedish Industrial Workers’ Union.

They will join workers in Denmark who have taken Sweden's Tesla strike international.

If he wasn't a powerful and litigious white supremacist, what Elon's going through would be deeply sad. He clearly has a bottomless need for approval, has been used to getting it for years and is now destroying his life to seek it out from the dwindling number of losers willing to give it to him.

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Typical Seating Chart xkcd.com/2862

You *really* need to see the side-by-side comparison to fully appreciate the differences. Especially if you don't get why people are saying that the Kissinger statement is cold.

Is it possible to fly a flag at twice-staff?