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“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected — he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”
22.03.2025 22:09 — 👍 2314 🔁 922 💬 185 📌 80
They could solve global hunger, eliminate homelessness, eradicate diseases, and still have untold riches. They could have cemented their places as the greatest humanitarians in human history. But they didn't.
They chose greed.
Wealth is a fucking addiction.
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them at one point as “targets.” The website lists mostly Black employees.
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Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
01.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 6459 🔁 1649 💬 552 📌 193
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
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In a contentious confirmation hearing to become the nation’s top health official, RFK Jr. struggled to answer questions about Medicare and Medicaid, programs affecting tens of millions of Americans, or to provide details about how he'd work to drive down health care costs.
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"I am sorry that the media has falsely reported on this story."
28.01.2025 22:56 — 👍 121 🔁 29 💬 19 📌 1
Check out my latest, I decided to make this available to everyone because it's too important for people not to hear.
9 mins if you can spare
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NEW: Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. That’s according to answers he provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren in response to additional questions she had for Hegseth as part of the vetting process.
23.01.2025 22:26 — 👍 2139 🔁 560 💬 95 📌 13Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience.
What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?
"Insider trading that happens in Congress explodes the cynicism that fuels the right."
24.01.2025 22:19 — 👍 969 🔁 287 💬 40 📌 15
We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
Yes scientists and doctors can get it right !
24.01.2025 05:01 — 👍 38555 🔁 3254 💬 376 📌 51
What you can do
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