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WIC runs out this week

I actually got through to a representative right away this time! Make the call!

Believing trans people exist is enough to label you as a terrorism supporter.

Just came from protest and then an emergency community meeting for Doctor Ian Roberts. #Iowa #ICE

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
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shit ain’t over til it’s over

The Rent Is Too Damn High – A DIY Music Video A DIY punk music video starring a rent-hiking robot, community protest, and miniature Phoenix neighborhoods.

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The flip side of this “What if the Alien Enemies Act was good and something we should use in peacetime too!” dynamic is the “what if people like MLK were actually bad?” push the right has been telegraphing for a while now. bsky.app/profile/seth...

What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.

Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.

Trump admin targets lawyer who attempted to halt his client’s deportation DOJ’s move comes after Trump directed the department to seek to sanction lawyers “who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation.”

Running out of ways to describe how bad things are getting. The Trump administration is now going after immigration lawyers who have tried to stop the government from deporting their clients. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Trump reshaped a climate program to extract more oil. This company stands to profit. Occidental Petroleum could benefit from bigger subsidies for using carbon dioxide to squeeze more crude from sputtering wells.

Republicans reshaped the carbon-capture tax credit such that it almost solely benefits companies that are ... drilling for oil.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Columbia Students Deserve Their Money Back An open call to ambitious lawyers...

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This is the content Twitter now recommends when you open the app.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Weakening or removing liability protections for certain vaccines could be the thing that makes manufacturers contemplate leaving the market, experts say — or at least causes them to significantly raise prices"

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

THIS WILL END Free Colonoscopies & Mammograms THAT SAVE LIVES- BECAUSE HEALTH INSURERS DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THEM ANYMORE!

Do we realize how absolutely fucking weird this is?!

RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because they’re “too woke”

Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”

We absolutely should not become numb to this

Family says video shows Alabama man died after officer knelt on his neck The medical examiner ruled Phillip Reeder’s death a homicide but determined heart issues and drugs were contributing factors.

Relatives of an unarmed man who died as he was being detained by police last year say they recently viewed body-camera footage of the incident that showed Alabama officers kneeling on the man’s neck while he repeated “I can’t breathe.”

Can somebody explain this to me like I'm a 2 year old?

official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized

groyper occupied government

“Authoritarianism feeds on manufactured emergencies… basic research thrives on stable institutional frameworks”.

Bringing this back. Economists have been ringing the alarm for the past month or so

19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...

President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways. Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging tariff revenue. Stunning air strikes in Iran. Modest inflation. Yet poll after poll suggests most Americans aren't impressed. In fact, they seem tired of all the winning, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column. Why it matters: Trump appears to be losing by winning. The more he does [link.axios.com] (including issues beyond his legislative wins), the more the general public, especially independents, shrug — or recoil.

Quite the intro to today's Axios