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One big reason why all these assholes are pushing the autism button so hard is:

For-profit institutionalization gives them guaranteed and *monetized* access to children they can sexually abuse, and all these freaks are Epstein associates

OK so I read through this study, and here are my conclusions:
- What a cool tech to examine epigenetic factors so closely!
- This is a small study
- This only differentiates severe-presenting patients from healthy controls; hasn't been used to diagnose ME/CFS *versus* other inflammatory illness. 🧪

“You’re always playing the race card”

Anyone who says this has no idea how power dynamics work.

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt.

Black people have never had the power to keep white people from voting, reading, or writing. If anyone’s had a race card, it’s white people.

Amazing how no one asks officials:
1) Why didn't you pursue the Epstein case earlier? He was indicted two decades ago.
2) Why did the past three admins appoint people tied to Epstein/Maxwell to major cabinet roles?

The key to whether a politician is bullshitting: will they discuss Robert Maxwell?

he's right and I hope he backs this up by addressing the immense wealth the Catholic Church holds, especially in very poor countries. lead by example!

Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Game theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, the civil rights movement, and more all agree on this: unite for independence or lose.
Great piece by Henry Farrell

Every day in this country the poorest, least powerful, most vulnerable people make hard choices and sacrifices for the sake of their integrity and values, while everyone else, from wealthy elected officials to journalists, make this face 🥺 when asked to make any kind of stand for public good

Ta-nehisi Coates just eviscerated Ezra Klein for logic like this. So, uh, I guess go watch that interview if you’ve already acquiesced to your role of silence in the first line of the Niemoller hierarchy in this point in history.

⬆️ probably read Niemoller and could have gotten an A on it for a school assignment, but Niemoller read the souls of Nazis and their enablers and knew they would post 💩 like this when the real assignment came in

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Meta considers women's health a "political issue" and stopped the campaign of the Swedish Cancer Foundation that was informing women about the importance of mammograms on Facebook.
This is completely deranged behaviour from a social media company. Health is apolitical, women's health is apolitical.

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Digital illustration in comic book style of 1966 Adam West Batman. He’s making a very manic and stressed out gritted-teeth grimace as he runs with a comically large bomb with a lit fuse held in both hands over his head. Three speech bubbles, the last being a red and orange burst, contain the words ‘Maybe it will happen today!’ 🦇 💣

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Add clean air with the clean food and the water and YES.

My pediatrician stopped doing COVID shots about two months before the government really announced anything. I ended up taking my daughter to a travel clinic and paying $150 out of pocket for her first shot.

I still don’t know if/when the second one in the initial series will even happen.

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Screenshot of a news story headline: “Utah father of 6 kills wife in murder-suicide after cryptic Facebook post” By Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News Published June 25, 2024

The “beautiful family” with this guy

It’s time to talk about my health. YouTube video by Chris Williamson

Mold sensitivity, tick-borne illness & heavy metal exposure = a living hell most can't fathom. This captures the brutal reality many endure (me, included). Mainstream medicine still dismisses us. It's time doctors wake up & listen to patients. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

If you’re a Wells Fargo customer, maybe you shouldn’t be.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now