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DOGE is fucking with the unemployment benefits of those they just illegally terminated.

My unemployment benefits were denied

For fascists, the chaos and the "failures" are the point, not mistakes.

The more chaos results, the more they can focus people on scapegoats while continuing power grabs.

Do not measure success by the usual metrics: we are talking about a construct in which tragedy is a tactic.

"developing the parts of myself that are unproductive, ugly, and a drain on resources is a beautiful act of rebellion" ~Jessa Crispin

“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

—The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a few of this sticker left if you want one

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A stone pillar, the base of the McKinley Monument in San Francisco, on a sunny winter day. CZOLGOSZ and HWDP are graffitied on the side of the pillar in dark purple paint.

Oh my God, someone graffitied CZOLGOSZ on the William McKinley Monument in Golden Gate Park

(now that I think about it, I guess Czolgosz was the Luigi of his day?)

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

To the Insurance Executive Who Denied My Heart Procedure You may not think it is worth it, but at night, in the dark before morning, my son lays his ear on my garbled heart and tells me it is beautiful music. He doesn't fathom what you did to me, that you've traded our days of playing for a few small pieces of silver. All he thinks is my father's heart is music. I hear. I hear. I knew. Ruler, the children will outlive you. I wish you a long, long life of silences while dreamers hear the living world is singing. The one you have denied a life is you. —Joseph Fasano

"and he overturned the tables of the money-changers"

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Despite censorship and intimidation we continue to demand: no more research for genocide at MIT An MIT lab is collaborating with the Israeli military to develop AI surveillance algorithms and the university censored a campus publication that tried to expose it. We refuse to be intimidated and continue...

An MIT lab is collaborating with the Israeli military to develop AI surveillance algorithms and the university censored a campus publication that tried to expose it. We refuse to be intimidated and continue to demand: No More Research for Genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/despite-censorship…

Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System. Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

This is huge.

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

I've shared this before. Seems like a good time to share it again.

so hard. wtf. today was like a week.

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

“Why you so obsessed with me?” — Mariah Carey (2009)

I laugh every time I think about my therapist all but saying “you should start smoking weed so you can chill the fuck out.” She’s so real for that.

Long COVID symptoms prevalent among healthcare workers New research has found that 33.6% of surveyed healthcare workers in England report symptoms consistent with post-COVID syndrome.

Long COVID symptoms prevalent among healthcare workers

New research has found that 33.6% of surveyed healthcare workers in England report symptoms consistent with post-COVID syndrome. Yet only 7.4% of respondents reported that they have received a formal diagnosis.

Walking out of WICKED and the story of a Black woman (green*) refusing to take part in a oppressive regime that then demonizes her and uses propaganda to inspire people to kill her is a bit too on the nose for our not too distant future!

An oral history of Elphaba, one of Broadway’s most empowering roles Idina Menzel and others open up about the pleasures and perils of playing Elphaba, the iconic “Wicked” character.

As the #Wicked movie hits theaters, I spoke to seven Elphabas — Idina Menzel, Stephanie J. Block, Ana Gasteyer, Jennifer DiNoia, Mandy Gonzalez, Lindsay Mendez and Mary Kate Morrissey — about one of Broadway’s most empowering roles