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You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

This week I heard from a young person who listened to one of my many rants on a podcast, decided that she would start offering self-managed abortion workshops in her community, and has offered 20 of them in the past 5 months. I was truly so happy to hear it & told her that I would continue to rant 🤣

Some good news!

Source sends along this photo from House Democrats’ AIPAC-led trip to Israel. Reps in the photo include: Pete Aguilar, Brad Schneider, Johnny Olszewski, Nellie Pou, Gil Cisneros, Laura Gillen, Tim Kennedy, Luz Rivas and Wesley Bell

Here’s the jolly group of Dems who decided to visit their ally in genocide.

literally the only counter argument you need is “jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals”

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Good morning. Some thoughts about last night:

It’s a shocking thing when media get brutalized by the state, for a number of reasons, but it often shifts the spotlight off the thing we were out there to cover in the first place.

My evening started like this yesterday: a lively, fun march thru DTLA

This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying

98% of US lawmakers receive campaign donations from the arms industry, with dozens having investments in weapons companies. Hind Hassan asked senators Tim Kaine and Susan Collins about that apparent conflict of interest.

Watch episode 1 of Business of War: youtu.be/cVYTb85_dZw

The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

We must refuse to allow the U.S. government and the media to normalize mass censorship in response to a manufactured moral panic about technology and social media.

Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week, Trump says President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in the United States, multiple sources tell CBS News.

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine.

Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Yesterday there was an attempted mass murder of CDC staff and yet RFK the Lesser has not directly spoken to the head of the CDC. Not a single word condemning the violence from him or the President.

Turns out T injections and methylene blue can’t fill the empty space where a heart would.

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

Cuomo seems hellbent on running the worst campaign possible. It’s textbook “what not to do,” and yet! Fascinating.

Shut this concentration camp down!

Attorneys for a Venezuelan man who collapsed inside “Alligator Alcatraz” are accusing the facility of failing to provide adequate care for sick detainees.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

LAPD fucked us all up, multiple journos bloodied, aggressive push, video when able

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

A dozen or more transgender members of the U.S. Air Force who had sought early retirement to avoid being discharged for their gender identity have had those retirements canceled. Each has served between 15 and 18 years.

Easily one of the funniest posts all year

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.

The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape. Get details:

Congrats to @teenvogue.com, who have won a @rooseveltinstitute.org award for their reporting. We are proud to have their courageous, bold journalism on our platform. Find their Flipboard account here.

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We should absolutely be raising the salience of this particular case as much as possible. It's abject racial profiling and has a serious chance of eating into Trump's gains with Hispanic people.

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In true Trump-y fashion, hard-right Japanese party Sanseitō has its own branded beer (apparently created by an associate of party head Kamiya Sōhei) that's more expensive than most on the market.

Also in true Trump-y fashion, the number one ingredient - malt - isn't Made in Japan.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

Trump and Hegseth screwing over trans veterans on retirement benefits is an easy slam dunk politically for Democrats to flip the narrative on trans folks and that's exactly why they'll continue going on podcasts talking about how bigots have a point about sports.

Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes.

Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items.

If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch.

RFK Jr. Quietly Endorses Flu Vaccine for Kids and Adults New CDC director also backed a new option for infant immunization against RSV

😡 RFK Jr. says the loud part quiet (and the crazy parts loud).

He quietly backdated his flu shot endorsement—while loudly spreading dangerous lies about the flu shot.

This is public health malpractice and malicious CYA.