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3 Things We Get Wrong About Kids, Crime, and Summer Email from FWD.us July 17, 2025 Just a Minute on Kids, Crime, and Summer Bad premises beget worse policies. Spend just a minute with us so that we can do better.     Busà Photography via Getty Images

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Oof. No qualifiers at all?

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Reminder: economic blackout today.

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I had to see this, and if you haven't already (or even if you have), you do too.

There is NOTHING NORMAL about this.

There is NOTHING SANE about this.

There is EVERYTHING to be worried about with this.

#ConstitutionalCrisis
#NotAKing
#CallACoupACoup

competing vax stories

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The Capitol Police arrested a group of peaceful protesters who demonstrated today in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of USAID workers. The president has made his message clear: disagree with them, and they will come after you.

My $30,000 health insurance claim was denied. Then I tweeted about it Public shaming works – but it’s also a sign of how broken the appeals process is in the US health insurance industry

I wrote in @theguardian.com this expansion on an earlier Substack post, on the powerful role of public shaming of health insurers, and how the more fragmented social media landscape makes it harder for patients (and physicians) to hold health insurers accountable. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

I showed it to the 14yo I work with just a couple weeks ago! Had to explain Chuck Norris and a couple of other references to him, but he still thought it was hilarious. Now he’s sharing ancient Chuck Norris facts & we’re gonna watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.

Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide | Virginia Heffernan As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy

TELL YOUR STORIES! Post on social media, write to local newspapers, talk on the radio. We are real people who do real good for the country we love. If you’ve been fired, don’t go quietly. If you haven’t, hold the line as long as you can.

#fedstrong #holdtheline

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Difficult to overstate how thinly stretched everyone opposing these fascists is

KM3NeT xkcd.com/3053

Tea dragon society! The game is based off of a comic series of the same name, highly recommend reading it! Definitely the inclusive cozy feel good read we all need lately