And more of them own guns and are willing to kill for political reasons. This study is terrifying. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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And more of them own guns and are willing to kill for political reasons. This study is terrifying. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Interesting illustration considering a certain store selling cesium laced shrimp
People keep telling me that taking precautions is really such a pain but new NIH research finds “chronic pain has surged 18% since before the COVID-19 pandemic,” so while taking precautions may be a pain please bear in mind that this virus causes pain.
also a comment period until 9/1 on removing section 503 from the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. It currently requires Fed contractors recruit, promote, hire and retain qualified indiv. w/ disabilities, track their hiring data, and aim for 7% workforce. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. (Published Feb.)
I hope everyone on the "left" defending Leo Frank trutherism knows that one of the most high-profile figures associated with this particular antisemitic conspiracism is a deputy Pentagon press secretary for the Trump administration: www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-penta...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social I am America I am public education I am an informed citizenry I am a neighbor, a volunteer, a helper I am healthcare for all I am open arms for the poor, the unhoused, the immigrant I am love for all humans I am democracy— America.
So some people who were "good enough" to service in the US Air Force for 15-18 years are suddenly not "good enough" to receive their retirement benefits? This is bad mojo. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"Worst of the worst". I don't understand how does forcing a cop out of the country will make us safer. This is the same logic that pardoned all those felons convicted of violent crimes on J6. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Coverage dismissing the fact that National Guard are “just patrolling safe tourist areas” is missing the point. The very nature of a presence patrol — I did hundreds of these in Iraq — is to project strength. That’s to embolden your allies. And to threaten your enemies.
It truly amazes me how often "visionaries" fail to realize a simple truth: Regulations and laws don't exist to hamper business. Regulations and laws exist to limit liability for businesses. And these geniuses constantly learn it the hard way.
The thing that I am NOT fine with is doing glitzy NYTimes profiles of them and turning them into media darlings.
I think it's fair to add that those who have broken their oaths of office are not America. And those who have aided and abetted in the cover-up of the truth of the Epstein Files and Election interference are not America. I would go further and say that they don't deserve America.
An idea:
i let every gross news item about cuomo wash over me like a babbling brook because in a few months time he will go back to being a consultant for companies who price gouge baby formula or some shit and we won’t have to think about him anymore.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Yeah, no. “Please don’t use alt text like that lol” is not working for me. I mean there’s ‘calling in’ vs ‘calling out’ and I try for the former. But every time someone makes an image post about equality and inclusion without alt-text a cute animal dies… or something.
Right? I carefully wrote what I use and ran it by multiple people and made the adjustments suggested. Usually people take it as intended (or ignore it). But this one time 🙄
I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities
I quit Newsom’s recall text bank when they refused to provide a reply when a Black person asked about what he was doing for Black people. It’s a common question for a reason! I’m glad he’s willing to fight fire with fire. I don’t trust him not to harm people I care about.
Literally just got one in my replies saying "you and me will be fine if Newsome wins" and really gave away the game there.
RFK, Jr. May 13 2025, before Congress: "I don’t think people should be taking advice, medical advice, from me" By his own admission he is unqualified for his job. Stop the quack. @standupforscience.bsky.social will hand deliver petition to Congress. www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...
Sometimes we've just got to say it: If this isn't impeachable, what is?* *an 🌲 skeet.
They are taking away our rights, our cities, and our health.
The political strategy of 1) don't resist Trump 2) wait for thermostatic public opinion to just happen 3) don't talk about unconstitutional ICE actions and violations of the 1st Amendment 4) wait for the Supreme Court to solve it really doesn't seem to be working.
A new must read from Yunior Rivas.👇 In a healthy democracy, the right to vote isn’t something you earn or defend and the burden is on the government to make voting easier, not on citizens to prove they deserve to vote. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
Over the first seven months of 2025, the economy has added 597,000 jobs. Over the first seven months of 2024 — when Trump said the economy was terrible — the total was over 1 million jobs. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
NEW: ICE officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid. Why? To find "information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
Don't forget that most people can't pick up a refill until after they've taken their last pill, others get one or two days. It's awful.
And cutting food assistance for struggling people (aid that actually goes to farmers and supermarkets).
I didn't say it was smart. Just something that I've heard others say.
🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles. The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not that I have any desire to see anything there. I haven't looked over there in years.
I hear you. But there's another way to look at it. Go in using the Brave bowser which blocks all sorts of tracking, fingerprinting and ads. Use up their bandwidth. Bandwidth costs money.
During tornadoes, 1000s of storm chasers showing up in an area served by a cell tower that isn't designed to handle that kind of traffic bogs down and chokes the cell towers. As this happens, WEA push alerts to cell phones can become impossible. Another reason why NOAA Weather Radio is important!
It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.
If we stopped debating who is and isn’t “disabled enough” to deserve healthcare, we could easily work together and demand universal healthcare for all. There’s no reason it can’t be done, and it would lead to a healthier & happier society. Healthcare is a human right.
Hello. I wanted thank you for your time and effort to include alt text. I also wanted to share with you that it's a normal practice to post the same image more than once when there are more characters than allowed. Repeat as needed to include all text. Thank you for your work, for all of us.
Imagine if we protected people against guns like we did against shoe bombs
But hey, they scared some kids at summer camp. Such tough brave warriors. www.foxla.com/news/karen-b...
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Alaskans are going to suffer under Trump's tax bill, despite Lisa Murkowski negotiating perks for her state in exchange for her vote for the bill www.huffpost.com/entry/lisa-m...
Keep in mind that the cuts to Medicaid don’t go into effect until late 2026 conveniently after the midterm elections. Do not be fooled. Vote these ghouls out. Show up and VOTE in the midterms.
Unlawful ICE raids are taxpayer-funded kidnappings tearing families apart
“The SPLC strongly condemns the passage of the Republican-led budget bill. This deeply immoral legislation prioritizes corporate profits and tax breaks for the wealthy over programs that benefit those in need,” said Margaret Huang, President and CEO of SPLC. www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...
You've heard about how this is affecting Medicaid (which probably has a different name in your state!) but what you probably haven't heard about is that this is going to trigger huge cuts to #medicare too. @kff.org has been covering this: www.kff.org/tracking-the...
First human beings abducted and trafficked into a concentration camp arrived at Alligator Auschwitz. There. I fixed it.
Trump and his thug regime claim they have nothing to do with Alligator Auschwitz. Yet deputizing national guard as immigration judges to give swift due process. Kidnapping people all over the country to fill it, and just like Dachau, promising it is just the first of many more to come.
I hope these craven cruel fucks never sleep well again. I hope they spontaneously generate a conscience and it plagues them Tell-tale Heart style. I look forward to the day of accountability. We must fight with all we have to make sure that day comes.
Take your 15 min and be sad, mad, scared, outraged. Heck, take today if you need to. But do not give up. Do not abandon our children, our future, our nation. Maybe now folks will have the appetite for a general strike. We must plan and organize and recruit in earnest. We all have work to do now.
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
So here's a not completely unhinged theory: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
I still don’t get how all these members can say all this stuff about how deranged and evil Trump is and not call for him to be removed from office.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
I know there's obviously wild shit that happens when you call government officials, but I just had a person LISTED AS THE CONTACT NUMBER hang up on me after refusing to comment on THE ISSUE HE IS LISTED AS THE CONTACT for. Wild stuff!
He was admitted after he fell and injured his arm. But because there are absolutely zero transmission protocols in hospitals and they let disease fly around and don’t require masks he got Covid there and died. This is not a unique story. Last I read 30% of Covid cases are hospital-acquired.
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Content Warning: Torture. Unless you've. been a victim of torture and abuse you need to read this. Get your favorite drink, sit down and read this. Because this is why we need to be in our streets and pounding on the doors of our representatives. Unless we resist they will not stop with immigrants
I don't think they have one and thinking that they must would be a serious miscalculation. If they think it serves them they'll do it.
If you're looking to counter a friend or family member's misconceptions about Zohran Mamdani, we did a convenient rundown debunking all the smears (so far):
They say they want that, but the dude they're following ticks a lot of boxes for the antichrist. And of course there's that whole thing about putting a camel through the eye of a needle. SMH.
You're probably right. But they're sure as shit trying to drag us there.
we're in hell aren't we?
Jesus fuck.
MAGA Mike Johnson still doesn’t have the votes to pass Trump’s Tax Scam. Keep lighting up the phone lines of your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key Republican districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
The GOP cutting essential services means a spike in crime and more public support to fund law enforcement.
I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.
We have @littlelobbyists.com families on the way to Washington DC right now, they'll be on the House-side of the Capitol tomorrow. We're going to make them see us before they vote to kill disabled children. If you can help cover the costs of this urgent action: secure.actblue.com/donate/littl...
No. The Court ruled that universal injunctions are generally not permissible. But this case is not limited by CASA v. Trump for 3 reasons: - This case was filed as a class action lawsuit - This case sought declaratory relief - This case overturned agency action through "vacating" it under the APA
"Astoria has become a laboratory for Democratic party realignment – becoming more diverse, more progressive, and more critical of Israel... it is unique in that every local elected official is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America."
You could be on Medicaid right now, and not even know it — that's because it's called something different in every state. So when House Republicans talk Medicaid cuts, they could be going after YOUR care. Call your representative today. youtube.com/shorts/NzWim...
Would you please explain to me, a layperson, why Judges stay their opinions to allow for appeals?
Cuts to healthcare and food assistance programs in exchange for tax cuts skewed to the rich, a record breaking amount of military spending, and a giant funding boost for ICE's deportation machine. This budget bill is utterly shameful.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
You're lucky if you can do that. So many cannot. Best wishes, don't forget us.
I don’t really believe Mamdani is actually one of a kind and attempts to take him out of the picture will not stop the forces in American politics freaking out the establishment.
NEW: President Trump threatens to have New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani arrested after Mamdani said he would as mayor work to "stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors." From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
I hate this.
Don't loose hope. The fact that so many of us are opposed means that there is still hope. But we need to do everything we can. Which means breaks from social media and finding out how to get involved locally. And not just with resistance, with finding joy.
My heart is broken. This country is so sick.
I just said something similar to this.
Unapologetic hot take: I think people with autism and ADD who mask at school, at work, with other people have a good idea. Being social is so exhausting. We have to be "on" all the time and never ourselves around most people. It's absolutely exhausting. Not being "on" can be disastrous for us too.
He’s killing the United States right in front of us, and boasting about it.
The weirdest part of this era has been watching powerful people/institutions very obviously act in ways that destroy themselves.
First they came for abortion. Now it’s birth control, cancer screenings, prenatal care. The Supreme Court just ruled states can block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned Parenthood. (1/2)
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HE SAID IT OUT LOUD?!?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The Atlas of Surveillance just added 80 agencies in Oregon, Texas and Washington that are using Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Plug in your city or county to see what surveillance tech cops in your area are deploying.
My maintenance man always wears an n95 at my request. “No need to thank me. You should feel safe in your home,” he says. Like it’s simple. And it IS that simple. I wish my family, healthcare providers, etc felt the same way. Many won’t mask, even though they “love me” or “care about my health.”
Some people are eagerly anticipating their opportunity to say “I told you so” about economic collapse, catastrophic war, the end of rule of law, losing access to healthcare, etc. Meanwhile normal people are desperately hoping none of those things happen.
GOOD NEWS! A SINGLE infusion of a stem cell-based treatment, VX-880, may have CURED a small group of patients with the most SEVERE form of Type 1 Diabetes. 10 out of 12 patients have remained insulin-INDEPENDENT for OVER a year and the other two patients now need much LOWER doses of insulin. 🧪🧵⬇️
People who unrepentantly abuse other people should not hold positions that require moral and ethical leadership. (Nor their enablers.)
Take SCOTUS' pro-slavery ruling. Guess what entity historically did heroic work to fight slavery? Churches!! Are you a member of a church? Can your church do something creative to take a stand against this?
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