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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
https://trib.al/ayccoO7
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
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my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
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PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.
July 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.
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There's an idea emerging among centrist Dems that Zohran won because of short form video or podcasting and I'm sorry but that's just not it
Zohran did not win because of TikTok and podcasts
His victory was the culmination of years of organizing and a platform that resonated with hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
www.usermag.co
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
There's an idea emerging among centrist Dems that Zohran won because of short form video or podcasting and I'm sorry but that's just not it
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An exciting legal precedent was just set in BC 🎉
The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability
www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability
www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
Employer required to accommodate immunocompromised employees during communicable disease outbreaks
Measles outbreaks raise issue of accommodation similar to COVID-19
www.hcamag.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
An exciting legal precedent was just set in BC 🎉
The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability
www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
The BC Human Rights Tribunal decision found for the first time in Canada that the failure to allow for remote work for an immunocompromised employee was discrimination on the ground of disability
www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
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Covid is a social justice issue.
Respirators cost money.
HEPA filters cost money.
Tests cost money.
Vaccines cost money.
Paid time off is rare.
Affordable child care is non existent
Covid disproportionately impacts those who are already the most marginalized
Mask up & protect your community
Respirators cost money.
HEPA filters cost money.
Tests cost money.
Vaccines cost money.
Paid time off is rare.
Affordable child care is non existent
Covid disproportionately impacts those who are already the most marginalized
Mask up & protect your community
June 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Covid is a social justice issue.
Respirators cost money.
HEPA filters cost money.
Tests cost money.
Vaccines cost money.
Paid time off is rare.
Affordable child care is non existent
Covid disproportionately impacts those who are already the most marginalized
Mask up & protect your community
Respirators cost money.
HEPA filters cost money.
Tests cost money.
Vaccines cost money.
Paid time off is rare.
Affordable child care is non existent
Covid disproportionately impacts those who are already the most marginalized
Mask up & protect your community
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“This bill effectively discourages ALL masking - during an airborne pandemic and with another potential pandemic looming due to continued spread of H5N1. It WILL cost lives”
Bringing back an old article in light of the No Kings protester who was arrested for masking:
Bringing back an old article in light of the No Kings protester who was arrested for masking:
North Carolina Passes HB 237 and Bans Medical Masks in Public
This discriminatory and ableist bill puts lives at risk and further isolates vulnerable people from society. It's pandering to anti-maskers who seek to punish disabled and high risk individuals.
www.disabledginger.com
June 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“This bill effectively discourages ALL masking - during an airborne pandemic and with another potential pandemic looming due to continued spread of H5N1. It WILL cost lives”
Bringing back an old article in light of the No Kings protester who was arrested for masking:
Bringing back an old article in light of the No Kings protester who was arrested for masking:
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Awful! Everyone has a right to wear a mask!
Masks are a critical public health tool that help protect people from COVID. Masks also help protect against other contagious diseases, wildfire smoke, pollution, allergens, and other health concerns.
Masks are a critical public health tool that help protect people from COVID. Masks also help protect against other contagious diseases, wildfire smoke, pollution, allergens, and other health concerns.
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Awful! Everyone has a right to wear a mask!
Masks are a critical public health tool that help protect people from COVID. Masks also help protect against other contagious diseases, wildfire smoke, pollution, allergens, and other health concerns.
Masks are a critical public health tool that help protect people from COVID. Masks also help protect against other contagious diseases, wildfire smoke, pollution, allergens, and other health concerns.
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![Transcript
A June 14 No Kings protest rally in Savannah, GA. Cops are arresting what appears to be a white woman wearing a KN95-style mask. The main protest continues loudly in the background, making it difficult to hear what is being said or know who is speaking.
A few onlookers gather around the arrest in progress, filming with their phones and asking questions.
Events
Cop: [indistinct] … lawyer; you’re gonna be arrested.
Person 1: This is unbelievable.
Person 2: You’re gonna arrest everybody who has a mask on now?
Person 1: You’re on the wrong side of history right now.
Cop: Are you gonna take it off?
The mask-wearer apparently answers in the negative.
Cop: Alright, go ahead and turn around for me.
Person 3: You’ve got ICE agents wearing masks, but you can’t wear a mask?
Person 4: You’re really arresting her? [indistinct] For wearing a mask? This is wrong! We’re, like, at a protest right now about, like, pro-democracy and someone’s getting arrested for wearing a mask?
Person 5: What the fuck, pigs? You fucking pigs!
Person 4: This is crazy!
Person 6 comes into view wheeling a bike, wearing a banner with unreadable writing.
Person 6: Are you serious? Are you fucking serious?
Person 7: (in reply to Person 6) Yup, ‘cause she’s wearing a mask. You’re gonna get arrested too ‘cause you’ve got a mask on.
A cop approaches Person 6 and appears to engage about their mask.
The remaining speech is too jumbled and overlapping to understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ujutgvmcjrwh2tmgp44g5blb/bafkreifk3hbx6n7x5ia7axcmhzsfsj4nfhlgvhptz45pdeeoufxvkclyri@jpeg)
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Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks”
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
June 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Please stop saying ICE agents are “wearing masks”
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
They’re wearing face coverings. Gaitors.
The anti-mask rhetoric has caused untold harm to disabled people.
Mask bans have already been enacted in many places.
We must fight for our right to continue wearing medical masks & respirators.
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i was the designated test order-er for @maskblocla.bsky.social using this HHS ASPR portal. they emailed at 6am this morning, June 4, to inform that "COVID-19 tests are not available after 6/3/2025"—not even giving the opportunity to clear out whatever may've been left despite another incoming wave.
HHS ends government-funded COVID-19 test program
HHS has ended a government-funded program that distributed free COVID-19 tests to community organizations, a department spokesperson confirmed to Healio.
www.healio.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i was the designated test order-er for @maskblocla.bsky.social using this HHS ASPR portal. they emailed at 6am this morning, June 4, to inform that "COVID-19 tests are not available after 6/3/2025"—not even giving the opportunity to clear out whatever may've been left despite another incoming wave.
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Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
May 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.
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There’s something particularly cruel about restricting access to COVID vaccines in a country that doesn’t provide universal healthcare to its citizens.
Where Long Covid could quickly bankrupt you.
Healthcare should be a basic human right (and that includes vaccinations)
Where Long Covid could quickly bankrupt you.
Healthcare should be a basic human right (and that includes vaccinations)
May 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
There’s something particularly cruel about restricting access to COVID vaccines in a country that doesn’t provide universal healthcare to its citizens.
Where Long Covid could quickly bankrupt you.
Healthcare should be a basic human right (and that includes vaccinations)
Where Long Covid could quickly bankrupt you.
Healthcare should be a basic human right (and that includes vaccinations)
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I know I say this all the time but if any of y’all reading this are one of the many people who gave up on masking, ur always welcome to come back any ol’ time… like now! 😭
May 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I know I say this all the time but if any of y’all reading this are one of the many people who gave up on masking, ur always welcome to come back any ol’ time… like now! 😭
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NEW YORK (AP) — Target sales fall sharply in the first quarter and the retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025.
May 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Target sales fall sharply in the first quarter and the retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025.