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In case anyone is wondering
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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The hypocrisy is off the charts.
March 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.
'A blitz attack': VA mental health experts liken Elon Musk's emails to warfare
Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.
www.npr.org
March 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Any time you see an article frame something as "took action against transgender sports," do more digging.

75% of the time, whatever they are talking about also bans trans people from bathrooms/medical care/targets trans adults.

Sports is just a way to frame it as morally acceptable.
Why is everyone focusing on the trans sports stuff in the Gavin Newsom Charlie Kirk interview and not the part where he's mad about the Dems supporting trans prisoners getting healthcare or appearing to back Kirk on a full ban on trans youth healthcare????

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“It’s just introducing another unregulated security into the housing market as though 2008, 2009 didn’t happen,” a HUD staffer said, referencing the mortgage crisis.

“I don’t see any way this will help anything. I see a lot of ways this could hurt.”

New @propublica.org @jessecoburn.bsky.social
U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD offic...
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March 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Pretty much, yes.
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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1. A new CMS directive from HHS has gone out to hospitals demanding they stop gender affirming care, despite a court order saying care can continue.

The memo openly cites anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups.

The latest from writer Mira Lazine.

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New HHS Directive Cites Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Groups, Demands Hospitals Stop Trans Youth Care
The memo went out on Wednesday from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at HHS, and threatens to pull funding from hospitals that do not comply.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Many Democratic politicians have forgotten that leaders can shape public opinion, rather than just always follow it.

Republicans learned this lesson over a decade ago.

Elected officials should not be a moving polling average. They should be humans with values and willing to stand up for them.
March 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.
March 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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The putrid connections between great wealth and great power are now on display for all to see. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/america-billionaires-bezos-zuckerberg-musk
Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed | Robert Reich
As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
March 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"Generation Rescue" the beginning of the antivax movement started in 2005 by bigot, dumbfuck Jenny McCarthy. Until that point, Measles had been literally eradicated from existence in the US since 1963. 40 years of safety erased by blatant stupidity and bigotry against autistic people. Thanks Jenny.
February 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Elon Musk has no authority to send emails to federal workers asking them to justify their jobs (days after he wields a chainsaw on a stage...hello?)

He has no authority to fire or threaten anyone.

Call your reps and tell them Elon Musk must be fired. 202-224-3121
February 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Elon has a track record of using people as human shields.
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.

This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.

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The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And this is why it's so important to support independent journalism.

Institutional journalism has become a plaything for the rich.

Independent journalists are breaking the biggest news every day, beholden to nobody but their readers.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Just some inspiration because the government is purging important data. Archive while you can.

www.messynessychic.com/2024/03/26/t...
The Artful Spy who Stopped Hitler from Emptying the Louvre
Rose Valland © Archives des Musées nationaux At first glance she looks like just another bookish art historian in matronly 1940s garb – a most unlikely superhero. But Rose Antonia Maria Valland was...
www.messynessychic.com
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February 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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So so true. I still say something wonky happened with the #s and both him and Elonia verbalized that the rigged the election... so my 2 cents = never should have been allowed to take the oath.
Never was, never will be
February 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM