New Orleans Wiz
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Only connections with other people matter. They can kidnap our neighbors and friends you can keep them out of the game but you can't take them from our hearts. The best way to fight back is to reach out and invite in. he/him.
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Over a third of counties are maternity care/delivery deserts. Not sure how you negotiate that.
www.npr.org/2024/09/10/n...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Over a third of counties are maternity care/delivery deserts. Not sure how you negotiate that.
www.npr.org/2024/09/10/n...
www.npr.org/2024/09/10/n...
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Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
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The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Fetterman can't win a D primary. probably can't win an R primary since he doesn't think the 2020 election was stolen. with that overall approval, he can't win a threeway race.
I think he's cooked.
I think he's cooked.
Pennsylvania - Fetterman Approvals Among:
Overall: 39%
Republicans: 56%
Democrats: 31%
Independents: 30%
Emerson / Nov 23, 2025
Overall: 39%
Republicans: 56%
Democrats: 31%
Independents: 30%
Emerson / Nov 23, 2025
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Fetterman can't win a D primary. probably can't win an R primary since he doesn't think the 2020 election was stolen. with that overall approval, he can't win a threeway race.
I think he's cooked.
I think he's cooked.
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Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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When you hear the phrase "investments in transit help reduce traffic" do you just think traffic jams or do you think about competition for parking?
December 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When you hear the phrase "investments in transit help reduce traffic" do you just think traffic jams or do you think about competition for parking?
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This is such a stunning example of how far we’ve fallen. In his first term, he said this in a private meeting, it was front-page news everywhere, he denied saying it, Republicans criticized him.
Now he repeats it in front of cheering rally crowd, nobody blinks, it’s not even reported in the news.
Now he repeats it in front of cheering rally crowd, nobody blinks, it’s not even reported in the news.
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is such a stunning example of how far we’ve fallen. In his first term, he said this in a private meeting, it was front-page news everywhere, he denied saying it, Republicans criticized him.
Now he repeats it in front of cheering rally crowd, nobody blinks, it’s not even reported in the news.
Now he repeats it in front of cheering rally crowd, nobody blinks, it’s not even reported in the news.
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Obviously, the tome that contains all of human knowledge (or so I surmised when I first encountered it at age seven)
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Obviously, the tome that contains all of human knowledge (or so I surmised when I first encountered it at age seven)
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Well, that’s being the forever obedient vassal state of an empire for you: it’s not just for fun times like joining in the Emperor’s aggressive wars and issuing belligerent threats from behind his back. You also have to slap on a grin and look happy while you’re getting screwed by him.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Well, that’s being the forever obedient vassal state of an empire for you: it’s not just for fun times like joining in the Emperor’s aggressive wars and issuing belligerent threats from behind his back. You also have to slap on a grin and look happy while you’re getting screwed by him.
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Lord help me I'm going in
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Lord help me I'm going in
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sex criminals stick together
🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.
December 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sex criminals stick together
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Watching Labour in the UK, the Liberal Party in Canada, the Labor Party in Australia and other “center-left” parties in anglophone countries follow the U.S. Democratic Party into the right lane to take several appalling turns to the right at major intersections has been rage-inducing.
Glad I voted for the pro-human rights and anti-racism party last election.
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
<<read news>>
OK, so I did at least vote
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Watching Labour in the UK, the Liberal Party in Canada, the Labor Party in Australia and other “center-left” parties in anglophone countries follow the U.S. Democratic Party into the right lane to take several appalling turns to the right at major intersections has been rage-inducing.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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"Her campaign made a critical strategic error by prioritising an appeal to moderate, suburban Republicans over mobilising its core working-class and progressive base, leading to significant erosion of support among these vital constituencies" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures
RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Her campaign made a critical strategic error by prioritising an appeal to moderate, suburban Republicans over mobilising its core working-class and progressive base, leading to significant erosion of support among these vital constituencies" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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There are very few immutable rules of politics anymore.
But politicians being punished for telling voters they aren’t hurting financially when they’re hurting financially— that rule has never gone away.
But politicians being punished for telling voters they aren’t hurting financially when they’re hurting financially— that rule has never gone away.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There are very few immutable rules of politics anymore.
But politicians being punished for telling voters they aren’t hurting financially when they’re hurting financially— that rule has never gone away.
But politicians being punished for telling voters they aren’t hurting financially when they’re hurting financially— that rule has never gone away.
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Bluesky historians and political scientists: has anyone done any research on whether there have been upswings in grand juries no-billing cases during times of political and social upheaval?
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Bluesky historians and political scientists: has anyone done any research on whether there have been upswings in grand juries no-billing cases during times of political and social upheaval?
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
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the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination
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ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
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CNN: That's not what farmers are telling you. One farmer at a town hall told you tariffs drove up prices of fertilizer
ALFORD: It was Biden that drove it up
C: That's not what the farmer told you
A: Well, that's what I'm telling you
C: Sir, excuse me. Are you listening to your constituents?
ALFORD: It was Biden that drove it up
C: That's not what the farmer told you
A: Well, that's what I'm telling you
C: Sir, excuse me. Are you listening to your constituents?
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
CNN: That's not what farmers are telling you. One farmer at a town hall told you tariffs drove up prices of fertilizer
ALFORD: It was Biden that drove it up
C: That's not what the farmer told you
A: Well, that's what I'm telling you
C: Sir, excuse me. Are you listening to your constituents?
ALFORD: It was Biden that drove it up
C: That's not what the farmer told you
A: Well, that's what I'm telling you
C: Sir, excuse me. Are you listening to your constituents?
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What’s that saying, hit dog holler
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
What’s that saying, hit dog holler
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One terrible thing John Fetterman has done is cast suspicion on any guy who wears basketball shorts all winter despite most of them being really cool and nice
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
One terrible thing John Fetterman has done is cast suspicion on any guy who wears basketball shorts all winter despite most of them being really cool and nice
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since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
since using Calbiri (easier for visually impaired people) rather than TNR costs literally nothing, this is just ableism for its own sake. these are the kind of people who resent seeing a wheelchair ramp.
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main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
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the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi