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Don’t worry, they pinky promise to fix healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Don’t worry, they pinky promise to fix healthcare.
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From @theathletic.com: Sex toys being thrown during WNBA games are not just silly pranks. "Humiliation, often lewd or sexual, has long been used as an attempt to make women feel uncomfortable in sports or diminish their place in this space." nyti.ms/4lgK0WS
August 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From @theathletic.com: Sex toys being thrown during WNBA games are not just silly pranks. "Humiliation, often lewd or sexual, has long been used as an attempt to make women feel uncomfortable in sports or diminish their place in this space." nyti.ms/4lgK0WS
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What happened to that door?
August 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
What happened to that door?
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“This map is racist, it’s illegal, and it’s part of a long, ugly tradition of trying to keep Black and Brown Texas from having a voice,” said Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey.
Trump’s Texas gerrymander is supercharging a new war on democracy
Texas Republicans just unveiled a shocking plan to give their party five new House seats.
www.motherjones.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“This map is racist, it’s illegal, and it’s part of a long, ugly tradition of trying to keep Black and Brown Texas from having a voice,” said Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey.
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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Pete Hegseth’s office is “preparing to release a new, military-wide physical-fitness test,” Missy Ryan writes. The effect, and potentially the goal, may be advancing a process to squeeze women out of combat units:
Will Pete Hegseth’s ‘War on Woke’ Sideline Women?
Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief moderated his stance to get the job but is now pushing for change in the name of high standards.
bit.ly
July 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Pete Hegseth’s office is “preparing to release a new, military-wide physical-fitness test,” Missy Ryan writes. The effect, and potentially the goal, may be advancing a process to squeeze women out of combat units:
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“Trump Sneaked Huge Gift for Peter Thiel–Backed Company Into Budget *** Donald Trump’s budget essentially hands an exclusive contract to Anduril.” 7/9/25 newrepublic.com/post/197779/...
Trump Sneaked Huge Gift for Peter Thiel–Backed Company Into Budget
Donald Trump’s budget essentially hands an exclusive contract to Anduril.
newrepublic.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“Trump Sneaked Huge Gift for Peter Thiel–Backed Company Into Budget *** Donald Trump’s budget essentially hands an exclusive contract to Anduril.” 7/9/25 newrepublic.com/post/197779/...
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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Republicans are not just gutting Medicaid.
They are gutting the whole f*cking marketplace.
If you're a 60 yr old couple & make 80k/year, insurance premiums are about to go up 400% and cost 26k more.
Millions and millions of people are about to no longer have access to healthcare.
They are gutting the whole f*cking marketplace.
If you're a 60 yr old couple & make 80k/year, insurance premiums are about to go up 400% and cost 26k more.
Millions and millions of people are about to no longer have access to healthcare.
July 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Republicans are not just gutting Medicaid.
They are gutting the whole f*cking marketplace.
If you're a 60 yr old couple & make 80k/year, insurance premiums are about to go up 400% and cost 26k more.
Millions and millions of people are about to no longer have access to healthcare.
They are gutting the whole f*cking marketplace.
If you're a 60 yr old couple & make 80k/year, insurance premiums are about to go up 400% and cost 26k more.
Millions and millions of people are about to no longer have access to healthcare.
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American exceptionalism
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
The cost of the shot? $1,400.
A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
wapo.st
July 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
American exceptionalism
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Trump's #BigUglyBill would cost 11.8 MILLION Americans their healthcare coverage. It would close rural hospitals across the country. And it would add to the national debt. This is a terrible plan and we’re fighting like hell to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Trump's #BigUglyBill would cost 11.8 MILLION Americans their healthcare coverage. It would close rural hospitals across the country. And it would add to the national debt. This is a terrible plan and we’re fighting like hell to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...
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It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1
May 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1
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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
April 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
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Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
April 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.
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“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”
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New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate
"There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."
"There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."
All the laws flouted during SignalGate
Very illegal and very not cool.
www.publicnotice.co
March 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate
"There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."
"There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."
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We're disappearing college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.
March 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We're disappearing college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.
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They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
March 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.
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Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...
Fox News Has Benched Its Chief National Security Correspondent for 30 Hours and Counting After Massive National Security Leak
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been with the network for over 25 years, providing frontline reporting from locations around the globe, including Jerusalem and Mosc...
www.mediaite.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wow. Fox refused to put their longtime Chief National Security Correspondent on air since the Signal story broke because she has been honest on social media about it. www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-...
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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