@lindseylotus.bsky.social
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/
www.pbs.org
August 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/
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However evil you think this is, it’s worse:
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
However evil you think this is, it’s worse:
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
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Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.
Trump prepares to wipe out years of progress on gun violence
An executive order threatens “ghost gun” regulations, red flag laws, and more.
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reminder: Since being elected, Trump has moved quickly to undo progress made with gun safety policies.
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Snoop went from Gin & Juice to whining about a lesbian kiss in a Pixar movie.
Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.
Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Snoop went from Gin & Juice to whining about a lesbian kiss in a Pixar movie.
Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.
Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.
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Snoop Dog, being scared of a same sex couple in an animated movie, is not very gangster.
August 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Snoop Dog, being scared of a same sex couple in an animated movie, is not very gangster.
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As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
Intel Worked With Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Enabling Human Rights Abuses
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
www.forbes.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.
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Good read from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, as always. Like David Lynch, she warns about the rot at the heart of American culture.
My newsletter is BACK! New article on Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and the dream of justice: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
Laura Palmer’s House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Good read from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, as always. Like David Lynch, she warns about the rot at the heart of American culture.
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The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people.
The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children.
Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children.
Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
July 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The time is long overdue for Congress to stop funding Israel’s illegal and horrific war against the Palestinian people.
The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children.
Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
The U.S. must not support a government which is starving children.
Tomorrow, I will force votes in the Senate to block the sale of weapons to Netanyahu.
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One of the weirdest things about the people supporting our fascist gov - after the pedophiles/sex criminals - is how nobody ever made anyone get a vaccine or take antidepressants against their will but they want to take access away from everyone *against our will.* They are the problem they imagined
July 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the weirdest things about the people supporting our fascist gov - after the pedophiles/sex criminals - is how nobody ever made anyone get a vaccine or take antidepressants against their will but they want to take access away from everyone *against our will.* They are the problem they imagined
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nice rack, junior.
July 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
nice rack, junior.
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I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
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One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The woke college students were right but we can't acknowledge this because then we'll have to consider whether they're right about other things too. That I'm a big stupid moron for instance
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Saw this said somewhere else, but I’d like to see someone explain the difference between telling starving people there is aid and then shooting them and telling people they will be cleaned in a shower and then gassing them?
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Saw this said somewhere else, but I’d like to see someone explain the difference between telling starving people there is aid and then shooting them and telling people they will be cleaned in a shower and then gassing them?
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Why are the news services not fixated on the fact that Vought, at least twice, this morning blamed NIH for funding research that led to the pandemic?
Or has our collective intelligence detiorated to the point of accepting this?
Or has our collective intelligence detiorated to the point of accepting this?
Also worth mentioning that Russell Vought’s ex-wife credits their daughter’s life to a medicine developed through NIH funding, which they wouldn’t have even been able to afford without NIH funded research trials. This should come up in every conversation with him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Why are the news services not fixated on the fact that Vought, at least twice, this morning blamed NIH for funding research that led to the pandemic?
Or has our collective intelligence detiorated to the point of accepting this?
Or has our collective intelligence detiorated to the point of accepting this?
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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Understand the indignity of air dropping food on Gaza.
The March air drop killed 5 Palestinians. Air drops force Palestinians to scavenge for food like animals. This could all be avoided if Israel ended its barbaric blockade, or if world leaders had the courage to break it.
Instead, more genocide
The March air drop killed 5 Palestinians. Air drops force Palestinians to scavenge for food like animals. This could all be avoided if Israel ended its barbaric blockade, or if world leaders had the courage to break it.
Instead, more genocide
July 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Understand the indignity of air dropping food on Gaza.
The March air drop killed 5 Palestinians. Air drops force Palestinians to scavenge for food like animals. This could all be avoided if Israel ended its barbaric blockade, or if world leaders had the courage to break it.
Instead, more genocide
The March air drop killed 5 Palestinians. Air drops force Palestinians to scavenge for food like animals. This could all be avoided if Israel ended its barbaric blockade, or if world leaders had the courage to break it.
Instead, more genocide
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As I reported earlier this year at @motherjones.com, Russell Vought's daughter has benefited immensely from NIH research, and her condition (cystic fibrosis) has received more research funding than most rare diseases. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
As I reported earlier this year at @motherjones.com, Russell Vought's daughter has benefited immensely from NIH research, and her condition (cystic fibrosis) has received more research funding than most rare diseases. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This should be a bigger deal, ya'll
July 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This should be a bigger deal, ya'll
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Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
June 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.
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The lesson of Fox News, podcast bros and right wing influencers is that people would rather be enraged than informed.
The internet is wasted on so many.
The internet is wasted on so many.
June 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The lesson of Fox News, podcast bros and right wing influencers is that people would rather be enraged than informed.
The internet is wasted on so many.
The internet is wasted on so many.
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San Diego County Supervisors advance plan for Tijuana River sewage issue
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a 3-1 vote to move forward with a proposed action plan addressing the persistent sewage crisis affecting the Tijuana River.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a 3-1 vote to move forward with a proposed action plan addressing the persistent sewage crisis affecting the Tijuana River.
San Diego County Supervisors advance plan for Tijuana River sewage issue
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 Tuesday to advance a proposed action plan in response to the ongoing Tijuana River sewage crisis.
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June 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
San Diego County Supervisors advance plan for Tijuana River sewage issue
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a 3-1 vote to move forward with a proposed action plan addressing the persistent sewage crisis affecting the Tijuana River.
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a 3-1 vote to move forward with a proposed action plan addressing the persistent sewage crisis affecting the Tijuana River.
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Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump
Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump
Protesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington
As tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Washington on Saturday, several million people around the country turned out to protest against the excesses of Donald Trump’s administration.
The protests, dubbed “No Kings”, rook place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small towns. A coalition of more than 100 groups joined together to plan the protests, which are committed to a principle of nonviolence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Millions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald Trump