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November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The most savage reactions I've seen in response to the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO come straight from the nursing subreddit, where people who are clearly used to dealing with this insurer assess the incident:
www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
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Mountain_Fig_9253's comment on "United Healthcare CEO killed in targeted shooting "
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December 4, 2024 at 5:37 PM
The most savage reactions I've seen in response to the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO come straight from the nursing subreddit, where people who are clearly used to dealing with this insurer assess the incident:
www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...
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Four years ago I lost my youngest brother to a fentanyl overdose. After he died I lobbied to get fentanyl testing strips taken off the drug paraphernalia law in MN.
His birthday is tomorrow & I can't donate what I normally do in his memory, so pls consider donating to the local harm reduction org
His birthday is tomorrow & I can't donate what I normally do in his memory, so pls consider donating to the local harm reduction org
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November 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Four years ago I lost my youngest brother to a fentanyl overdose. After he died I lobbied to get fentanyl testing strips taken off the drug paraphernalia law in MN.
His birthday is tomorrow & I can't donate what I normally do in his memory, so pls consider donating to the local harm reduction org
His birthday is tomorrow & I can't donate what I normally do in his memory, so pls consider donating to the local harm reduction org
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It's interesting that TikTok is the ONLY social platform where news influencers don't skew overwhelmingly conservative, and TikTok has the highest number of LGBTQ news influencers, and it's the only app getting banned www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
November 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
It's interesting that TikTok is the ONLY social platform where news influencers don't skew overwhelmingly conservative, and TikTok has the highest number of LGBTQ news influencers, and it's the only app getting banned www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
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This is because ultimately corporate centrist democrats are also in favor of censoring the left.
It's interesting that TikTok is the ONLY social platform where news influencers don't skew overwhelmingly conservative, and TikTok has the highest number of LGBTQ news influencers, and it's the only app getting banned www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
November 19, 2024 at 2:22 AM
This is because ultimately corporate centrist democrats are also in favor of censoring the left.
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It makes sense when you realize they're eugenecists who believe the weak should die and the strong reproduce.
Hard to square a "pro-natalist" administration with an administration that is nominating a man who would stop childhood vaccines.
Unless you like infants and little kids dying of mumps or becoming horribly disabled by polio
Unless you like infants and little kids dying of mumps or becoming horribly disabled by polio
November 14, 2024 at 9:59 PM
It makes sense when you realize they're eugenecists who believe the weak should die and the strong reproduce.
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The Dollop is adopting a family in Gaza. Sereen and Hatem Dawoud and their two kids, Ahmed, 3 and Sandy, 6. We will continue to push to donate to them until no longer needed.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sandy...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sandy...
November 14, 2024 at 9:31 PM
The Dollop is adopting a family in Gaza. Sereen and Hatem Dawoud and their two kids, Ahmed, 3 and Sandy, 6. We will continue to push to donate to them until no longer needed.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sandy...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-sandy...
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More like ROAD TO SOMEWHERE, and the somewhere is a compact yet comprehensive history of the car crashing its way through history!
November 14, 2024 at 1:25 AM
More like ROAD TO SOMEWHERE, and the somewhere is a compact yet comprehensive history of the car crashing its way through history!
Why is there no pressure on the Senate to confirm Bidens last two NLRB board member nominees?
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Biden's NLRB Picks Set Up Clash Over Agency Future If Trump Wins
President Joe Biden’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board create the possibility that Democrats keep control of the board majority into 2026, even if Republican Donald Trump wins Novembe...
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November 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Why is there no pressure on the Senate to confirm Bidens last two NLRB board member nominees?
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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BREAKING: The NLRB has just ruled that captive audience meetings are illegal nationwide.
These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.
These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.
November 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: The NLRB has just ruled that captive audience meetings are illegal nationwide.
These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.
These are mandatory meetings where bosses try to persuade workers not unionize, often using coercive tactics.
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What I mean by this is: many trans folks will flee to blue states, and end up on the streets or couch surfing.
There is going to be dire need for housing support and mutual aid services in the very near future, and we need to be building that capability NOW.
There is going to be dire need for housing support and mutual aid services in the very near future, and we need to be building that capability NOW.
Also, cost of living is much higher in the blue states that folks are going to be most inclined to move to in order to secure medical access.
Housing is both scarce and expensive in most blue states.
Trans folks as a whole already suffer disproportionately from poverty and housing instability.
Housing is both scarce and expensive in most blue states.
Trans folks as a whole already suffer disproportionately from poverty and housing instability.
November 12, 2024 at 1:11 AM
What I mean by this is: many trans folks will flee to blue states, and end up on the streets or couch surfing.
There is going to be dire need for housing support and mutual aid services in the very near future, and we need to be building that capability NOW.
There is going to be dire need for housing support and mutual aid services in the very near future, and we need to be building that capability NOW.
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Most people don’t know that slavery still exists. Amendment 13 abolishes slavery except where imprisoned. There should be no exceptions to abolish slavery.
Anti-slavery measure Prop. 6 fails, allowing forced labor to continue in California prisons
Anti-slavery measure Prop. 6 fails, allowing forced labor to continue in California prisons
California voters rejected the anti-slavery measure Proposition 6, which would have banned forced labor in state prisons.
calmatters.org
November 12, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Most people don’t know that slavery still exists. Amendment 13 abolishes slavery except where imprisoned. There should be no exceptions to abolish slavery.
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"But sports!"
I truly do not give a shit about sports. But this isn't about "sports." If you offered the people obsessed with sports a full ban on trans people participating in exchange for social and legal acceptance otherwise, they'd say no way. Why? Because this isn't about sports.
I truly do not give a shit about sports. But this isn't about "sports." If you offered the people obsessed with sports a full ban on trans people participating in exchange for social and legal acceptance otherwise, they'd say no way. Why? Because this isn't about sports.
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
"But sports!"
I truly do not give a shit about sports. But this isn't about "sports." If you offered the people obsessed with sports a full ban on trans people participating in exchange for social and legal acceptance otherwise, they'd say no way. Why? Because this isn't about sports.
I truly do not give a shit about sports. But this isn't about "sports." If you offered the people obsessed with sports a full ban on trans people participating in exchange for social and legal acceptance otherwise, they'd say no way. Why? Because this isn't about sports.
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People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just
• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc
• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender
• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc
• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender
November 11, 2024 at 2:40 PM
People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just
• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc
• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender
• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc
• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender
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Trump was going to tie Harris to trans rights no matter what Harris did, so there was no reason NOT to offer full support for trans people. And yet.
I’m starting to suspect that the people who think Harris ran a super-woke, trans-rights heavy campaign got most of their information from Trump ads and watching Rogan
This is the only policy document she produced, her platform in its entirety. It has nothing on social issues and doesn't use "woke" terminology. The campaign they wanted her her to run is the campaign she ran.
November 11, 2024 at 6:36 AM
Trump was going to tie Harris to trans rights no matter what Harris did, so there was no reason NOT to offer full support for trans people. And yet.
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the resistance industrial complex re-emerging like a bunch of grifter cicadas
November 10, 2024 at 1:26 AM
the resistance industrial complex re-emerging like a bunch of grifter cicadas
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NEW: "Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?" I've seen others make the moral case against it, but here I make a purely political case why this is a BAD idea for Dems. no-paywall link, 8 min read, pls share w/ the politicos in your life!
juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ... #LGBTQ
juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ... #LGBTQ
Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?
Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics
juliaserano.medium.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
NEW: "Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?" I've seen others make the moral case against it, but here I make a purely political case why this is a BAD idea for Dems. no-paywall link, 8 min read, pls share w/ the politicos in your life!
juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ... #LGBTQ
juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ... #LGBTQ
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You know, kinda interesting that even though Democrats lost after letting Wall Street, immigration & war hawks, and Republicans shape the campaign, all those "allies" still won by helping craft a bipartisan consensus around their interests & electing a man who will advance them
November 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
You know, kinda interesting that even though Democrats lost after letting Wall Street, immigration & war hawks, and Republicans shape the campaign, all those "allies" still won by helping craft a bipartisan consensus around their interests & electing a man who will advance them
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The “allies” who had the least to lose or even the most to gain from a Trump presidency had an outsized seat at Harris’s campaign table relative to the people who had the the most to lose
You know, kinda interesting that even though Democrats lost after letting Wall Street, immigration & war hawks, and Republicans shape the campaign, all those "allies" still won by helping craft a bipartisan consensus around their interests & electing a man who will advance them
November 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM
The “allies” who had the least to lose or even the most to gain from a Trump presidency had an outsized seat at Harris’s campaign table relative to the people who had the the most to lose
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The idea that Trump has won an overwhelming landslide victory and therefore has a “mandate” to transform U.S. society is entirely detached from empirical reality. And yet, it has quickly become one of the defining narratives around this election. This dangerously blunts the democratic response.
November 11, 2024 at 11:36 PM
The idea that Trump has won an overwhelming landslide victory and therefore has a “mandate” to transform U.S. society is entirely detached from empirical reality. And yet, it has quickly become one of the defining narratives around this election. This dangerously blunts the democratic response.
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it would be very smart for all left leaning politicians and media personalities to make a big show of migrating to bluesky, twitter is falling but doing this would continue to build a left alternative to elons twitter
November 11, 2024 at 10:44 PM
it would be very smart for all left leaning politicians and media personalities to make a big show of migrating to bluesky, twitter is falling but doing this would continue to build a left alternative to elons twitter
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It's amazing to me how publications that swear they prize ideological diversity keep hiring different versions of the same writer
TIL Jonathan Chait is leaving New York Mag to join The Atlantic
November 11, 2024 at 11:06 PM
It's amazing to me how publications that swear they prize ideological diversity keep hiring different versions of the same writer