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Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000
This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' -- and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic
That's the title that Science magazine is bestowing upon the medication called lenacapavir — a twice yearly injectable that prevents infection by the HIV virus.
www.npr.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000
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republicans should definitely try to stop the corrupt democrats from winning with the electoral college by getting rid of it
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 AM
republicans should definitely try to stop the corrupt democrats from winning with the electoral college by getting rid of it
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Everybody talks about the US vs. Other Nation life expectancy gap, but nobody talks about the fact the inflection point occurs right at the beginning of the Reagan / "neoliberal" era. I don't think this is a coincidence - it's pretty extraordinary !
December 5, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Everybody talks about the US vs. Other Nation life expectancy gap, but nobody talks about the fact the inflection point occurs right at the beginning of the Reagan / "neoliberal" era. I don't think this is a coincidence - it's pretty extraordinary !
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.
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on loving and living as hard as you can when being who you are is illegal: russia's foremost lesbian poet who kept fucking everyone & writing about it through the revolution, civil war & rise of stalin
but tbh who doesn't. The translations are gorgeous so far, let's link them buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Stay Alive and Horny Under Authoritarianism
Sophia Parnok (1885-1933) was born in Taganrog, Russia—Anton Chekhov’s hometown, on the sea of Azov—two decades or so before her country exploded. Born into...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 AM
on loving and living as hard as you can when being who you are is illegal: russia's foremost lesbian poet who kept fucking everyone & writing about it through the revolution, civil war & rise of stalin
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Fucking hell we thought we were in the gilded age before…
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Fucking hell we thought we were in the gilded age before…
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This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 PM
This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
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Heads up: you need to vet your blocklists because of bad actors.
This is the next phase that Kiwi Farms members have stated they will do - constructing look-alike blocklists and then adding popular trans people to them after the fact, once the blocklist is seeded in the community. Make sure any block list you use says who runs it.
Do you know who is running this list? Reason for asking is they copied this account's lists verbatim, but do not say who is running their account.
November 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Heads up: you need to vet your blocklists because of bad actors.
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Insane how many articles we’ve gotten about trans rights going too far when the anti-trans movement is constantly announcing that they want to banish a tiny, marginalized group from public life
The new Ohio college bathroom ban is even worse than I thought. Not only does it ban trans people from using single-sex bathrooms that match their gender; it also bans colleges from having nongendered bathrooms or locker rooms available.
November 15, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Insane how many articles we’ve gotten about trans rights going too far when the anti-trans movement is constantly announcing that they want to banish a tiny, marginalized group from public life
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heroine
A Kentucky woman who's 7 weeks pregnant is challenging the state's abortion ban for the very valid reason that she simply doesn't want to be pregnant (from Monday)
apnews.com/article/abor...
apnews.com/article/abor...
A pregnant woman sues for the right to an abortion in challenge to Kentucky's near-total ban
A pregnant woman has filed a lawsuit seeking the right to an abortion in Kentucky. It's the latest challenge to the state’s near-total ban on the procedure.
apnews.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:53 AM
heroine
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Disenfranchisement has always been the end game.
November 13, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Disenfranchisement has always been the end game.
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“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental…they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
The way I've been resisting this is just thinking about how the signs of a fundamental constitutional break are accumulating. Trump as president is a violation of the 14th Amendment; an (alleged) criminal as AG inverts justice; putting a Russian intelligence asset as DNI betrays US nat'l security...
Please do not normalize these radical, extremist, unqualified and highly compromised nominees. I beg you.
November 14, 2024 at 1:43 AM
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental…they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
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'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
October 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
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V funny listening to centrist Dems on various pods (Pod Save, Klein etc) this week spend hours dancing around the basic idea that “The centre left’s embrace of neoliberalism 30 years ago was not a great idea” but being unable to actually just say it directly because in upends their entire worldview.
November 14, 2024 at 4:55 AM
V funny listening to centrist Dems on various pods (Pod Save, Klein etc) this week spend hours dancing around the basic idea that “The centre left’s embrace of neoliberalism 30 years ago was not a great idea” but being unable to actually just say it directly because in upends their entire worldview.
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Way too many people are comfortable with fascism, so long as it's not being targeted at them. The fact that liberals elected a president that wrote the Crime Bill, drafted the Patriot Act, voted to create DHS, and was VP when indefinite detention was legalized speaks volumes about their priorities.
November 14, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Way too many people are comfortable with fascism, so long as it's not being targeted at them. The fact that liberals elected a president that wrote the Crime Bill, drafted the Patriot Act, voted to create DHS, and was VP when indefinite detention was legalized speaks volumes about their priorities.
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If a 22 year old tells you the earth is flat, it's not clear to me that "actually it's round and here's the evidence" is a better strategy than "lmao you fucking loser."
November 14, 2024 at 2:31 PM
If a 22 year old tells you the earth is flat, it's not clear to me that "actually it's round and here's the evidence" is a better strategy than "lmao you fucking loser."
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Personally I think satire is an important form of deprogramming! Mocking and marginalizing conspiracies often works better than debunking or debating them.
I'm relieved about downfall of this ghoul and the fact that this is *with* the Sandy Hook families is a good sign, but I was hoping this would become a kind of deprogramming site? I wanted to see some harm undone. I'm not sure you get there with satire.
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
November 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Personally I think satire is an important form of deprogramming! Mocking and marginalizing conspiracies often works better than debunking or debating them.
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So I hate to tag the mods- but I sent this email about the mass deletion of Palestinian accounts over a week ago to @support.bsky.team and I haven’t heard anything back (apologies if I somehow missed an email). I’d like to ensure it will be seen by the proper people.
November 12, 2024 at 4:50 PM
So I hate to tag the mods- but I sent this email about the mass deletion of Palestinian accounts over a week ago to @support.bsky.team and I haven’t heard anything back (apologies if I somehow missed an email). I’d like to ensure it will be seen by the proper people.
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wow great get for msnbc to have Trump's AG pick writing for the site
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
wow great get for msnbc to have Trump's AG pick writing for the site
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Given how Twitter deteriorated when people could buy their way to the top of conversations, I’d be extremely wary.
How do we all feel about the possibility that the long-term viability of a platform like this remaining not crappy would require many of us to pay a small monthly fee?
November 13, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Given how Twitter deteriorated when people could buy their way to the top of conversations, I’d be extremely wary.
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Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
November 13, 2024 at 4:55 AM
Was there today for the H.R. 9495 vote (bill that would have allowed labeling nonprofits as terrorist supporting organizations).
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
Voted no, of course - but I do want to report that the activism DID work and persuaded members.
I thought it’d be a lonely NO vote, which we take often. It wasn’t.
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“buh when did trump ever follow the rules”
it’s not about following the rules, dipshits, it’s about whether the words carry any legal authority. there is no button he can press to make congress adjourn. congress would have to choose to do it. and that is a distinction that matters.
it’s not about following the rules, dipshits, it’s about whether the words carry any legal authority. there is no button he can press to make congress adjourn. congress would have to choose to do it. and that is a distinction that matters.
sorry but article ii section 3 does not say that the president can force congress to adjourn *when it does not want to* and spreading that message is doing trump’s work for him
November 13, 2024 at 10:38 PM
“buh when did trump ever follow the rules”
it’s not about following the rules, dipshits, it’s about whether the words carry any legal authority. there is no button he can press to make congress adjourn. congress would have to choose to do it. and that is a distinction that matters.
it’s not about following the rules, dipshits, it’s about whether the words carry any legal authority. there is no button he can press to make congress adjourn. congress would have to choose to do it. and that is a distinction that matters.