"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
If Republican lawmakers roll back Medicaid expansion funding it could lead to over 34,000 more deaths every year, according to new research from The Center for American Progress.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
As COVID-19 and measles spread in NY, it's almost hard to believe our Democratic governor's response is that **less** people should wear a mask.
It's so shameful and will harm so many people if this passes.
Masks should not be criminalized, stigmatized, or banned. #NoNYMaskBan
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imagine having enough money to where you could part with and donate this much money to sway the entire political ecosystem. pure evil
The people pushing the lab leak theory want a major crackdown on viral research, precisely the kind of work that will prevent the next global pandemic. The more extreme lab-leakers want to jail scientists and shut down public health institutions entirely.
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying.
like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
This 2024 ProPublica piece on vouchers highlights points that remain relevant today:
"The beneficiaries in these states are mostly families whose kids were already enrolled in private schools, not families using the vouchers to escape struggling public schools."
Israeli government hit list of journalists in Gaza
No words.
Just months ago, the Israeli government put out a hit list of six journalists. Hossam Shabat was one of them.
Today, they killed him.
truly ignorant on canadian politics. what are the best sources to learn more? newspapers, journalists, etc
It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.
Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.
We’re doing Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo again, except both at once, and to random dads and barbers abducted off the streets of America for the crime of being Latino
‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.
Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again.
NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/federa...
need you to constantly remind yourself that the average normal person has no idea that any of the stuff we are rightly getting upset about is going on. they dont know. and we need to do everything we individually can to make them know.
turns out using vouchers to go to private school in Ohio obliterates kids' academic performance 10thperiod.substack.com/p/private-sc...
