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so…this is interesting.

I'm not sure it's a "hidden reason"? They've been going after porn for, let's see, most of the 20th century and it's always been to appeal to conservative women (with the added bonuses of enforcing gender roles, demonizing bodily autonomy).

Despite her removal, Trump’s cruel mass deportation campaign rages on. The Congress must hold her and her successor accountable.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

It’s an organized crime syndicate run by Fredo Corleone.

Pill-shaming is ableism.

It derives from poor science literacy and pseudoscientific health ideology in the anti-psychiatry movement and alternative medicine industry.

There's no shame in accepting medication.

No one deserves to experience stigma.

The willful ignorance and lack of foresight is complicity and deserves more acknowledgment as we face the growing threat of right wing extremism and social backsliding.

This can be addressed! People with actual power simply refuse to exercise such, and that’s a huge problem.

I will never forgive the people who continued to insist, despite decades of examples to the contrary, that “Twitter isn’t real life” and that online rhetoric was not was not reality or worth addressing at the highest levels of our institutions.

How immigration enforcement is affecting a Framingham kindergarten classroom The Framingham school district enrolled 719 fewer students compared to last school year, a "significant drop," said superintendent Bob Tremblay. While there are other factors driving the decline, the ...

Empty seats tell the story of Trump's cruelty in Massachusetts. A Framingham kindergarten teacher watched seven of her students disappear this year, their families torn apart by ICE. We're fighting back - in court and everywhere else.

This trans teacher has no choice but to leave Florida: 'I can't defend myself' Saoirse Stone says state policies have turned her daily life in an Orlando high school classroom into a series of quiet humiliations.

Florida is doing what it set out to do, make life unlivable for trans people.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Women’s rights are regressing worldwide, warns UN gender equality chief As an increase in conflicts leads to a significant spike in gender-based violence, women across the world face a “justice gap” with discriminatory laws reported in most countries, according to a repor...

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The fact that we frame alternatives adopted from other countries as radical says more about our political imagination than the policy itself. I'm not suggesting a pivot is easy: it's NOT. So many entrenched interests; so many lives jeopardized.

Bingo. The moral injury of that dilemma is significant…

Fixing the "job-lock" created by employment-related benefits is is probably the greatest lever we could use not just to improve society overall, but also increase individual well-being by creating opportunities to open creativity and further drive innovation.

Deep Dive with Gül Dölen on Curiosity Podcast Episode · Kelly Corrigan Wonders · February 3 · 1h 1m

"May we all be mesmerized by the cool weirdness of the universe."

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Also, the healthcare system is actively collapsing and we are left to argue about employers and insurance.

It’s just all so painful to watch from within the system as both a physician and a student of health policy.

These are things that don’t happen in any other industrialized nation.

Yet we argue over the rest instead.

Insurance is the bare minimum now and with high-deductible plans, care is still unaffordable aside from being inaccessible.

Why should your ability to access insurance be tied to what kind of job you have? And what kind of insurance that employer Is willing and able to pay for?

While people understandably are upset about the fracturing of jobs and the breakdown of associated benefits, we should be asking different questions to imagine a better system like: why should benefits be linked to occupational status at all?

Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins.

That fiction has collapsed.

Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/

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This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.

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The phrase “every conservative influencer in the business” tells you everything you need to know.

The entire modern conservative movement descends from snake oil salesmen and prosperity gospel revival tent preachers.

It’s nothing more than a con, and that’s all it will ever be.

I’m all for taxing people appropriately and raising taxes. People need to also understand how capitalism works and why wealth inequality has reached this point and how net worth is calculated.

We should do better, and sometimes we aim in the right direction and miss widely.

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Your regular reminder that there is no statue of limitations for murder.

There will never be anything that can repair this loss. But there damn well better be justice.

Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket!

And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Ah yes, Leftist continuing to say the same insane things not actually based not on facts, an understanding of politics or reality, and entirely on vibes and grievances.

Much like the contrarian right.