Richard Hellinga
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Books, running, and coffee. Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Protect trans kids. He/Him
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
2 days ago
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
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No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/no-child-deaths-definitively-linked-covid-shots-fda-says-rcna346514?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6a110a2da88c290001712dd3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium
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Miles Klee 🦉
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right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit
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No, it's mostly the Nazis and the fact I don't need arguments in order to learn different things that I'm content here. But if you and others want to stay on Xitter, I love that journey for you all.
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Nicholas Grossman
2 days ago
Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally
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All of this is the truth. Want another example? Look at the Michigan State University Board of Trustees giving President Guskiewicz an unasked for $1 million annual raise, while he pushed through 9% cuts across university departments. It's disgusting.
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John Scalzi
3 days ago
I already have to check search results to see if they're trustworthy, why would I want to add another level of untrustworthiness to my searching, my time on this planet is short enough as it is. "Oh you just have to prompt correctly" - OR, I could just fuckin' do a search, I spent 30 years on that.
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I'm so tired of the McCaskey family's pissing and moaning. They're like every other billionaire sports-team owner looking for handouts from the state.
chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadiu...
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Bears bill to keep team in Illinois faces major obstacles, including Mayor Johnson pulling support
There are just 10 days left before state legislators are scheduled to adjourn for the spring session, with May 31 marking a crucial deadline for a bill the Bears say must pass if they are to consider ...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/05/21/bears-stadium-megaprojects-bill-arlington-heights-obstacles-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker-northwest-indiana?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=052226%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=052226%20Morning%20Edition+CID_5fe3626b138e274f448ad8f0a4b13c5b&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Mayors%20Springfield%20impact&tpcc=cst_cm
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Anna O. Law
4 days ago
State of the Democratic Party leadership
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Gail Simone
4 days ago
If you read them now, Killer Princesses, Clean Room and the Secret Six arc about a prison island all seem like they were specifically written about the Trump administration. But they weren’t, they were all warnings about political manipulation that destroys our moral center. 1/
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And there was much rejoicing.
www.wilx.com/2026/05/21/m...
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Mike Duggan drops out of Michigan’s gubernatorial race
The former Detroit mayor bowed out of the race Thursday morning.
https://www.wilx.com/2026/05/21/mike-duggan-drops-out-michigans-gubernatorial-race/
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Sandy Ernest Allen
5 days ago
The ONLY WAY is to fight for trans rights. We are the canary in the coal mine. Why the miners saved the canary is their safety depended on its too …
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Peter Sagal
6 days ago
I’m sorry, but this made me laugh.
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 days ago
Don't listen to me, listen to the cult members:
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Erin Reed
7 days ago
1. Incredible breaking news and a landmark ruling out of Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals MUST not capitulate to Trump, and must continue offering trans youth care under state law. They found vague federal threats "speculative." Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Colorado Supreme Court Rules Hospitals Must Not Comply With Trump, Must Continue Offering Trans Youth Care
The ruling is a landmark ruling in keeping gender-affirming care legal and available in blue states.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/colorado-supreme-court-rules-hospitals
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David M. Perry
7 days ago
I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.
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Katelyn Burns
8 days ago
Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.
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john j. kim
8 days ago
Chicago baseball looking pretty good White Sox 9, Cubs 8 (10 innings) 📷 from 🎥
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Sean Casten
8 days ago
Mike Johnson: "This is not the time to buy Donald Trump a pair of adult diapers. He has the executive authority to crap in our collective beds and our new project is to clean the linens."
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Gotta be one of the shortest comebacks on record in any sport.
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9 days ago
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The likes of Polis, Fetterman, Jeffries, and Schumer do not understand how angry we all are, or how justice needs to work against these fascists.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 days ago
Where we are in a nutshell.
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Rachel
11 days ago
Did you see what Kneecap and the Strokes did at successive Coachellas? Have you heard Hayley Williams’ ‘True Believer’ or MUNA’s ‘Big Stick’? Check out Bob Vylan, Chloe Slater, Softcult, CMAT... if you want it, look for it; it’s there, but a machine is working hard to keep it out of your eyeline.
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Radley Balko
11 days ago
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
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Leah Litman
11 days ago
Justice Alito saying that medication abortion undermines their decision in Dobbs is nucking futts. Dobbs SAID it was returning the issue of abortion to the political process / electoral politics. The FDA is part of that - and the FDA decided to make mifepristone available by telemedicine.
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Nathan Goldwag
11 days ago
This has been such a persistent issue with the
@nytimes.com
in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.
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Mistress Matisse
12 days ago
This is fucking amazing
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Chris Geidner
12 days ago
BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."
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Jenny Cohn
12 days ago
A16z partners Marc Andreessen & Kathryn Boyle are Limited Partners of New Founding’s VC Fund, which is advised by Charles Haywood who says that “racial discrimination…should be 100% legal…” & that “sex discrimination should be not only 100% legal; it should be aggressively expected & demanded…” 1/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
12 days ago
literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Mistress Matisse
12 days ago
Oh would that INCONVENIENCE him? Might that cause him some ANXIETY, going forward? Another man who thought HE could just disregard other people’s boundaries, but nothing bad would ever be permitted to happen to HIM
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Rahawa Haile
12 days ago
In this week's Scratch,
@maggiemertens.bsky.social
asks why writers remain on Substack—as a user of Substack herself—and interviews three writers who've left the platform for Beehiiv and Ghost. We know how hard Substack makes it to leave; we also think writers should still try do so.
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Why Can’t Writers Seem to Quit Substack?
And why haven’t I done it yet?
https://www.talkscratch.com/why-cant-writers-seem-to-quit-substack/
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Derf Backderf
12 days ago
"The audience comes last. I'm not making it for them. I'm making it for me. When you make something truly for yourself, you're making the best thing for the audience." Spot on. In movies, in books, in comics.
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The MSM shrugs at every nasty, vile thing Trump says.
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13 days ago
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Drake, Gender Thief🏳️⚧️
13 days ago
Because people were asking, this is what I was referring to
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Billie Jean Sweeney
13 days ago
The character of MAGA. Misogyny, evil, violence and cowardice
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Carin Ruff
13 days ago
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#medievalsky
🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵
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Leah McElrath
13 days ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha (Analysts at JP Morgan get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this bullshit.)
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Mo Ryan
13 days ago
Happy publication day to the great
@sarahgailey.bsky.social
! Excellent person, amazing writer, just the best on all counts. More on their new book Make Me Better here🔥💚
stone-soup.ghost.io/make-me-bett...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
14 days ago
The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…
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Trump and his conservative followers hate this country and its ideals.
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Elizabeth Spiers
14 days ago
His obsession with Obama is motivated by his racism, but also his jealousy. Obama is both widely respected by elites and cool—two things that Trump has never been able to attain
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Kevin M. Kruse
15 days ago
OK, this is kind of amazing?
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jamelle
16 days ago
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
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utopia deferred
15 days ago
What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying
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Peanut Butter Panic
15 days ago
I’m a millennial who works in software. I’ve seen the quiet AI backlash and disdain from younger coworkers. It’s quiet because their leadership is wildly zealous about AI and openly objecting to AI would put those young people’s jobs at risk.
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Jessica Kant
16 days ago
Incidentally, much of the HHS focus on gutting “DEI” grants in science was in part a reaction to the success of social epidemiology research by women who demonstrated unequivocally that social determinants are far and away the biggest drivers of health. It really was capitalism and racism all along.
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