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Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID have resulted in 600,000 deaths worldwide wide. But my liberal neighbor named his son Che. I have never felt more politically homeless.

what is it about the leg extension machine that makes people want to sit down and read their emails

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then fire up the old laptop to get email dating advice from a convicted sex trafficker. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and has ordered that the organization continues to receive Medicaid funds. (via AP)

you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking.

This is what I’m so worried about

Dodgers utilityman Kiké Hernández took to Instagram on Saturday to express his support for immigrants and decry the recent militarized raids in the city by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

I do not have the words for how angry this makes me. This guy is single-handedly undoing a centuries of effective public health policy. He will be appointing people who sell supplements.

I can't top this one.

Whether it's liberal students booing Charles Murray or conservative presidents sending innocent fathers to die in El Salvadoran torture prisons, there's been plenty of incivility on both sides of the political spectrum.

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Celebrating hurting people because that’s the brand

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections.

Stephanie Nolen reporting that 1,200,000 children will die because of this decision. Unconscionable.

Whether it’s Donald Trump attack attacking Haitian refugees working blue-collar jobs in industrial Ohio cities or Tim Walz criticizing a South African billionaire working to install a fascist autocracy in Washington DC, members of both parties have adopted an anti-immigrant stance.

“Less medical research, a pull-back on life-saving vaccines, turning away from science and embracing folk medicine. Make America Healthy Again. Again. Meaning: America used to be ‘healthy’ and now is not. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked

This is all to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans

This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.

ICYMI: Under a new Trump directive, schools will not have to adhere to Title IX when they begin directly paying athletes NIL money. So much for his vow to “protect women’s sports.” My latest column for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

it’s so easy to laugh, it’s so easy to hate. it takes guts to be gentle and kind over and over

i’m not living, i’m just killing time

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

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It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

the onion may be the new simpsons, as far as prophesying goes

“Be brave” @janefonda.com

Ahem

If I were the richest man in the world, this would not be the play

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Cancer research paused

Richest guy in the world cutting American eduction spending

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Nazi Hopes Elon Musk Antisemitism Apology As Disingenuous As It Seemed theonion.com/nazi-ho...

I voted for Trump. When he said he was going to let Elon do DOGE, I didn't know that he meant he was going to let Elon destroy the FAA and make me die a fiery death in an unregulated self-flying plane.

Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Should the richest man in the world be able to shut down a federal program because he wants to? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

He did so back in 2011, along with nine other councillors, over concerns it was too expensive to pump the mineral into the drinking sources of Calgary, Alberta. Since then, the 1.4 million people who live there have been without fluoridated water, and it appears to have come at a cost.

Sorry, America. We can feed the elderly with Meals on Wheels or we can let billionaires cheat on their taxes. We can't do both.