The shot has been used by roughly one in four sexually active #women in the United States, bringing in hundreds of millions in #profits annually for the pharmaceutical behemoth #Pfizer, which manufactures and distributes the #drug @helenwsantoro.bsky.social @levernews.com

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Actually, I think the far-right is accurately identifying an existential issue. So many of the most vehement far-right were either heavily bullied or did the bullying. Teaching empathy to the next generation is fundamentally at odds with conservative political philosophy. That's why they hate it.

Over at @levernews.com, we investigated how one-stop real estate shops like Zillow and Redfin may actually be hurting homebuyers – and the U.S. economy. For today's Lever Time episode, I spoke with @helenwsantoro.bsky.social about what her reporting uncovered: www.levernews.com/the-zillow-a...

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes. Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants. Here is your shutdown guide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The Trump administration plans to furlough 41% of Health and Human Service workers in the event of a shutdown. The administration also plans to furlough 64% of the CDC, 75% of the National Institutes of Health, and 47% of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.

More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay. kffhealthnews.org/diagnosis-de...

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Anti-trans hate group Genspect is formally calling for trans people to be repathologized. This is most certainly to set the stage for mandated conversion therapy and potentially forced institutionalization. archive.ph/yA2Wh

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Monday upheld President Donald Trump’s dismissal without cause of the last Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) despite nearly a century of court precedent protecting the official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The federal government’s reported plans to link pregnant people’s use of acetaminophen — the pain-relief drug sold under the brand name Tylenol — as a cause of autism could worsen their health and stigmatize one of the few treatments pregnant people have for reducing pain and fever, doctors warn.

Tired: RFK Jr autism report and recommendation nonsense. Wired: Waiting for the news of whether they're going to ban shocking autistic and other disabled kids as punishment again.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

Behind the convenience of Zillow and Rocket Mortgage’s all-in-one homebuying services, experts warn of a debt system that deceives and squeezes consumers. www.levernews.com/one-stop-rea...

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers encoded campus open-carry into state law.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Political violence has no place in a liberal democracy.

It's one thing to lament loss of life and decry political violence, but this revisionism is shockingly dishonest and downright offensive to the millions of people Kirk targeted and upon whom he inflicted pain and misery. The man was a liar and a bigot who gladly hurt others to advance himself.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people. Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.

Only 18% of US individuals earn more than $100,000, per FORTUNE.

JUST IN: The US now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021

September is suicide awareness month. Losing my partner to suicide has almost broken me. It's a pain many don't understand, & I hope they never do. I picture her now at Zeniba's cottage from Spirited Away with a friend who took her life a couple of years ago. #suicideawareness #grief #mentalhealth

This Labor Day, while US markets are closed, crypto traders will have their first opportunity to buy and sell the tokens tied to a project endorsed by President Donald Trump and his family, per Bloomberg.

It is unusual for a school shooter to be trans. It is not at all unusual for a school shooter to be an online Nazi lunatic

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

The average home price is now about twice what it was in 2009.

BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections. They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.

They forgot "gock"

we did a thing @levernews.com www.levernews.com/lawmakers-ba...

HAPPENING NOW: In Palantir's home state, tech lobbyists have convinced Dem lawmakers to convene an emergency session TODAY to pass a law prohibiting district attorneys, watchdog groups & citizens from filing consumer protection lawsuits against AI giants. www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...

In a Colorado special session, business-friendly lawmakers are spearheading a bill that would strip individuals their right to sue AI businesses that violate the Colorado Consumer Protection Act that guards consumers against deceptive and unfair business practices. www.levernews.com/the-plot-to-...

The price of vegetables rose 38.9% in July.

The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was "betrayed and devastated" by the move.

The entire supply of fire retardant, the vital liquid dropped from planes to combat wildfires, is controlled by one company. That company, Perimeter Solutions, charges 20-30% more than it did four years ago. So our government pays them more and more in an effort to save lives.

BREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump administration from taking $4 billion from FEMA. The money is meant to help protect infrastructure around the country from storm damage. Trump wanted to take the money allocated by Congress and use it elsewhere.

Universal Health Services, the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain, claims on its website to provide compassionate care. But a yearlong Mother Jones investigation tells a different story, shedding light on a large, profitable, and often-overlooked patient base: foster kids.

Pregnant people in rural parts of the country are running out of places to give birth 19thnews.org/2025/08/preg... via @19thnews.org

Concession workers at Fenway Park are now warning of an indefinite strike. First these workers who feed Red Sox fans struck for three days, but if food and beverage vendor Aramark doesn’t offer a new labor contract the next walk out could be much longer. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

New polling shows that 53% of Americans consider the price of groceries to be a major source of stress. www.axios.com/2025/08/04/g...

Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...