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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
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This.
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Brent Toderian
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āIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.ā
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
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Alt National Park Service
10 months ago
Muskās status as a āspecial government employeeā limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working dailyādocumented by his own X postsāthey claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congressāplease share.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM
10 months ago
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldnāt find itā¦so donāt RT right now this very second.
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ACLU
11 months ago
URGENT: The House is set to vote tomorrow on whether to advance $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid ā eviscerating essential programs that provide lifesaving services for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Tell your representative now: Don't cut Medicaid.
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Congress: Save Medicaid Now
Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/congress-save-medicaid-now
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOCās work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."
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AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong
Other Democrats, from Schumer to Hochul, should follow her lead.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-ice-deportations-adams-new-york
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Alt-IRS
11 months ago
So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country:
www.project2025.observer
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
https://www.project2025.observer/
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge
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Paul Krugman
11 months ago
Trump's "plan" is both depraved and unworkable
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-belgian-...
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A Belgian Congo Plan for Ukraine
Plus a conversation with Phillips OāBrien
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-belgian-congo-plan-for-ukraine
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
11 months ago
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Hereās our shareable guide ā¬ļø: (pt. 1/2)
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Mueller, She Wrote
11 months ago
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: Iāll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template:
www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...
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Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions
There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-grievance-template-for-adverse?r=14rrh9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Mother Jones
11 months ago
@warren.senate.gov
on how to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Elon Musk ā¬ļø
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Sen. Elizabeth Warrenās two-word plan to save the CFPB from Elon Musk
"Banks hated this agency from the first time I ever talked about it."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/sen-elizabeth-warrens-two-word-plan-to-save-the-cfpb-from-elon-musk/
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Alt National Park Service
11 months ago
Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.
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McSweeney's
11 months ago
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countriesāuglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
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Here at DOGE, Weāve Streamlined Every Aspect of Americaās Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
https://buff.ly/3WNnziI
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Alt National Park Service
11 months ago
Alaska lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging President Trump to abandon his plans to rename the continentās largest mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley.
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Becky Browder Neustadt
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NYC Union Square
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Jon Cooper
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Alt National Park Service
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Doctor Who Positivity (Tom) š³ļøāā§ļø š³ļøāš
11 months ago
THIS!
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NPR
12 months ago
A large study of 30,000 adults diagnosed with ADHD in the U.K. found women with ADHD died roughly nine years younger than women without a diagnosis. Men had about a seven-year shorter lifespan.
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Adults with ADHD live shorter lives than those without a diagnosis, a new study finds
A large study of 30,000 adults diagnosed with ADHD in the U.K. found women with ADHD died roughly nine years younger than women without a diagnosis. Men had about a seven-year shorter lifespan.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272801/adhd-research-shorter-life-expectancy-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
12 months ago
Had an awesome time chatting with Jon Stewart &
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
talking about how to fight the dumpster fire. Gear up. Itās time to brawl.
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Paul Krugman
12 months ago
What are you gonna believe, MAGA or your lying eyes?
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Trump, Energy and MAGA Brain
Drilling down on a right-wing delusion
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-energy-and-maga-brain
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Michelle
12 months ago
For all you Trekkies out there.
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Matthew Hahn
12 months ago
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.
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The Onion
12 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
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Mother Jones
12 months ago
Just 0.017 percent of youth were coded as trans and received puberty blockers. And just 0.037 percent were trans and accessed hormone therapy. āThereās a lot of attention being spent on an issue that only affects a very, very, very tiny part of the population.ā
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Hereās the real number of children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment
New research reveals it's a fraction of a fraction.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/heres-the-real-number-of-children-receiving-gender-affirming-medical-treatment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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NPR
about 1 year ago
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5248299/cartoonist-quits-wapo-over-bezos-trump-cartoon-washingtonpost
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Frank Amari
about 1 year ago
"In lieu of flowers, the Carter family requests that you consider a contribution to The Carter Center."
www.jimmycartertribute.org
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Official Jimmy Carter Memorial Site | Remembering the 39th U.S. President
https://www.jimmycartertribute.org/
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Tom Nichols
about 1 year ago
An article I wrote in 2020. Still amazing to me that Trump's supporters think of him as manly.
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Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
Why donāt the presidentās supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweLw-pT04pirg-mhUiSgjWOM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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The New York Times
about 1 year ago
As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public.
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Old Man Glas
about 1 year ago
Sharing -- A very, very good point.
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Donna Stern
about 1 year ago
Please share! Most people don't know about this crucial resource.
#ASafeChoice
is a referral network of experienced physicians providing access to safe, affordable medication abortion services to women NATIONWIDE! With potential abortion bans on the way, this is ESSENTIAL information to spread.
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Bill Burns
about 1 year ago
āJohnson calls for disciplinary action over Gaetz Ethics report leaksā No discipline for pedophoelia No discipline for drug use Just the leaking of truth
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Johnson calls for disciplinary action over Gaetz Ethics report leaks ā Axios
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said there
https://apple.news/Ay9M_cuGSTo6quE2BxPopgQ
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Over 1/2 Americans are less than literate, and 'can read well enough to evaluate product reviews and perform other tasks requiring comparisons and simple inferences, but theyāre unlikely to correctly evaluate the reliability of texts or draw sophisticated inferences.'
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Low Literacy Levels Among U.S. Adults Could Be Costing The Economy $2.2 Trillion A Year
A new study conducted by Gallup for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy finds that low levels of adult literary could be costing the U. S. as much $2.2 trillion a year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/09/09/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-could-be-costing-the-economy-22-trillion-a-year/
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John Scalzi
about 1 year ago
Privilege allows luck to happen a lot more frequently, at the very least.
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 year ago
New in PN: "If your platform is that women have no right to bodily autonomy, and the head of your party has been held liable for sexual assault, on what grounds can you reject nominees who are accused of misconduct themselves?"
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A government by toxic men, for toxic men
The He-Man Woman-Hater's administration.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gaetz-hegseth-rfk-jr-toxic-men-cabinet
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Nicholas Thompson
about 1 year ago
"For one Cabinet nominee to be accused of sexual impropriety may be regarded as misfortune. For two Cabinet nominees to be thus accused looks like carelessness. For fourāwell, that moves beyond carelessness into outright malice."
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Trumpās Cabinet Has a Serious #MeToo Problem
And the incoming administration doesnāt seem to mind at all.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/trump-cabinet-sexual-assault-allegations/680773/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo
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Sean Cohan
about 1 year ago
It's no accident that Congress shows up first in our Constitution, ahead of the President. People need to remember that as the Executive Branch plans its dirty work with Project 2025. Thank you,
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
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November 20, 2024
Remember how American voters so hated Project 2025, the playbook for a second Trump term written by the Heritage Foundation and other right-wing institutions, that Trump said he had nothing to do with...
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-20-2024
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Alt National Park Service
about 1 year ago
Ramaswamy recently proposed an unconventional approach: randomly selecting federal workers for termination based on their Social Security numbers. He suggested that on President-elect Trumpās first day in office, workers with Social Security numbers ending in an even digit could be dismissed. (2/2)
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Tech Policy Press
about 1 year ago
Policy Director for
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Why the DOJās Google Ad Tech Case Matters to You | TechPolicy.Press
Digital ads erode privacy and hurt publishers. DOJās antitrust suit exemplifies Googleās role in creating and sustaining these issues, writes Lisa Macpherson.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-the-dojs-google-ad-tech-case-matters-to-you/
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Mother Jones
about 1 year ago
The nonprofit killer has passed the house.
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