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Alejandra Caraballo
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A University of Washington trans student was fatally stabbed in her campus housing building and the suspect is still at large.
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Suspect at large after transgender college student stabbed to death in laundry room in Seattle
A student at the University of Washington in Seattle was found stabbed to death in a campus housing building, Seattle police said.
https://abc7news.com/post/seattle-homicide-news-suspect-large-transgender-university-washington-student-stabbed-death-laundry-room/19082407/
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onion person
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important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though
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Anton Hur
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WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63904-2
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ProPublica
3 days ago
NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.
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Despite Court Order, NYPD Failed to Properly Monitor Stop-and-Frisks by Aggressive Unit
The department didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints. ProPublica previousl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-community-response-team-stop-frisk-reviews?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen Resigns amid Investigation into Alleged Relationship with Redistricting Attorney
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Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen Resigns amid Investigation into Relationship with Attorney
Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has resigned amid an investigation into an alleged relationship with an attorney. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox accepted Hagen's resignation and said information on fill...
https://people.com/utah-justice-diana-hagen-resigns-amid-alleged-attorney-relationship-investigation-11970998
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Sunny Marvel
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Alejandra Caraballo
5 days ago
They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.
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The New Republic
5 days ago
The Roberts court has spent decades systematically making it harder for workers and consumers who try to fight back in court—including raising the bar to bringing antitrust suits, blessing fine-print clauses that deprive workers of their day in court, and gutting class actions.
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Less Noted, Just as Radical: The High Court’s Rightward Economic Shift
The Supreme Court and other federal courts have moved dramatically to the right on economic policy as well as social and democracy policy. It’s time to take on that fight too.
https://trib.al/cARcvaU
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Chris Hayes
5 days ago
To be clear, this guy thinks 9/11 was an inside job!
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ProPublica
5 days ago
A must-read thread 🧵
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Alejandra Caraballo
6 days ago
My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.
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I agree with the Dark Woke Commander.
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Timothy McBride
7 days ago
Opinion | Mass Deportation and American Jobs A study finds that U.S. employment falls in areas with more ICE arrests.
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Mass Deportation and American Jobs
A study finds that U.S. employment falls in areas with more ICE arrests.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mass-deportation-american-jobs-nber-university-of-colorado-boulder-study-e06e26af
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In Otter News
8 days ago
Great thinking, Steve! As usual...
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jamelle
8 days ago
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more.
www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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Democracy Docket
9 days ago
In a speedy timeline that is rare for the Court, SCOTUS ruled to allow Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts even as an election is underway. The decision not only continues to reshape voting rights law, but also accelerates the GOP's efforts to redraw maps on compressed timelines.
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Supreme Court clears path for Louisiana to gerrymander mid-election
The Supreme Court fast-tracked its decision in Louisiana v. Callais — a move that clears the way for Louisiana to move forward with redrawing its congressional map even as an election is already under...
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-clears-path-for-louisiana-to-gerrymander-mid-election/
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Jon Cooper
12 days ago
In case you’re wondering, this is a real post.
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Marc Elias
12 days ago
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Mother Jones
14 days ago
Pediatrician and former state senator Richard Pan is on a mission—to make vaccines great again.
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RFK Jr. has met his match in this California congressional hopeful
Pediatrician and former state senator Richard Pan is on a mission—to make vaccines great again.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/richard-pan-california-congress-campaign-candidate-vaccines-skepticism-robert-kennedy-rfk-jr/
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jamelle
14 days ago
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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jamelle
15 days ago
The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.
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Alejandra Caraballo
17 days ago
The 70-90% desistance numbers myth has always been bullshit but it's nice to see research confirming that it is.
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Common claim that most transgender youth renounce that identity is not supported by statistics, research finds
The frequently cited claim that 60% to 90% of transgender and gender-diverse children and young adults ultimately identify as cisgender—or their gender assigned at birth—is not supported by statistica...
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-common-transgender-youth-renounce-identity.html
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Meanwhile in Indiana…
18 days ago
Funny how that works. 🤔🫤🤨🙂↔️
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Land doesn't vote, dumbass, people do. And cities are where most people live. And if not for the advantages given to rural voters (Senate, Electoral College, gerrymandered maps), Republicans would lose most elections.
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Parker Molloy
20 days ago
Today's newsletter: The Washington Post editorial board has a Republican bias problem, and these two gerrymandering editorials make it impossible to ignore.
www.readtpa.com/p/the-freako...
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The “Freakout” and the “Abyss”
When Texas Republicans gerrymandered at Trump’s direction, the Washington Post told readers to calm down. When Virginia Democrats responded, the editorial board found the end of democracy.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-freakout-and-the-abyss
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"How do we blame Muslims for this?" - Christian Zionists
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Robert Reich
22 days ago
What do Levi’s, Hanes, and Chewy have in common? California AG Rob Bonta just revealed evidence alleging that Amazon used its power to pressure them, and countless other brands, to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
24 days ago
John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence.
#Corruption
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Oh no, we can't lose Sean Hannity. Don't go Sean. Noooo... - a deeply sarcastic Pope
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
25 days ago
What the fuck
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
29 days ago
nuremberg 2.0 needs to end with the assets of all those guards seized and handed over to their victims
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"The rest of NATO wouldn't help me and Netanyahu topple Iran so now I'm threatening to attack one of them to seize territory which will soon be ripe for mineral extraction because of climate change, which I claim isn't real." Somebody 86 this motherfucker.
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Skip Z🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💙
about 1 month ago
Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
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Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/country-that-lectures-iran-on-democracy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 1 month ago
This is like watching a liberal dad explain to his incel son why hating women because they're women is wrong
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Erin Reed
about 1 month ago
1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it. Then Idaho banned new city flags. So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows! Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Idaho Banned The Pride Flag. So Boise Wrapped the Flagpoles Themselves In Pride Colors.
As public acknowledgements of LGBTQ life come under attack, local governments and citizen activists alike are fighting back in bold and creative ways.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/idaho-banned-the-pride-flag-so-boise
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Mehdi Hasan
about 1 month ago
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽♂️
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Marc Elias
about 1 month ago
To understand the deep institutional failure of legacy media in protecting democracy, please read this. Then share it.
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Legacy media paints Harmeet Dhillon as plucky underdog fighting ‘woke ideology’
To the legacy media, Harmeet Dhillon has spent her career as an underdog — bravely swimming against the liberal tide.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/legacy-media-paints-harmeet-dhillon-as-plucky-underdog-fighting-woke-ideology/
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Pot, stop projecting your own shortcomings onto Kettle.
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Global Abortion Rights News
about 1 month ago
A new report from the US Government Accountability Office reveals that 16 anti-choice fake clinics directly received at least $34 million in gov't funding between 2018 and 2024.
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HHS directly gives crisis pregnancy centers millions of dollars
And the federal government is continuing to double down on a "pro-life" agenda.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/hhs-directly-gives-crisis-pregnancy-centers-millions-of-dollars/
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Laura Jedeed
about 1 month ago
Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
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It's peculiar because Trump never shuts the fuck up or misses a chance to get attention from the press. The fact that he has changed his behavior is odd. Also, Biden wasn't the attention-whore Trump is, so going a few days without a press event was normal.
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andy™
about 1 month ago
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
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Trump: Not-Ivanka isn't doing her job. She's supposed to make me look good but the media is still being mean to me. Anyone: She's a young blonde woman who lacks a conscience and is willing to fuck rich old men. That's why you hired her, not because you actually thought she could make you look good
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-orphan-wells-cleanup-playbook-siana-tom-ragsdale?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1775254981&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Marc Elias
about 1 month ago
Shortly after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed Florida’s version of the SAVE America Act into law, pro-voting groups moved swiftly to challenge the severe new voting restrictions, asking a federal court to block the state from requiring voters to prove their citizenship status.
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Pro-voting groups file lawsuits to block Florida’s SAVE Act
Just before signing the new voting restrictions into law, DeSantis unironically boasted that he had already successfully rooted out voter fraud in Florida.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/pro-voting-groups-file-lawsuit-to-block-floridas-save-act/
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Please, please, please let Trump step in to argue the case against birthright citizenship. His inane ramblings would make it impossible for the conservative justices to decide in his favor and still pretend to have any intellectual legitimacy. It would also be really funny to listen to.
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about 1 month ago
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
FCC Chair Brendan Carr claims he protects local news, but the fights he picks with broadcasters over the “public interest” requirement aren’t local stories. They’re national stories that upset President Trump. FPF's Seth Stern writes in
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Trump's FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man.
When you look at the fights Brendan Carr actually picks, they aren’t local stories at all. They’re tailored for Donald Trump.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/31/brendan-carr-fcc-censorship-localism-cpac/
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Art Candee 🍿🥤
about 1 month ago
Oh. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is big mad about this picture? Would be a shame if people saw it. 🍿
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