WhatRWeDoingHere
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Lifelong liberal, eclectic creative, eternally optimistic realist, avid reader, movie lover.
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Damian Carrington
about 8 hours ago
Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour, says major
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report - ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/food-fossil-fuel-production-5bn-environmental-damage-an-hour-un-geo-report-
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Mark Chadbourn
about 8 hours ago
Another sign that Trump is not just a US problem - he’s a threat to the entire world.
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UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist
The US and other governments derailed agreement on a global environment study, it's co-chair says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w9ge93w9po
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Declassified UK
about 9 hours ago
Two UK companies are on the updated UN database of firms involved in Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank - JC Bamford Excavators and Greenkote plc. Minister Hamish Falconer is simply "aware" of the database and doesn't want to comment.
#DCUKparliament
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Mark Chadbourn
about 9 hours ago
We really are on the brink of a health golden age.
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Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38ymeyg4mo
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The War Monitor
about 11 hours ago
Checked the numbers and the farm bailout is definitely not funded by tariffs. The $12 billion comes from taxpayers through the Commodity Credit Corporation, which USDA taps like a credit line. Treasury fronts the cash and Congress later refills it with taxpayer money. It's debt.
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Kyiv Post
about 11 hours ago
Putin isn’t planning to end the war. He has signed a decree calling up reservists for 2026 training. Russia’s mobilization reserve includes volunteers under contract — about 100,000 people as of official 2021 data.
www.kyivpost.com/post/65859
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Anders Östlund
about 12 hours ago
"The Belgians have been getting pressure from the U.S. to not release the Russian Central Bank assets for Ukraine, because the Trump administration wants all that money to go back to Russia, while taking their cut – which is just jaw dropping."
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The Atlantic
about 12 hours ago
While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
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Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
https://bit.ly/4oDV8yL
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 12 hours ago
This is the way.
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David Roberts
about 12 hours ago
This report should have panicked everyone on the left into concerted, coordinated effort to address the information asymmetry. But as far as I can tell it just came & went & Dems are still in "buy TV ads about affordability" mode.
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The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly
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Kelly
about 12 hours ago
The racist who used the N word has raised over $100k… which is three times what she would have made in a year working at Cinnabon Meanwhile there’s tons of good people on here asking for a few dollars to eat, pay for meds or remain housed Support mutual aid. Boost, share, like & donate if you can
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
about 13 hours ago
this is hilarious
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TheCatMan
about 14 hours ago
Incredible story. Incredible reporting from Phil Williams of Channel 5 in Nashville. A MUST watch. Extremely well done, and most alarming. Unsettling. I'm shaking.
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Kyle Griffin
about 15 hours ago
Breaking NYT: The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/world/americas/honduras-hernandez-arrest-warrant.html
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Elizabeth Warren
about 17 hours ago
After a backroom meeting with Donald Trump and a donation to the Trump ballroom, NVIDIA got a deal to sell the most advanced AI chip it has ever sold to China. The NVIDIA CEO should testify under oath in Congress.
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Marc Elias
about 16 hours ago
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed Missouri Republicans’ attempt to stop voters from pursuing a referendum against the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Federal Court Tosses GOP Lawsuit Against Missouri’s Gerrymander Referendum Effort
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-court-tosses-gop-lawsuit-against-missouris-gerrymander-referendum-effort/
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Elizabeth Warren
about 16 hours ago
Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China. His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority." Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
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Micah
about 15 hours ago
I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually
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derek guy
about 15 hours ago
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
about 15 hours ago
File under: No shit. We pay for food once to the store, again for Trump's tariffs, now again for Trump's taxes to pay the farmers for his tariffs. It's Stupid's Economy. Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/politics/trump-trade-affordability.html?smid=tw-share
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Nash Is Here For It
about 15 hours ago
Palantir: Rebranding drug addiction as neurodivergence. Clever.
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 16 hours ago
A GOP group hired people from across the country to go to Utah and gather signatures for a ballot referendum to repeal the state's anti-gerrymandering law. Now many are coming forward to say they are ill-treated, not getting paid, & reduced to "living in their cars."
www.rawstory.com/utah-gop-267...
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Republican operatives accused of leaving campaign workers 'living in cars' with no pay
A Republican group hired people from across the country to come to Utah and gather signatures for a ballot referendum repealing the state's anti-gerrymandering law — but many are coming forward to say...
https://www.rawstory.com/utah-gop-2674380771/
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Taniel
about 16 hours ago
Christine Woods’ lawsuit forced the county to redraw local maps this year and create three majority black districts.
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Carl Quintanilla
about 16 hours ago
“.. Of 26 brands, .. Jeep, and Tesla are the least reliable for used cars ..”
@consumerreports.org
$TSLA
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Dan Weiner
about 17 hours ago
The Chargers really got a Pro-Russia singer from the Republic of Georgia to do the national anthem???
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Daniel Gunter
about 17 hours ago
"Your honor, we didn't do our homework before filing, so here are more citations."
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 17 hours ago
Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away
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White House Scraps Cash Payments for Delayed or Canceled Flights
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/travel/trump-biden-delayed-flights-payments.html
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Jake Wertz
about 18 hours ago
My 3 year old is thriving, healthy, and causing all of the headaches that a 3 year old typically causes for his parents. 3 years ago, when he was less than a month old, we spent a week in the ICU because, as we later found, he was hit by this viral epidemic. Fuck RFK
www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/w...
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‘We Were So Blindsided’: What New Parents Should Know About Parechovirus (Published 2022)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/well/family/parechovirus-symptoms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.6GUa.TUNxQqeIpsHz&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Khashoggi's Ghost
about 18 hours ago
Protesters packed the Indiana Statehouse Monday to fight against Republican plans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give their party an extra advantage and eliminate the state’s two Democratic seats. Loud chants of “Stop the steal” filled the statehouse .
newrepublic.com/post/204141/...
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Indiana Statehouse Rocked by Protests as Republicans Try to Rig Maps
Demonstrators filled the Indiana statehouse as Republicans plot to gerrymander the congressional maps.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204141/indiana-statehouse-protests-republicans-maps-gerrymandering
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Raw Story
about 18 hours ago
A House Republican in Missouri attacked a group of California voters this month in a post on X for trying to interfere in her state's politics — but then quietly deleted her post after realizing these voters were not from California at all.
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Busted: Republican tries to delete gaffe — but not before reporters take screenshots
A House Republican in Missouri attacked a group of California voters this month in a post on X for trying to interfere in her state's politics — but then quietly deleted her post after realizing these voters were not from California at all. Or at least, not the California she was thinking of.The dra...
https://bit.ly/3YfFLBT
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WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS COMBATTING THIS?
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Cooper Lund
about 17 hours ago
Yeah I don’t think the thirty three drinks are the story here, even if that is an eye-watering number
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Karen K. Ho
about 18 hours ago
Seeing Rolling Stone lay off multiple staff less than three weeks before Christmas, one of them Brittany Spanos, a cover story writer with 11 years at the title, really confirms how bad things are in media right now
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Raw Story
about 18 hours ago
An immigration judge ordered the release of a Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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Judge orders release of Karoline Leavitt family member being held by ICE
An immigration judge ordered the release of a Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.Bruna Ferreira, who is the mother of Leavitt's 11-year-old nephew, was being held at an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana after federal officers arrested her last mo...
https://bit.ly/3MlPtQJ
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Dan Friedman
about 19 hours ago
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Eric Michael Garcia
about 18 hours ago
Tucked inside the Republican bill for health care subsidies, a clause that would restrict the money from being used for abortion (with exception for rape, incest or life of the mother) or for "any sex trait modification procedure or service."
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Robert Reich
about 19 hours ago
The monopolies of the Gilded Age led Congress to establish the FTC as an independent agency. Its independence is meant to insulate it from political pressure so it can check corporate power and protect the American people. Trump wanting to upend this is very telling.
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Democratic Activists
about 19 hours ago
We're suing the Trump administration over its decision to hold an offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico — with no environmental review. This is blatantly illegal.
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Trump Plans to Drill 1.27 Billion Acres of Ocean. Here's How We're Fighting Back.
We’ve successfully challenged Trump’s past offshore oil lease sales that broke the law at the expense of coastal communities, and we’re ready to win again.
https://earthjustice.org/brief/2025/trump-announces-unlawful-gulf-of-mexico-oil-sale-were-taking-it-to-court
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Elias Law Group
about 19 hours ago
Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in NRSC v. FEC, a Republican challenge to longstanding federal limits on coordinated spending between parties and candidates. Marc Elias will argue on behalf of the DNC, DSCC, & DCCC. Listen here @ 10am ET:
www.c-span.org/event/public...
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Supreme Court Hears Republican Challenge to Campaign Finance Law
The Supreme Court hears oral argument in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, Republicans' First Amendment lawsuit against the FEC regarding limits on coordinated c...
https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/supreme-court-hears-republican-challenge-to-campaign-finance-law/438408
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James
about 20 hours ago
Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
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Reforms of the Reckless
On The New York Times Losing Their Minds
https://othermeans.io/p/reforms-of-the-reckless
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The War Monitor
about 19 hours ago
Trump says the bailout is only possible because of tariffs, but the tariffs are the reason a bailout is needed in the first place. He is bragging about half-ass fixing a problem he created while many farms have already gone bankrupt.
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emptywheel
about 19 hours ago
She has done great work!! Hire her!!
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Marisa Kabas
about 19 hours ago
the guy responsible for giving us george santos is running for governor of new york lmaoooooo
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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to announce his run for NY governor Tuesday
News 12 was told Blakeman will focus on making the Empire State more affordable and safer while putting New York first.
https://longisland.news12.com/nassau-county-executive-bruce-blakeman-to-announce-his-run-for-ny-governor-tuesday
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Alan Rosenblatt
about 19 hours ago
Trump says without the tariffs we would not be able to help the farmers weather the complete collapse of their crop sales as a result of the Trump tariffs that Americans pay on imported goods.
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Carl Quintanilla
about 19 hours ago
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.” -
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geoffrey
about 19 hours ago
i know how to make conservative ideas popular with teens: put them in school programs and make sure all the teens know the government really wants you to think it's cool
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Peggy Flanagan
about 21 hours ago
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
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Kyle Cheney
about 19 hours ago
JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot. Our earlier story on the privilege claim:
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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skáld
about 19 hours ago
begging, pleading with my fellow millennial parents to do everything you can to keep your children from falling into this trap
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There's a vaccine that other countries are using to prevent this.
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