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Professor; pagan; parent. Sex work is work; trans rights are human rights.
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European Democrats
19 days ago
After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clearâreduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.
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Greg Pak
about 6 hours ago
Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.
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mtsw
3 days ago
"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election
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Brandy Schillace
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what bothers me most, I think, is how publishers have given up on the mid list. If you arenât a TikTok influencer, they barely pay attention. I sold 20k copies of my mystery novelâand the sequel sold 6000 in the first five months. But they refused to pub the third. đ€·đ»ââïž
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 13 hours ago
According to the new Fox News poll, less than 1% of voters think âwokeness/transgender issuesâ are the most important things. Instead, they were focused on inflation, corruption, and the Iran war, all Trump weaknesses.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/shoc...
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Shocking Fox News poll shows voters trust Dems over GOP on trans issues - LGBTQ Nation
It also shows that a majority of voters really disapprove of the Trump administration.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/shocking-fox-news-poll-shows-voters-trust-dems-over-gop-on-trans-issues/
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Lincoln Michel
about 15 hours ago
Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.
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Rachel Maddow
about 16 hours ago
"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agencyâs ship sanitation program..."
www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...
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Experts Wonder 'Where Is The CDC?' As A Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds On A Cruise Ship
âThe CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. âI've never seen that before.â
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/experts-wonder-cdc-hantavirus-outbreak-unfolds-cruise-ship_n_69ff6e4ae4b06e786e3e9626
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Science Magazine
1 day ago
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the governmentâs prosecution of Chinese postdocs.
https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the governmentâs prosecution of Chinese postdocs
https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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Kyle Whitmire
1 day ago
Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS âwill overturn Amendment 14,â the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasnât just a slip. Todayâs newsletter. đ
link.al.com/public/45636...
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Greg Sargent
1 day ago
Fantastic conversation between
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@jamellebouie.net
, especially the rebuttal to the Ruy Teixeira/Third Way overreading of the meaning of 2024. Highly recommend:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/where-will...
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Where Will the GOPâand Where Should DemocratsâGo After Trump: A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie
The New York Times columnist offers his thoughts on the great MAGA crackup and the rightward shift of centrist Democrats
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/where-will-the-gopand-where-should
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Lindsay Beyerstein
1 day ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene argued that the belief that the Jews killed Jesus is core Christian teaching and not antisemitic. It was shocking.
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Matt Novak
2 days ago
Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants
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Exclusive: Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants, sources say
U.S. health department âofficials last week explored whether they could ban certain drugs in a widely prescribed class of antidepressants as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy âJr. prepared to roll ou...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedys-health-officials-explored-us-ban-some-widely-used-antidepressants-2026-05-08/
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Libro.fm
3 days ago
Well, would you look at that. Free...free?!...free!! romance audiobooks available today and tomorrow! Yep :) Stuff your earbuds, folks, and spread the word:
libro.fm/collections/...
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Shawn "Smith" Peirce
3 days ago
CBS "News" to Cut Ties With â60 Minutesâ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After She Outed Meddling By Right-Wing Hack Bari Weiss
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CBS News to Cut Ties With â60 Minutesâ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After Feud Over CECOT Segment | Report
CBS News will cut ties with â60 Minutesâ correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi after her contract ends at the end of this month, according to Page Six, following a dispute last year with Editor-in-Chief Bari W...
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut-ties-60-154237399.html
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Christopher Webb
3 days ago
This is a perfectly reasonable question from a reporter (Rachel Scott). A question a lot of us have about the Reflecting Pool, since our tax dollars are paying for it. Although I wouldâve asked with a lot more scorn in my tone. Trumpâs answer is the âhorror showâ.
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Helen Kennedy
3 days ago
Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?
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Greg Sargent
3 days ago
Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed
The Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering points in one direction only: Come 2028, Democrats have to declare a take-no-prisoners redistricting war on the GOP.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209830/trump-supreme-court-gerrymandering-voting-rights
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Melissa Murray
3 days ago
There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against
@nytimes.com
for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.đ§”
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
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U.S. Sues The New York Times, Claiming Discrimination Against a White Man
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/economy/eeoc-nyt-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.glA.AI42.YuRNL8e9jORJ&smid=url-share
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Give me your favorite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. <sigh> No words.
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Aaron Rupar
3 days ago
Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable
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scott b. weingart
3 days ago
I don't think you saw the news I just broke. This is the big court case that's been going on for the last year. The same one that made those two DOGE boys famous. You might want to, uh, share this around.
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The Tennessee Holler
3 days ago
ICYMI â After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was
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in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)
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Zeteo
4 days ago
Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona.bsky.social
dives into the âCBS News Sunday Morningâ story about the West Bank that sparked outrage from one of its interview subjects and Bari Weissâs involvement. Plus, Trumpâs remarks on the passing of CNN mogul Ted Turner in âRagebaitâ
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
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Julie DiCaro
4 days ago
Okay, so a woman suing Black for SA was also involved in the suit against JP Morgan. Black's attorney sent a letter to Judge Rakoff, who was overseeing the Epstein victim's class action settlement against JP Morgan, disparaging the woman. Rakoff then reduced the woman's share of the settlement.
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The Atlantic
5 days ago
The FBIâs reported investigation focusing on an Atlantic journalist would represent a significant escalation in the Trump administrationâs war against press freedom,
@dgraham.bsky.social
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A Dangerous New Attack on Press Freedom
According to MS NOW, the FBI has launched an investigation into an Atlantic reporter.
https://bit.ly/4uvTJxJ
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Gailey đ
4 days ago
"Make Me Better explores the idea of faith as an abdication of responsibility... Gailey asks, how much are you willing to overlook to keep the peace and belong? How much horror can you abide at the promise you will be made better?" From
@grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social
!! They fuckin GET IT man đ
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REVIEW: Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey
Make Me Better is a clever horror story set in the near-future that slowly builds and revels in the uncanny, somethingâs-not-quite-right vibe, to great effect.
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-make-me-better-by-sarah-gailey/
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The Bookseller
5 days ago
Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits đ
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Comics creators struggle to survive despite record industry sales, report finds
https://ebx.sh/ntsaRQ
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders đłïžââ§
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Mueller, She Wrote
5 days ago
She was one of the driving forces behind the VA congressional map initiative.
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Greg Sargent
5 days ago
This is exactly why we need DOJ reform to be *codified in law,* as I argued in this piece, and as Adam Schiff and others told me in interviews. The old post-Watergate norms-based approach is dead.
newrepublic.com/article/2099...
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Anne Applebaum
5 days ago
"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The House of Representatives Is Turning Into the Electoral College
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the gerrymandering wars, already awful, are poised to get even worse.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/supreme-court-callais-gerrymandering/687062/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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John Scalzi
6 days ago
The folks at Time Magazine asked me what tech innovation I think defins modern life today, and my answer is anchoring a list that includes contributions from Tim Cook, Tracy Chou, Gabrielle Zevin and Ray Kurtzweil, among others.
time.com/collection/o...
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25 Tech Insiders on the Innovations Defining American Life Today
TIME asked Tim Cook, Ray Kurzweil, Gwynne Shotwell, and 22 others to tell us about an innovation that speaks to America at 250
https://time.com/collection/our-america-250/2026/tech-innovations-that-define-america/
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Miranda Yaver
6 days ago
This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/science/rfk-antidepressants-ssris-hhs-maha.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.XKCL.u_0sVRCihtfI&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawRm2AVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFtZzllNDFhcWZpazhxbHkwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHo-z7gQXZYTtiRkOeCQ3CfT9kT9H2Wcbic9ZwzlU9kmlVgEFyCdpsGnWH2aN_aem_sW5ui8OxHBkJ7b0cH3H6QQ
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Jess Nevins
6 days ago
I really doubt that the press is going to show much sympathy for the millions of us who take SSRIs. Serious depression is not something that the press deems an issue worth examining. But it is not an overstatement to say that SSRIs are the difference between living and dying for millions of us.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
6 days ago
"nobody else ever ended a war"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
6 days ago
While the worldâs eyes are on fashionâs biggest night, weâre turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement â meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Deidre Eversull
6 days ago
'Unheard of!' Rachel Maddow incredulous as Trump DOJ caught lying in court
www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddo...
Remember when perjury was a crime. I miss those days.
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'Unheard of!' Rachel Maddow incredulous as Trump DOJ caught lying in court
MS NOW's Rachel Maddow kicked off Monday night with an in-depth analysis of how President Donald Trump's Justice Department, now under the control of Todd Blanche, is finding itself in trouble with ju...
https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddow-2676850626/
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Hunter
6 days ago
He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona.
#Maddow
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Haitian man from Boston dies in ICE custody in Arizona. Family says untreated toothache became deadly infection.
Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a man from Haiti who was seeking asylum in Massachusetts died in ICE custody.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/emmanuel-damas-ice-death-toothache-boston-arizona/#:~:text=Lawmakers%20are%20demanding%20an%20investigation,no%20update%20on%20his%20condition
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Micah
6 days ago
time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is âtoo close to an electionâ if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP
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Alt National Park Service
6 days ago
The Supreme Court moved unusually fast tonight, letting last weekâs major voting rights ruling take effect immediately after Louisiana Republicans asked the court to skip the standard 32-day waiting period before a decision is certified and returned to a lower court.
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John Scalzi
6 days ago
Two things are true at the same time: Creative careers are not zero-sum, and also, a power law applies in nearly every creative endeavor. The key is expanding the audience for the creative field, which changes the power curve include more creators in it. Big hits/critical recognition help everyone.
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R.H.Slansky
7 days ago
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Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them/amp
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
7 days ago
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure; and more! Archived at:
pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/h...
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ProPublica
8 days ago
WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story:
propub.li/4tHp2Wd
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Frank Conniff
8 days ago
So many reboots of old TV shows these days. But my least favorite is the Oprah Winfrey Show spinoff called The Trump Administration.
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If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter T Itâs G*ddamn Mister Terrific
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Jamison Foser
9 days ago
This is a very bad decision made by very bad people on behalf of other very bad people. The Trump administration has repeatedly shown itself to use illegitimate investigations to punish people it dislikes. Therefore a Trump administration investigation is not legitimate basis for this decision.
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John Leavitt
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