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www.syracuse.com/news/2026/10... To put this into perspective, the state send $600 million to build ONE stadium for ONE billionaire. Talk about messed up priorities! If they had invested in solar instead of stadiums, EVERYONE in Buffalo could have had free electricity!! #voteclimate

That's right www.texastribune.org/2026/10/20/t...

If you need a refresher on everything wrong with Joel Kaplan, now is the perfect time to read Careless People. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

this applies to revisionist ”left” parties across the world such as the british labour party btw

If not censorship, then why censorship shaped?

I just realized the OP of the mastodon post is Amy Lilka, PinballWitch's SO Minor internet fame!

Cornell’s president said at a faculty town hall last week that permanently banning frats would only make things worse—and could send the problems associated with Greek life “into the shadows.”

The office claims that more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy middlemen worked together to “artificially” inflate insulin prices

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Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

"A person was shot during an interaction with ICE agents in Manhattan on Thursday." #NewYork #NYC abc7ny.com/post/person-...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct ErinReed As COL voters consider a pediatric GAC ban, the Colorado Medical Society—the state's largest physicians’ group -- comes out formally against Proposition 135. www.erininthemorning.com/p/vote-no-co...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Oct New article in Catalyst documents how the idea of "sex hormones" continues to unravel as evidence of a natural binary Sex --as they are understood to do many things besides sexual development which is itself seen as a product of many other hormones.

Mayo Clinic charged admitted patients on private insurance more than twice as much as Medicare patients in 2022, according to a RAND study from 2024 on hospital pricing.

Don’t be fooled. There is no middle ground for women like her.

“The fear and the justified state of terror and hysteria that folks have been put in nationally under this administration is what folks have been living under in Frederick for years,” says an advocate with the ACLU of Maryland.

Big deal: “[T]he prosecution alleges that misanthropy—the hatred of humankind—‘is the ideological cause for the terrorist acts'. It means that the CPS has been able to charge the teenager with preparation of terrorist acts.”

no matter how "cute" the eye of sauron cosplays its still an invasive tool designed for perpetual survelliance of space otherwise not viewable.

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

It's very funny to me how sensitive these people are.

I've been busy lately, but there's always time to tap the sign.

So now my tax dollars are not feeding the hungry, healing the sick, or housing the poor. They are being spent making Donny feel better about himself. Impeach him for this, it is indecent and illegal.

Denmark is trolling Trump.

One year ago today:

"How to Dismantle a Dictatorship" presents a concise nine-point plan for dismantling dictatorships, focusing on practical steps rather than theoretical explanations of why these structures work. georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/n...

Addressing America’s housing crisis is not a matter of either increasing the supply of housing or preserving existing housing. We need to do both—now. Learn more in The Other Housing Crisis, available now. Read a free preview of this important book: buff.ly/3PGy8ys #Housing #Sociology #Policy

✨Kicked off year 3 of my Sociology of Housing and Homelessness class yesterday! ✨ Readings here: tinyurl.com/sochousing26 I know I'm missing great stuff - there's only so much you can do in 10 weeks. I also have an honors seminar that includes podcasts, which I love teaching with.

Police took the actors into custody after protesters blocked traffic during a demonstration timed to Benjamin Netanyahu’s U.N. appearance.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

We live in a world where the person committing Genocide has center stage at the UN and a 50 vehicle convoy for protection. While the victim of Genocide was banned from even attending. We are in a far worse state now than we were 80 years ago.

Should be reposted every month....

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

If you ever friend me on steam I will warn you that I WILL gift you terrible one dollar games on steam on Christmas and your birthday

Someone reworked the Hitler bunker scene.

If they are hitting water infrastructure in Iran, that’s a crime against humanity on an enormous scale. I planned to publish something on Iran’s water crisis this week but it obviously got bumped. Iran was already in a critical state pre war, destroying water infrastructure will kill innocent people