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lula

hell yeah to lula. fuck off to all bolsonaros

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC - @electdemocrats.bsky.social) is running anti-trans ads now, so I don't know how you can say the party itself isn't embracing transphobia. There are still some good Dems out there, but transphobia is apparently a party value.

Thinking about how some guy at the NY Times spent almost all of his podcast interview with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor *this last month* or so critiquing them calling Trump a fascist

brad lander: I am grieving the deaths of two SS soldiers killed in the Warsaw ghetto uprising today,

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

"The uninsured rate for adults ages 19-64 rose to 11.2% this year, up from 8.9% in 2024, according to a new analysis by the Commonwealth Fund..."

About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

its also pretty wild how the article concludes Remember: this is a description of a man fleeing the scene after ramming two cyclists and seriously injuring one

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

I know I'm the 10 millionth person to say this, so there's no point in piling on, ultimately, but I feel compelled to say that "You Can See Everything" is one of the best movies I have ever seen. And the feeling in the theater seemed to indicate that I wasn't the only one having that reaction.

This was neat. I thought it was maybe a bit scattered, perhaps it was partially improvised, but AES definitively stuck the landing. Really cool seeing a guy talk like this.

schumers silence on omar is fucking enraging, he needs to go

Outstanding stuff: “Zacharia’s online resume shows a gap extending from 2013 to late 2023. For part of that time, she worked as an affiliate of Beachbody, a fitness company that ran a multilevel marketing operation she describes to WIRED as ‘sort of a pyramid scheme.’” www.wired.com/story/white-...

“Paris Hilton personally healed my AI psychosis” is a very 2026 story

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

Fellow Texans, we gotta put a permanent stop to this madness We're well on the road to Florida-level international laughing stock status

So uh, this guy actually kinda sucks, huh?

Watching the new season of Shark Tank and they managed to immediately become a parody of itself by having one of the pitches be Ball 2, the sequel to Ball, powered by AI. To really seal the deal, the ball 2's battery is not rechargeable or designed to be replaced.

ok but why does your fridge have an on fire setting you can get to with an http post

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

"ICE attempted to intimidate protesters this morning at an ICE Out protest in #Tacoma #Washington. Multiple ICE vehicles attempted to drive through the crowd but retreated after realizing nobody was leaving, and they were outnumbered." Source: Stop ICE www.instagram.com/p/DeFdCI-ElW...

"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/

the blood and soil guys are right to some extent. your heritage and birthright are being forcibly threatened by violent thugs. and that heritage and birthright is called a secular multicultural democracy with vague pretensions towards egalitarianism and lawful order

There is a small part of me that thinks that livestreaming a firing squad is a "good" thing in the sense that it will force some percentage of the populace to bear witness, perhaps for the first time, to the real life horrors being carried out routinely in the name of "justice."

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. https://wapo.st/4yZlKjy

Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning

only democracy in the middle east

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

One of the cops, an 18-year veteran, ran Flock searches on women he met out in public, then showed up whereever they were to try to do meet-cutes: their gym, a Walmart, a Smoothie King. Said to one woman that "he spilt yogurt on his pants and told her, 'You know what that looks like.'"

Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.

Comrade Waymo

"Financial services"

Cant wait for the last remnants of shared reality to completely disintegrate once payday loans and reality-gambling merge, then get taken over by private equity

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

staff at the boiling people alive factory complain of mental toll of boiling people alive

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...