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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 3h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 4h

Given Microsoft’s history of implementing radical changes I expect we’ll see a retraction and apology within days.

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 4h

As access to contraception spread it changed our world – making it newly possible for more women to build prestigious careers and civic lives. I've spent my career carefully contributing to the evidence of this amazing, messy process. So I know that it has done a lot of good and this will hurt many.

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 18h

They’ve RIF’d the DHHS Office of Population Affairs, which overseas the Title X program funding contraception for low-income women.

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs

www.nytimes.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4h

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h

So the feds have now directed states NOT to send out November SNAP benefits.

A whole bunch of people are going to go hungry this Thanksgiving.

FUCK THAT HEARTLESS DUDE!

All he does is hurt people.

If you haven’t donated to a food bank recently, now is a good time to start.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 6h

It’s 40% of the economy right now at least.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 6h

I find upon looking at his stats he wasn’t as good as I thought, but still had a couple of great years.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 7h

41% of people didn’t know potato chips came from potatoes.

There are whole tiktok videos of people trying to cut up unripe fruit and claiming it’s plastic.

We all need to go back to the farm for a bit.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 7h

This is dumb, but part of me really wants a Democratic President to, say, withhold federal funding from Texas until they allow water breaks for construction workers or something. The fallout! The pearl clutching! Imagine.

DT in CT ☮️ 💙 @davetroy.bsky.social · 8h

Wait until the Feds find out about the $40 BILLION ear-marked for Argentina and what language the Argentinians speak!

California Loses $40 Million In Federal Funding Over Truckers' English Proficiency Rule

The Department of Transportation is withholding over $40 million in federal highway safety funds from California due to the state's failure to enforce English proficiency rules for truck drivers.

www.benzinga.com

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damned316 🎃 @dxmnkd316.bsky.social · 7h

Just a reminder that Trump & Musk have committed an atrocity, the effect of which won’t be seen for months.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 7h

One of the key differences here that I haven’t seen anyone mention is that USAID operated in a fully accountable way, and I very much doubt this whole “pallets of cash for Millei” method has any accountability involved at all.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 7h

Great album!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

It's going up to $40 billion.

USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.