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So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
The good news is Republicans in Congress are shitting their pants right about now
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
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time to stop making excuses and cross the bridge
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
time to stop making excuses and cross the bridge
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100% this thread. Get your kids to safety first. If you want to leave them with another caregiver and then come back you could do that but get your kids the hell out, that is your first responsibility.
Don't bring your dog, either.
Don't bring your dog, either.
I'm steamed about it but, as circumspect as I can be, just going to say that parents should not be having conversations about the safest way to observe/protest ICE while your kids are present. You're asking for the safest way to stick a fork in an electrical outlet. Not possible! You can't do it!
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
100% this thread. Get your kids to safety first. If you want to leave them with another caregiver and then come back you could do that but get your kids the hell out, that is your first responsibility.
Don't bring your dog, either.
Don't bring your dog, either.
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This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
My kids go to a "rich" public school. My daughter is 7 and cannot read; she is a sweet, caring, intelligent child, but if you spend a moment with her it is clear that she has ADHD an order of magnitude more serious than what you think of when you hear "ADHD." Anybody questioning her IEP can fuck off
"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!
This is the one issue that makes me suspect he's not fully demented, bcz is he was he would be saying that in public all the time. Dementia removes those inhibitions
Honestly, he is *this* close to blurting out the "n" word. I expect it any day.
Trump: When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch—we don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is the one issue that makes me suspect he's not fully demented, bcz is he was he would be saying that in public all the time. Dementia removes those inhibitions
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Women and girls are incarcerated under the guise of "protecting" them from domestic violence or "deprogramming" them from sex work. Around 800K women are on some version of surveillance or control that prevents them from seeing their children or (sometimes) forces them to be on birth control.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Women and girls are incarcerated under the guise of "protecting" them from domestic violence or "deprogramming" them from sex work. Around 800K women are on some version of surveillance or control that prevents them from seeing their children or (sometimes) forces them to be on birth control.
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I love this!
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
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December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I love this!
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Looking to speak to members of the Illinois National Guard
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Looking to speak to members of the Illinois National Guard
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]
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Those videos of Donald Trump dozing off during his cabinet meeting are really something
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Those videos of Donald Trump dozing off during his cabinet meeting are really something
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Ultimately there are just a lot of people who are looking for a politics that allows them to engage in this kind of sadism, but we shouldn’t allow them to turn around and pretend that they have actual morals without pointing out the obvious, that they just want blood bsky.app/profile/acco...
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ultimately there are just a lot of people who are looking for a politics that allows them to engage in this kind of sadism, but we shouldn’t allow them to turn around and pretend that they have actual morals without pointing out the obvious, that they just want blood bsky.app/profile/acco...
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Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
December 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
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the year is 2026. the disney-nvidia merger has been approved. erika kirk is the new head of cbs news. bill kristol is extolling the necessity of a vanguard party and permanent revolution
Is it possible that there are now issues where I am to the right of Bill Kristol??
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
the year is 2026. the disney-nvidia merger has been approved. erika kirk is the new head of cbs news. bill kristol is extolling the necessity of a vanguard party and permanent revolution
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Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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bought & sold (for a song, relative to actual value)
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
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We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
bought & sold (for a song, relative to actual value)
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This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is extremely bad and worrisome for obvious reasons, but it's worth pointing out that this was obviously the student's goal
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
She knowingly wrote a garbage essay for her trans prof's class and when she obviously got a terrible grade stirred up a media storm
This was clearly the intended outcome
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Musk, Thiel, others like them have no real allegiance to the US. They’re, to use/modify Charlie Pierce’s phrase, the money power on steroids & HGH. They’re so wealthy, have so many resources, & their companies do so much business w/the government that they’re one of the biggest threats. 3/
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Musk, Thiel, others like them have no real allegiance to the US. They’re, to use/modify Charlie Pierce’s phrase, the money power on steroids & HGH. They’re so wealthy, have so many resources, & their companies do so much business w/the government that they’re one of the biggest threats. 3/
This is so very good. Read it. (CW for offscreen sexual violence.) It's not happy, but there's community, and hope.
Reminder: My short fiction up (free) at @reactorsff.bsky.social follows an older medic with scant resources who fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
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Near future, solidarity, old MC, family, hanging on to hope #booksky #sff
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Barnacle - Reactor
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This is so very good. Read it. (CW for offscreen sexual violence.) It's not happy, but there's community, and hope.
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Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
yup yup yup
tbf i assume there are enormous bribes being paid where we can’t currently see them
It's wild how it's not clear there's any quid pro quo going on in a lot of these, he's literally just pathologically Pro Crime and flinches at the thought that someone could get in trouble for Criming.
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
yup yup yup
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the actual key to wealth as a software engineer is not so much saving your salary as “oops I forgot to diversify my investments”
should you sell stock so your wealth is not all tied up in one company? yes
are you much better off if you did not do that? also yes
AI bubble go brrrr
should you sell stock so your wealth is not all tied up in one company? yes
are you much better off if you did not do that? also yes
AI bubble go brrrr
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
the actual key to wealth as a software engineer is not so much saving your salary as “oops I forgot to diversify my investments”
should you sell stock so your wealth is not all tied up in one company? yes
are you much better off if you did not do that? also yes
AI bubble go brrrr
should you sell stock so your wealth is not all tied up in one company? yes
are you much better off if you did not do that? also yes
AI bubble go brrrr
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises
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Kristi Noem is conclusive proof that the sort of person who would murder a dog in cold blood is *exactly* the sort of person you think they are
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Kristi Noem is conclusive proof that the sort of person who would murder a dog in cold blood is *exactly* the sort of person you think they are