DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
A great example of how just because people aren't walking around yelling about how worried they are about something doesn't mean they're not worried about it www.wsj.com/business/hos...
California Lettuce Growers Skip Harvest, Plow Their Crops Back Into the Ground
Federal health authorities haven’t linked U.S. produce to cyclospora, but some consumers are still steering clear.
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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“If someone is supporting Trump, what gets them to change their mind?” asked one woman wearing heels, a minidress and carrying a red leather clutch." Machine politics gonna machine poltic.
McJulie@mcjulie.bsky.social · 2w agoNote: “politically homeless Democrat” was how **Bari Weiss** was describing herself for a long time, if you want to know just how far to the right these people really are.
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"I served time in jail for my mistake but then later was deported for it But I still support the guy that deported me"
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoReuters identified 129 people charged under the federal 'voting by aliens' statute since 1996. More than two-thirds of those prosecutions have been filed during Trump's two terms in office. One of the people swept up in the crackdown is Dora Damatta‑Rodriguez reut.rs/4gSsUAf
So, you know,, sorry to the individuals who wanted a nice thing but I wanted a nice thing too and instead I got thi Maybe, when you don't celebrate the whole country, EVERYONE who belongs here and lives here, the celebration should go to shit and everyone should be miserable
Look. If you can't find things, even small ones, to fucking love about this country of ours, then what exactly are you so upset about Trump destroying? He's either taking a sledgehammer to things you deeply love and value, or, it's actually fine and worthy of him pissing all over. Pick a lane.
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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.
Infiltrating hate groups with informants is something that goes way back to the civil rights era and before. It's never been something only the government can do, especially when the government is more likely to be showing up for the white power happy hour every third Thursday at Chili's.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here."
“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”
niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 4mo agoright now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
bizarre argument that slaves brought to the US against their will have domicile in the US, and owe allegiance to it, but immigrants who came here intentionally, and want to remain, do not have domicile here and do not owe the US any allegiance
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A Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor drone caught up with and destroyed a Russian Shahed drone.
If you can't even talk about a disaster you live in very dangerous territory. You don't get to live in a world of only good press. And if you think this is bad press why?
Gulf States Crack Down on Videos of Iranian Attacks Posted Online
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you know, it doesn't really matter what my opinion of robert mueller was, the president of the united states saying out loud that he's glad a lifelong public servant is dead is terrible fucking behavior and i don't need to clear my throat about what mueller did or did not do in order to say that
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
"Under his mask of generous futurism, the progressive no longer concerns himself with the future, convinced that it holds in store for him neither surprises nor secrets, nothing adventurous nothing essentially new"