For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
Living with nuns: Priced out of D.C., young women found low rent with unlikely roommates
For 10 years, a Catholic-run home offered young women an affordable place to live in the nation's capital as they studied and launched careers. Now, that community is saying goodbye.
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US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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again, the only way this dishonest whining works is to ignore what happened: a dam broke and the routine police murder of Black people mobilized some white people, and that was scary to other white people
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2w agofinally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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🚨BREAKING: A North Carolina Senate committee greenlit new voter suppression measures Tuesday, moving forward a bill that would make it easier to purge voters from the rolls and impose stricter requirements for registering to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
North Carolina advances more voter suppression measures
The bill also reduces the early voting period for primaries, runoffs and special elections from 17 to 10 days.
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The self-destruction of America. fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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"U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world. "
Nationally criminalizing homelessness in 2024 is yet another travesty of the Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court MAGA supermajority. The decision was 6-3. The three liberal justices dissented. www.npr.org/2024/06/28/n...
The Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places
The decision is a win for Western cities that wanted more powers to manage record homelessness. But advocates for the unhoused say the decision will do nothing to solve the larger problem
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Food pantries(even at their absolute best) are no substitute for adequately funding SNAP.
Remember the SNAP cuts in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill?” Children account for nearly half of the 2.4 million people who are no longer receiving SNAP in at least 19 states. The true number of kids impacted nationwide is unknown. This is horrifying. No child should go hungry.
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · last mo.🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
I sometimes wonder if treating dumb and evil as synonymous is a coping mechanism. It's comforting to believe malicious people must also be incompetent. But a lot of harm comes from people who know exactly what they're doing.
“The proposed “Restoring Resiliency” project featured a plan to remove toxic substances such as mold, lead paint, and asbestos from homes, repair a nearly 82-year-old wastewater system, and convert part of a shuttered high school band room into a health clinic.”
Georgia Recorder@georgiarecorder.com · last mo.A Georgia town lost a nearly $20M grant to address environmental health problems amid DEI-related federal cuts, stalling plans aimed at improving public health in one historically Black community. Story by Briah Lumpkins with @kffhealthnews.org.
This is not about national security. This is about not liking factual news coverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
It's so funny. And you know a certain type of USian loves to bleat on and on about "corruption" and "Third World Countries." This is high-larious.
I think that it's so funny that they just handed the seat to Graham's sister. Absolutely Nepo undemocratic.
They aren't claiming the officer feared for his life, but "feared for public safety" when Guerrero attempted to flee. But he was not the target of the warrant. Which means they had no reason to think he was dangerous. Fleeing an immigration stop does not make you a threat to public safety.
DHS breaks hours of silence on deadly ICE shooting in Maine, saying officer was ‘fearing for public safety’ | CNN
The man in the fatal shooting was identified by his neighbor as 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero from Colombia.
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shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
Americans voted to violently shit their organs out because they like racism. Who needs regulations and government agencies that work to prevent parasites from infecting produce, right? As long as the Blacks are oppressed and the Browns are rounded up into camps, that's all that matter.
talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 2mo agoExplosive diarrhea outbreak due to a parasite found on produce. Advice for now? Don’t buy produce…unless you can cook it. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
Dude is running his own localized surveillance state, including functions that are essentially predictive policing and a gang database, except it’s for people who have said anything remotely critical of the organization, or anyone who associates with those critics.
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo agoAn island-wide blackout hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble.
As I've written before, if Republicans successfully redefine some forms of birth control as causing abortion (IUDs, emergency contraception) they can restrict access to contraception without touching Griswold. Thanks, Sam Alito newrepublic.com/article/1796...
Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 2mo agoseriously, are there 5 votes to uphold Griswold v Connecticut right now? There are absolutely not 7
Here’s a crazy idea: if a corporation wants to build a data center, they should also be required to construct renewable resource mechanisms to operate it—not funded by the public, but from the mountains of wealth they already possess.
While raking in this cash from the family business, Trump oversaw the passage of the GENIUS Act, unleashing barely regulated stablecoin onto the American financial system. prospect.org?p=140557
A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.
White House Criticizes Smithsonian Museum for ‘Extreme Political Activism’
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