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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.
Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
"On October 19, 2026, you’ll start to manage your Discover More account using the Capital One website and app." Thanks, I hate it.
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Pedestrians, I beg you to please not wear headphones (noise cancelling or otherwise) while walking on bike and/or multi-use paths, especially if you are also going to walk in the center, with your back to oncoming traffic, and then shift randomly to the left. This is for your safety, too!
My goddamn mail-in ballot (that I requested at the beginning of the month) still hasn't gotten to me, and I'm out of town. So, dear MA registered voters, if any of you might have been on the fence about bothering to vote in the primary next week, please go out and vote for Ed Markey, for my sake.
which is not to say that she didn't endure decades of people failing to take her seriously because of her looks but she's going to be remembered as one of the greatest Americans in history long after every asshole who treated her like shit is forgotten and has crumbled into dust
I'm also having complicated thoughts I don't know how to articulate perfectly about Dolly as like . . . high femme Gender Euphoria™️ (for folks of all genders!) and that big hair / big boobs / sequins / high-pitched voice, etc are not - and should not be - incompatible with being taken seriously
Today also seems like a good day to re-read @catvalente.bsky.social's www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
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Justice Jackson: This "violates well-established precedents concerning this Court's equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating."
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoReuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT LIFTS JUDICIAL DECISION THAT BLOCKED IN 23 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C. TRUMP'S ORDER RESTRICTING MAIL-IN BALLOTS
Shameful. While Donald Trump votes by mail, his allies on the Supreme Court are letting him take that right away from everyone else. This far-right majority Court is once again complicit in Republicans' assault on our democracy.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoBREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of midterms.
The way you can be several feet out into the crosswalk and making big, obvious “I’m about to cross the street” motions and one hundred cars will just zip on past (including the cops, of course). Crosswalk? Never heard of her!
"He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him."
He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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To explain why Jeffries met with Jared Kushner, instead of Jeffries making plans to investigate and imprison Kushner in a truth and reconciliation process, please read this profile. Jeffries is a fundraiser not a fighter
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo agoAs the leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives, a fundamentally majoritarian institution, Hakeem Jeffries has little ability to get anything done. Can he help the Democrats get back into the majority? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-zeVmE
Some people get mad at me On Here when I criticise Jeffries but i s2fg if y'all don't start realizing that politicians aren't your friends, & rather are your recalcitrant & often feckless employees whose jobs are to operate levers of power and who need to be held to account, we're gonna get nowhere.
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2w ago“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
KKylon@wordykat.bsky.social · 2w ago
Rep. Stephen Lynch is the only Democrat left in Congress who voted against the Affordable Care Act. And he voted for the Laken Riley Act despite representing a safe blue seat in Massachusetts. MA-08 deserves a real Democratic fighter like @patrickroath.bsky.social.
measles was declared eliminated here in 2000. it's now the worst measles year since 1991, and 70% of counties don't have enough vaccinated kindergartners to stop an outbreak. we might be the first people to take a solved problem and un-solve it on purpose, then call it freedom.
Singing Hills #8! Wandering cleric Chih and perfect hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant arrive at the imperial palace for a celebration of the life of the Empress of Salt and Fortune, where the food's amazing, the service is exemplary, and the clothes? Well, the clothes are just to die for. :P
But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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What we heard from families inside the Dilley ICE prison was harrowing & horrific. Congress must abolish ICE, close Dilley, and put an end to family detention. And we must end the for-profit prison system that is driving the crises of mass incarceration & immigrant detention.
Unless it is literally, specifically relevant to the situation, can we please stop calling women “a wife and mother” as their descriptors?
Y'all, internet search terms being what they are, I am hitting a wall. During Gus the Theater Cat in Cats: The Jellicle Ball, whose photo is held up onstage at the line, "As we did in the days when Victoria reigned."?
