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Moldy showers. Food shortages. A lack of toothpaste, deodorant and soap. Military families are sounding the alarm about rapidly worsening conditions on the USS Lincoln. From Priya Sridhar:
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
bit.ly
Exactly. No intelligent species……….
Julianne Wingate@julieannewingate.bsky.social · 3h ago...C.L.I.M.A.T.E...C.H.A.N.G.E....I.S.....H.E.R.E...
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
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FORCED BIRTH Wealth transfer to the rich Inequality Authoritarianism Voter Suppression CUT MEDICARE Terrorism Insurrection GUN VIOLENCE END SOCIAL SECURITY Dirty Air and Water Destroying Planet Pandemics RACISM Misogyny WAR Theocracy NO PLATFORM ..DEAD PARTY...GOPDead
A federal judge lifted a stay on the termination of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove their legal status and open them up to deportation. From States Newsroom buff.ly/jXk3dTW
TPS for up to 350,000 Haitians officially ends as judge applies Supreme Court order • Nebraska Examiner
WASHINGTON — A federal judge lifted a stay Wednesday on the termination of temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in order to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared…
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Rent isn’t high by accident, it’s high because 9 landlords colluded with an algorithm called RealPage to fix prices behind your back. Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote. #BlueWaveIn90Days
Apparently it’s unprofessional to have a murdered son
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 3h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
20 more PJ.2.1 wastewater detections. It's now in all 14 NYC sewersheds plus CA, RI, FL, NC, and 2 Hawaiian islands (Maui and Oahu)
New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act - which will allow people with terminal illnesses to transition peacefully, on their own terms and at their own time - goes into effect today. New Yorkers deserve to make these deeply personal choices about how to spend their final moments of life.
Commentary: The long road to medical aid in dying
As New York's law takes effect, a supporter looks back on the brave advocates and compassionate lawmakers who helped secure this deeply personal right.
timesunion.com
Grokipedia hasn’t been updated in 3 months. Edit requests land in a queue and stall “In Review”. The autonomous edit bot is not editing itself, either. We did an analysis of edits, page view counts, and more. Auditability matters as agentic systems become reference infrastructure.
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 8h agoGrokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
It's a fallacy to think that the Trump regime is pro-military. it's pro-violence and pro-stealing-from-foreign-countries, but it's anti-military-families. As Trump has demonstrated, he thinks soldiers are "suckers" and "losers."
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
Imagine the win when all but the billionaires are starving! Trump USDA Chief Celebrates 5 Million People Losing Food Aid as “Pretty Big Win” truthout.org/articles/tru... #BrookeRollins #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump USDA Chief Celebrates 5 Million People Losing Food Aid as “Pretty Big Win”
The 2025 GOP budget law enacted the largest food aid cuts in US history and expanded work requirements for SNAP.
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In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
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Medicare for All isn’t "too much." A $16,000 deductible is too much.
Dr. Laurie Leshin became the first female director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech in 2022. A geochemist & planetary scientist, she is the University Professor for Space Futures at Arizona State University. She was born #OTD in 1966. #WomenInSTEM #geochemistry
During the same signing ceremony, Trump also insisted there would be "some form" of sex testing at the Games to ensure trans women would not be allowed to compete in women's sports. "The United States will not let men steal trophies from women at the 2028 Olympics," said Trump. 4/4
Excellent! Allegheny Co. late 50s, Grades 9-12. Excellent education- Latin, home ec, shop, calculus. Art. Chorus. Drama. Clubs. Sports. Band. Orchestra. Male teachers. All of it. Yay PA!
dc2daylight.bsky.social@dc2daylight.bsky.social · 10h agoSenator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) went silent about the GOP's double standard on sexual misconduct.
Every. Damn. Word. 👇🏽
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h ago🔥 Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “America can do glorious things, but to love 🇺🇸 isn’t just to dress up in some colors and pretend everything’s fine. To love 🇺🇸 is to will 🇺🇸 to do the hard work of being better… we can’t control the past 250 years, what we CAN do is build the next 250.”
By what is left outstanding it looks like we have a winner in Michigan. Meet Dr. Abdul El-Sayed the next Senator from Michigan! Coffee With Texas Paul goes live at 11 am Eastern. Hope you can join us in the live chat.
Why do people vote for these creatures? It's mind boggling how incompetent and duplicitous they are. 😝
Now, this is just abominable. A core temp of 106+? Have you ever been inside a prison/penitentiary? Then you canNOT imagine the inhuman conditions. As with mental misfits, we hide these folk away and squeeeeeeze resources. Statistical models and blindness rule.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 10h agoHeat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC [via @slate.com]
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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