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God's away on business...

Paid my mortgage by phone this morning. In the past, it has been an annoying voice prompt system where I beboop a bunch of numbers to make the pmt. This morning, it forced me to talk to a bot instead and I am just irrationally angry about it. At least the boboops don't pretend to be human. #AIHater

Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims

Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.

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Can we talk about what an arrogant asshole Kitchen Katie is? I am a gentle person but OMG I just wanted to punch her in the face when she started in on Jack Smith with her lies and faux outrage. As though she is the intellectual equal of a man who served as a prosecutor at the Hague. GTFOH.....

Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...

Women Are Not Safe Around Men

This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.

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Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

Shut up the "well, she was drunk and did drugs with them..." bullshit by asking if it would have been OK for them to forcibly sodimize one of their drunk/drugged up frat brothers and inviting their friends, Would an essay apologizing for getting caught have sufficed? Yeah, I didn't think so....

One week out, and this is where “I’ll do it later” starts costing people. If somebody in your family keeps saying they’ll get around to it, call them. If your coworker just moved and has been meaning to update everything, remind them.

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For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

We've been billed $307k to defend the indefensible. Using taxpayer money for criminal defense lawyers is as illegal as the transfer of funds from children's healthcare to a PAC running political ads to support the DeSantis agenda. floridatrident.org/governors-of...

Governor’s office is unforthcoming about his whereabouts again; DeSantis ducking reporters

Anyone in Miami who’d have liked to have known in advance that Gov. Ron DeSantis would be in town Tuesday morning to visit the Surfside condo disaster

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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Amplify Legal sued over Arkansas' abortion ban on a similar right-to-life claim, and advocates in Wisconsin and Oklahoma are challenging abortion laws under the framework. "It is so critical to the future of the movement...to talk about ‘what does the right to life’ mean?” @greerdonley.bsky.social

New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life

Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.

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Living in a country where Brett Kavanaugh, an alleged sexual assaulter, is elevated to the most prestigious job a lawyer can have, it is no wonder that the frat men who raped this woman were punished with . . . [checks notes] . . . having to write an essay. We are not a country that protects women.

ICE plans to open a new 528-bed facility for unaccompanied children inside a Louisiana airport. The facility will be run by the 'nonprofit arm' of a for-profit prison company that has reported deaths of detainees in the state: LaSalle Corrections. www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...

A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questions

A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.

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These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.

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The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

🚨New: With data added from more states, we now estimate that about 2 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted in last year’s Republican reconciliation law. Overall, more than 5 million people have lost SNAP since July 2025. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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