Sage

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Outdoor enthusiast, dog-lover, USian, feminist, anti-racist. Interested in sustainability, biology, psychology, travel and other cultures, and avoiding infectious diseases.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

I don't understand the immunity case. Can Biden just, like, nationalize Twitter (or whatever other social media site) under the guise of "national security"? Seize Mar-A-Lago? Throw certain members of Congress who visited Moscow on a July 4 a few years ago in Gitmo? Etc.

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

One of the big problems with western society, especially the USA, is that doing the right thing ethically and making a lot of money usually involve opposite actions. And this week SCOTUS made that even more true.

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59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control. Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling. And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act. Republicans are coming for birth control.

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I have an entire rant with several key points, but the gist is: Send Donald Trump to jail nothing bad will happen. There will be no riots, no demonstrations, nothing that can be done by the system or police or FBI or anyone to stop it. And once it happens, we’ll realize it was never scary.

the powerful: “throwing him in jail might cause a revolution carrying him to a golden throne on a river of populist outrage” very offline normie libs: “someone should shoot that motherfucker”

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That's /why/ he lies in the way that he does. It's not that he thinks the lie is true, it's that he doesn't think of lies and truth in the way normal people do. He thinks of reality as an extension of will, and his lies are an attempt to manifest a new (more favorable) reality into existence

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While attempting to purchase a condo, I learned that the seller did not want to sell a home to me because I am Black. You can read the full article in The New York Times, written by Debra Kamin, with photos by Erin Schaff here: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/r...

She Made an Offer on a Condo. Then the Seller Learned She Was Black.www.nytimes.com A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.

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Well then it sounds like the CEO of google has fucked up real bad and isn't fit for the job

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Informationfuturism.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

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Letting the plane doors fall off is the kind of hard work that deserves a 10 million dollar raise.

Shareholders of embattled airplane maker Boeing approved a pay package of nearly $33 million for outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun. That’s the highest package ever paid to the company’s CEO and a 45% increase from the $22.6 million he received for 2022. The majority of the bump comes from a stock bonus.

Boeing shareholders vote to approve $33 million CEO pay package | CNN Businesscnn.it Shareholders of embattled airplane maker Boeing have approved a pay package of nearly $33 million for outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun.

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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes. www.reuters.com/technology/t...

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Because if the plan is “we will simply not lose another Presidential election for 16 years,” this plan is naive and unworkable. What I want from Democrats is the equivalent of a Project 2025, but from our side.

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“Civil defense crews say they cannot reach people under the rubble right now because of how heavy the bombardment has been in some of these middle areas. They are receiving calls from families trapped under the rubble still alive.”

Rafah's main hospital has shut down, people try to flee as Israel launches an attackwww.npr.org About half of Gaza's southern area of Rafah is under Israeli evacuation orders as aid groups race to assist those fleeing.

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“Part of the problem is that items critical for hospitals are banned by Israel which says they can be used by Hamas for military purposes. The list of items it considers dual-use include some water disinfection materials.”

Volunteer U.S. docs in Rafah hospital say they've never seen a worse health crisiswww.npr.org Because of the Israeli operation, they lack the most basic supplies and must face the decision whether to let one patient die to save another. They also say malnutrition is contributing to deaths.

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"White faculty members were 64% more likely to receive counteroffers than their faculty of color peers. Regarding other personal identity factors, men were nearly 80% more likely than women to receive counteroffers...and tenured faculty were more than 3 times as likely to receive counteroffers"

New open access article on which faculty members get counteroffers from Damani White-Lewis and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Some truths: 1. US Anti-Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian hate is exploding 2. US Antisemitism is exploding 3. Fascists are using this moment to grow their power 4. The Rafah invasion is an emergency that needs to be called out urgently 5. All these things mater at once

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this is a new york city councilwoman. a republican, it should go without saying.

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Pretty terrified but also: lol, lmao

If your anti-bigotry bill has bipartisan support, and one half of those supporters are self-proclaimed, full-throated, unashamed white supremacists, maybe you should ask yourself if your bill is actually anti-bigotry.

Never mind about my previous question. RIP democracy, I guess.

Justice Sotomayor cut right to it: under Trump's theory of presidential immunity, can a president order the assassination of a rival for personal gain? Sauer says yes, in certain circumstances. (He hasn't quite made it clear what the limitation is on those circumstances.)

If a President has total immunity, what stops him from just murdering his opponent in the election? Or murdering members of SCOTUS? Or murdering really anyone? Am I misunderstanding something here?

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Police snipers on the roof at Ohio State watching the encampment.

Wondering if milk is going to get suddenly cheaper, or suddenly more expensive?

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The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that priests have an absolute "property right" not to be sued for sexually abusing children

Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a “Property Right” Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuseballsandstrikes.org A new decision from the Louisiana Supreme Court casts down on the ability of survivors to sue the Catholic Church for sexual abuse.

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the best way to explain to people why they need to vaccinate their pet for rabies is that if their pet bites or scratches someone and they can't prove it is up to date on rabies, they will test the animal for it by chopping off its head and testing its brain. there is no other way to test for it.

If these motherfuckers are so ignorant as to make it necessary that the REST of us have to get routine rabies vaccines I'm going to shiv someone

Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines. Here's why rabies is dangerous.www.usatoday.com Hesitancy around vaccines has spilled over to pet owners, sparking concern about the resurgence of rabies, a virus that's nearly always fatal.

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One of Trump's top lawyers has already said the plan is to stay quiet on abortion through the campaign—then use the Comstock Act to impose a nationwide abortion ban in 2025. Not only a ban on medication abortion, but ALL abortions, in all 50 states. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...