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Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

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In my experience, some abusive people are great at creating a charming public persona and surrounding themselves with friends who are awesome and kind. It’s part of how they get away with being heinous behind closed doors. Don’t blame yourself for not knowing. But once you know, act accordingly.

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Fuck John Roberts all my homies hate John Roberts www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

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This should be interesting... (In today's Observer)

Remember how, for a while, racists were trying to rehabilitate the words "bigot" and "prejudice?" Like, if we looked at the dictionary definition, we would actually see those are good and necessary. That was fucking weird, wasn't it?

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If you see this, post a (weird) bird.

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no one should feel worthless because they don't have enough money. it's bullshit

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When you run a store or a BackerKit, you can see all the analytics. Where people come from. It can get really granular. We launched the Lackadaisy store rebuild a few hours ago, and sales are humming along, and. Twitter isn't even in the top 5 referrers. Unthinkable, 5 years ago.

Kind of weird how so many people who demand "small government" are also obsessed with the Roman empire. Like, how do you think that empire lasted so long? A "hands-off" approach?

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Working when 90 percent of my colleagues are out on a 4 day weekend. bitter ashes in my MOUTH

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I was 17. He was 31, and a soldier in the ARMY. I weighed about 100lbs then. He carried around a loaded gun. I lived clandestinely in his room on the base for months. Lights of, hungry, alone when he was on duty Technically it was all consensual. When i turned 31, i looked around at 17 year olds

Is this a bug in my breakfast ramen? "No, I'm the lone tiny flake of dried parsley they put in the flavoring packet." Okay, carry on, then.

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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever

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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

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this is the point I keep making and I don’t want to be making it but it’s correct no matter how much the opposition sucks and how much this feels like the same old uninspiring message, the danger of letting Republicans hold power is getting worse they are bad and must be defeated every time

the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life

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Kids just getting started trying to be independent artists will never experience or understand what a real "grass roots" support network on Twitter or whatever can be like. I've mentioned this before but early Kickstarters I ran? 1/3rd of the funding was from Twitter.

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Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

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Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Uncover The Truth Behind "Patient Zero" (AIDS)www.youtube.com The story of the AIDS epidemic and the man accused of starting it.When a new, deadly virus spreads across North America at an alarming rate, one man is singl...

But this was misinterpreted as a zero by a different research group down the line. And the narrative of an out-of-control (and foreign, and flamboyant) super-spreader was just just too delicious for the media to resist. Full doc here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jamd...

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Gaëtan's submission of his address book of sex partners pretty much sealed the deal on HIV being sexually transmitted. And because he submitted a record that extensive, he was at the center of a lot of the contact tracing. On charts, Gaëtan was marked "O." Not 0, O. For "Out of California."

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Gaëtan Dugas was a sexually active, gay, French-Canadian airhost. He was diagnosed so early, he participated in a study to prove HIV was sexually transmitted. (Yes, this was WAY back.) Gaëtan kept an address book (people used to do that), and the researchers used it for contact tracing.

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Saw a video of a little Palestinian girl, still alive, a look of resignation in her eyes, with her jaw blown off. In between endless droves of Americans pretending that the only reason that Biden's in trouble is his age. The only reason, nothing else. To live in the world of empire is insanity.

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Good to know that my mobility aids are what make me unfit for any position of power or influence. For, as we all know, once you're a cripple, you're basically brain dead, too. Critique Biden for a host of things he's done, not for the spectre of perhaps needing a damn rollator.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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