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The U.S. Congress: Your Go-To Source for UFO Theater - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 3h

Every hour spent on UAP theater is an hour spent not running the country.

How a few congressionally sanctioned crank UFOlogists laid waste to the minimal standards of adult government oversight.

Ice Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies at Risk - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 5h

Across the country, medical providers who serve immigrant communities said fewer patients are coming in for pregnancy-related care. As a result, patients are experiencing dangerous complications.

Fear of deportation is deterring pregnant immigrants from seeking critical care. Doctors are worried for their health.

Washington Can Still End the War in Ukraine - Truthdig

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Antifahahaha @lunaticleft.bsky.social · 9h

That'd mean pissing off their handlers. Cmon, man. Where's the profit in world peace?

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 9h

U.S. officials ignored multiple chances to prevent or end the war in Ukraine, including Russia’s 2021 security proposal.

But doing so would involve recognizing we helped create and sustain this tragedy.

Letter from France: “Build Your Own Parliamentary Majority” - Truthdig

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 6h

Macron now has to come up with yet another prime minister: number eight for his presidency.

As government coalitions collapse seemingly by the hour, the French pension faces mounting attacks from the center and the right.

Colorado Started Revamping Its Vaccine Policies To Safeguard Against RFK Jr. - Truthdig

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 7h

Colorado and other states are rewriting vaccine policy to sidestep federal guidelines under RFK Jr.’s leadership.

Amid concerns that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is undermining trust in vaccines and public health science, some states are changing how they regulate insurance…

Justice for All - Truthdig

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 8h

As the government shuts down, Republicans push further toward authoritarianism while Democrats face a critical choice.

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

Washington Can Still End the War in Ukraine - Truthdig

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 9h

U.S. officials ignored multiple chances to prevent or end the war in Ukraine, including Russia’s 2021 security proposal.

But doing so would involve recognizing we helped create and sustain this tragedy.

Is ICE Today’s Klan? - Truthdig

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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 22h

ICE operates today with a level of anonymity, impunity and intimidation that closely parallels the Ku Klux Klan’s tactics.

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore.

The AI God That Isn’t - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 23h

Despite the hype, AI lacks lived experience, judgment, and the human context behind real understanding.

Five more years — or 500? There are good reasons the ‘singularity’ promised by artificial intelligence gurus keeps getting postponed.

Greed Is a Hell of a Drug - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

Gilead dropped the price of its HIV prevention drug lenacapavir but only for select countries, excluding many with high infection rates.

Gilead’s price drop for its HIV prevention drug lenacapavir in some countries is a smoke screen for monopoly medicine.

Voices of Resistance - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

Sondos Sabra chronicles a day in the life as a Palestinian living in Gaza in this excerpt from "Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide."

Sondos Sabra chronicles a day in the life as a Palestinian living in Gaza in this excerpt from "Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide."

Letter from France: “Build Your Own Parliamentary Majority” - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

As government coalitions collapse seemingly by the hour, the French pension faces mounting attacks from the center and the right.

As government coalitions collapse seemingly by the hour, the French pension faces mounting attacks from the center and the right.

Justice for All - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the Constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

By @mobute.bsky.social

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

Large Language Muddle - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

Literature made by machines and owned by corporations can only be fake, an insult to real literature. It should be smashed, and can.

Literature made by machines and owned by corporations can only be fake, an insult to real literature. It should be smashed, and can.

Gaza Deal Can Work: If Trump Keeps Pressure on Israel - Truthdig

Truthdig @truthdig.com · 1d

Trump risks another failure, given that his initial ceasefire agreement collapsed soon after the hostages were released.

If not, he risks another failure as his first ceasefire agreement fell by the wayside shortly after hostages were released.