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There are ten times as many home health aides in the US as there are miners
right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.
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have reread the phrase “30-40+ inches of additional rain” several times now
Jamaica, in particular, will likely suffer catastrophic impacts from now rapidly-intensifying (but slow-moving) Hurricane #Melissa. A *Category 5* landfall now appears to be the most likely outcome, & 30-40+ inches of *additional* rain in mountains will lead to extreme flooding.
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"[T]he Ecuadorian man who survived a U.S. strike last week was released from custody ... [H]e has no record of affiliation with crime."
The US military has struck two boats in the Pacific Ocean, killing several people, as Defense Secretary Hegseth promises the strikes will continue. Congress members say the Pentagon still hasn’t presented evidence justifying the attacks.
US Strikes Two Boats in Pacific Ocean as Hegseth Pledges “Strikes Will Continue, Day After Day”
Members of Congress say the Pentagon has still not provided any evidence to back justifications for the attacks.
buff.ly
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This feels like an important time to remind people that Amazon’s Ring camera has recently partnered with “Flock”, an AI tool used by ICE to help find immigrants.

If it’s hallucinating guns…. Imagine the damage it could do in ICE’s control.
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AI can pry Oxford commas and em dashes from my cold, lifeless, and dead hands—and I dare someone to say something to me about it
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
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These new laws banning vaccine mandates and/or quarantines will cost lives.

Public health works to benefit the collective whole.

Everyone has to do their part. Quarantining the kids exposed to measles stopped further spread.

Had everyone been vaccinated, the outbreak wouldn’t have even happened!
Idaho law runs against a public health hallmark: one's participation in society depends on their willingness to obey rules.

E.g., In SC, >150 unvaxxed kids quarantined amidst a measles outbreak; 5 began to show symptoms, but quarantine prevented spread

That precaution would now be illegal in ID.🛟
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
www.propublica.org
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👀 Largest solar and wind developer in the United States, NextEra, is on the list of companies that paid for the destruction of the White House.
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
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You mean they lied?

How utterly shocking.

It’s not his house. He’s destroying a structure that is recognizable the world over … and acting as though he never intends to leave.
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I guess I just don't understand like... if you don't consider being a nazi or transphobe dealbreakers in an elected official then what do you actually stand for
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Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."
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Goodnight everyone, and if you accidentally got an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattoo years ago and keep forgetting to get it covered up, maybe do that tomorrow and don’t spend any more extra years with an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattooed on your body
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So if we’re keeping track of who’s been “come for”:

Disabled people shouldn’t leave their homes

Immigrants aren’t safe anywhere

Black & brown citizens can be detained & brutalized even more easily

Cis women aren’t entitled to certain healthcare

Trans people aren’t allowed to exist some places
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Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)
In short, we do not know exactly what will happen with November SNAP benefits if the shutdown continues, but we do know there will not be enough money available to fully fund everyone's EBT card.

www.patreon.com/posts/snap-w...
SNAP & WIC - Status Update | Matthew Cortland
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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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We have to support and “see nuance” despite the fact that, if he’s not another Fetterman & with this level of stupidity he probably is, he will 100% lose to Collins.

If he can’t even think of covering a deathshead tattoo before announcing a run he can’t handle the GOP machine IN ANY WAY.
So Pete Buttigieg is a monster because he interned for McKinsey, but here in my state we have to support the totally unqualified guy who worked for Blackwater with a Nazi tattoo who talked a bunch of shit on Reddit about women & black people or we’re not progressive enough.

Fucking *hell,* people.
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"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say
A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.
www.kktv.com
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If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue.

There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.
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Ahh yes. The impossible standard of “don’t be a nazi.”
After hearing this guy shitposts on Reddit and has sick tats, I'm even more FOR him to defeat Susan Collins.

We need to stop holding rising Progressives to impossible standards; more real and imperfect they are, the more we need them in office. Can't fight Nazis w/ the Hakeem Jeffries of the world!
If we want to defeat Susan Collins, we need to try something new. The same old tired playbook will not work.
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aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.