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We Deserve Better
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Abolish ICE.

I have a headache.
Pinned
I work in industrial ceramics manufacturing. My plant also produces cast iron and glass.

Without well-managed air filtration and access to NIOSH approved respirators and dust masks, workers like me will be at increased risk of lung conditions like silicosis & mesothelioma, and other organ damage.
🚨 Trump’s HHS just gutted NIOSH—laying off 85% of staff and shuttering key science programs.
🧪 Cancer research for firefighters? Halted.
😷 Respirator safety testing? Ceased.
📉 Decades of public health and worker safety science in jeopardy.

Read more below ⬇️:

www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...
Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff
Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.
www.cbsnews.com
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December 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
December 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"your year in review" has gone too far.

It's fun when it's coming from my music player. I don't need it in an email from a shoe store I visit twice a year max.
December 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Almost no jobs have been added to the American economy since April. In fact, 710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024. More thoughts on today's dismal jobs report — and what it means for America's affordability crisis.
Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living
Today's added information
robertreich.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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All ICE must be tried for crimes against humanity and for crimes they committed on 1/6/2021. They need to be in prison, this time to stay
It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
December 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I get it, I heart radio: the podcasts I listen to have majority-male audiences.

That doesn't mean I want to listen to the same 2-minute prostate cancer treatment ad during every ad break on every show!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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This is really good work.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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“Growing concerns about the job market… most layoffs since the start of the Great Recession…”

No wonder Trump is hiding the data
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Philip DeFranco calling cowboy boots "manly heels" on his podcast with Alex Perlman gave me a good chuckle.

They really are just kitten heels for men. 1.5" or so, maybe 2" if you're feeling nasty.
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I can't believe Jeff Garcia passed away recently

Sheen was a favourite character of mine as a kid probably because he had such a hyperfixation on Ultra Lord and I could relate

May he rest in peace
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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A certain kind of person thinks too much about national borders and immigration policy lnk.thebulwark.com/48sUQWT
“Heritage Americans” and the Nazi Horse
Carl Schmitt comes to America.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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If data is collected, it will be monetized.

If data exists, it will be leaked.

Plan accordingly.
This, and just as a general note - LLM chats (yes, including yours) are in no way secure. Claims to the contrary are bullshit and hype.
Yet another reason to block LLMs apps you don't explicitly authorize in the enterprise. Threat actors using malvertising to drive victims to shared chats with malicious instructions.
blog.breakpointsecurity.pt/blog/chatgpt...
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Minneapolis, we're sintering
This is dazzlingly timely & blessedly grounding.
December 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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It's impressive that Big Tech was like: We aren't douchy enough. What if we made asshole intelligence and burned up some of the earth's power and water faster?
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Tax the rich. Tax the corporations. Tax the churches.
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system?

People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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After the Civil War, the government realized that in order to resist oligarchy, you needed an educated populace. The slave south was essentially an oligarchy with a powerful & wealthy planter class, an uneducated poor white class, and an enslaved class.

The war against education is no accident
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#CrushTheGOP 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
#BlueTsunami2026-2036 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM