dcovin.bsky.social
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Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
December 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Conservatives: The constitution is colorblind, discrimination does not justify reverse discrimination
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
Also conservatives: white men deserve reparations for not having 100 percent of the jobs they apply for
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CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
“Grandmama of destruction”: 92-year-old grandma wins Tekken tournament, proving gaming has no age limit bit.ly/49jRbuM
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
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House Republicans declined to extend expiring ACA enhanced premium tax credits, potentially doubling costs and causing 130,000 Alabamians to lose coverage.
Rep. Sewell blasts GOP for failing to extend ACA tax credits
House Republicans declined to extend expiring ACA enhanced premium tax credits, potentially doubling costs and causing 130,000 Alabamians to lose coverage.
buff.ly
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
House Republicans declined to extend expiring ACA enhanced premium tax credits, potentially doubling costs and causing 130,000 Alabamians to lose coverage.
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All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
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This story is insane. It’s been almost a year since the Palisades fire & the LA City Council “is still debating how much permit relief the city can afford.”
Out of 6,000 homes, construction is underway at fewer than 400 addresses. Devastating for these victims. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Out of 6,000 homes, construction is underway at fewer than 400 addresses. Devastating for these victims. www.latimes.com/california/s...
For L.A.'s mayor, a Palisades recovery marked by missteps, reversals and delays
Since the Palisades fire, Mayor Karen Bass has outlined recovery strategies that critics say have faltered in execution, affecting confidence in the rebuilding process.
www.latimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This story is insane. It’s been almost a year since the Palisades fire & the LA City Council “is still debating how much permit relief the city can afford.”
Out of 6,000 homes, construction is underway at fewer than 400 addresses. Devastating for these victims. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Out of 6,000 homes, construction is underway at fewer than 400 addresses. Devastating for these victims. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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My 1st book. 2 bucks. www.amazon.com/dp/B000GCFBY...
Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Book 1)
Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Book 1) - Kindle edition by Moore, Christopher. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Book 1).
www.amazon.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My 1st book. 2 bucks. www.amazon.com/dp/B000GCFBY...
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I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts
Whistles, Signal and school patrols: how ordinary Americans are fighting back against ICE
As Trump carries out his mass deportation operation, residents are banding together to block raids and distribute groceries
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts
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Just a reminder that he has no fucking degree in any sort of health-related field and he can fuck all the way off into the goddamn sun with his fucking incoherent word-salad.
RFK Jr: "Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oaths"
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just a reminder that he has no fucking degree in any sort of health-related field and he can fuck all the way off into the goddamn sun with his fucking incoherent word-salad.
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It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional.
by John Roberts
by John Roberts
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I am willing to be pushed off the glass cliff of any currently failing company for ten million. I'm a goddamn bargain. Please someone hire me to do a terrible job as a ceo and then fire me for a lot of goddamn money, I promise I'd be great at sucking. Boards of directors WILL want me out.
December 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I am willing to be pushed off the glass cliff of any currently failing company for ten million. I'm a goddamn bargain. Please someone hire me to do a terrible job as a ceo and then fire me for a lot of goddamn money, I promise I'd be great at sucking. Boards of directors WILL want me out.
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This illegal proposal is designed to eliminate health care for trans youth by threatening to destroy hospitals that provide that care — care that’s validated by physicians & provided with parent support.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
Trump Moves to Prevent Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This illegal proposal is designed to eliminate health care for trans youth by threatening to destroy hospitals that provide that care — care that’s validated by physicians & provided with parent support.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
They want to erase trans people from existence. That’s always been the plan. We won’t let them.
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Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
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congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
congrats to every "moderate" who cheered on this cruel, unfounded panic. hope you got what you wanted www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.
www.readtpa.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
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One reason that news sites are making deals with AI slop factories is that these same AI slop factories spend a ton of money sending glib salesmen to big journalism conferences to sell decision makers on the idea that Slop is the Future.
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
One reason that news sites are making deals with AI slop factories is that these same AI slop factories spend a ton of money sending glib salesmen to big journalism conferences to sell decision makers on the idea that Slop is the Future.
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Swearing makes you stronger!
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Swearing makes you stronger!
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.
Attn @stronglang.bsky.social
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
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I thought it was pretty clear first term Trump had been constrained from doing a lot of insane and despotic things by more or less normal actors around him, and would not be so constrained in the sequel. But many folks were eager to persuade themselves Jan 6 was an outlier rather than a harbinger.
December 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I thought it was pretty clear first term Trump had been constrained from doing a lot of insane and despotic things by more or less normal actors around him, and would not be so constrained in the sequel. But many folks were eager to persuade themselves Jan 6 was an outlier rather than a harbinger.
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Clemency boards are always stacked with obviously anti-clemency people like cops and victims rights advocates, but man, this one is especially ridiculous.
New @theintercept.com: Georgia was supposed to kill Stacey Humphreys last night. But his execution was abruptly called off by the clemency board after its newest member was exposed as the DA's victim advocate at Humphreys's trial.
Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
Stacey Humphreys’s death sentence was rooted in juror misconduct. His fate is in the hands of people directly involved in his trial.
theintercept.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Clemency boards are always stacked with obviously anti-clemency people like cops and victims rights advocates, but man, this one is especially ridiculous.
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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“We blew all our money on the world’s dumbest consultants - and we have learned nothing, so we’ll do it again at the first opportunity… but if we admit that in public, no one will give us more money.”
BREAKING: The Democratic National Committee will NOT release its long-awaited autopsy on Trump's 2024 win. The report is completed but Dem leaders decided it could distract from their winning streak, so it will remain secret. Not good.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2045...
Dem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
The Democratic National Committee has completed its long-awaited analysis on what went wrong in the 2024 campaign. But in a move that will attract intense criticism, it’s keeping the findings secret.
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“We blew all our money on the world’s dumbest consultants - and we have learned nothing, so we’ll do it again at the first opportunity… but if we admit that in public, no one will give us more money.”
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I was a kid once. And my biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was a kid once. And my biggest regret in life is that I never got a childhood without pain.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
Politicians should never insert themselves into the personal health care decisions of patients, parents, and their providers—and that includes trans Americans.
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big scoop from reuters:
pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.
After Trump’s mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting da...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
big scoop from reuters:
pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
pardoned j6-ers are.... advising DOJ officials" "weaponization working group" on whether to bring charges against prosecutors who worked on j6 cases.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...