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December 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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resistance through art
September 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Large chunk of the world won’t care about oil embargoes very soon
@bhadrarukum.bsky.social:

“The EV revolution comes to Nepal.

Subsidies, hydroelectricity and a manufacturing powerhouse neighbor are moving the cars into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else.”
⚡️⚡️⚡️
#alwaysbecharging

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...
July 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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4-5-2025
April 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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When Meta started developing its flagship AI model, employees faced an ethical question, Alex Reisner writes. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT. Should they just pirate it?

Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
March 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In West Wing Playbook today, we recount the extraordinary two-day testimony of CFPB operations chief Adam Martinez, who provided the most detailed look yet at DOGE’s takeover and attempted dismantling of a federal agency.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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It really is the stupidest of times. The Age of Ignorance. Smh...
March 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The story of ozempic - besides saving millions of lives and saving billions for the healthcare system - ozempic is a scientific breakthrough everybody should know about - it was discovered because someone studied the spit of a lizard that only eats 6 times a year the Gila monster - so first 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.
Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.
www.wsj.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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HHS is reversing a decades-old policy of soliciting public comment before it issues regulations affecting government benefits and grants, including NIH funding.
RFK Jr. kills policy on public comment for health regulations
HHS is reversing a decades-old policy of soliciting public comment before it issues regulations affecting government benefits and grants.
www.axios.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years.

Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.
A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise
In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
www.ft.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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ATTN: Federal Workers!
🚨 Special Alert for Federal Workers 🧵

It’s time to prepare for a federal government shutdown, which may begin this weekend.


While you’ll probably be back to work soon, it’s best to treat a shutdown like a lay-off. Assume that Friday will be your last day of work, possibly for several weeks. 1/7
a cartoon sloth is stamping a piece of paper on a table
ALT: a cartoon sloth is stamping a piece of paper on a table
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Retain faith in our democracy
December 19, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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December 5, 2024 at 11:49 PM