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Congratulations to David van Biema for his Second Place win for "Best Multimedia Package" at the Catholic Media Awards last night for his Outreach profile of Sister Luisa Derouen, OP, who worked with transgender Catholics and their families and friends for decades. outreach.faith/2024/08/no-b...
“No Body Now But Yours” - Outreach
How a Catholic sister from Louisiana became the American church’s foremost minister to transgender people.
outreach.faith
June 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Congratulations to David van Biema for his Second Place win for "Best Multimedia Package" at the Catholic Media Awards last night for his Outreach profile of Sister Luisa Derouen, OP, who worked with transgender Catholics and their families and friends for decades. outreach.faith/2024/08/no-b...
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"He lost his composure, bearing and touch with reality in a revelatory moment that demonstrated forevermore that he is precisely the clown that has been so thoroughly depicted and exposed over the last 153 days."
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
Hegseth's meltdown
Pete Hegseth, standing next to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, in front of a room full of Pentagon correspondents, asserted what MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell called “the stupidest public lie ...
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"He lost his composure, bearing and touch with reality in a revelatory moment that demonstrated forevermore that he is precisely the clown that has been so thoroughly depicted and exposed over the last 153 days."
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
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Maurene Comey: The defense says Combs didn’t need guns because he is a hands-on guy. Sure he was - with his girlfriends. When he was going to kill another man, he needed a gun. When he was beating women half his size, he didn’t.
Audible gasps in the courtroom.
Audible gasps in the courtroom.
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Maurene Comey: The defense says Combs didn’t need guns because he is a hands-on guy. Sure he was - with his girlfriends. When he was going to kill another man, he needed a gun. When he was beating women half his size, he didn’t.
Audible gasps in the courtroom.
Audible gasps in the courtroom.
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Two software developers became quietly known in tech circles in the 2000s and were almost the reverse image of each other. Both developed web alternatives. Both developed alternatives to the current government model.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
December 6, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Two software developers became quietly known in tech circles in the 2000s and were almost the reverse image of each other. Both developed web alternatives. Both developed alternatives to the current government model.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
The right has read Yarvin and it shows.
The left has not read Marsh and it shows.
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MUST WATCH: The FBI didn’t just watch Black leaders—they plotted their destruction.
Fred Hampton was 21. Feeding kids. Building power. They killed him for it.
📕 The Blackout Files has the receipts—surveillance, sabotage, murder.
⚠️ Read it before it’s erased: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Fred Hampton was 21. Feeding kids. Building power. They killed him for it.
📕 The Blackout Files has the receipts—surveillance, sabotage, murder.
⚠️ Read it before it’s erased: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
June 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
MUST WATCH: The FBI didn’t just watch Black leaders—they plotted their destruction.
Fred Hampton was 21. Feeding kids. Building power. They killed him for it.
📕 The Blackout Files has the receipts—surveillance, sabotage, murder.
⚠️ Read it before it’s erased: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Fred Hampton was 21. Feeding kids. Building power. They killed him for it.
📕 The Blackout Files has the receipts—surveillance, sabotage, murder.
⚠️ Read it before it’s erased: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...
theonion.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
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UNC Gillings School of Public Health is eliminating their Health Equity & Social Justice Concentration. This program is home to many of my friends — some of the most thoughtful, caring, and innovative researchers I know.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
UNC Gillings School of Public Health is eliminating their Health Equity & Social Justice Concentration. This program is home to many of my friends — some of the most thoughtful, caring, and innovative researchers I know.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@sciforgood.bsky.social
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Yesterday, every single Republican & 30 Democrats supported Trump's $8.8 billion bomb shipment to help Netanyahu continue his annihilation of the Palestinian people.
That isn't what the American people want.
Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
That isn't what the American people want.
Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders Speech on Senate Vote to Block $8.8 Billion Sale of Heavy Bombs to Israel » Senator Bernie Sanders
WASHINGTON, April 3 – After filing Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to block the sale of two of the most egregious Trump Administration offensive arms sales to Israel, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt...
www.sanders.senate.gov
April 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Yesterday, every single Republican & 30 Democrats supported Trump's $8.8 billion bomb shipment to help Netanyahu continue his annihilation of the Palestinian people.
That isn't what the American people want.
Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
That isn't what the American people want.
Below are my floor remarks to stop the sale.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
March 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security."
Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before."
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honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were *hiding* something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were *hiding* something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.
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Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her, died this week at 96.
Korean Victim of WWII Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan’s Apology Dies
She led a tireless campaign for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her — mostly Korean — during World War II.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery in brothels for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of thousands of women like her, died this week at 96.
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NEW: Donald Trump and his illegal “DOGE” agency made acting Social Security Administrator Michelle King step down after she refused to give Elon Musk illegal access to YOUR sensitive files. This is CRIMINAL. They are trying to steal your private data.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
February 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
NEW: Donald Trump and his illegal “DOGE” agency made acting Social Security Administrator Michelle King step down after she refused to give Elon Musk illegal access to YOUR sensitive files. This is CRIMINAL. They are trying to steal your private data.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
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What I like about Severance, as someone who hasn't watched it, is that it's very difficult to tell what it's about from people's posts.
February 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
What I like about Severance, as someone who hasn't watched it, is that it's very difficult to tell what it's about from people's posts.
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This is all Drake’s punishment for saying Kendrick raps like he’s trying to free the slaves …as if Drake doesn’t also have the EXACT SAME SLAVE ANCESTRY AS KENDRICK.
Drake is “Not Like Us” because he does not see himself as part of “US” even though he is!
That’s why the US is laughing at him:
Drake is “Not Like Us” because he does not see himself as part of “US” even though he is!
That’s why the US is laughing at him:
February 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is all Drake’s punishment for saying Kendrick raps like he’s trying to free the slaves …as if Drake doesn’t also have the EXACT SAME SLAVE ANCESTRY AS KENDRICK.
Drake is “Not Like Us” because he does not see himself as part of “US” even though he is!
That’s why the US is laughing at him:
Drake is “Not Like Us” because he does not see himself as part of “US” even though he is!
That’s why the US is laughing at him:
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We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
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it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Records show how DOGE planned Trump’s DEI purge — and who gets fired next
A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Protestors at the Tesla showroom in Georgetown, Seattle, Washington.
"No Rapist will ever tell me what to do"
"Eat Elon Musk with his own fork"
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
"No Rapist will ever tell me what to do"
"Eat Elon Musk with his own fork"
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Protestors at the Tesla showroom in Georgetown, Seattle, Washington.
"No Rapist will ever tell me what to do"
"Eat Elon Musk with his own fork"
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
"No Rapist will ever tell me what to do"
"Eat Elon Musk with his own fork"
#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
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European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Stand tall against right-wing extremism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
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They were discussing Mary Poppins on @alltherightmovies.com and they mentioned that ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by one of the composer’s sons getting the polio vaccine in a sugar cube.
A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.
A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.
February 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
They were discussing Mary Poppins on @alltherightmovies.com and they mentioned that ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by one of the composer’s sons getting the polio vaccine in a sugar cube.
A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.
A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.
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Protestors outside the Tesla Manhattan Showroom.
"Don't buy swastikars"
(📹 @sandibachom.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
"Don't buy swastikars"
(📹 @sandibachom.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
February 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Protestors outside the Tesla Manhattan Showroom.
"Don't buy swastikars"
(📹 @sandibachom.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
"Don't buy swastikars"
(📹 @sandibachom.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
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As Robert F Kennedy becomes Secretary of HHS we must remember that “Just asking questions” about vaccines, and casting doubt on well-established science could have fatal consequences.
Researchers estimate over 300,000 South Africans died because their leaders denied scientific truths.
Researchers estimate over 300,000 South Africans died because their leaders denied scientific truths.
February 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
As Robert F Kennedy becomes Secretary of HHS we must remember that “Just asking questions” about vaccines, and casting doubt on well-established science could have fatal consequences.
Researchers estimate over 300,000 South Africans died because their leaders denied scientific truths.
Researchers estimate over 300,000 South Africans died because their leaders denied scientific truths.
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl set really seems to have made the worst people absolutely unravel. They didn’t just dislike it - which many people did, from all walks of life, and that’s fine - it really struck them in their souls. And some of them are still growling away. It’s fascinating.
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl set really seems to have made the worst people absolutely unravel. They didn’t just dislike it - which many people did, from all walks of life, and that’s fine - it really struck them in their souls. And some of them are still growling away. It’s fascinating.
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It seems that a lot of people on this thread would benefit from reading this book and following its author, Michael Harriot, he'll have you laughing and learning at the same time. Definitely was one on my favorite accounts when I was on Twitter/X. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It seems that a lot of people on this thread would benefit from reading this book and following its author, Michael Harriot, he'll have you laughing and learning at the same time. Definitely was one on my favorite accounts when I was on Twitter/X. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
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Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia.
Immunotherapies?
Gene therapy for rare diseases?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines?
Vaccines?
Novel cancer treatments?
Psychiatric medicines?
You betcha.
1/
Immunotherapies?
Gene therapy for rare diseases?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines?
Vaccines?
Novel cancer treatments?
Psychiatric medicines?
You betcha.
1/
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia.
Immunotherapies?
Gene therapy for rare diseases?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines?
Vaccines?
Novel cancer treatments?
Psychiatric medicines?
You betcha.
1/
Immunotherapies?
Gene therapy for rare diseases?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s medicines?
Vaccines?
Novel cancer treatments?
Psychiatric medicines?
You betcha.
1/