The bill reads, “the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues.” That statement displaces all the fascist leaders of the last “Great War” and the crimes they committed.
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The US House bill that passed “denouncing the horrors of socialism” cites two slave owners and proponents of Indian removal, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as foils to the socialist ideology of “totalitarianism.”
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the majority of americans are fine with censorship when it comes to Black writers and Black subjects. It's how most of our schools and publishing companies have operated, defacto, up until relatively recently...
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I had seriously hoped we would be better off COVID policy wise in Jan 2023 than in the Spring of 2020..
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What policies have been put in place to protect the most vulnerable? What advances have been made in paid sick/family leave/insurance? What have policymakers learned to ensure this never happens again? But yet, the public health emergency will be ending.
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Can we all just note that the system did more to stop people from protesting the police murder of Tyre Nichols last night than it did to prevent a white supremacist mob from storming the US Capitol.
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"Geriatric pregnancy" is all but extinct. Yet doctors continue to describe women’s bodies using terms such as "hostile uterus," "incompetent cervix," and "habitual aborter. These phrases aren't just archaic—they're downright weird, writes:
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I need so many people to understand this regarding Tyre Nichols. Several of the police officers who murdered Freddie Gray were Black. The entire system of policing is based on white supremacist violence. We see people under the boot of oppression carry its water all the time.
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Diversifying the police force doesn’t end racism because racism is inherent to the organization of the institution & its daily operation. Racism is what policing is
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The police kill a record number of the people, and for the system, the crisis begins when a window breaks.
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I’m not advising anyone on how to react to anything. No one is asking me for that. I’m just pointing out who is being asked to restrain themselves and who is not. Cops are out here calling the act of breaking windows terrorism while they kill three people per day & lie CONSTANTLY
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The actual crisis: Cops killed more people last yr than any yr on record. We don’t get public pleas from officials to stop the killings or for cops to be “peaceful.” We get pleas for people to respond in an orderly manner to the heinous violence inflicted upon their communities.
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so according to someone who filmed the incident and was fired for doing so, the company called the cops on a worker, the cops find him holding a knife because that’s his job—it’s a meatpacking plant!—and after they kill him, production isn’t even paused
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Why is there any lead at all in baby food??!! 😩
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Breaking News: The FDA proposed a limit on lead in baby food to try to reduce health risks for children under 2. Studies revealed that many processed products contained levels known to pose a risk of neurological and developmental harm in young children. nyti.ms/3XGWYm8
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for anyone curious to learn more about Merle Oberon, arguably the first asian best actress nominee, I was recommended this podcast
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the context for this awkward "identifies as asian" language that's getting dragged is actually really sad:
Michelle Yeoh is the first woman to be nominated who "identifies as asian" bc an actress who was first nominated in the 1930s hid her asian ancestry and passed as white
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Michelle Yeoh has made history as the first person who identifies as Asian to ever be nominated for best actress at the #Oscars: thr.cm/DEkv7B1
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This this this. So many people let the right define what is normal and then slide down the slippery slope following them right into bullshit.
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Watching people on the left abandon care through abandoning their masks, I can see why the left accomplishes so little. We cannot even understand the politics of care and translate that into concrete action to build safety for all to participate. We’d be better taking on 1/
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obviously this is something that’s especially important to me right now but today vox media laid off at least one pregnant person, at least one person currently on maternity leave, and at least one person who just returned from maternity leave
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it didn't feel real until i got to hold it in my hands 🥹 my illustrated book "PLEASE GROW: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People)" is available for pre-order now! out 3/14! tell your friends!!! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708317/p
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I feel like I tweet this every time there's a media layoffs bloodbath (too many times), but there's gotta be a better way to make this industry sustainable for more people. The default cannot be: "Welcome to media! You will probably be laid off some day!"
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banal to say perhaps but so much of the opposition to the teaching of history in the country reflects the fact that its not even in the past to begin with
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time passes and dates change but when you get to the core of things IMO there's no real daylight between this and americans of yore trading souvenir photos of lynchings, feteing the sand creek massacre perpetrators at civic dinners, and so much more
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So apparently one of the cops who killed Breonna Taylor was invited to a Bowling Green restaurant by a GOP group, whereupon he played footage from the raid on Taylor’s apartment to a restaurant full of people who were unaware he would be holding an event there
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As always, Morgan is to the point
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It's been disappointing to see how violent crime has dominated the political discourse this election season & how candidates have leaned into right wing talking points to court voters. The public & the media need to challenge this. TRiiBE newsletter by me: mailchi.mp/4a573cbbe9c0/t
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The College Board consulted hundreds of experts at every stage of developing this course. I hope parents in FL will stop this BS. We know what would happen if the state tried to ban US History (which includes AfAm history). needs to say take all AP courses or none.
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More evidence that this has nothing to do with protecting students and everything to do with limiting what can be taught to advance a political agenda. The most hilarious thing about this is that it paints the College Board as a bunch of radicals.
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I flicked at suspicions of this in my big profile of the National Restaurant Association last year, if you're curious about "the other NRA's" longstanding fight against labor:
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Incredible reporting from and confirms what labor activists have long suspected: Food service employees who seek higher wages have been paying for a mandatory training that funds...the lobby fighting against higher wages.
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The irrational exuberance/unfortunate consequences pandemic comms cycle.
At a WH press briefing in November—just two months ago!—Jha said “We now have all of the capability to prevent, I believe, essentially all of those [COVID] deaths.”
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a city employee killed Karon Blake
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Bowser confirms that the shooter of Karon Blake is a D.C. government employee but not in public safety, and is currently on administrative leave.
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This a sobering development for Democrats. The Biden Administration is using a policy that Stephen Miller couldn’t get through the courts to categorically ban asylum. They are doing so in addition to expanding Title 42 and going beyond what any court has ordered them to do.
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The Biden version of the 'transit ban' aka Trump's idea that if you did not apply for asylum on the way to the US you would be barred from asylum in the US --->
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But...this is a bandaid on an amputation. As always, don't forget us in the banned states. Keep giving to the funds, keep supporting our clinics. Because we aren't going to get even the tiniest help out of this....
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So like so much of post (and honestly pre) Dobbs abortion expansion, this is another round of big headlines and more accessibility for those with the most access already. And I don't begrude it, because every bit helps, and ALL people deserve abortions if they want them.
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1) This still requires a prescription, which is utterly unnecessary. Mifepristone should be OTC. It should be available no differently than Plan B or other ECs. If we can work to OTC contraceptive pills, there's no reason not to have OTC mife....
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This is good. But, it's not as good as it could be. Besides the fact that we still have more than a dozen states where abortion is illegal so this does nothing, here are some other concerns...
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Breaking News: Abortion pills can soon be purchased at local U.S. pharmacies with a prescription, the FDA said, a move that could greatly expand access. nyti.ms/3ImzEoW
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While this most certainly will expand abortion access, it’s important to remember that we’re in a post-Roe world.
More than a dozen states outlaw abortion, and this today from the FDA won’t change that.
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Until now, mifepristone (the 1st pill used in a 2-medication abortion) could be dispensed only by a few mail-order pharmacies or by certified doctors or clinics.
Now, patients will still need a prescription, but pharmacies that agree to a certain set of rules can dispense it.
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HUGE NEWS:
Retail pharmacies can now offer abortion pills, per a regulatory change made Tuesday by the FDA.
The move could drastically increase abortion access in the nation.
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Doing our part as the kids head back to school after the holiday break. They will also be wearing masks in school.
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This is amazing, France is going to require clean air in classrooms, aiming at CO2 levels of 800 ppm. Other countries should quickly follow suit. Aside from limiting Covid, just the benefits of lowering common respiratory viruses makes this worth it alone, as any parent knows.
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We offer a translation into English of our synoptic on the new French environmental code relating to the measurement of CO2 in schools. A PDF version is available at nousaerons.fr/regulations
This is intended for foreigners who have expressed an interest in this new code.
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Louisiana prison inmate working at the state Capitol for no pay tells a Washington Post reporter he’s been called a “slave” and is then placed on lockdown by prison officials for talking to a reporter.
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The U.S. labor market has been so lopsided in bargaining power for capital for so long that bosses are confused and terrified when it shows signs of functioning like a real market, such as when employees do things like declining to do extra work without pay.
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16k nurses in NYC set a strike date for January 9 over chronic understaffing. It would be the largest private sector nurses strike in US history
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