Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial System The Senate gave its stamp of approval on Wednesday to a massive...

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Super fucking cool

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

Louisiana officials lament Trump administration’s cuts to FEMA grant programs for storm impacts Hundreds of millions in expected project grants evaporating

$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone

Red Rural Recession.

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Opinion | Don’t Roll Your Eyes at Due Process It doesn’t just protect a person’s liberty and dignity. It’s a humble acknowledgment of our own limitations.

“The best arguments for due process transcend self-interest,” our columnist @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social writes. “They appeal directly to the idea that each of us is made in the image of God — that each of us is endowed with unalienable rights.”

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

Well this seems like a fantastic plan.

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Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs.
Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

He should be our messenger.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

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Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

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BREAKING: President Biden has issued a new rule that will eliminate medical debt from credit reports.

Repost to spread the word!

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

If only there was a vaccine!

If only.

AOC is correct.

Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.

With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.

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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.

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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

—Louis Brandeis, Former Justice of the Supreme Court

Some doctors say a focus on profits is hurting health care in U.S. ERs A doctor fired after criticizing care at the ER he ran said execs are focused on the financial outcome, “and the outcome is ‘Hey, we’re making money.’”

My daughter is an ER Nurse. She’s worked with Dr. Brovant. He spoke out to protect patients, and was fired.

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Russian Intelligence Used Chinese Ship for Baltic Sabotage A Chinese vessel suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea acted under instructions from Russian intelligence

A Chinese vessel suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea acted under instructions from Russian intelligence

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I've been trying to spread the word:

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