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Waurii
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Because there isn't one. Other than single-payer, all the alternatives are going to look like the ACA to the average voter.
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Comics, cactus, and canaries. Ok, maybe not canaries. Comics, cactus, and ravens.
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Waurii
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Because there isn't one. Other than single-payer, all the alternatives are going to look like the ACA to the average voter.
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Waurii
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SSI really does need to be updated, and it'd be nice if R politicians understood that; I suspect many of their constituents have a family member on SSI so fixing it should be a bipartisan issue.
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Waurii
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Agree!
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Waurii
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No problem. :)
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Waurii
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But politicians like to remain in power, so an informed electorate can keep the regulations and safety net in place. Definitely lots of room for improvement in the current US version, but the system itself is fairly stable.
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Waurii
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I think a lot about what happens when systems fail; or, with economic and political systems, what happens when the people in power are absurdly selfish. In a democracy with regulated capitalism and a safety net, powerful non-politicians will want to weaken both the regulations and safety net.
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Waurii
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Barbie Girl is a great song! (in small doses.) Also, that is a neat fundraising idea!
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Matthew Downhour
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Okay I know I keep pitching this outdated book but really it's good look at how this works in the media. Following a narrative is much, much easier than doing original reporting, and so they do that
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Waurii
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Unfortunately, I suspect they'd find a workaround, given a chance.
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Waurii
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Or there has been a change in who is answering polls, or a fraction of the people answering them are giving intentionally wrong answers. Hopefully the campaign's internal polling is more accurate.
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Waurii
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I bought a robocut and did it myself. I was happy with the results, but no one else was. 🤷🏼
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Joshua Erlich
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people keep telling me i'm wrong but any change to the ticket raises substantial litigation risk. i don't care if you think a pledged delegate can switch affiliations after the primary but before the convention and, more importantly, Sam Alito sure as hell doesn't care what you think.
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Waurii
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<reading what I wrote> I've turned into my dad.
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Sage 🏳️⚧️
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reposting with alt text
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מרדכי יצחק 🇺🇸🗽✡️🕎🥯HONEST LIBERAL
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news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Waurii
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Puppies. Definitely puppies. Kittens I can resist (barely, but allergies win), but I can't resist puppies. For non-live bait, books on obscure subjects, or maybe some albums from Windham Hill or with an organ on front, would definitely get me to take a closer look.
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Michael Paulauski
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I want people to internalize just how bad it was before the ACA. You might claim that the ACA was "worse than nothing", but those who went through hell before know just how much better off we are now.
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John Pfaff
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady
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Change in Headline
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Waurii
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So many other things the pundits need to be covering right now (SCOTUS, voter suppression, etc.) but this doesn't require any research and little effort, so...
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Jill Weinberger
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This is also a nice reminder that when conservatives say, "Judeo-Christian" they mean "Christian," because you know nobody at Project 2025, including the person who wrote "Judeo-Christian" below, means anything but Sunday when they talk about deciding what people can & should do on the Sabbath.
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Johanna Taylor @ JULY 23 👻📖
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I’ve said this before but if bears repeating: Your ‘best’ will look different day to day. Some days your best is getting your work done, and other days your best is getting up and putting on clothes. Be patient with your low days… the high days will come again. They always do. 🧡
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Waurii
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That might work with Maryland, but I suspect that Vermont has too strong cultural ties to want to split up.
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Waurii
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If were adjusting state borders, I'd start with the Trans-Pecos region of Texas (it is the region south of New Mexicol and west of the Pecos).
Most of its population is in a different time zone than the rest of Texas, and it is reasonably blue.
www.texastribune.org/2016/11/11/a...
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Jay Weixelbaum
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In sum, folks calling to replace Biden are both wrong on the cognitive science *and* the history. I get it. They're afraid. We're all worried. We often don't make smart choices when we're scared. Let's pause, take a breath, look at the science and expert analyses, instead.
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Waurii
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Of course Project 2025 goes with "let's bring back Blue laws" not "maybe we need a 3-day weekend".
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Carylanne Joubert Maier, B.A., M.A., B.S.
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Sea level rise has killed the last population of Key Largo tree cactus (P. millspaughii) "what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country" 🧪
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/firs...
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Waurii
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It is now mostly privately funded (only 4% of its budget was covered by the US government in 2019), but it is still owned by Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop), which is a nonprofit.
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Waurii
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I was fine pronouncing "rural" until I started to read. Brains are weird
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Raven Onthill
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"Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, we must do it."
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e.w. niedermeyer
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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.
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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)
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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast:
reactormag.com/the-avengers...
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Timothy Burke
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It was a common euphemism for Jews who marched with MLK and others
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Waurii
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Where does New Mexico fall in this? Is our southern border (with its add-on rectangles) irregular enough to be trusted?
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FaultyPussy🫦 (blocked by WaPo)
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any woman who has "slept her way to the top" actually worked in a situation where men withhold career progress until they recieve sexual favors
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Dantastic
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Peanuts October 1999 - The last football gag. #comics
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Waurii
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Nicolle Wallace? Surprisingly, she has been better at covering Trump/GOP nonsense than most of the reporters on there, imo. Had to turn her off today, though, because I will not watch any of that age nonsense.
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The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day
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Susan (George) Schorn
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the President signed into law:
H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act.” Can't you people even use Google? www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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Andrew Parker
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What’s the over/under on how long it takes for these ratfucking assholes to add a “correction” to the bottom of the article acknowledging the bill for Parkinson’s research as the much more likely explanation, but without changing the headline or lede?
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Waurii
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We really should be able to turn off entire categories of ads, or at least mute ads we don't want to see again.
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Micah
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France out here proving that actually you can tell the far right to go to hell even when it looks like they’re on track for a big victory are we going to let ourselves be shown up by the French?
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Waurii
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Honestly, I think it depends on the age and type of bumper sticker. As far as sanity goes, having 5 fun & non-political bumper stickers, of various ages, is not the same as having one brand new, (not so) vaguely threatening, pro-gun bumper sticker.
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Gabe Ortíz
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Taraji P. Henson “used her incredible platform to issue a warning and to repeat it again and again throughout the night: that a Donald Trump GOP win in November will undermine our fundamental rights.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Waurii
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I'm on the edge of town, and the nearest major street is still 4 lanes wide with a median, but has very little traffic; I think people go there to shoot fireworks. Which is good for fire safety, at least.
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Marisa Kabas
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a dead giveaway that project 2025 was written specifically for—and with input from—trump:
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Waurii
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I really dislike firework season. Finding time to take the dogs outside after it has started to cool down, but before the sky booms start, is difficult. (I just got the dogs inside and I'm already hearing fireworks. It isn't even dark, yet!)
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Waurii
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That makes sense. I'm from NM, and I don't think it is particularly common here.
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Waurii
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When I was a kid, Price Club (now Costco) sold laundry detergent in buckets, so we used those buckets. Trash bins and buckets are also easier to aim at, imo, than even the biggest mixing bowl.
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Waurii
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Is it really more pervasive there than the rest of the united states?
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