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LinkinApr 17, 2025
Helen BranswellApr 17, 2025
The US government is the single largest employer of veterans, people who've served their country at their own peril.
Some of these people are among those cast aside in the reductions in force layoffs.
An important but gut-wrenching read. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/17/fda-layoffs-personal-story-rif-federal-employee-veteran-on-life-after-layoff/
For an Air Force vet, an FDA layoff brings back symptoms of PTSD

For an Air Force veteran, an FDA layoff brings back symptoms of PTSD: "They say they care about us, then they cut us."

STAT
LinkinApr 17, 2025
LaffyApr 17, 2025

#ProLifeMyAss and holy crap

"A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to make the details public

A foodborne illness linked to lettuce ripped across 15 states last November, sickening dozens of people and killing one. But the federal government chose not to publicize it.

NBC News
LinkinApr 7, 2024
Mondoweiss 🇵🇸Mar 11, 2024

UN expert: Israel is engineering famine in Gaza

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/un-expert-israel-is-engineering-famine-in-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

UN expert: Israel is engineering famine in Gaza

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri says Israel’s intentional starvation of Gaza is unprecedented. “We’ve never seen a civilian population made to go hungry so completely and so quickly,” he tells Mondoweiss. “Never in modern history.”

Mondoweiss
Show threadLinkinFeb 22, 2024
@RickiTarr @Linkin that was a request. IMV, we corner ourselves rhetorically when we acquiesce to their framing; actual conservatism is the polar opposite of fascism. We’re being soft. They’re out for blood. So, again IMV, calling them conservatives is inaccurate to the point of gaslighting.
Show threadLinkinFeb 22, 2024
@RickiTarr please stop calling these fascists, “conservatives”.
LinkinFeb 22, 2024
Jay KuoFeb 22, 2024
The fact that they are coming for the prosecutors who are holding Trump to account tells us this: They are worried about his upcoming trials. And they should be. Today I look more closely at the first case likely up in Manhattan, brought by DA Alvin Bragg. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/theyre-coming-for-the-prosecutors?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
They’re Coming for the Prosecutors

The newest attack is, predictably, upon Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg.

The Status Kuo
LinkinFeb 6, 2024
Show threadTony, Pretty MuchFeb 6, 2024

@cynblogger @CivilityFan

“Well, I think that making it illegal to be trans is the goal.”

Yes. And they never stop with one group of people.

LinkinJan 29, 2024
Indivisible ❌👑Jan 29, 2024

Last year, you stepped up in a big way and helped win key state Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently ended one of the worst gerrymanders in the country. Now we have this huge ruling from Pennsylvania! https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/pa-supreme-court-overturns-law-prohibiting-medicaid-funding-for-most-abortions/

Pa. Supreme Court OKs Medicaid funding for abortion, overturns 1982 law

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday overturned a 42-year law that prohibited Medicaid from paying for most abortions, finding that the right to reproductive autonomy is fundamental. The ruling found that the 1982 Abortion Control Act, which prohibited Medicaid from paying for an abortion, is “presumptively unconstitutional” based on sex

TribLIVE.com
LinkinJan 29, 2024
Robert ReichJan 29, 2024

The price of Huggies diapers went up 6% between April- June 2023.

Inflation, right? Wrong.

Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies, reported that the cost to make its products fell by $75 million.They took the money and ran, banking $168 million in operating profits in Q3 2023.

Now, new research shows that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023. During the 40 years prior to the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.

LinkinDec 26, 2023
HeavenlyPossumDec 25, 2023

This Christmas, let’s all dedicate ourselves to Jesus’ example of:

- beating up finance bros

- shaming bigots and moralizing scolds

- having at least twelve friends as an adult

- feeding hungry people

- demanding the abolition of debts and redistribution of wealth to the poor