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65,000 Rape-Related Pregnancies in Anti-Choice States
They can't run from that number
https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/65000-rape-related-pregnancies-in?r=1cnb9h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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in So. Cal where I live there are lots of Teslas. Tesla drivers are by far the worst, having taken the mantle away from BMW drivers in the past few years. Now there's objective proof.
Analysis by online lender LendingTree shows Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1k drivers between Nov. 2022 and Nov 2023. Dodge Ram pickup truck drivers were a close second, at 22.76.
BMW drivers has the most DUIs, 3.13 per 1k drivers. Dodge Ram pickup truck drivers were 2nd, 1.72 per 1k drivers.

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The opening day of Indiana’s legislative session, Republican Rep. Joanna King filed a bill that would allow kids as young as 14 to effectively drop out of school following 8th grade and go to work full-time on a farm.

If the teenager “has been excused from compulsory school attendance after completing grade 8” and obtains their parents’ permission, they can work up to 40 hours a week all year round, including during school hours.

https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/indiana-bill-would-let-14-year-olds

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@Christo
It's already 1898 there. But legislator are shooting for much, earlier, more nostalgic time, like the 11th century. Thus the bill's number -- 1062.

The_Icarian, to tech
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The Great Enshittening isn't precipitated by a change in how greedy and callous corporate leaders are. Rather, the change is in what those greedy, callous corporate leaders can get away with.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

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In a note on the site published in December, the chief executive, Hamish McKenzie, said the firm “doesn’t like Nazis”, and wished “no one held these views”.

But he said the company did not think that censorship – by demonetising sites that publish extreme views – was a solution to the problem, and instead made it worse.

This is the twisted thinking of a tech bro who thinks his platform has writers captive.

End stage enshittificantion.

https://theicarian.substack.com/p/nazis-arent-the-only-reason-to-leave

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/substack-user-revolt-anti-censorship-stance-neo-nazis

The_Icarian,
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The Substack Nazi Führer furor has officially arrived in the MSM.

Tolerating Nazis is not acceptable Substack folks.

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@jeffowski Yes, please see the Upworthy post about the bartender who instantly kicks out Nazis. Let in a few who behave and they bring their friends and pretty soon the place is a Nazi bar.

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@jeffowski Yp. I linked to that on my Substack post about this issue.

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https://www.upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-kicks-nazis-out-of-his-punk-bar-even-if-theyre-not-bothering-anyone

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Creator of Godwin's Law Says It's OK—and Necessary—to Compare Trump to Hitler

"Those of us who hope to preserve our democratic institutions need to underscore the resemblance before we enter the twilight of American democracy."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/godwins-law-trump

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"If thou art a writer, write as if thy time were short, for it is short at the longest." —Henry David Thoreau

Happy solstice.
#solstice

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After Kate Cox Flees State, Texas Supreme Court Overturns Decision That Permitted Her Abortion, Fuck You Is Why
https://www.wonkette.com/p/after-kate-cox-flees-state-texas

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Brooklyn Wins Administrative Law Judge Decision Finding Amazon Unlawfully Retaliated Against Workers for Their Union Activities
https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/region-29-brooklyn-wins-administrative-law-judge-decision-finding-amazon

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Forget Twitter: Amazon search is the poster-child for enshittification, in which Amazon locks you in (for example, with a year's shipping prepaid through Prime) and then you get recommended worse products while sellers make less money and Amazon pockets the difference.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/29/aethelred-the-unready/#not-one-penny-for-tribute

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To me this remains the great mystery of the Biden administration: Why does the notoriously corrupt Louis DeJoy, a Trump crony who is systematically degrading the postal service for reasons of ideology and personal profit, still hold the job of Postmaster General?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/28/amazon-missed-mail-rural-towns/?wpisrc=nl_most

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@JamesGleick

I've wondered the same thing

I'm trying to track down an article that supposedly says only the USPO board can oust DeJoy.

Maybe someone else out there knows of this and can report back if this is true.

For the moment, I'm out of spoons for this one.

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Did Napoleon Bonaparte single handedly shape modern history? Ridley Scott’s new film fumbles for an answer.

'Napoleon' is currently showing in theaters.
https://progressive.org/latest/napoleon-review-retelling-great-man-theory-of-history-brinkhof-231122/

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@TheProgressive
I hope people realize this is fiction and has just about zero to do with actual history.

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"George Orwell predicted this

An onslaught of fake propaganda about a Niagara Falls car crash. Government officials trying to crush news orgs with investigations. Journalists killed at a record pace

Press freedom - and the truth - under attack."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.©...& I thread it. 1/... 🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/free-press-right-wing-authoritarianism-20231126.html#loaded

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@GottaLaff @willbunch
Expect this kind of crap to continue to grow. The MAGA types and their enablers have a fascist to elect president. This kind of stuff is just the warm up.

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The Great Enshittification: The ultimate dream of business combined with CONservative/fascist government.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

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Don't get killed on the job in Indiana. Your life is worth only $7K if your employer kills you. For Amazon, that's about a nanosecond of profit on any given day.
https://wapo.st/3N2y7Wu

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Content Warning - Don't look away. This is what unlimited gun rights look like. This is what allowing military-style weapons easier to obtain than adopting a dog or cat looks like.

This was brought to you by the NRA, the theocratic wing of SCOTUS and the GQP, wholly owned subsidiaries of Putin.

This is what their idea of freedom looks like. Does this look normal to you?
https://wapo.st/46pzeqc

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US companies push guns as blithely and murderously as they once did tobacco

Guns are used so often in suicide that if the left were associated with lax gun laws, the right might accuse liberals of conspiring to kill white men
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/02/us-gun-companies-suicide-homicide-laws-tobacco

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People Who Used Recalled #Philips Breathing Machines Face Painful Choices

The devices at their bedsides were lifelines, until they learned the foam inside could break down and make them sick.

Now, they’re plagued by illness, lost sleep and worry.

#CPAP #Recalls #Safety #Sleep #Health #HealthCare #Patients #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/nine-stories-of-people-impacted-by-philips-breathing-machine-recall?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The_Icarian,
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@ProPublica I have on of these POS CPAPs. Philips never contacted me. I found out about the issues with them from an article in WaPO.

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