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KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
right questions. Ken Burns pushes American Exceptionalism on us & most gleefully receive it. There is still no reckoning with the worst this nation has done to certain groups of people beginning with the arrival of Europeans.
I can't watch Ken Burns. His documentaries give me the ick. I ick I felt in the middle 70s when Manifest Destiny was being taught to elementary school children as something good. I remember going home & unburdening myself to my parents. They said I was correct to be discomforted & was asking the
Again, can you imagine if a writer of color, a Black reporter specifically, did what Olivia Nuzzi did, what would happen to her career?
Would she be rehabilitated in less than a year? Hired by Vanity Fair? Given a book deal? A NYT puff piece?
It's a big club and we ain't in it.
The number of single mothers over 30 has risen 140% in 3 decades. They're more likely to have full-time jobs, more education and earn more, which has given them agency, even if they haven't found a male partner. www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women...
I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.
I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.
Trigger warning.⚠️
Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…
and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
The tree has been up for exactly 3 mins
Birds of a feather flock together.
Misuse of SSA data, too. www.wired.com/story/social...
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-un-official-decries-resolution-backing-gaza-force-colonial-outrage
<article data-history-node-id="431617" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-un-official-decries-resolution-backing-gaza-force-colonial-outrage" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ex-un-official-decries-resolution-backing-gaza-force-colonial-outrage" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A former senior UN human rights official has denounced the Security Council’s adoption of a resolution backing a US plan for foreign forces and governance in Gaza, calling it a “colonial outrage”.</p> <p>Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), described the vote as a “day of shame” for the UN and accused governments worldwide of being “on their knees before the US empire and its violent Israeli client”.</p> <p>He criticised the "horrific" resolution as a violation of international law.</p> <p>“This proposal has been rejected by Palestinian civil society and factions, as well as by defenders of human rights and international law everywhere,” Mokhiber said on X.</p> <p>He concluded: “The struggle for Palestinian freedom will continue undeterred.”</p> <h3>Read more: <a aria-label="Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage'" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-un-official-slams-security-council-adoption-trump-gaza-plan-colonial-outrage">Ex-UN official decries resolution backing Gaza force as 'colonial outrage'</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/063_2246644332%20%281%29.jpg.jpg?itok=qrKxanZu"></p> </div> </div> </article>
