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[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

This is what privatized healthcare has gotten us.

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

They’re so painfully greedy

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

A California man caught covid at work. He infected his wife who ended up in ICU. So he sued his bosses. The largest lobbying group in the US got involved. The court ruled against the man because a victory would mean “dire financial consequences for employers.” Is it clear yet?🧵

[Lakyn Thee Stylist @OgLakyn]

Have you ever wondered where unsold clothes go?

This is Ghana.

[ericanders.bsky.social @MrEAnders]

Absolutely speechless that David Pogue, the CBS journalist who went on the missing Titanic sub last year, WITNESSED IT GET LOST FOR HOURS WITH NO LOCATOR BEACON AND DECIDED NOT TO MENTION THAT IN HIS REPORT

[Rey @reynbowss]

@dyeoxy @123chillto @therealpunt @DailyLoud uhhh i was definitely not aware wtf

[Rey @reynbowss]

um hello. this is my likeness but i did not authorize this/was never even contacted/you just grabbed this from one of my tiktoks? please don’t use me and my base to endorse your product??

[dev lemons @dev_lemons]

IF UR GOING TO A PROTEST PLEASE WATCH THIS IS IMPORTANT (@reynbowss)

[Eddie Izzard @eddieizzard]

As people may now well know, I have added the name ‘Suzy’ to my names. 

So going forward I am preferring Suzy but I don’t mind Eddie. 

And I prefer she/her but I don’t mind he/him. 

So no one can really get it wrong unless they call me Kenneth or Sabrina. 

I am remaining Eddie Izzard in public. 

Thank you. 

Suzy/Eddie.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

The first conversation I had with my oncologist, we were just talking about his experiences as a doctor (which...awesome, it was very good to get know him a bit) and I ended up asking if people ever decide to not follow his advice.

He said yes, and he looked very sad and then he told me that every single one of conversations are going to be with him forever.

What a very hard thing that must be...to have someone turn down your advice...to not get chemo, or exit the treatment early, only to come back and find that now the prognosis is much worse and the treatment plan much less clear.

It seemed to me that, at least in part, he felt his inability to keep them on the treatment path was a personal failure. I wish I could take that guilt away from him, because it's not his fault. We're all susceptible to simple stories that give us back a sense of control, even if it's an illusion. And sometimes people cannot be convinced...and sometimes that's deadly.

I'm very grateful that my worldview meshes well with the most effective paradigms. I didn't get that because I'm smart, I got it by the luck of my upbringing. And if ever a doctor tells you that you need chemo...there will almost certainly be people in your life who tell you that you should try alternatives instead.

You. Should. Not.

You can and should do acupuncture and restorative yoga and aromatherapy and eat less sugar and whatever other things help you. But do those things AND get the treatment recommended by your oncologist. Cancer patients have control, it's just a different kind of control than we're used to, and it can be disruptive to an identity to submit to that lack of control. But that's just...having a body, and I'm very happy that I get to have a body.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Senator, I have put together the chart showing the two variables you were trying to link.

[Kimberly Nguyen-Poet Laureate of Pay Transparency @knguyenpoetry]

My hot take is that Ch*tGPT is free right now because it needs you to feed it your stories, essays, and poems for free, and when it’s done taking all you have, they’ll put it all behind a paywall.

[Taylor @tayforpay]

Minnesota democrats and their one seat senate majority are embarrassing NY and massachusetts supermajorities daily at this point

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Seems like this might be worth addressing!

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣
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The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣
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"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣ My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me. It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣
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If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣
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That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣
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Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣
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And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣
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I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣
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I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣
And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣
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Your brother,⁣⁣
Luz"⁣⁣

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Remember when free speech was coded as right wing

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i found this really interesting

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

If trickle down economics actually worked we’d see an ever increasing middle class with thriving wages. Instead we have a shrinking middle class, starvation wages are the norm, and the top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 90% combined.