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- "Doubles down on support for children"
- A republican proposal to scale back Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies will result in millions of Americans losing their health insurance
- I have had the option to subscribe directly to my newsletter, outside of Substack, since DAY ONE. *DAY ONE*. Shut the fuck up with ur sanctimonious bullshit. People like you don't actually want to support independent journalism, you want to farm engagement by manufacturing controversy online
- Stop using the Substack Nazi bar and I’ll consider it bsky.app/profile/angr...
- Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel.
- Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics, TikTok clout loop, Kai Cenat's next chapter, the "safest white boy", Minecraft marriages, group chat trauma, a MAHA-friendly food app, Altman's kitchen fails, & Silicon Valley's existential crisis- all in today's newsletter!
- This is infuriating to read
- Just a friendly reminder that our current Covid vaccines do not meaningfully prevent infection or transmission of Covid. Misleading the public about this fact led to massive distrust about vaccines and record vaccine hesitancy. It's SO crucial to make ppl aware of this fact to fight vax hesitancy
- Huge thanks to @equalityalec.bsky.social for joining me on this week's Power User podcast to chat about COPAGANDA and how the media pushes pro-police PR
- Reposted by Taylor LorenzExclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
- “We’re not telling Jewish people that they need to leave. We’re not trying to create a religious supremacist ethnostate. We want democracy. We want democracy from the river to the sea. That’s the [Hamas] position.”
