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"American surrogacy is an enormous industry, taking in approximately $5 billion in 2024, and the practice is expected to explode globally almost tenfold in the next decade. It seems especially popular in Silicon Valley, where a growing cadre of investors and executives, from OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Dropbox’s Drew Houston, have used it to grow their families. More than a dozen big tech companies provide five-figure subsidies to any employee who needs or wants to outsource gestational labor. A shocking number of techies now believe growing a baby can be a straightforward business transaction."

This makes me so sick.

The woman is this article almost killed two women and couldn't care less, while she tries to ruin one of their lives. What a monstrous human.

this poor surrogate oh my god

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"Incarcerated people in New York State can now make phone calls free of charge, state officials announced on July 22. The initiative aims to prepare incarcerated individuals for successful reentry and community reintegration post-release, and advocates estimate it will save more than $13 million a year for roughly 30,000 New York families contacting their loved ones behind bars.

The policy kicked in on Aug. 1, making New York the sixth state to make prisoners’ phone calls free. Unlike other states, the change was not achieved through legislation but through an agreement between the state’s Corrections and Community Supervision Department and its telecom provider, Securus Technologies. The calls will be free of charge, whether via facility phones or tablets.

Under the new arrangement, New York’s corrections department will pay the provider 1.5 cents per minute for the calls, which is estimated to cost the department $9 million this year. New York’s inmates could previously access three free phone calls a week of up to 15 minutes, with each additional call costing 2.4 cents per minute — already the cheapest call rate in the country. 

The department noted that regular communication with support systems allows incarcerated people to plan for release with a forward-looking mindset, which includes securing housing and employment. Studies have found that more communication with loved ones decreases the rate of violent incidents in prison by roughly 20 percent.

The prison telecom complex is a $1.4 billion industry dominated by three providers owned by private equity firms, and the exorbitant call fees set by these corporations send one in three families into debt trying to stay in touch with loved ones, according to the advocacy group Worth Rises. In their efforts to rein in the costs, in 2021, Connecticut became the first state to make inmates’ phone calls free, with California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and Minnesota following suit. 

However, some telecom companies and their private equity backers found ways to gouge profits from prisoners and their families even in such states, The Lever previously reported. Last year, the Federal Communications Commission voted to lower the maximum prisoners can be charged for calls, but under the Trump administration, the agency suddenly delayed its implementation on June 30 — leaving many incarcerated people on the hook for expensive calls."

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We stand united against the government's desire to convict and execute a man in the name of fear and control, especially one so beloved by the people.

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not my toddler gaslighting me by insisting she can make her own lunch, and then using weaponized incompetence + white woman tears to manipulate me into doing everything for her when she "changed her mind". i work full time as a SAHP and can NOT handle this mental workload, we as a society need to have an open and honest discussion about lunch's role in the fathers' mental health crisis.

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I disagree with your premise here. Person A and Person B are targeting completely different and separate individuals. They're related, yes, but they are not the same people.

I think that makes a difference. If you believe that morality is subjective, as I do, and that killing can sometimes be justified, then it would not be inconsistent to say that the killing committed by Person A could be morally justified, while the response by Person B, which targets individuals whom it would not be justified to kill, is therefore unacceptable.

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Lol is this a joke? I support Luigi and don’t have sympathy for BT bc he’s responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, that doesn’t mean I think anyone should send death threats to his family members who are innocent and have done nothing wrong.

what i’m pointing out is their inconsistency in their moral. that’s why i put it in bold, her logic doesn’t make any sense. let’s set aside names for a second and think about this in a neutral way

like imagine:

• Person A kills someone, leaving a wife and kids without a husband/father.

• Person B doesn’t kill anyone, but later sends threatening messages to that grieving family, mocking their loss.

who has committed the worse act? person A or person B?

i think most people would say person A, bc killing is the ultimate harm: it’s irreversible and it creates the grief that the family will experience in the first place. threats are still cruel but they’re not worse than taking a life, right?

now, here is where the inconsistency is for me: calling “Person B” insane but supporting “Person A.” if u agree that killing is worse than threats, then it doesn’t make sense to condemn the one who made threats while defending the one who caused the death that made those threats possible. (whether you think it’s luigi or the adjuster) and if you can extend empathy to the family of the person who was killed (despite their connection to him) then why not extend that same moral reasoning to the act of killing itself, which is the greater harm?

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The fact that there is no memorial for the victim yet there are a ton of supportive stickers and graffiti for the suspect speaks volumes in itself. Outside the Hilton Midtown in New York.

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Updated animated bar chart of letters received by week by Luigi Mangione up to 2025-07-25.

MDC Brooklyn is still processing letters sent in December 2024 and January 2025. We are uncertain when this backlog will clear and progress to more recent months.

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Public support debunks prosecution claims about Luigi Mangione.

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if this was me people would be saying, "Luigi who?"

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whats annoying about the sydney sweeney ad controversy is that dumb culture wars are used to paint democrats in a bad light even tho no actual democrat politician is commenting on the matter. the right wing has effectively weaponized culture wars to their benefit by popularizing any random liberal/leftist outburst online (see matt walsh and ben shapiro using tiktok in their videos) and frame the entire democratic party as “crazy woke libtard who hate beauty.”

and this specifically works to influence apolitical ppl or ppl dont engage in politics (see swing voters) and those ppl see the entire democratic party as left wing. its why a lot of swing voters thought harris was “too” leftwing and ppl actually believe that democrats are communists/socialists (which ironic considering how much actual communists and socialists hate democrats). even ppl who immigrate to america view the democratic party as “too left wing” and vote republican bcuz they view them as “sensible ppl” due to all the anti dem propaganda that spreads online. and this been going on for at least decade (remeber the anti sjw compilations?)

conservatives can be confidently racist, be an incel, a nazi, or flat out be a pedo, and somehow the behavior of online conservatives that impact ppl’s views on the republican party. genuinely ridiculous how ppl get manipulated by ragebait culture wars and define their entire political opinion based on dumb media discourse.

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This is so beautifully expressed and I could not agree more. I feel exactly the same way.

I feel like Luigi did this out of empathy, because he cares a great deal about others. That's because it was in some ways an act of defense, defense against the social murder and violence of UnitedHealthcare (and the health insurance industry more broadly). He made a point and drew attention to this issue by doing it, but what's so unique and striking are his reasons for doing so: wanting to make a change and help people.

It is immensely frustrating that people have so much difficulty accepting complexities and nuances within him (and within us all). Do I believe he is a fundamentally good person? Absolutely. Do I believe he's capable of murder? Yes. These things can coexist.

Been thinking about some comments I have come across about Luigi and his innocence.

A lot of people see cute little videos, like the one we got today, and they leave comments similar to “he’s babygirl, he could never have done it” or they see a comment made by some that knew him and they have a similar reaction. My issue with this is that it implies that only a horrible human being could have been the adjuster, it’s a very black and white thinking, it’s also unrealistic.

I have been clear about where I stand, I think he did and what drew me to this case it’s the sentiment behind. Those alleged diary entries? yeah to me those make sense, I get it. I see a beautiful, probably haunted, soul that did what he did because he cared, I don’t see a monster.

These little crumbs we get only heighten the heartbreak and make me want to support him even more. I truly want this man to walk free, to heal, I want him to find happiness. There’s depth behind the act and it seems people want to erase it from the story.

The other thing that nags me is the way they correlated cuteness with innocence, does that mean that awkwardness and ugliness equals guilty, a monster, in their eyes?

My mind drifts back to Cyntoia Brown’s case, would they think she is a monster because she killed her abuser or would they claim she could never because she’s babygirl? Would they overlook her trauma and not understand that both sides can co-exist inside a person, that doing something like that doesn’t necessarily erase the sweet person and that they can still be that person from before but with some changes?

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I think for the past ten years or so, people have reduced patriarchy to "hatred of women" as if it's simply about personal prejudice. In that case it actually makes sense why so many women think the solution is educating people better. If the issue was just that women aren't liked then campaigns about "loving women" or "teach your sons to respect women" would work.

But patriarchy is not a misunderstanding it's a power structure. And all power structures are held up by those with the power benefiting, not those with power not "knowing better". Ending Patriarchy essentially means you are asking billions of people to give up their power, and the obvious response from people with power is "make me"

I don't expect Bezos to redistribute his wealth because I explained labour rights, so patriarchy isn't any different. You'll never give oppressors moral awakenings. The entire point of power structures is people benefiting from harm while being emotionally insulated from it.

Taking on the burden of making men understand just seems like emotional labour scaled up.

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Spotted in Gloria Molina Grand Park, Los Angeles over the 4th of July weekend. Dissent is patriotic.

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I'm so disappointed with The Economist reporting on Sweden's decision to ban OnlyFans content. Instead of acknowledging how it benefits women's rights, safety, and health, they regard Sweden as a "prudish" country.

Seriously, fuck off.

Good for Sweden, though. ❤️

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PA case update

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I'm tired of waiting for this man to croak. We need to start encouraging him to kill himself.

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misogyny existed before both white supremacy and capitalism