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Why wasn't it BIG tumb news when the HeLa court case got settled LAST YEAR. A significant part of modern medicine was a direct result of the stolen cells and the lack of compensation or settlement up until horrifyingly recently.

While i was in school this was still actively being fought. The audacity of the company to claim it was outside of the statute of limitations WHILE STILL BENEFITTING FROM IT IN THE ORDER OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS

Which luckily because of previous court precedents was already a null argument specifically because of them actively benefitting

The Lacks family says they may go after other companies that use the cells as well and i think they should

I hate how much of the medical system, not just the US but as a result worldwide. Is built on unremediated racism and many other prejudices that still permeate the medical systems at this very moment

This SHOULD have been a monumental occasion oh so high and mighty "be aware of racism" "fight for equity everywhere" tumblr. And yet i recall no boom in the topic within the week it was posted.

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Cuomo concedes and Zohran Mamdani declares victory. Nice.

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Black people in the U.S. are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime like murder than white people, according to a new report published Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations. The finding is based on an analysis of exonerations for serious crimes in the U.S. over the last four decades, which found that Black people make up less than 14% of the U.S. population but account for 53% of exonerations in the country.

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He bombs a nation on false pretenses, stops bombing and calls it a ceasefire, and now he wants a cookie

“Trump got into this because he was whipped up by Fox News and wanted in on the win. The actual operation was shaped by the fact that he’d gotten far out on a limb, threatening destruction, demanding unconditional surrender and he couldn’t do nothing without looking silly. He wanted the “win” but in a way that was circumscribed and completed on his own terms and by his choice. One and done. If it turns out the whole operation didn’t actually do that much damage, he’s in kind of a bind. Or maybe he can just pretend it accomplished a lot and move on.”

— Reality Intrudes. Maybe.

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You could give thousands of reasons to vote for Kamala Harris without mentioning Trump.

Trump got Elon to level the field.

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From Rebecca Solnit:

We the people.

We won the battle of showing up, the battle of caring, the battle of what the values of this country should be. Millions showed up--a million in Boston alone, people in many European cities (and one Irish Trump golf course), people in small towns and big cities, red states and blue (except they're all shades of purple), huge turnouts in many places. I was in transit home from book tour in Europe (and I could've only attended one if I had been here), but the sense I get from all the posts and reports is of good-humored, positive, energized massive crowds of people who found that the basics they had in common--the underlying meanings in No Kings--were plenty to come together, and so they did.

The Crowd Counting Consortium is very carefully methodical so we don't have their numbers and won't for a while but if it was a million in Boston and huge in NY, L.A., and Chicago, and so many smaller communities showed up strongly, it was BIG. It's a reminder that the administration can militarize and attack as they have in Los Angeles but they cannot control the entire population, and a significant percent of that population basically just said they don't plan to be subjugated, intimidated, or suppressed. The right of the people peaceably to assemble was beautifully exercised across the land.

The Parade to Please the President didn't please him that much, being poorly organized and poorly attended and full of, some say, intentionally lackluster performances, soldiers marching or rather stumbling and shuffling like prisoners, and at one point they played an instrumental of Creedence Clearwater's Fortunate Son:

Some folks are born made to wave the flag

Ooh, they're red, white and blue

And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"

Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no senator's son, son

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no fortunate one, no

G Elliott Morris

‪@gelliottmorris.com‬

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

https://bsky.app/profile/gelliottmorris.com/post/3lrnddl7bro2n

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Just tuned in to CNN talking about the “thousands” — not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, never mind millions — who turned out yesterday to protest Trump. I had already seen the pictures of protests around the country so I knew they were way off. This is how the media weakens democracy.

And yes, jetlag means I'm posting VERY early."

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republicans suck

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Iran’s parliament has voted to shut down the vital Hormuz shipping channel in retaliation against Donald Trump’s attack on the country, prompting fears of a sharp spike in oil prices that could cause a global recession.

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A fifth of the world’s oil consumption flows through the strait of Hormuz, which is a gateway out of the Persian Gulf. The vote, reported by Reuters, is not binding because the final decision rests with Iran’s supreme national security council. But analysts were already predicting an spike of up to $5 before the result of the vote was known.

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A prolonged closure could have huge knock-on effects for the global economy. An oil price shock would risk a period of high inflation, as motorists pay more for petrol and the cost of transporting goods soars.

22 June 2025

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When MAGA says 'didnt earn it' and fraud/waste/corruption, they gladly hire the least qualified turds.

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Keep track of the vocabulary, everyone.

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Oh that was me! My tag fake tweets means tweets from the fake president, not tweets that are fake

There's always a tweet (or in this case over a dozen).

One of Goebbles' maxims as Hitler's propaganda minister was, "Accuse the other side of that which you yourself are guilty of."

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There's always a tweet (or in this case over a dozen).

One of Goebbles' maxims as Hitler's propaganda minister was, "Accuse the other side of that which you yourself are guilty of."

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Too many of them are on board with it

Congress - do your job.

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ICE are a travesty. Insurrectionists with ski masks.

Using white villains, criminals, and lowlifes as an authority in an immigration context crystallizes conservative America.