man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.

Yeah this fsa deal is gonna be even worse than the cobra subsidy in 2021. Which was bad if you don't recall www.sicknote.co/p/the-cobra-...

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

The fucking inability of Dems to capitalize on “he cut cancer research to bail out Argentina” is infuriating.

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

the hard line of 'racism is not part of any conversation' is the very minimum to maintain to have a civilized order, and the reactionary centrists are among the biggest quislings around when it comes to that.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.

"Private" schools are a fiction and menace, they are all frauds built upon the persistent theft of public funds and resources intended for the benefit of children. It is the duty of all good and moral people to work towards the complete destruction of private schools.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Their daughter can't use the right bathroom IN THEIR OWN STORE! Where's their 'parent's rights' motherfuckers? This is who your Democratic leaders are encouraging with their 'broader tent' bullshit. Fuck this shithole country. and fuck the Democratic Party fascists too Fix your hearts or die!

Kitty

Out: Tech guys “reinventing” concepts like “a bus” or “having friendships” as their own monetized genius idea In: tech guy giving himself ChatGPT psychosis and reinventing the idea of “gangstalking” with himself as the targeted individual

The Chemical Safety Board has an annual budget <$15 million and with that produces gold-standard failure analyses that can be extended across industries. Only reason to get rid of it is if you genuinely want more billion-dollar disasters that kill and maim blue collar workers.

again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon.

(shares appreciated) (urgent) due to circumstances out of my control, my moving plans for august had to be canceled. i have no place to go in chicago, & i am stuck in texas for the time being. i can stay with my parents, but several transphobic laws come into effect in september

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Think about what it says to talk about a 67 year old, even leaving aside how awful he is, as “the future” of anything. Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.

the 2016 NC bathroom bill cost the state 400 million dollars & was called the most anti-LGBT law in the US. president obama called for its repeal. by 2021, state-level trans bigotry was so normalized that trans people started to lose everything from bathroom to healthcare access in 24 states.

"It is, essentially, identity politics, in the derogatory sense in which critics of identity politics often use the term. The most important thing about Cuomo is who he is against—the left—and what he signals, not what he has done or would do." slate.com/news-and-pol...

i'd apologise for this but i'm not actually sorry #1000xResist

today we give thanks to Gabumon, who long ago digi-died for our digi-sins 🙏

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

So fucked that I lost a job (and am struggling to get a new one) bc of a year-plus-long harassment campaign. I am a human being. Not having health insurance is scary, moving apartments in the midst of all of this is a huge financial strain.

traumatised queer teen with moral OCD: i'm a terrible person. i'm ontologically evil and i don't deserve to live guy who every new employee is quietly warned about: i am the only one with the moral fortitude to Tell It How It Is. i am a Hero, i am Saving The World, the Allegations are all False™

This should be enough evidence to destroy the entire company

so, stephanie turner—the fencer who took a knee & went on a media tour about it—cost a trans girl the chance to participate in society & did it for $5,000 cash, in addition to, i assume, paid speaking gigs with folks like riley gaines. this is grifting. turner is a grifter. also a garbage person.

this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff. just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.

Shout out to the quants who bet long at 10am and lost their yearly bonus

Sorry to the 43k coal miners but americans' politicians caring about coal mining is deeply unserious. There's 4 million home health aides who are treated like shit and under paid. Dems should focus on labor jobs that are real.

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

embezzlement and fraud are real crimes that should have real consequences and the world would be a much better place if everyone actually upheld that

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

dont worry fellas, The Cathedral is in there, somewhere. you gotta just look harder. your whole life hasnt been a lie, that be crazy

My brand is "ally to those more interesting than I am"

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This would make my life unbearable. This is just eugenics.

Seeing a blatant fascist dismantling and takeover of the government and using it as an opportunity to mostly complain about the left or throw trans people under the bus means you're helping them. No other way to slice it.

A horrific story: A 22-year-old died from an asthma attack after his inhaler jumped from $66 to $539—out of reach when his insurance, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, stopped covering it. He struggled to breathe for five days before collapsing. The cruelty of our healthcare system knows no bounds.

a bunch of east coast journalists got too rattled by having female employees complain about ass grabbing and in response they smugly tilted the entire board not just toward fascism, but to the stupidest motherfuckers in the room