Spinoza out here taking strays wtf

This is why you can’t use ED diagnoses to decide whether to pay for the visit. Going into the visit, you don’t know if it’s something terrible or something self-limited/benign. You need the visit and all the provided care to distinguish. It’s bad faith by the insurance co and should not be allowed.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

No particular reason

“This is a moment we will look back on. A turning point, if you will.” I will not, NPR.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Did you guys see this delightful story? Local woman talks to Emma Thompson to teach her the Minnesota accent. She sounds exactly like you would expect while saying she doesn’t really have an accent. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Little snoozy chubby belly guy

Interventions like puberty blockers are completely reversible though. And the forms of surgery that are less reversible almost never happen for kids. This is just complete fucking garbage

Success! Han caught the fluffy thing!

“In my opinion, we lose 300K plus a year to fentanyl” There were 48K deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl in 2024. None of them would have been prevented by extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Is this the personal liberties or the free markets

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

just learned that one of the people in the feminist caucus meeting objected to a rule change that would allow delegates to say their pronouns without being out of order because "it would alienate rural Minnesotans" and what are we even fucking doing. Stop assuming rural = ignorant or bigoted.

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

Cannot be stressed how even in the face of the overt authoritarian takeover of American democracy itself, the Liberal punditry in this country would rather let it all collapse then admit they were wrong and their bad ideas caused this, because that might personally affect their power and income.

I just became full professor at my alma mater #fullcircle #Blackmedsky

Behaviores Report: 95% Goode 5% so_called "vishus attak' of momb while she waz in bed. Waz RAeLLY just a goode grate game of footblamkits butt she didnot wantu play atthattime

I watched the livestream of Farm Aid all afternoon/evening/night. When he sang Long Walk Home, I sat in my bed and wept. That was an amazing set

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

Damn, Neil Young. 😭😭🤘🤘

JUST IN: The law, opposed by police organizations, was aimed by lawmakers at immigration agents and will test state powers over the conduct of federal officials.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

I could not convince my phone to focus on the spider. She is huge!

Dear gestapo trash:

Just hovering his leg up in the air. Doesn’t look restful to me, but what do I know?

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

Jordan will be mad at you if you don’t rank @dewayneforminneapolis.com and I promise you don’t want that.

Just met a very excited fan on Hennepin Ave who has nailed my demographic: "My dad's one of your biggest fans. You and David Brauer. He lives in Kingfield. He's constantly sending me bluesky posts from you and David Brauer in the family group chat. That and Onion articles."

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

frey for columbia heights mayor sure

Big shout out to my new garbage man for coming up with the most garbled version of my name I’ve ever seen

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Medicare Advantage plans practice of upcoding severity of patient conditions resulting in higher payments. “UnitedHealth Group is more aggressive in coding than any of the other five largest insurers.” @startribune.com #healthpolicy tinyurl.com/yc73astw

Free open to all!! Listen to the expert @sarahgollust.bsky.social!!

Han wishes you a very grumpy Caturday.

This Caturday, find yourself a cozy basket to lay in

Happy Caturday from Chewbacca. I saved these pictures from last night when he was feeling extra loving.

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.

To be totally clear: the “closely spaced admins” is about two *COVID shots* close together. Remember back in the beginning we were getting two COVID shots a few weeks apart as a primary series. The current recommendation for most people who have never gotten vaxed is just one Pfizer or Moderna.

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