can't wait for Mike Johnson to come out tomorrow and say he hasn't seen the pictures of the white house and doesn't know a thing about it

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

I need ideas and advice. I’m a full-time freelance writer. What orgs could I join to potentially acquire group health insurance or beneficial ACA rates? Very worried about next year.

Space rock updates for the northern hemisphere! New moon sky, plus Orionids peak tonight mean that a venture out to darker skies will result in excellent shooting star viewing. There are also two new comets (discovered earlier this year) that will have their highest visibility tonight. Cont.

If you want a deep dive into the background and operations of the Alt National Park Service, I highly recommend this banger of a video by @adenng.com. And Aden did what I couldn't: he found AltNPS's likely t-shirt distributor, and got us a much better idea of how much money the account is making.

I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.

To whoever shared my sapphic, cannibal mermaid horrormance: thank you! I hope your beverages are the perfect temperature today! I've been struggling to do book marketing lately due to the state of things and waking up to a bunch of unexpected sales really made my day 💖 📚 tinyurl.com/sh-swim 💜😱 🌈💜

This is so important.

I thought Grijalva could get a judge to swear her in if Johnson continues to refuse to do his job. Why doesn't she use all available options to subvert the Republicants?

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Subscribe to this list 👇 and preemptively block the GOP .gov accounts who have suddenly appeared over here en masse - before they can screenshot and hassle you here and/or elsewhere: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

McSweeney's is often funny. In this case, it's a gut punch of heavily documented truth. Click the links and share them with any politician who claims these were kids, or that the rot doesn't start at the top. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

Please help, folks. That storm was devastating. Wrecked our roof, and we're so much further away. The folks hit in Alaska were hit so hard, and really need help.

I shortened the sleeves on my boyfriend's jacket. They're not perfect, but I'm still proud of myself.

I hate that the washing machine in this rental doesn't have a soak setting. If I leave it sit too long (~15 minutes <>), it drains, which is a waste of water.

Does anyone know any Welsh or German children's book authors?

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READ THIS THREAD I'M DYING

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

it's finally time to put my tank tops and summer clothes away and bring out the flannels and chunky sweaters. I'm ready for cozy clothes.

We are literally waiting on the cdc to tell us what bugs some patients have and now they just won’t. So some people in hospitals are gonna die cause of this. That’s all there is to it.

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I do not understand how Amazon routes their deliveries. the delivery driver was literally down the block a few minutes ago. three stops away. and now they're a mile away. he was right there! how are they supposed to make their delivery quota when they're routed so horribly?

Hey Team #Greensboro, ICE has been reported in the city but locations are spotty and I don't have Facebook, so if you do, please check. Looks like they might be setting up shop in town.

I truly wish this were an option. I want to be able to do this and not worry about paying rent or buying food. there are so many things I want to do but lack the free time and energy to do them.

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From the criminal complaint against one of the defendants charged in vandalizing the New York Times building this past July Transit card used as surveillance tech (cc @stopspyingny.bsky.social)

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I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Timeline cleanser 🐈

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

Mine had gotten turned off too - definitely check!

The mainline Protestants are all correctly pointing out to me that the rapture is specifically *evangelical* Protestant nonsense so to make amends here is an Episcopal priest explaining why the rapture is nonsense.

yay! Kaiser socal had COVID and flu shots available. I went to do the drive thru clinic, but the line of cars was really long. I went in to do my pharmacy stuff, and there was a table near the pharmacy that was also doing COVID and flu shots but without a line!

Since we first advertised these postdoctoral positions, the project looking at political violence in democracies has unfortunately become even timelier. Apply now to join this important project led by distinguished Professor @hannefjelde.bsky.social. Apply by 1 October: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

my first attempt at stuffed artichoke

Fuck them all.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

what is happening in Van Nuys‽ driving home from Costco and there's at least 6 cop cars sped past with sirens and lights

I come on here almost daily now hoping for a miracle. Then get anxious from 🤷🏻‍♀️ everything.

I'm annoyed that Kaiser still doesn't have the COVID vaccine. I plan on getting both it and the flu vaccine at the same time, but their plan right now is to wait until both the CDC and FDA have done their thing. With how things are, will it even be distributed by Kaiser? an estimate at least

I wish there was more national attention being paid to this green card holder being abducted by ice. Her court date is Friday. abc7.com/amp/post/stu...

I have been crying laughing 😂 at this www.instagram.com/reel/DLitJco...

Maryland folks, can you give this a boost