My Boomer devout Mormon mother, who was a lifelong Republican before voting for Biden, told me today that the Democrats shouldn't budge on the shutdown w/o major GOP concessions. Things may feel hopeless sometimes, but the unlikely Dem coalition that continues to emerge can prevail. Hold the line!

Here’s some Alex Russell Flint art to make your Wednesday a little better.

Yet again, someone who stays up for multiple nights in a row, slipping into mania while the chatbot does nothing to disengage. The easiest safeguard to add, and it seems none of these companies have cared enough to try.

Pro life amiright 🫠 BTW federal laws require ERs to treat and stabilize patients in medical emergencies regardless of their ability to pay.

The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin

do not use chatbots. do not let your loved ones use chatbots. holy shit.

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

impossible to describe how heartbreaking this story is. these chatbots are fundamentally inhuman, and will cause incalculable damage until they are stopped by regulations or social recognition of the foundational lies re: their actual capabilities and the very real societal and environmental costs

Things that could defeat Stephen miller: A light breeze An 80 degree day A hairbrush Most middle school girls A pony Hot salsa A group of people speaking anything other than English about him

As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.

Amazing that the GOP is simultaneously always in lockstep on Trump messaging, but always seems to miss the latest speech or Truth Social post when it suits them.

“If you’re a federal worker, veteran, or a family impacted by this shutdown —get resources protections and support here: response.maryland.gov/federalpubli...

Wes Moore: “A prerequisite to keeping the government open should not be cutting people off of healthcare. My message to President Trump is clear. Stop this shutdown. You’re the one causing it. We’re the ones dealing with it.”

Gov. Wes Moore: "A prerequisite for keeping the government open should not be forcing people to have their healthcare premiums jump...My message to President Trump is clear: stop this shutdown. You're the one causing it. We're the ones dealing with it."

‘President Trump is signing a historic executive order to end childhood cancer‘ How? You defunded the research, remember? Just another toothless EO that everyone acts like it’s law. It’s not.

20+ million Americans depend on the ACA. Another 70 million use Medicaid. Trump is lying, Democrats are fighting for Americans. That said, anyone who lives and works here also deserves health care, it’s a win win for personal AND public health.

Married to a cancer researcher and physician. Uh, Mango Mussolini and his army of tech bros have decided that AI is going to cure cancer. It’s not. The idea is completely laughable, but here we are. You know who could cure cancer? The researchers who just had all of their funding cut. #medsky

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Undocumented immigrants cannot purchase health care thru the ACA. There’s also ZERO good reason we have any undocumented immigrants in our country. We could easily provide documented paths to living and working here.

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Johnson expressing glee over the shutdown revealing why the gop didn’t bother negotiating with democrats to fund America’s hospitals.

The only one out of the top 10 identified by PEN America not on the FBOE’s list of 55 is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. That said, over the last four years, we have seen that title challenged in over 25 of Florida’s 67 districts.

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Shut it down open.spotify.com/track/7zssIY...

My 18 year old daughter started a job at sports gear store. She's the only girl. Her first day, he male co-worker said "do you even know anything about sports? What's a point guard in basketball? Who's the best 3 point shooter in history?" Boys & men, please don't do this. 😒

Fixed: BREAKING: Republicans vote down a Democratic proposals to save healthcare and to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days. Mike Johnson voted “no” on that. They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

Winter is approaching and I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. The Chicago winter has broken the spirits of many. I want to lug around a big ol blanket and call it clothes. I am prioritizing comfort this year and that means wearing a comforter to work.

“Don’t be fat, bullying is ok again, buy my book”

Something that stood out to me: the constant DOGE cuts to the federal workforce kind of inoculated Democrats to Trump’s threats of laying off the federal workforce. “I mean, they got rid of department education,” Ruben Gallego said “whether we pass this or not, he's gonna fire whoever he wants.”

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

The Anti-Defamation League? You’re an organization opposed to extremism, especially antisemitism, yes? That’s right. And what info did you take down? A “glossary of extremism” we put together. Why’d you take it down? Some extremists told us we should. We made an antisemite they like sound bad.

“When you view the military’s purpose as just about going out guns blazing and killing people, then you might think, well, you don’t need diversity to just go out and kill people. But you do need diversity if what you really need to do is problem-solve.” - @rebeccabestir.bsky.social

If we're doing "who could've known it'd be this bad?," I'd put my record up against anyone's. But if someone specifically predicted the new Trump admin bringing in a handful of 20-something computer operatives to do what was basically a major cyberattack on the United States, a big hat tip to them.

Message to my haters.

So DOJ went to a federal grand jury and failed. Rather than giving up, they went to a local DC grand jury (possible due to DC’s status) on the same charge, and that grand jury indicted. Now DOJ is trying to move the case *back* to federal court. The judge is like… that doesn’t seem legal, brief it.

New favorite t-shirt.

september 30 ... october 1

Hegseth’s warrior peacocking is simply disgusting. You want to see a warrior? This man landed at Anzio to kill fascism and anyone who defended it. Then he came home, married my grandma (who died this week at 101), and never touched a gun again. As a great poet once said, be a simple kind of man.

if the government doesn’t show up for ten minutes we all get the day off

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

how to talk about a show you’re enjoying on bluesky: step 1: mention that you just started a show and that you’re enjoying it/the story/the characters step 2: someone will spoil the ending in your comments this service is free, can you believe it?

big announcement for the hoes and freaks

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors