“When I realized I wasn’t going to be allowed to leave, I slid onto the floor, thinking they would have to call an ambulance to help me up, They didn’t.” From @inthesetimes.com, a frightening vision of the future of long-term care in America:

A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.” Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

The sooner we accept that this is Hitler Youth for 21st Century America, the better. This is how you indoctrinate people.

The DSA and a dozen other lefty groups should sue, demanding that they too be given state money to establish organizations in every school in Texas

One thing I think about a lot is that when I was born in 1981, more than 80% of full-time workers at large employers had a pension. Now just about everyone is on their own for retirement savings. It's worked out okay for those of us who can dump a lot in defined-contribution plans though.

Political reforms which would set us on a path towards a new system which don’t require a constitutional amendment: - Proportional representation in the House with RCV in the Senate - Expanding the Supreme Court and limiting its power - Abolishing the filibuster - Adding DC and PR as states

tonight while recording a guest spot on a podcast i experienced an unacceptable level of disrespect from one of the hosts. so i decided to do what felt right for me and i left. i didn’t need to stick around to show i’m “tough” or “thick skinned.” i reminded myself that no one is owed my time.

I lost my job, there are no toys on the shelves, and the only hospital within 100 miles of my house just closed. But at least I know that now there won't be any non-binary characters on Paw Patrol.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed Missouri Republicans’ attempt to stop voters from pursuing a referendum against the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Reading this in the South Park "Rob Schneider IS... a carrot!!" voice

jingle horses need a union

Me: Damn, it's cold out Jim, the guy who got to first base with a witch: You know what it reminds me of Me (sighs): What does it remind you of, Jim

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

oh look out guys we got @ActuallyItsTechnicallyEphebophilia1488 here to give us his expert opinion on the nuances of pedophilia

the guy responsible for giving us george santos is running for governor of new york lmaoooooo

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

Always has been

When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it. No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.

This could be Trump if we vote in some Dems with fucking balls

Seconds ago, an email arrived from the White House saying: "First Lady Melania Trump Calls for Love During the Holiday Season" Nope, not making this up. If "love" is really what the White House wants, then: - Stop separating families - Stop murdering people in boats - Stop executing prisoners

If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.

It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein. www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...

Feel like Dem candidates for POTUS should start—today—saying that they will bring the wrath of a reinvigorated FTC (and DOJ?) down on all these shady, corrupt deals, break up all the oligarchic monopolies (you know what I mean) Trump is creating to line his pockets.

Dems could run a national campaign on the corruption of this far right Supreme Court majority and their commitment to dictatorship and dystopian monarchy But their only message they can muster is “we aren’t Trump” Absolutely horrible political strategy

appreciate Kagan saying 'when I was a young lawyer and the unitary executive theory was getting its start--' it gets absolutely lost that all of this 'this is how things are done, have been done, must be done' yadda yadda bullshit is *brand new bullshit* none of this shit is set in stone

Staggering that the devs have been getting shit on for like three months for not having a comms team and their brilliant strategy to fix this problem is “make the uncharismatic guy everyone hates who liked barely legal teen porn post more”. Untold levels of “we don’t want to be a serious company”.

New York narcotics officers raided Alberta Spruill’s home, shattering her door and detonating a flash grenade. Spruill, a 57-year-old city worker, went into cardiac arrest and died two hours later.

BUT I am still not done. There is also a group of people who don't have a fucking clue how threading works, and I swear to the baby Jesus wailing in his manger that 15% of the terrible posts would go away if people just understood WTF a thread was. *sucks in a breath*

Where are all those guys who promised me that no one would ever follow an illegal order?

There's racist, and then there's "so fucking racist you completely fuck up infrastructure for centuries because who's going to tear down and rebuild dozens of bridges that you built low in order to prevent African Americans from going to the beach on buses." Fuck Robert Moses. 🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻

EFF has long warned about police use of facial recognition technology. Now we're seeing exactly what we feared: Axon is testing this tech in body-worn cameras. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

I predict he'll try and stay ali- in the flight, so we will have to murder him from the sky

If immigrants had a negative effect on communities, ICE would be welcomed everywhere instead of surrounded by whistle-blowing normies.

The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.

i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Who has made this 🤣

Newsom's morality is his problem. So the only case for him is that "HE CAN WIN." Much of this lies in his white male bland handsomeness. Centrists think that solves Dems' "cultural issues." What this gets wrong is that 2028 must be about corruption. And he's on the opposite side of that.

also we are now in a place where rather than deny obvious quid pro quos the president is loudly crashing out online when someone does not provide the quo, so that’s fun

Perfect

Remember after his first admin ended we found out the White House pharmacy was pumping out amphetamines and highly controlled substances like they were candy? Do we actually think things are better now? White House pharmacist whistleblower where you at.

The Trump regime is currently firing immigration court judges who aren’t harsh enough. At least 98 of the roughly 700 judges have been fired so far. Trump’s goons have the power to do that because these “judges” are part of the executive branch. The U.S. system is a joke.

More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor. It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.

We told you it wouldn’t stop with immigrants. ICE has shot a US citizen. They’ve detained over 170 citizens. What do you think will happen to those on the list?

id vote for the somebody with the stones to say we need to be culturally abnormal because the culture is not working for everybody instead of governor nosy neighbor from the addams family over here sitting like a dork in his slippery bottom rich twat shoes

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Also, I hope people sue the BOP into oblivion. I am well aware of the PLRA. But when you have x-ray techs shunted into guard duty, need to beg for food when the whole prison is days away from nothing, and tell women to use socks for feminine hygiene, judges might start letting those §1983 cases in.