I’m not totally clear on the economics of it, but I’m still somehow convinced that Trump reduced the schedule on marijuana to benefit investment bankers

The hate I get when I talk about my physical reaction to marijuana smoke. I’m not even saying people shouldn’t smoke. People HATE being told someone might be affected I’ve been up all night trying to catch my breath.

BBC News: 'I want my album to help people understand my ME' 'All proceeds from the album will go to the ME Association, a charity that provides research into the condition and support for people who have it.' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why don’t I see most quotes posts on this site

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Working on a very brief day-long campaign to remind Jews to take more pride in Paula Abdul as one of us So far it’s not even picking up steam on Threads, where everything picks up steam

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The exciting, edge-on-your-seat part of Long Covid is not knowing if this recent infection will put me out for another week or permanently lower my baseline leaving me alone in the dark unable to swallow The drama

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I was a big supporter of assisted dying until quite recently. While I still support it, the lack of safeguards politicians seem to think are important is truly disturbing. The Assisted Dying Bill in the UK for example has turned from a potential positive into a truly concerning piece of legislation.

Who is paying Matty Iglesias to fart

The ‘journalism’ here enrages me far more than the assholes exploiting the system. Natasha Dangoor, who writes with the skill & sensitivity of a bratty 9 year old nepo baby, sees no gradations of ambulatory ability b/w Olympic sprinter & double leg amputee. Girl, disability can happen to you too.

What he said was shitty but I think a lot of people shocked at what he said may not know the realities some disabled people face when considering marriage.

A federal judge nominee admitted today that he said during a sermon that disabled people shouldn't get married. As I wrote for @motherjones.com, in fact, many can't out of risk of losing their benefits. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Did you know the show "All Her Fault" only seems like a typical crime mystery, but it's actually a deep study on disability and ableism????? AND IT'S PRETTY GOOD ON THAT! I talk about it here. I'm also launching a podcast on disability and media so plz follow on TT! www.tiktok.com/@bubblepeopl...

Covid has been so brutal and massive in its scale that Long Covid was identified months in. People were losing hair, teeth, memories, unable to go upstairs without collapsing, with purple limbs. Months in! massive scale. The propaganda effort to deny this was almost as fast.

Seems like the people who say “you’re not a real Jew if you’re not a Zionist, we don’t want you” have a problem with Judaism and Jewish law, which defines a Jew by birth. Maybe they should go start another religion.

i wonder what this totally brave soul is doing right now

What is it about white male reporters that they can’t take criticism but then expect everyone to work for them for free so they get less of it

Ben Smith hired Benny Jones but was in my DMS asking for free advice and reporting on racism ….. Them ‘10’s was a wild time And in that time uhh imma need folks to recognize what “progressives” meant and what we were upset about

What touches me about the Rob Reiner story is that there are parents who are willing to sacrifice their comfort to help even the most troubled of kids, even if they know it’s risky for them.

Okay wait guys threads is the fun site now

I will need proof that potato chips aren’t medicine

Some types of music they need to start making again: - 1970s era power ballads that also sound like Broadway - 1920s high falsetto songs about bluebirds and blackbirds - 1980s eurodance but not just the beats also the dark mood - En Vogue

They're still making sitcoms where they pretend it's a documentary. I'm at a loss. A LOSS.

Having been around a minute, the same types of people that were calling out narcissistic abuse everywhere, with no nuance, 20 years ago are now calling out the use of the phrase now, with no nuance.

Donald Trump's rant about Rob Reiner raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.

Mask opponents call us hypochondriacs but they will express panic about the prospect of breathing back in their own germs in their own mouth.

The biggest flaw for me with Gen Z discourse is an inherent lack of ironic distance between words and meanings, which created subversion in the last two generations. Like “your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25” could be a funny thing to say but they think it’s science

I’d like to make an argument for “Stand By Me” as Ron Reiner’s best movie. Middle school and those friendships is such a specific and intense time that I’ve never seen represented before in that way. I realize there’s huge competition.

"With almost every disaster, we can find stories of disabled people who perished or experienced harm because emergency response systems were designed around the assumption that everyone in the community can see, hear, stand in long lines, drive, etc." – @angelafrederick.bsky.social

I interviewed @angelafrederick.bsky.social about her book Disabled Power, which details the extreme challenges disabled people faced when part of the Texas power grid failed during Winter Storm Uri in 2021, at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW ARTICLE: In which I look back at the women that sold their souls (and, in many cases, their bodies) to Biden's efforts to minimize Covid. And I propose a fifth wave of feminism in which we all stop doing this for men. justinebarron.substack.com/p/bidens-han...

Reminder that #MEAction has crisis resources here: www.meaction.net/crisis-resou... This is not meant to substitute for an ethical healthcare system but just as a reminder that we keep this list up to date for whoever, whenever they may want or need it.

I feel like this new piece from @jewstein3000.bsky.social is a good companion to the Bad Press episode of Public Health is Dead. "Biden’s Handmaidens: Is it surprising that the women on the frontlines of Biden’s effort to minimize Covid are not all doing that well, physically?" #COVIDIsNotOver

ICYMI: I'm pissing off Democrats with my new story about how the women who promoted Biden's Covid agenda are not doing well physically! justinebarron.substack.com/p/bidens-han...

Anyway...the thing about trying to weaponise psychiatric stigma against powerful people is that it doesn't work because when you're sufficiently privileged mental illness is exculpatory rather than discrediting.

This is one of the best synopses of Symptoms Syndrome I've ever read 😭

NEW ARTICLE: In which I look back at the women that sold their souls (and, in many cases, their bodies) to Biden's efforts to minimize Covid. And I propose a fifth wave of feminism in which we all stop doing this for men. justinebarron.substack.com/p/bidens-han...

me 🤝 Trump Taking 3 cognitive tests in one year

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It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.

I keep auditioning therapists and they keep failing AMA

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

South Florida is still purple

“What about those who are isolated? Those who are in hospital or managing a chronic health condition or disability that means they can’t participate in the world in the same way as other teenagers their age?”

Super disappointing to see the @baltimorebeat.bsky.social continue to describe Covid in the past tense, even after the EIC Lisa Snowden insisted publicly on Twitter that she didn't believe Covid was over. I don't know how to reconcile this with the Beat's mission statement to support the disabled.

The traffic

I'm very attractive (to mosquitos, who love to eat me up, and then I break out into a rash bc I'm allergic to their bites, and I can't use any repellent bc I'm allergic to that too)

This is bad but I actually laughed out loud (not in enjoyment)