Litmus test: They’ve been warned by the best of the best. Let’s see if they stay loyal to Trump.

Don’t forget, also the left wants to kill all the cows.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

As someone who has lost a loved one to Huntington’s Disease, I am SO thrilled by this! Also, this novel microRNA helps by targeting mRNA. I guess it’s a good thing their current US trials aren’t funded by the NIH?

This is the first of so many crimes Trump’s supporters choose to ignore.

Mmmmm peanut butter pickle bacon burger

My mom sent me a few sansevieria pups. Just a few. The three whale fin in the blue pot in the first pic, plus the ones in the far background, were already mine. The rest are new! #plantsky #houseplantsky #sansevieria #motherinlawstongue #snakeplant

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Fucking hell! 😬

Can someone ask Rubio why the US needs to "respond" to this thing that appears to be a wholly domestic judicial issue in Brazil?

Flaming Lips tonight! To everyone out there in my extended chosen family: Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? I love you. Life goes fast.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Let’s start a fight. Stone crabs>>Dungeness crabs > blue crabs

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

Nooooooooii

Went to CVS for my 7th COVID shot and it wasn't covered by my ACA compliant insurance. I paid $168 out of pocket because I can, but not everyone has that luxury. #ohio

Kennedy on a media tear to make it seem like he’s got widespread support. The anti-vaxx movement has been very very good at using social media to appear huge, when it has in fact been a small but vocal and well-organized minority with opinions way outside the mainstream. Unclear whether it’ll work.

Why are the MTV VMA awards on CBS? How long has this been happening? I feel so oooooollllld.

I’m just a girl, who did a spinal tap on a preschooler last week, asking you to fire RFK Jr.

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

I left Florida almost eight years ago. It was hard enough when we did not accept expansion of coverage from the ACA. I already trained in what is the future for the whole country. Now with abortion restrictions and this, Florida just keeps on leading us down the drain.

A thing that's interesting to me about this is that I know multiple people who have been cut off by their families for being gay, and I'd bet money that none of their families would consider that decision political. But I imagine that if the situation was reversed, they would.

RFK Jr (wheezing and panting, with bugs crawling all over him, slime oozing out of his eyes and ears) “i can diagnose mitochondiral issues in young children at the airport with the x-ray vision I get from drinking methylene blue” republican senators: thank you for making america healthy again

Listening to a certain kind of music today. My heart hurts for labor day. music.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi0...

Béla Fleck! Hungary represent!

Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

Labor Dave! Click for panorama.

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

The cropping is weird, but hi from the Gorge.

Would you like that outbreak with biscuits or cornbread? 🦠 💀 #backlashthis

Summer

A commenter on my essay on the age of alt-weeklies left this comment from "This Woman Votes," which states my premise so much more powerfully than I could--in the fight against fascism, the urgency of stories that linger--that I added it to the post. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-longfo...

Here is a chart from Dr. James Dobson that helped generations of parents figure out the exact right number of times to beat their kids with a belt.

Watching the Biggest Loser “Fit for TV” documentary and eating a bag of sea salt caramel chocolates.

Photo credit: @mrfuryo.bsky.social

In case anyone was wondering what ADHD looks like, I went to my car to make a second trip to carry things into work. I saw my coffee cup on the roof of the car, and took a pic because I thought it was funny. Then I had to go back out a third time to remember it actually bring it in.

RFK and Marty Makary want to talk about boxes? Coffins are boxes too “Not every single woman will need an antidepressant, but for those that do, this is life-changing, and this is lifesaving.”

In Las Vegas celebrating an anniversary with @mrfuryo.bsky.social My style, with food. Tonight, José Andres.

If you see this, post a vampire.

I just realized I probably won’t be the only person with shingles at the Barry Manilow concert tonight.

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.