This will happen to THOUSANDS of people. It will also happen to people undergoing treatment for life-threatening non-chronic illnesses. It will happen to someone you know, I promise. Fuck these pathetic excuses for representatives.

To keep myself from completely losing it I decided to gorge on my more unhealthy comfort foods. So I fried up some homemade tostadas & tortilla chips & also made refried beans. At least it provided a distraction. And it was all fucking delicious. (The tortillas are green bc they have nopal in them)

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

To be clear: D senators trusting R senators who promise a vote on ACA subsidies at some future point is nothing more that a liar convincing a sucker. A sucker for believing the lie, and for believing that Johnson will ever bring it up in the House.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

I can't fucking stand all of these stupid motherfuckers

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

This is how every federal employee I personally know feels about this situation.

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

Oh hey icymi I was in the Sunday chair at Defector today. I wrote two posts, one about the airline crisis (Trump’s fault ofc) defector.com/if-youre-stu...

I miss when apps just did the thing you want. I've tried so many times to find an app for scheduling watering & fertilizing my plants & they all have too much shit I don't want & want you to pay bc of all of the other shit but I just want a gd notification, not a subscription to shitty AI advice!

We already have socialism, the rich are just hogging it

Man my brugmansia has mites and I didn't notice until now because i've had it covered in a mesh bag because a rat was eating the leaves down to nubs. So I sprayed it with the good old Bioadvance 3 in 1. Tell me why every time I spray this shit I sneeze nonstop for most of the next hour 😭 FML

I have a 55 gal tank I use as a carnivorous & epiphytic plant terrarium. These tiny guys popped out a few months ago when I was running the mister. I've had this kind of snail appear in other terrariums - I don't know the species but I assume eggs are coming in on the dried sphagnum or other mosses

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.

You know how I know I'm old? The cheapest tickets to seek Cat Power in Oakland are $60.

I swear when I used to hit the "mute this account" on a repost, it would mute the account that reposted it and not the original post account. That's like 95% of the reason I mute people I follow but now it just mutes the OP's account. Did I fully imagine this???

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

lol. An important correction. They only pepper sprayed a baby, not tear-gassed a baby.

good god. 155 mph winds. 90% of the town is gone. 750 injured.

I already believe in Land Back but between this, the Yurok reintroducing condors to the redwoods of Northern California, the dam removal & restoration of the Klamath River, & many other incredibly successful ecological projects, I wish all ecological management in CA was done under Tribal leadership

NEWS — FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.

I feel like this just leads to many more people dying before their homes are paid off, so even more kids will be stuck either inheriting homes they need to continue paying the mortgage for or just not being able to keep their family home at all

Erica Deuso: She's bisexual, she's trans, and she's the mayor-elect of Downington, Pennsylvania!

These cases are nightmares. Many people had removal proceedings “administratively closed” for years; the case is off the docket and the person can stay indefinitely. Now, suddenly, ICE is restarting them. And if they miss a physical letter, they might get ordered deported without their knowledge.

LMAO at RuPaul standing in front of that greenscreened-in pink brick wall, pretending she's in the werkroom during the reading challenge on Drag Race UK, staring somewhere in the middle distance and chuckling and guffawing as reactions to absolutely nothing

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago. Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE. He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

“Strange obsession with physical traits” ummm this is the ableism that 90% of people in the US practice out loud every day🤔

This! Same same same ❤️

So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back. **Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.** www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Luv 2 live in a time when a single ticket to a very small venue is $42 🙃 And $10 of that is "processing fees"🫠

KILL THIS SHIT

What the fuck are we even doing anymore Kill this shit

I'm really not comfortable with the "crying man looking for his immigrant wife" post everyone keeps sharing. Poster may be totally above board but did this man consent to his photos being posted? Does anyone know his identity? Is there a way to actually help him instead of gawking at his dispair?

My grandma cleaned houses w/her sister until she retired. She took my sister & me w/her sometimes. I grew up in apts & it was the only time I'd ever been in big fancy houses w/big screen TVs, etc. We'd watch VHS tapes from huge collections while she cleaned. This country is full of psychopaths.

It's impossible to be an immigrant in this country. If ICE doesn't get you, a terrified, heavily armed, Fox News viewer will. This poor woman didn't even have the chance to say anything. He shot her through the door and said it was a home invasion.

Why are we treating a consumer product that can cause psychosis or even kill people as something like a microwave that needs a firmware update instead of being classified as the most dangerous hallucinogen on the planet?

I'm watching a low budget indie horror movie called Cannibal Mukbang and the main dude is legit freshly out of the "James Duvall in all Araki films" school of acting. He literally looks nothing like him but he's giving all the same facial expressions and it is uncanny

Some people certainly talked about her like she was their mom (that they had gone no contact with) lol

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf