A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I will never forgive anyone who voted for this.

the utter fucking nerve of the local sheriff sending an appeal for money. Cops get all the money! Teachers have to buy their own supplies, the roads are full of potholes, the poor neighborhoods don't get plowed, but those cops need us to send them our grocery money too (or else).

i just want to hang out on the internet and talk about my hyperfixations but nooooooooooo powerful people decided being evil was the best way they could spend their time

I still hold that civilization's greatest accomplishment came from whoever in central Asia invented noodles all those centuries ago. We owe them so much.

the republican party line is, fairly explicitly, "we will kill your children if you don't vote for us because we know you won't kill our children if we don't vote for you," and the appropriate response to the existence of such a political party is to outlaw it

love the account specifically targeted to stop people from clicking on articles and thus put more journalists out of work, itself earning money from people clicking on links

I am not a lawyer! but arbitrarily cutting off federally mandated funds for punitive, retaliatory reasons seems like it might not be entirely legal. just one cartoonist's opinion!

He was tho!!!!

The disappearance of Larry Summers from public life cannot happen fast enough.

dear local media: it isn't really news that cops are in favor of massive electronic surveillance systems that they requested and use to spy on us. Love, all of us

We only rate dogs. This is a really cool rock. We can understand why you would want to share, but please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (TT: xansinthebong)

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

He survived the anti-Rohingya genocide in Myanmar only to be killed here, abandoned by Border Patrol to die. (After being arrested for basically getting lost while being blind and not speaking English). www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

If y’all could report @authorfisherbooks.bsky.social, that is not me, that is a scammer attempting to relieve people of funds, probably by selling book services.

Rahman has been telling her story, she testified in Congress, and has been featured by various news programs. It is only for this reason that she was arrested. The Sargent at Arms told her that it was because she was "standing up silently." www.democracynow.org/2026/2/25/al...

Abolish DHS

the scumbag trying to tear al green's sign out of his hands is texas rep. troy nehls, a former sheriff, who afterwards asked the president to sign his tie like he was a beatle.

taxes are completely done, took a little longer than expected because I needed to double-check a few things on the state forms that didn't seem right. But it's all done.

oh how I wish you were here we're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

Reliable access to truthful information is required to resist fascism and fundamental to a functioning society. Muddying the information ecosystem with false statements, altered images, and deepfake videos will erode that foundation, EVEN IF the misinformation is saying things that you like.

AI slop is a tool of fascism, regardless of what words the slop is made to say.

wait, did Trump really say tariffs would replace income tax...? I know he doesn't know how tariffs work, but

dear cat, if you jump on the keyboard while I'm doing sensitive tax paperwork, you'll open me up to an audit and they'll take you away and put you back in the shelter and you've gotten too soft for that life

"It entails...avoiding oral contraceptives, antibiotics, and over-the-counter pain medications like ibuprofen..."

Trump's surgeon general pick Casey Means rants about women who use birth control: "How are we allowing this to happen?"

Have been listening in to today's hearing. So far, she's dodged questions on vaccines and Tammy Baldwin noted Means made $325K shilling supplements over the last 2 years. But sure, vaccine advocates are the one making bank. 🙃

I don't know if she's more or less dangerous than RFK Jr, but the difference is too small to tell without an electron microscope

I read Casey Means' book last year and wrote about her "salvation through orthorexia" ideology so you don't have to. This woman being Surgeon General will entail enormous amounts of harm buttondown.com/theswordandt...

This notion that Black people need to suffer with dignity, *for our dignity,* needs to die.

TFW you get a press release that makes you go "whoa" like some journalistic Keanu

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

They keeping calling the "it" a "he"......I don't recall given any gender to my calculator, the internet or google. To compare those tech developments to a "he" is a failure.

Well damnit, how am I supposed to get to London now?

as a long-time Gates-hater for reasons unrelated to his personal life, I definitely have feelings about this

…and it would still be side-by-side and tangled up with a society where some people are assumed criminal & dangerous, from the start, so any "perfect" surveillance tech would still be disproportionately used On Those People. You Can't Technofix Your Way Out Of Values Problems.

The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…

You can just say Vincent from Beauty and the Beast (1987) at this point. The number of early Ron Perlman roles involving George RR Martin and TV censors and is also ‘iconic’ is not a long list

no thoughts only vibes

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Maybe on the 5th time I throw my hands into the air and yell “OKAY!” that is when I will summon the strength to do the tasks that need to be done today.

whirr whirr whirr grn grn grn

took my walk around the cemetery (non-metaphorically), and now it's time to get shit done.