“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.

Anyway this tidbit is why SSRI’s can increase bleeding risk!! They inhibit serotonin uptake, which messes with blood platelet function, and have potential anticoagulant impacts!

TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.

...is there a lord marmalade?

what if u exploded a dracula then sowed a flesh hunk onto a frankenstein what then

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

You've been hit by... You've been struck by...

so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

Goldilocks Musk 🤝 Greedy little tyrant whose secret weakness is Oates

Democrats caved because the airlines told them to. They caved because of their corporate masters. Republicans responded by increasing their cruelty, as was obvious to literally everyone who isn't a Democrat politician. Democrats prefer losing and being smug about it to just about anything else.

Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease. 🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258 A big part this is from childhood asthma. www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...

one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver

Me: I can't come over tonight, bae. The skies of November have turned gloomy. Her: But I just concluded terms with a couple steel firms Me:

We need more old-fashioned songs about recent events I the Ever Given being stuck in the Suez could make for a great vaudeville-style comedy song a la Casey Jones

I remember it blowing my mind when I learned that Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sounds for all the world like a baleful 19th-century shanty at least tonally and lyrically, was about something that happened the year before

who up burning they american eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires

when i was a little girl, women who were rumored to be lesbians got bottles thrown at their heads from passing cars as they walked home. kids thought i was gay, so they lured me to their property and threw rocks at me. they tried to stone me. no adult did anything about. they approved.

Meanwhile in France, a real country:

This is interesting, but I really hope doctors inexperienced with ME/CFS don't use this study's findings to recommend yoga over potential medications. (Also study only had 57 people w/ ME/CFS, so ofc limitations there). www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

one of the worst cases of poster's madness i've seen. there's nothing to be done for him now.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters. The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself. And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.

There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it

News In Photo:

🏳️‍🌈 Old news: Kim Davis was jailed for contempt of court when she refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple and then lost her reelection for county clerk in 2018. New news:

Booker is a NO

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Fetterman's office doesn't even let you leave voicemails anymore. What an absolute piece of shit senator.

Chuck Schumer's DC office: 202 224-6542 I got through on the 3rd try.

If Discovery ends up getting copyright of a bunch of Cartoon Network's mascot characters in the demerger, because they technically belong to CN and not CN Studios or Williams Street Either thats going to be the best thing to happen to those characters or we will never see any of them ever again

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

"It's not a deal. It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double," says Rep. @ritchietorres.bsky.social. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrats-co...

What do we want? To set aside savings we don't have for healthcare we cannot access! When do we want it? At the future point that MAGA pinky promises they'll revisit ACA, no really guys.

Guy who paid $80 for a private dance because the next song is a long one here: Chuck Schumer is a better negotiator than you are

Call your dem reps asap

The 50-year mortgage: because Sisyphus needs company. 😡

The Republicans will not hold true to their word on a vote for healthcare premiums, the Dems are being played. Primary all that cave.

I neither need nor necessarily want anybody to watch this, but I do want you to know that MAGA and Trump voters absolutely love seeing this. They do not feel bad for a single human in that family and LOVE seeing that child traumatized. I promise.

The man responsible for holding his caucus together just got an earful from me both in his VM and via email. New Yorkers, do your thing. www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess...

Hey Ghosts of my friends in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, can we get an AROOO for Warren Zevon finally getting inducted? Tell him I said so.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.