And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.

I’m thankful for brave women like Lindsey Boylan in NY and Monisha Harrell in Seattle. They stood up to men in power, held them accountable, didn’t relent, and helped defeat them. All at great personal cost.

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

The song for the moment, I think. youtu.be/YYJ5ZViYhHQ

I appreciate both the informative email posts and the gallows humor posts, but I can't bring myself to repost any of it. It's nauseating.

Maine, please don't send the 6 Guilt Trip Emergency Donation Emails A Day guy to Congress. I'm begging you.

#TheBlackPhone2 was a TRULY excellent sequel. Cargill talked about finding the right story so he could work with Thames and McGraw again. Boy, did he! No moment wasted, based in Finn's trauma and Gwen's fear of embracing her mother's powers, rather than focusing on or rehabbing The Grabber.

I'm still not over his version of G. Gordon Liddy. Someone do a revolutionary miniseries and cast him as James Otis, the eccentric almost Founding Father who sent letters shit talking the KING when everyone else was like "shhhhhhh."

another huge win better things are possible

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵 • May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses • OpenAI disagrees & can appeal "The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates" — German Music Rights Society

people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad

Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines. "Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue." The movie takes place in 2027.

It was always going to be this and separating trans people from health care. Always.

If this happens to you, do what OP did. Complain. Cause an internal ticket to be opened by the contact center against whatever system made this determination. "PRB 29483D Back Injury Classified As Depression" will show up on the PM's sheet every day. They can't close it because they can't explain it

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

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Ah, so.... make less psychoactive pain control harder for many to obtain while tripling health care costs. I'm sure this won't reverberate towards any black markets that have recently gotten much cheaper due to the lack of FBI monitoring.

Wait, was the Sherman Act a jihad this WHOLE TIME?

He got burned by JCO so badly that he needed a commercial to counter it. That the advertising is through an AI summary site for books to prove he reads is just pathetically over the top.

The Democrats are like the frog and the scorpion except the frog takes the scorpion across the river then drowns itself

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

As many of you know, a handful of Dem Sens have voted on a CR that keeps the government funded until Jan 30, which would end the shutdown. For those watching for anti-trans provisions, there are none in the CR. Senate Vets-MilCon, Leg, Ag minibus bills for FY26 have no riders.

There are the people in the U.S. whose healthcare has been more directly jeopardized by the cost increases. Then there's everyone else also left to deal with the more amorphous threat of hospitals and clinics closing.

With Cornyn MIA & still not voting, votes can still be changed. An effective leader would be burning up phone lines trying to flip one of the Dems who voted yes to kill this deal. So, what’s Schumer doing right now?

"Dems cannot successfully cave because John Cornyn got trapped in a broom closet" would be easily the funniest way for tonight to end

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

I dunno ... The last 300 times i made a deal with the devil, it ended very, very badly. But maybe this time...

You can say I lost our “leverage.” You can say I have no “morals.” But what you can’t say is “Schumer sells sea shells by the sea shore.” It’s too hard. And it’s simply not true.

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

No Kings includes Angus

I don’t what to say about a Dem leadership that can be undone by the likes of Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. Saying they went over Schumer’s head is not the flex people think it is.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

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This cave was so obviously organized. Senators who are retiring or aren't up for election until 2028 and 2030. Schumer thinks we're stupid.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

NH needs a primary team STAT. There's room to turn "Live free or die" into a comment on not being able to afford healthcare.

They got some phone calls from people who ride business class.

Lucy with the football every time. Oh, does the GOP super duper triple promise to follow the law and follow appropriations this time?

When Joyce misses, she misses hard, but when she connects, she connects much harder.

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Re: SCOTUS SNAP stay

I, too, would absolutely vote to convict and should be placed on any and all such juries.

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