Last night is THE example of why “vOtE bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo” never was and never will be a good strategy. It’s why we’re here now. And before some weak ass liberal jumps in to fight, don’t. It clearly isn’t up for debate at this point.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.

@miadarkarcherad.bsky.social is the OG Heated Rivalry artist for me and I adore everything about these masterpieces.

Pretty boy Hollander #heatedrivalry #hollanov

You guys saw the trailer right? youtu.be/ADi1iextoUM?...

A lot of people outside Canada want to watch Heated Rivalry, which is awesome, but the producers can’t just, like, put it in other countries. Media outlets in other countries need to pick up the show, so the thing to do is tell your favourite streamer to get the show!❤️

Want to help get Heated Rivalry added to your favourite streaming service outside of Canada? www.tumblr.com/heatedrivalr...

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

The more white wing media at the Times and the Post try to gaslight people about what Kirk stood for, the more social media accounts, and new media journalists will continue posting receipts.

also on the subject of political violence

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

JFC

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

In L.A. tomorrow, protest Amy Coney Barrett who today joined in licensing ICE to stop brown and Spanish speaking people and demand their papers simply because of those attributes. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/837659/

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

Restraint. RESTRAINT. When have they NEVER practiced pathological RESTRAINT and what will take them to fight back against literal fascism WITHOUT IT?

ah yes, politics, that realm of human affairs where drama and emotional catharsis are to be avoided

Doctor I trust more than RFK, Jr.

Pork roll.

I'll say again that being a kind human pays off in the long run.

Reminder: congresspeople, we can’t go to war unless you say so, and this cia and palantir operation is the same playbook that made Iran contra, but on steroids. You have the power to stop this criminal madman.

everyone get some rest so we can have energy for tomorrow’s horrors

Not to fearmonger, but considering the state of reproductive rights in the US and Oura's new partnership with Palantir, I don't think anyone with a uterus should be using one. Or any other device that can track your period.

I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.

ok when you read "clear homeless encampments"? I need you to hear "steal the housing and property of people in poverty"

Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

AUTHORS! ASSEMBLE!

Do you want Minority Report? Because this is how you get Minority Report

No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.

President Donald Trump’s three appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court each made alarming statements in a single case about federal health research grants last week, particularly when viewed in light of the broader attack on the rule of law in America. Today’s in-depth report, at Law Dork:

There was a lot of "good lord, there is so much evil in the world" news today. I worry if I leave for Costco now, they will have run out of emotional support rotisserie chickens.

Banning a vaccine for a pandemic disease that killed millions is real shithead behavior.

Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records on Friday, Aug. 22, on the investigation into his murder.

Literally shut OpenAI down right now. Just pull the fucking plug. #AbolishAi

If you think that @rweingarten.bsky.social & the @aft.org should NOT be partnering with murderous companies like OpenAI, please call the AFT, ask for the president's office, and tell them to STOP PUSHING "A.I." INTO SCHOOLS. (Pls be nice to the person answering the phone.) 202-879-4400

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.

There's no guarantee that hospitals that have chickened out will resume care once a Dem enters office. The threat of a future GOP administration will always hang over them. That's why the next Democratic admin needs to also find a way to punish the cowards. Or at least reward those who held strong.

I mean it, fellow Americans: call your reps about this. It seems small in the short run, but this is going to fuck up businesses, especially small ones, big time.

A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

So this is the President of the United States reacting to being criticized by saying we should revive a defunct and well outside the statute of limitations criminal investigation against the person offering the criticism.

state troopers being paid to make sure no one uses chalk on the road the fascists are so fucking petty

Per filing, the government on Thursday offered to deport Abrego to Costa Rica if he agreed to plead guilty. Then, on Friday, Abrego was released from criminal detention. ICE immediately informed his counsel that it intended to deport him to Uganda. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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