The 1986 law EMTALA, signed by Reagan, requires hospitals to provide ER care to people who arrive with an emergency. The reason is if they wait to check insurance or legal status, patients would bleed out and/or die. The law exists to protect Americans, not people here illegally.

Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the song Macarena. What the fuck are we doing here?

Somebody could write a whole dissertation unpacking what's going on with Rafael Cruz, Cuban-American elected in Texas, insulting a Slavic woman from Minnesota by calling her Hispanic.

this one is good but nothing beats the goat

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DMV clerk staring wistfully out the window on rainy day. “What is… gay?”

Customer: (not on record) DMV: ? Verdict: ACCEPTED

Customer: U WONT MATE DMV: YOU WANT ME OR YOU WANT TO MATE Verdict: DENIED

YOU WANT TO MATE? WELL YOURE NOT MATING WITH ME SUNSHINE!

Customer: GUEBON IS THE NICKNAME OF MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DOG. ITS A COMBINATION OF HIS FIRST AND SECOND NAME: GUILLERMO BONAPART. HE IS VERY MEANINGFUL TO ME DMV: EXTREMELY LAZY HUEVON Verdict: ACCEPTED

Customer: LAST NAME DMV: CUSTOMER'S LAST NAME. STILL LOOKS A LITTLE HOSTILE. "TO GUT" SOMEONE. Verdict: ACCEPTED

“Charlie Kirk was pretty much the real pope.”

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

I cannot overstate the degree to which "turning only to the gospel for guidance" and "I don't have to accept the pope if I don't like him" are like, Sent Directly To Turbo Hell crimes in catholicism. like that's one to one what we had the wars of religion over that killed like 8 million people lol

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one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

latest version of my jacquard mechanism, driven by a stepper motor, faster and more reliable and now programmable! :)

Cold turkeying blood pressure medication or corticosteroids is a really bad idea if you're taking them for an extended period too, but nobody's going around doing PSAs claiming that you're addicted to atenolol because you can't stop it abruptly without problems.

Vintage Obscura Presents: New Age https://redd.it/1h4vo4q https://youtu.be/7jqKLlqsKZw

Whenever I watch local TV, I get PSAs about how opioids are so scary you can get addicted in just 5 days so you should ask for alternatives for dental work or surgery, and just, could PSAs please not straight up lie to people about what addiction is? Because needing to taper medicine ain't it.

actual events of the video aside, this is a perfect encapsulation of where these nazis stand in society. There's one of them for every several thousand normal people. They know everyone thinks they're weird little freaks, which is why they spend all their time pretending to be mainstream

oh my GOOOOOOD (from before she was married, so different last name) www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...

🤨 unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/mike... "The Johnsons plural didn’t take custody of a 14 yr old Black child in 1997 - because Mike met Kelly in 1998 & married her in 1999. Mike Johnson was a single 25 yr old law student when he formed whatever relationship he had with 14 yr old ‘Michael’."

Fascinated by how the people who lost their minds over student loan forgiveness are currently running ads on my TV every 10 min promising that they'll forgive your student loans if you join ICE

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist. Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall. Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

Customer: (not on record) DMV: F-SPOT IS AN IMAGE ORGANIZER, A TAKE ON F-STOP. TC IS HIS INITIALS, F SPOT COULD MEAN FUCK SPOT (PLACE) Verdict: ACCEPTED

Thursday

I see a pattern: non-experts copying non-experts, amplifying weak claims from low-impact journals. Bad reviews, poor methods by non-experts. Take MDPI reviews: often written by non-specialists, repeating each other, citing thin or poor evidence. This isn’t science, it’s noise 1/3

if only Pete Hegseth would invite me to the Mike Johnson/Bob Dornan Signal chat

can somebody point me to a Mike Johnson Grindr state-of-play explainer or something?

I am tired of hearing assertions that Democrats "threw trans people under the bus" in 2024 from people whose primary interest in the trans community is as cannon fodder for their revolutionary pipe dreams

Do it like this.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FyT...

*falling into a burning ring of fire* I'm gonna write a song about this shit

A boy named sue somebody instead 🏆👑 Congratulations @seamussaid.bsky.social from @damnitjanet.bsky.social

mailbox spider keeping my mail safe, thanks dude

it's been pretty clear from day one that he was too disabled to do most meaningful parts of his job. only a few things have his fingerprints on them and they're things like "trying to annex canada" and "instituting tariffs"

“Whatchoo need? I got big bones, I got small bones, I got rawhides, I got chew toys - and not the cheap shit, either. It takes a week or two to get the friggin’ squeakers outta these bad boys.”

the last time this happened on a social network, jack dorsey wasted billions of dollars over a decade making things less successful than the website he founded because of how mad he was at the users on said website

Cucumber Sodomy would be a great band name

no like, it's okay that they get chopped up and cooked because they're vegetables, not people!!!!

and before you ask, yes, it's a veggietales religious propaganda version of saw

change a movies plot by adding an "L" Slaw

Does anyone know of articles, or collections of articles, worrying about what the advent of the electronic calculator (especially the pocket calculator) might mean for citizens’ arithmetic and mathematical abilities? Were such articles written? I assume so but I want to see what they said

NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR GLOOM OF NIGHT STAYS THESE COURIERS FROM THEIR APPOINTED ROUNDS

DID YOU KNOW THE US POSTAL SERVICE CREED IS DERIVED FROM HERODOTUS'S ACCOUNT OF THE PERSIAN IMPERIAL COURIER SERVICE? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...