In 1992, Sub Pop receptionist (later CEO) Megan Jasper pranked The New York Times by inventing a fake "grunge speak" lexicon. 🙏

Enjoy some funny Bluesky posts, you deserve it. www.gojeffgo.com/best-of-blue...

People are still dying of Covid, Valéry. Last year my mother died of complications of COVID. She believed as you do, that it’s been years and did not mask or take precautions despite being immunocompromised. People aren’t talking about Covid still because we LIKE doing so.

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

CDC not requiring hantavirus cruise passengers to isolate at home thehill.com/homenews/587...

All Cats Adore Boxes

Once again, California appears to be targeted solely for political reasons. The Trump Administration is planning to defer over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for vital programs that helps seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their homes.

That was the goal

VP Vance just announced the Trump administration is deferring $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from California. He claims the state hasn’t taken fraud seriously enough. This directly hits in-home care programs for seniors and people with disabilities.

EU Commission to adopt recommendation urging Member States to ban LGBT conversion therapy (The link in the Commission's post isn't live - try ec.europa.eu/commission/p... )

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

The low-income Alabama residents were relieved to be part of a program to seal their leaky homes and bring down their spiking energy bills. Then the government yanked back the grant, citing DEI. A sad and frustrating story by @leslieatlarge.bsky.social (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The OLC opinion was released today on eve of the first court of appeals oral argument on the issue, presumably so that DOJ could (and did) file a letter with the court of appeals citing the opinion. Very shady. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨 Trump Regime admits over 3 MILLION Americans have already lost #ACA healthcare coverage so far this year: charlesgaba.substack.com/p/breaking-c...

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

‘Based on what I’ve found, I’d be surprised if more than 3GW of actual capacity was turned on in the last two years, which means that NVIDIA has sold anywhere from double to triple the amount of GPUs that the world can hold.’ www.wheresyoured.at/email/537d63... by @edzitron.com

Then again, the New York Times decided it wasn't even worth mentioning, which is even worse. Golly, these people have let us down.

"Some medical experts privately agreed with my prediction that there may be very little Covid-19 by April but suggested that I not to talk publicly about herd immunity." Marty Makary, February 2021

Not only has Congresswoman Kiggans not apologized for agreeing that Leader Jeffries has “cotton-picking hands,” she’s doubled down and made excuses. What message does that send to the 20% of her constituents that are Black? VA-02 deserves better.

House Democrats are asking Trump officials to explain how providers’ social-security numbers got exposed. “This is the exact type of data that bad actors have used to defraud the Medicare program,” @neal.house.gov and colleagues write.

very important piece

I reject austerity. There's enough for all of us. I reject the "commonsense" scarcity bullshit espoused sometimes even by people who call themselves Leftists. There's enough for every single person to live in dignity.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to court today to fend off the Trump admin's THIRD attempt to deport him to Liberia. The last two attempts failed. Abergo's in the courthouse. I'm reporting live from federal court. Catch up here. www.allrisenews.com/p/rising-thi...

A person from CA who was on the ship with the hantavirus outbreak has returned home without going to the Nebraska facility first. They are being evaluated and monitored by the state health department. We can’t be sure what this entails but if it’s not quarantine then mistakes are being made.

🚨🚨🚨 DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena from the Northern District of Texas to NYU Langone for all patient records of trans youth. DOJ is engaged in forum and judge shopping in Texas in a blatantly unlawful bid to shut down gender affirming care in blue states. nyulangone.org/public-notic...

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: ENERGY SUPPLY SHOCK THAT BEGAN IN Q1 IS THE LARGEST THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED * SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: IF HORMUZ DISRUPTION CONTINUES FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, NORMALIZATION WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL INTO 2027 @reuters.com

OMFG RFK Jr's adviser Kulldorff, the anti-vaxx activist who co-authored the kooky Great Barrington Declaration—which pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—is leading a HUGE effort, along with Bhattacharya's NIH, to prove vaccines are "helping to fuel an epidemic of chronic disease"

Good piece from @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social: "not declaring its arsenal has allowed [Israel] to avoid the international scrutiny that comes with being a nuclear power — and to avoid international nuclear nonproliferation norms." www.ms.now/opinion/demo...

This is what Trump means when he says "we're the hottest country around!"

Dr. Henry was asked how hantavirus is different from COVID and she clearly explains how COVID is transmissible, “very rapidly” through the air, especially inside shared spaces. I’m thinking back to 2020-2021/22 when she refused to say that, even well after the evidence was there.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

French evacuee from the MV Hondius who developed symptoms during the flight has now tested positive for hantavirus, according to the French Ministry of Health. Officials say his condition is deteriorating. This is the first confirmed symptomatic case among evacuated passengers.

"One the 17 American passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius tested positive for the hantavirus but is not showing any symptoms..." apnews.com/article/hant...

that’s my arm, hair, and name tag in this photo. And I have to say that the vast majority of people were cool about our masks required policy. The best was how many people came in already wearing masks! I have friends who are chronically ill — some by Covid — and events like this make a difference!

Yes. A lot of the "safe" states/cities maps come from the perspective of the more well-off, so they focus on laws, protections on paper. On the ground, pressing questions from most trans folks are "will I be homeless?" "Can I get work?" "Will I be attacked?" "Can I actually get healthcare?"

call me controversial and finicky, but if I buy a car, I don't think it reasonable that I have to learn how to "hack" it so it doesn't kill my family But that might just be me. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Fantastic!

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

You can keep feeling like being sexualized is a compliment! It ain’t to me. There’s one person I give permission to sexualize me, within our romantic relationship. No one has to tell me I’m sexy for me to be assured, I already confidently know myself, it’s not news. I don’t care to attract anyone.

AOC on the decision in Virginia: “This was an election of 3 million Americans. This court did not overturn a map… it overturned an election.

Why is anyone debating whether or not to “let Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent”? She has not asked to be in a tent with you. Nothing indicates that she wants to be in it. She is positioning herself to appeal to people who hate your tent, and possibly to peel off a few people at the edges of it.

Andes hantavirus has documented human-to-human transmission, yet current WHO guidance still does not recommend airborne precautions or respirator use (such as N95s). (...)

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

It’s what we do, fix, repair and scrub up after republikkkans burn it down.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

FWIW, I just searched and found this. It was indeed 4GB. I deleted it, but I expect it to show back up quickly.

Péter Magyar has been sworn in as prime minister of Hungary. Hungary's Viktor Orbán era is officially over.