Huh. None of *my* elders have been offered this standard of 'preventive care' - and they have Medicare + VA benefits, so *theoretically* their standard of care should be equivalent...

Not that we need to justify our winter break re-watch, but there it is...

Yaaaay! Good news!

So much this. Husband wanted to ditch the car & take transit after getting hit twice in 3 months on the freeway. It was unworkable. We don't have reliable transit where we live, and that's wild.

It’s an entire administration of people who wanted to be actors and rock stars but lacked the talent and charisma so they became fascists instead.

This observation remains undefeated

Did my grandmother write his speech? 🙄

At 2 am, my smoke alarm decided to sing the song of its people (aka low battery chirp). This morning, I discovered my ice maker is broken again. I get that mundane stuff breaks, but maybe the universe could pause that if we’re going to also have to deal with The Horrors™️ every single day??

The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses? Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow. This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.

Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen." Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder. The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.

Which is *terrifying* - because it's often nurses who save us from overworked doctors who are rushing & make mistakes, or who can't be bothered to listen. Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

Additionally, they are cutting support for school libraries nationwide. Does your school library have a credentialed librarian? Is it open every day? Do students visit every week? Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?

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That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."

Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/

our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children? This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.

It super sucks. All the doctors are using them now & I really hate saying 'no, thank you' when I'm asked if it's ok for them to use assistive note-taking. I know they have a lot on their plates & I'm sure scheduling has tightened to 'allow' for the use of this new tech. But ew. It's ok to say no.

By my calculations according to her Wiki article, Megyn Kelly has a daughter who's around 14/15. I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man. Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡

Oh so *that's* why I got a 'your stars are expiring!!' email out of the blue 😹 Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!) Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Ooh, but see...I just read this book 🙀

What the actual?! This is wild. Everyone needs to know that our current administration is making literal two year old children 'represent' themselves in immigration court. Absolutely evil.

This seems important 😬

ASKING OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT US IS NOT FIGHTING IT’S JUST ASKING YOU TO DO THE FUCKING JOB WE PAY YOU FOR

How come it's only "unity" when party leaders like it, and not when the actual electorate does? Looking at what happened in NYC recently & scratching my head. Feels like rather than unity you want us to fall in line? Run better candidates, make better policy, stand up & fight.

Stuff like this empowers the worst people to exercise their worst impulses. Some 57 year old white lady is going to report a 24 yr old who’s just trying to pay her fucking rent with a 3rd job for not smiling and get her fired because her manager is an asshole. Gross. Keep boycotting.

Hahaha just tried to drive in my reading glasses? 'Why is the far away stuff...blurry?' Went back for real glasses

Marcel!!! 😻

😹 This was kind of my first thought on hearing her announcement on NPR today. Like, did she not just witness the mayoral election? And I know NY state is more than NYC, but...I don't feel like that electorate is super open to Republican ideology at this moment.

This is beautiful! I am thrilled with a return to accessibility and also my petty little heart loves that it will make them mad. I would love it more if they could just not be trash, but here we are.

This is why we need to tax the rich. Honestly, the 'Golden Age' of America that so many people are nostalgic for was brought about by the wealthy paying their fair share. We had a reasonable social safety net. An actual living wage. Affordable higher education. (and yes- a lot of that was gatekept..

Yeah sorry. This has a clear and unequivocal answer and anybody who is not a WS wouldn't hesitate for even a second to distance themselves from that ideology immediately. A non-answer is nearly as loud as a resounding endorsement, honestly.

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We all need more threads about good people doing good stuff to make their communities a little bit better. We take care of us. 💚

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Obscene. Why are we tolerating this extremity of wealth inequality? Something has to give—or be forced.

Stand with workers! 💚

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone. bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

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The Liberation of Ralphie

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

It's almost like what we *really* need to do to 'get out the youth vote' is to give them people to vote for that inspire hope for their future? What a concept. Personally I'm in favor too. Let's have some fresh ideas, please.