just almost started crying because i miss title fight so much…….. normal

malliard is a gift to baltimore. i got a lemon cookie, pineapple brown sugar hand pie, a pear and almond galette, and a slice of blood orange cheesecake for my birthday weekend and i am so excited to have treats every day.

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

it’s me

it is freeeeeeeezing cold in baltimore this morning and i hate it

I don’t know how to help people on this app understand that you can just let people have happy moments! and in fact you *should* The world is shit, if someone is smiling for a second, AWESOME

Important reminder: The $50 billion rural health transformation fund is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that will dramatically erode rural communities' (and many others') health care access.

this kid only narrowly missed being killed by this 'less lethal munition' as shards of debris were found 7mm away from a carotid artery.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

maybe reading a feminist history of the soviet union/russia wasn’t exactly the right choice for this moment lol

Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day. The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. Next: Senate.

“As a reasonable centrist, I think the paramilitary death squads need better training.”

another day in the .ppt mines

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

Minneapolis-St. Paul declared Hero City of the Great Lakes Federation of Socialist Republics

The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.

trying to remind myself that a) despair is a normal reaction b) despair won’t last forever c) it’s ok to have a bad day and need time

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

realizing that how exhausted i’ve been for the last couple months is actually just grief heavy in my body. i could sleep all day and keep sleeping some more, if i didn’t have to work and be a person. i miss my dad.

angel olsen jessie ware bruce springsteen fiona apple al green hope sandoval beth gibbons amy winehouse adrienne lenker lorely rodriguez (empress of)

this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.

This is about the MMR and, in short, if you were born before ca 1996 in the USA or UK, and you don't have evidence of getting a second MMR, please consider asking your dr for a titer or second dose because levels are rising in both countries, and you may not be immune

i wish i would have known, re: transitioning to the private sector, how much time i’d be spending making powerpoints. these people love a slide deck.

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

They will take a pluralistic society from my cold dead hands.

i waited too long to get my hair cut and now it’s insane and unruly and i don’t have an appt until the end of feb because my person is so booked. why god

What a perfect poem for right now. From Ada Limón's book, Bright Dead Things: bit.ly/adabright #poem #books #writing

if tiktok gives me one more hawai’i clip i’m going to start crying, i miss honolulu soooooooooooooo so much. i need to plan a visit

“Women aren’t really oppressed, that’s just Lean In shit” vs “We will reorder the world based on the oppression of women” These are the two political camps.

Really fun to be a public feminist in an era when everyone on the left is convinced that gender is a superficial divide that’s only considered unjust by privileged and narcissistic white women, while meanwhile gender anxiety and grievance is used to dismantle American democracy and the world order.

TIL that teenage Tupac won an award for a rap about the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Please nothing else happen for the rest of the day so I don't have to think about anything else

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

This should be perma-death stuff. Don't shop at Target ever again, even if they reverse course in the future.

just started reading “motherland” by julia ioffe which is a feminist history of russia and there’s a part about how men write policy and women administer it. lol, lmao

super important

It’s all gender it’s always been all gender I hope everyone who called us hysterical gets

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

Speaking of 1095-As, everything old is new again and people are marrying for health insurance. (Obligatory note that disabled people may be forced to divorce or remain unmarried to stay eligible for Medicaid and other benefits.)

Health care for immigrant families has been severely affected by a new judicial ruling that allows ICE to access Medicaid information. In Massachusetts, immigrants are cancelling their MassHealth Limited coverage, and avoiding clinics and hospitals

Anyway it would be cool if the left was willing to organize around women’s liberation, because the right is definitely organizing around misogynist contempt.

Here’s a second person saying agents inside Whipple threatened them while calling Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” bsky.app/profile/clan...

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

cancelled my 40th birthday party because i am fully not in the mood to party and idk if i ever will be again. grief sucks.

new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...

For those of you waking up to news that someone burned the synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, here's a link to donate to fire recovery efforts.

MARYLAND — “Federal officials on Friday changed their account of the Christmas Eve shooting by immigration agents in Glen Burnie, reversing course after repeatedly doubling down on their story. A day after Anne Arundel County Police publicly disputed it.” www.thebanner.com/community/cr...