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"I voted for a fiction that existed only in my mind, based on no evidence at all, devoid of historical context, and now feel let down by reality."

Also, notice that it doesn't say that she *opposes* Trump now, just that her "support for him is at a newfound low" and that she's "disturbed" by his "entanglements."

Setting aside the #FaceEatingLeopards aspect of a young Latino woman voting for Trump, I'm bemused by her wistful "not the party I once signed up for" phrasing. SHE'S 21 YEARS OLD AND HER FIRST TIME VOTING WAS JUST 66 WEEKS AGO. She couldn't have "registered" with the GOP more than 3 years ago.

From a WSJ article about Trump voters having buyer's regret: "This is not the party I once signed up for and registered to be in." From the quote alone, you'd probably picture a middle aged white guy who's voted GOP regularly for decades, right? Guess again:

As for Krugman's reference to my stressing the importance of tracking how many were forced to "buy down" to worse plans *as well as* those who have been priced out of coverage altogether, here's my most recent look at that based on preliminary data from 5 states: acasignups.net/26/02/05/oth...

Here's @pkrugman.bsky.social's discussion with Jonathan Gruber, who (among other things) was the guy who originally came up with the "3-Legged Stool" metaphor for the #ACA which I later sort of semi-famously co-opted as my own brand. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thanks for the shout-out this morning, @pkrugman.bsky.social! (I also learned a new word this morning: "Autodidact")

Technically that’s accurate if you read it the right way…

I was a UW student when I met with an elected official for the first time. As a proud Husky, it's great to see them here at the Capitol advocating for issues important to the UW community, including barring law enforcement from wearing face coverings.

While I get the fact that people want to abolish ICE and/or stop Trump's immigration shit, this shutdown will not accomplish that just as the 40+ day didn't. Republicans created an entirely different funding stream that isn't affected by a shutdown. Repercussions from Nov 5, 2024 continue on.

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

🤬🤬🤬 Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women - ESSENCE apple.news/AwHs016SYTj-...

This is horrifying. Not only are people trying to bring back segregation, they will put themselves in harm’s way to do so. It’s like the planes immediately falling out of the sky when they took DEI off the table was memory holed.

Also Durham bsky.app/profile/durh...

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Cried laughing at this for two minutes.

Grocery outlet is not playing with yall this holiday

heart shaped ravioli 💗💗💗

D- now adding I

The news blurred their faces but someone posted them-and I agree. If you’re bold enough to spell out slurs at a school event you should be exposed. They’re seniors and they rearranged the letters to spell out the F word slur.

Amazing you clowns cling to this notion of “Bernie is so popular” & yet he cannot win a fucking primary. Oh right it’s all you “low information voters” that keep denying 50 Stents his place atop the throne. GTFOH

Odd that Republicans are so eager to disenfranchise married women who take their husbands' names with the vile SAVE Act. Lots of GOP voters in that demographic.

See, if people voted for Democrats instead of pouting, we could have nice things like impeaching, convicting, and removing this animal abuser who brags about the Trump/GOP plan to disenfranchise Americans. "But Bernie said the parties are the same and voting doesn't matter unless it's for him."

Trump, Republicans, MAGA & Trump voters hate immigrants. Texas want to punish & eliminate ~18% of states population. As they cheer kidnapping, beating, robbery, rape, & murder they whine their industries are suffering because of their own choices www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Resuscitated the computer and found a bunch of leftist accounts had followed me while I couldn't see them. I am enthusiastically blocking them this morning. They preach "It's a class war disguised as race war to FOOL THE RUBES" and approvingly cite St. Bernie of Berniestan.

This was so fucking cruel. The federal government is being used to torture people in so many ways. This wasn’t merely a mistake. DHS bragged about deporting this student. I am furious.

Yall remember when white leftists called Kamala Harris a “cop”. Yea the “cop” explicitly ran on ending private prisons as president. Moral of the story? Stop letting privileged ass anarchists inform your votes. kamalaharris.medium.com/kamalas-plan...

RFK Jr’s “radical transparency” is actually promoting obfuscation and lies. His HHS avoids accountability and destroys trust in federal health policies. abcnews.com/Politics/wir...

mentioned yesterday about that grieving process setting in a tad bit later than it has for other demographies.

Their lives got worse during Trump's *first* term and they still voted to re-elect him. So I have no sympathy for "Look, the hornets stung me AGAIN just like the last time I kicked their nest!"

And they are adults with agency and we told them multiple times what would happen and they called us hyperbolic and made fun of the libtards. They can fuck all the way off, I don't care about them one whit.

Like they won't do it again for the next one. “It’s probably the worst of any of our presidents we’ve dealt with,” said the respondent. “I feel like the longer he's in office, the more we're going to plummet to not being a good community or quality country at all, period.”

I give the same number of effs about them as they did about the rest of us and the country when they voted for him three times. www.alternet.org/trump-voters...

Computer has been having near-death experiences after the Windows update. I read this is happening a lot lately. So if I vanish, it's a tech issue.

'Brave' isn't a big enough word to describe the orphans in our care. Nothing can erase their past, but we can offer them the wild future they deserve. There is always space for one more our foster family – could it be you? sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/a...

Found out today that an institution where I’m a guest speaker can’t help me with arrangements for accommodations (arrangements, not costs) because I come with my family. Pretty ironic given today we‘re meant to celebrate women in science.

Hey there, GOURDeous! 🍈🦣 Natural History #ValentinesDay eCards Many species in the gourd family evolved alongside megafauna like mammoths and gomphotheres. But with the megafauna extinct, the plants produce fruit for animals that no longer exist. More: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/natu...

Featured today is one of the fossils that stumped Darwin: Toxodon! This beast proved challenging for young Darwin to identify, featuring rodent-like, ever growing teeth - albeit much bigger than any living rodent! Richard Owen, later Darwin's rival, formally described and named them. #FossilFriday

Why this new 'spiny dragon' dinosaur found in China is such a huge deal ... a new article at Discover Wildlife www.discoverwildlife.com/dinosaurs/ha... #dinosaurs

#FossilFriday The Permian long-legged stem-reptile Eudibamus cursoris at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

#FossilFriday: Always worth keeping an eye out for this specimen if you visit @nhm-london.bsky.social, the ichthyosaur found at Lyme Regis by #MaryAnning and her brother in 1811–12, the first specimen to come to scientific attention, and its impressive ring of sclerotic plates.

#FossilFriday Cousins in life, companions in death. Belemnite guard by chance preserved in the body chamber of the ammonite Parkinsonia from the Jurassic.

Welcome back to #FossilFriday everyone! Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.

Kristi Noem must resign or be fired immediately.

It’s not surprising that China is trying to create chaos. If you see a profile that you suspect to be a bot, don’t engage, just block.

Today I planned the layout of our biggest raised bed, which will be home to tall sunflowers, ornamental corn, and gourds. Photo: Some of 2025's gourds from the 'Harrowsmith' mix. #Garden2026

Looking forward to more 'Soluna Bronze' sunflowers in #Garden2026. They do well in containers.

BTS #Seeds w/ Prof Dorian Fuller lead academic in the Archaeobotany lab @ucl.ac.uk ‘UCL is home to 1 of the world’s largest archaeobotanical collections & laboratories hold over 18,500 accessions of both modern botanical specimens & archaeological plant remains…’ RICHeS Visit in 2025