for those puzzling out why an administration hostile to HRT for transition is super pro HRT for menopause, their claims that menopause ruins women and marriages seems pretty key

dems, 2009: we can't do shit we only have 59 senators dems, 2025: we can't stop them they have 52 senators

Just watched Bernie Sanders on Maddow and in response to whether Schumer should step down from leadership, his answer was "Look Schumer is part of the Dem Establishment and if he steps down who will replace him?" I mean... Bernie, WTF???? Take a damn stand.

Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man. State schools, vaping: NAH.

ok this is the only valid defense for staying on twitter: you get to post scathing criticism that elon is guaranteed to see

I keep on thinking about how prescient Hitchhiker’s Guide was about AI. Every time I see anything about it my brain yells “listen up you stupid computer, it tastes filthy”

"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...

Muslims throughout the government! A cardiologist! Next thing you know we’ll have taco trucks on every corner! Horrors!

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

“Likable person who isn’t 1000 years old and generally does things you like” isn’t unicorn fantasy land bullshit it’s the bare minimum you deserve as a human being

If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.

As I get older, there are still SOME people I hope won't look at me and think, "loser." But also, if they do that because my socks have hedgehogs or I haven't published lately or I'm on WIC or my kid is melting down at Aldi... ...they aren't the people I thought they were, fuck 'em.

“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Yes, yes, and yes they all deserve more. Me, I think an ongoing percentage of any profits based on anything that comes out of the scraping in perpetuity would be about right and upon death of the authors...to a fund to be used for authors (such as grants, and emergency funds, etc).

This echoes the conservative counterargument to union rights a century ago, the so-called "liberty of contract." As FDR's Interior Secretary Harold Ickes noted, that kind of "liberty" merely gave helpless individuals the freedom to "drive a bargain with a great corporation."

Also, the caving started around the time 12 major airports grounded all private flights. Never again 'blue no matter who' Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.

Official statement from Raya Golden, the person who is in charge of art approval for GRRM, about the use of AI in the A Feast For Crows illustrated edition. To call this disappointing is a massive understatement. I am absolutely LIVID.

WE WEREN'T THE ONES WHO STOPPED FIGHTING

Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.

We just have you a huge victory and you’ve fucked it up royally! You think we’re gonna trust you with another one?

Primary every Senator who in one way or another did not do enough to sound the alarms and generally fell in line here. That means you, @jayapal.house.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov, if you don't scream public bloody murder and kill this bad deal. There's enough to campaign on should the ACA collapse.

“I’m so relieved that the only problem I cared about - me experiencing mild social discomfort - is now over” my brother in Christ, do you want to bet

NAZI APPEASER. Your ancestors would feel *shame.* Your collaboration cost me my dream job. Your capitulation will cost me my health care. I will dedicate my time to making sure EVERY LAST SENATE DEMOCRAT gets primaried. See you at the polls, fool.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.

Anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth. President Trump's anti-trans passport policy is now in effect, but our lawsuit challenging it isn't over yet.

One of two diseases that pissed us off so much we finally said "oh, fuck YOU" and wiped it out. (The other is rinderpest, a bovine disease that used to wipe out herds and starve societies. A zoonotic fork of it became measles.)

“The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%).” How can you be a thought leader when you don’t think? Fraud. Scam. Grift and nonsense!

Well, well…

Just remember as you see all these politicians rushing to say "Bernie was right, we should be like Bernie" that a few weeks ago, Bernie was praising Trump on immigration. Oh, and Bernie voted to confirm Marco Rubio. NONE of the Senate Democrats are good enough. NONE. OF. THEM.

Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

As others have said, we all need to be clear on the fact that what is happening in Chicago is a preview of what they are planning for all blue cities. Especially as midterms approach. They will tear gas us at the polls and say, oh, this isn't voter suppression. It's just business as usual.

We already see literally this *exact* same claim from adults engaged in pseudoarchaeological content - that humans could not have [done whatever they're focusing on]. I worry about how difficult education on the past will become as kids who believe this begin to take notice of adults in popular 1/

The Conservative Way.

Saw people claiming AIPAC for the senators caving and it’s weird I didn’t know AIPAC stood for Airline Interests Private flights And Cowards. But no it’s not antisemitism.

I continue to think that maybe a bunch of men, many of whom were literal child rapists, who thought that it was cool and normal to own other human beings, weren't omniscient when it comes to designing a government and maybe it's okay to change a few things

On Intermarriage and Judaism I keep reading that marriage within Judaism promotes Jewish children growing into observant adults more effectively then intermarriage, and I am skeptical. I think marrying into a healthy and supportive relationship promotes Jewish kids growing into observant adults.

the Rosetta Stone of dem politics is the 2006 senate primary which incumbent Joe Lieberman lost in part for making out with George Bush He ran anyway, won with GOP support, dems let him keep his seniority, chairmanships and perks & he rewarded them by obstructing the ACA & killing the public option

To be clear, what I'm saying here is that you can't make Schumer not-Schumer by shaming him. That doesn't mean you shouldn't shame him recreationally, as a team-building exercise, or pour encourager les autres.

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

Even if they were “high level” criminals…it is still murder. Who made our military the judge, jury and sentencer in matters that should be handled by the legal system?

putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?

So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.

This is, quite, remarkable in France. “Until now, rape under French law was defined as penetration or oral sex using “violence, coercion, threat or surprise.” France has taken other steps in recent years to toughen punishment for sexual misconduct, including setting 15 as the age of consent.”

NEW: President Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Trump's pardon attorney says.