Yup, pretty much sums it up

The thing about a testudo formation is that if someone in the formation is lowering their shield, it is literally better to cast that person at the feet of your attackers than to trust that this time, unlike the last time, they will hold their shield strong in the face of your enemies.

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

Pet peeve: Places not on the coast, esp the traditional South, Texas, and the current case I'm watching, Oklahoma, where everyone is made to look like there's a serious lack of lighting, air conditioning, and (eye-stabbingly) a yellow-orangey filter everywhere. I'm talking about you, "The Lowdown."

I meant the Demon Hunters thing, not all KPop. We regret the error etc.

A settlement for a *temporary* ~4% reduction in a literal $110B racket as "meaningful relief"? Monopolies are organized crime. This sucks.

remember that any senator not loudly calling for Schumer's head is happily playing their part in his Kabuki theater 'resistance' and is your enemy as much as he is

let's wise up folks, they can only keep running this con if people keep falling for it

Mentions of KPop are reaching annoying-me-level of Frozen c.2013 and Hamilton c.2017.

my anger is not going away in a few weeks. it is insulting for these senators to horsetrade so that ppl retiring or not running until 2030 can vote no while they find just enough yes votes to do what the GOP wants. i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.

I tell younger folks all the time: Do not worry about losing the respect or presence of people who can't or won't accept you doing things that bring you joy. The only relationship you are guaranteed will last until you die is the one you have with yourself. Don't let yourself down.

I’ve written about a lot of forensic charlatanism over the years, but this is might be the most laughably stupid garbage I’ve ever seen. Hope this woman sues the pants off of them. www.theblaze.com/news/former-...

I'm sure it'll go better in December

Citizens United.

who is this guy talking to

We're all trying to figure that out

Chuck Schumer accomplished so little in such a long period of time, you have to admire it.

or the awful thing can apparently happen that happened to my workplace last year, and your entire company can get dropped from your insurance plan and you have to move to united healthcare and your cost-sharing all triples

Name a song with a number in the title. (QP) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ0u...

I was finally bored enough to go through who I'm following and removed quite a chunk. So many people seem to not have posted in 6-10 months. Unsurprisingly. I really need to follow new people and ones who post more than U.S. politics bc it truly is all-consuming.

Is anyone else having an issue where the last word of a reply is missing and only readable when I click on the reply?

Today Canada lost its measles elimination status. The problem is (primarily) due to failures in our health systems, not individual decision making and fixing it is not as simple as telling people to get vaccinated (my thoughts below with more to come). nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

New: The families of five Camp Mystic campers and two counselors who died during the July 4 flooding filed a lawsuit against the camp on Monday, alleging that camp officials’ failure to evacuate the camp caused their children’s deaths.

BIOLOG question: is there a good pipeline or program to compare biolog results (either in terms of absorbance reads or carbon sources/antibiotics/etc) to KEGG outputs from whole genome sequencing? Right now our tech is doing am manual comparison but there has to be an easier way. 🦠🧬

Not some fundraising texts, THE ABSOLUTE NERVE OF IT ALL

It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.

Tim Kaine was apparently not satisfied with helping to lose a presidential election.

A judge has allowed the continued deployment of more than 300 West Virginia National Guard members to the nation’s capital.

So if no vote, does this mean the ACA is dead? Asking for 24 million Americans.

The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.

Good. None of them should've been there in the first place.

“Democrats waited until after the 2025 election to fold, suggesting they knew it would bother voters, dampening enthusiasm.” [They think they’re so clever] from @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social latest.

Every time you capitulate to a bully, they'll come back at you twice as brutally. If you didn't learn this life lesson in third grade, GTFO of the US Senate.

America: Your wife-beater has agreed to go to counseling at a later date. Maybe.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Circuses = cheap as fuck Bread = well, bad news

Cops cover for other cops

Not Everyone with Schizophrenia Hears Voices. Here’s Why www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-...

Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words.

Smallpox was PAINFUL. And caused in many people, terrible scarring. And killed a lot of people. But some people managed to avoid exposure or getting the disease. So later in cities, where it's not a village and people MANY PEOPLE are coming in from Outside the City then having immunity

meaning 'must have had the pox in a natural way' (because STDs were also 'pox') became almost a standard for anyone coming to work in someone's home otherwise they might bring in smallpox by catching it the immunity you get from some disease by once having it, was a benefit to community PRIOR

to vaccination. In the UK, some employers in the Victorian era required proof of immunity by ...scarring. If you had scars you could show, you proved your immunity and thereby would not bring pox into a household. And I think that over hundreds of years of terrible disease is why we still have

this weird idea that getting sick, especially for children, is good get it out of the way while they're young (so if they die you haven't expended too many resources also) But that's just some thoughts.

Fucking idiots will just keep "voting" in monarchies. There needs to be a law preventing direct line relatives down to grandchildren or 1-2 degree relative of a senator from running for U.S. Senate.

What. in. the. fuck.

Some of you need to save this meme for frequent use.

Repugs last week: —“we’re gonna get killed in the midterms” Repugs today: — Demonrats shut the Gummin’t down fur nothin’

Constanze Depp is finding that microglia aren't any better at multitasking than we are—and that likely contributes to the development of Alzheimer's. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🧠