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Have to thank Tom Kean for letting us know that he missed four months of work to get treatment for his depression because it’s the first thing in weeks to cut through the apathy and fog of my own! Clarifying fury has its benefits!

I miscounted!* it’s FOUR months. *brain fog

Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) voted to give tax breaks to billionaires and pay for it through cuts to Medicaid -- cutting people's healthcare, increasing cost of medications including those that treat mental health issues, and closing hospitals.

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

Not marking this as spam out of respect for “whom.”

Well, it IS pretty impressive for Washington to have been president before the office was created. Also I note he leaves out one of the more significant birthdays here.

We are *right now* running the experiment of what happens when healthy people leave the insurance exchange and the results are not great!

Read this as "Where do robots think these agencies come from?" and it actually made a little more sense.

I'd love to hear about people's memories 1976's celebrations! I was but a tot, and I don't know how I remember Barney Miller? Probably a rerun. But I have at least hazy memories of parades and such! What about you?

For an anti-big-government party, their vision of celebrating America has a weird emphasis on administrative buildings.

The bicentennial made such a tremendous impact on American *pop* culture--I remember the Barney Miller episode about it!--there were tricorner hats everywhere, hit songs, a movie, and the logo and local parades all year long. This year it feels as empty as the mall.

[knock knock] Hello I'm with the Democratic Party. Just wanted to mark you down on whether or not you love the West and cops and rich people? Oh and Israel too.

He's missing a lot here but another thing he's missing is that there's a reason why DSA organizing builds on itself: The policies are popular.

Yeah, the problem with Texas is that we don't feel exceptional enough.

I take heart that forcing children to read the Bible in school almost guarantees that they hate it.

They even lifted his campaign styling! "Talarico's a vegetarian radical leftist who wants government to provide for folks and so our best attack is...we give people delicious free tacos with his name on them!"

Dr. Phil looking pretty sleepy there, too.

You call it “bed rotting,” I call it low-impact living.

It’s currently 3pm ET

Here’s the discourse we’re missing out on by not engaging on Elon Musk’s microblog

Men have been behaving as if contraception doesn’t exist for centuries.

Making me feel really good about never listening to “The Daily.”

I wonder if these people would agree testosterone is punk rock when it's a part of someone's transition. I would argue that's the only circumstance where it is.

To be fair, Scandinavians really kind of assimilated Minnesota rather than let Minnesota assimilate them.

I’m exhausted, tbh. I don’t know how to code, or design, or write SEO headlines, or edit, or do video, or merch, or live steam, or podcast, or Instagram, or TikTok, or manage my inbox. But I have no other marketable skills but writing for magazines and magazines no longer exist so here we are!

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

The pope has not read James Patterson novel.

They're killing the cats, they're killing the dogs.

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Genuinely thought this might be a venture of Slate Magazine to diversify income streams, lord knows that's a good idea for journalists right now...

He’s not wrong. www.foxnews.com/politics/cru...

Where to begin.

Very pleased that we all turned into pool-care experts just in time for the hottest days of summer!

Spin-off opportunity: “Only Murders in the Reflecting Pool”

Thinking about how much of my imagination is spent on worst-case scenarios.

The duck murders will really make for a great true-crime podcast.

This.

literally watergate

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

At least all these layoffs are re-normalizing 24-hour pajamas and not leaving the house.

Racking up enough bodies to be a podcast soon.

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Does anyone in Austin have a "woke" (affirming, pro-reproductive rights, friendly, etc) church that they love? I'm shopping around to broaden my community.

Saw a tattoo on a young person’s calf this morning in the shape of a tombstone that read, I’m not kidding, “Mark Twain shit.”

He’s going to keep changing the story until it turns out the pool itself was actually stolen by antifa and we have to invade Cuba to get it back.