Reposting on her birthday: Before Elvis and Janis there was Big Mama Thornton www.dailykos.com/stories/2016...

I’ve been saying this about eastern Washington my whole life. High rates of Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis clustered in one area? Gosh, what could the common denominator be? The aquifer??

My eye has been twitching every second sine I started this hour-long infusion. Fuuuuuuuck cancer

There was a guy in the packed Ubahn who was taking up 3 seats. 1 for his butt, 1 for his bag, and 2 for his long umbrella. He moved the umbrella first, and then the bag so I could sit down. Then he was agitated, but calming himself down. He flashed two peace signs and said "Peeeeeace" out loud.

The “ replacement theory” ideology is also within the Democratic Party and you see it manifested every time there’s pushback against Black people running for office .. at any/all levels. It ain’t just republicans/christian nationalists who are afraid of Black political power

I can remember when I was looking at the PA senate race. I supported Lamb due $ and flipping a seat to blue. Those days are over for me. Black women got screwed over in Nov and all bets are off. Black folks phuck waiting to compete. Do it. Ignore the donors, etc. Bet on yourself. Run to win.

@repkimschrier.bsky.social should be ashamed of herself for this. As a voter in her district, I am

The high instance of Parkinson's among Iowa farmers enters the chat.

Can we let go of welcoming that woman i to the party?

Rewatched some Star Trek tonight. Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human. Every episode says the same thing in its own way: ‘Be curious. Be brave. …Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”

This is great! Iowa nurses are some of the lowest paid in the country.

I get this bone infusion tomorrow and will every 6 months for the next 3 years. There's a 5% chance of jaw necrosis, but it reduces the rate of bone-related cancers by 30% over 10 years. I hate all these stupid stats, and I fucking hate cancer.

Wer jetzt noch in die USA reisen will, dem oder der ist nicht mehr zu helfen.

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

This Border Patrol agent raped sex workers and robbed them and almosr certainly threatened them with deportation.

Ok who wants a bizarre no stakes mystery to solve? I had to go to the hospital by ambulance this morning (heart stuff, am ok now.) A bunch of ambulance guys came into our living room to get me. And now we keep finding tiny glass ducks On the floor.

I don't know who needs to hear it today but leaning in to white supremacy to try and beat white supremacy just helps white supremacy. If you think a qualified politician who busts their ass for their constituents shouldn't run b/c they are Black & America is racist? You are being a fucking racist.

Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

The reaction to Jasmine Crockett is how a know a lot of White Democrats voted for Trump instead of Harris last year. #MAGA!

"Obsequiousness and collaboration spread like viruses to weaken our republic, but the choice to support one another and defend our institutions strengthens it." From @msroth.bsky.social, the President of Wesleyan and a fine historian. He is NOT collaborating. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

This is wonderful! Rep. Crockett would be an amazing senator.

Achtung dual British and Irish citizens with an EU passport! From February 26, 2026, you won’t be able to travel to UK on your EU passport as you can’t get an ETA if you are a British citizen. If your British passport has expired, get it updated now! www.gov.uk/guidance/ele...

Day 16 of asking @robsandia.bsky.social to change his stance and stand up for trans kids in Iowa. Please share if you can. Not everything should be about counting votes, but there is strength in numbers.

Meeting up with some of the Bsky München crew tonight and im super excited!

Speed running menopause without the possibility of hormones is speed running aging for me and I hate it. God I hope medical science can get its white male head out of its white male ass before my kid makes it to menopause.

the president approves of children being raped, what are the odds

This all day!

Paging Rob Sand.

Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

Hey, I did a quick prototype of an idea, mostly to try out replit.com. It's a crowd source mapping for places that is good for video conferencing and phone calls. quiet-enough--tehnyitchin.replit.app #buildinpublic

from a state party director

Project 2025 was 48% implemented yesterday. Ticked up to 50% today. Terrible times ahead.

I had a dream I was on the ground floor for a startup, and they brought us all to the office they had purchased with their vc money. Then we all worked for 3 days (for free) to get the product to launch, and just as it was about to go, they redirected funding to marketing instead of product. 🫠

Can't bring myself to share the story of how this awful regime has misgendered Admiral Rachel Levine. I credit her for saving many of our lives in Pennsylvania and around the country in 2020. She was our Chief Health Officer and I welcomed her briefings during the lockdowns. Transphobia is vile.

I was looking at old photos of the kitties and found this one where I had captured Johnny sneezing. 🎵"To the plaaaaace, I beloooooooong!"🎵 #caturday

For folks who don't follow soccer: FIFA is a *WELL KNOWN* corrupt entity, so them brown nosing Trump is *VERY ON PAR* for them and their bottom line. This is just business as usual for these corrupt stains-of-the-planet.

Ensuring the rich can afford fancy saunas tax-free or saving the tax credits that help make health care affordable for 24 MILLION Americans from expiring in 26 days. Guess which one congressional Republicans are choosing so far?

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

We went to the medieval market today, and breezed past the big one in Marienplatz on the way there. So. Many. Americans. 😂😂😂 I did see someone with a huge Canadian flag on the front of their jacket too.

A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

This, in a nutshell. Unsure of who created for credit, but it’s spot on.

Perimenopause folk - my docs say my high blood pressure issues aren’t related to perimenopause, but it’s striking that BP only spiked the week before my (very irregular) period. I’ve started tracking to see if correlation, but anyone experiencing similar? Never had BP issues before #perimenopause

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

We got a show today. It's our first ever call-in show. We'll put out a link when the show goes live and you'll get a few seconds to call in with the Burning Bundesliga questions or takes you've been waiting to say. www.twitch.tv/50plusdoner 6pm Central on Twitch and YouTube

"Polyworking" is the fancy, sanitized term invented to normalize people being forced to work multiple jobs to afford basic necessities. Don't glorify the grind. Dismantle the system that requires it.

And are you going to propose regulations/reductions for pesticide use to limit runoff?

This is a problem, @robsandia.bsky.social . Are you going to call it out?