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From the article: "Trump’s style is said to have been inspired the Versailles hall of mirrors..." Shall we hope that his presidency ends as did the reign of Versailles' final occupants?
Sounds like the bike-riding dingbat passing yesterday's protest (Bay Area) who said, "Open your eyes and smell the coffee!" ☕️👀 WTF? 🤣
My orange marker is running out of ink, so I had to finish Mango Mussolini's face with a different marker of a slightly darker shade. That's why Dump has that rotting pumpkin look...which, come to think of it, is probably accurate.
What "Make America Great Again" really means....
Liabilities? The entire sentence was, "Obviously, she's not a white person, and we've been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that." So Vance cares what WS think (voting base?), or distinguishes those that give him crap about his wife from those that don't---so bad WS vs. good WS?
Lovely! Joking aside, I'd love a shot of the interior if that's something you'd care to share.
Do I see two sets of hinges? So two doors that open from the center?
In 2023 she & her daughter created Hines+Young; they folded their online business on 4/30/25. Which is just as well, because Hines got slammed for posting an Instagram ad (11/29/24, now deleted) filmed in a bathroom while Secretary Brain Worm was taking a shower. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
My latest protest sign. I must have hit a nerve, because the moment I arrived, some guy in a car spotted my crude masterpiece and shouted, "NO HE WASN'T!" My dude, I understand their relationship was far more complicated than that, but there's only so much I can fit on a sign...
Vance's whole marriage is awkward. "I love my wife so much. I love her because she's who she is. Obviously, she's not a white person...But I just, I love Usha. She's such a good mom."
In second place: vaccine preventable pathogens!
Because pumkins rot from the inside?
Oh my...is it possible you struck a nerve?
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Strong work, and thank you for providing an educational opportunity, even though it wasn't well received. "But I wouldn't worry too much about it, for you can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do." ---- Jules Feiffer, The Phantom Tollbooth
Or at least the worm it harbors.
Vance: “Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action. We pray because our hearts are broken and we believe that God is listening,” he wrote. So...the GOP is praying, and God is listening, but neither has acted to stop school shootings, ammirite?
According to Gowdy, so are the children...safe in the arms of Jesus. 😠😡🤬 bsky.app/profile/just...
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We found hundreds of examples of federal agencies & institutions purging their websites of anything Black, including: -Profiles of Black military heroes (Army) -Documents on the Tulsa Race Massacre (National Archives) -Resources for educators for teaching slavery (NMAAHC)
I'm genuinely glad for Canada and this is a smart business play by Moderna but it also stings when you consider the Moderna vaccine exists because of $10 billion dollars of US taxpayer money. And RFK Jr. might kill our access.
There are also current local protests of Palantir.
Sure, because bears can't get into a locked car, right? 🤦♀️ youtube.com/shorts/6uK-v...
Good guess, you're close!! mothersmilk.org
New sign for this week's protests.
Vance probably thinks "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" described negotiators in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Trump has already given his base his playbook for the coming health apocalypse:
The Cracker Barrel logo controversy as seen through the lens of the 2009 Pepsi logo redesign: "It straight up reads like the rantings of somebody having a literal breakdown." youtube.com/shorts/W3rf5...
Short NYT video featuring scientists who did lifesaving medical research until Trump, Musk & DOGE gutted funding to the National Institutes of Health and froze grants to universities across the country. The destruction of US scientific research, gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Gift link, please read this excellent opinion piece.
Excellent thread, please read the whole thing!
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
This is theft. Full stop. Stealing library books is an act of censorship that encourages and normalizes criminal activity targeting public property. By removing books to silence voices and viewpoints, these individuals seek to indoctrinate and harm young readers. https://bit.ly/3HHERcK
Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order. Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Chris, no matter how often you kiss Trump's posterior, he's never going to love you.
True! And RFK Jr both endorses and drinks raw milk. Both Kennedy and Ladapo peddle medical misinformation and should be recalled. www.wlrn.org/health/2025-...
She didn't. Please read the article. She gave the raw milk to her toddler, who became violently ill, then passed his sickness on when she cleaned up his vomit and diarrhea. Not that I feel any sympathy for a woman who recklessly endangered her child and consequently lost her pregnancy...
She didn't drink the raw milk; she gave it to her toddler, who became violently sick, then contracted his bacterial illness while cleaning up his diarrhea and vomit. Not that this scenario is any better---she endangered her toddler, then lost her fetus!
Yes, the party of personal responsibility seeks to evade personal responsibility. The free market and soft eugenics for the win!
She didn't. She fed it to her toddler, who became quite sick, then contracted a bacterial illness from cleaning up his vomit and diarrhea.
Not going to happen under the current administration. www.news-medical.net/news/2025012...
For the insurance money? Just speculating here...
RFK Jr, a raw milk drinker and advocate, is Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The FDA is an HHS agency; don't expect any help under the current administration . www.news-medical.net/news/2025012...
The "alternative health expert" is her state's surgeon general. www.wlrn.org/health/2025-...
Her state's surgeon general is this clown. Enough said. www.wlrn.org/health/2025-...
🧵 YouTube influencer peddles inner city crime 🐃💩 for the bucks!
She didn't. According to the article, she fed her toddler raw milk, then when he became profoundly ill, contracted his bacterial illness while cleaning up his vomit and diarrhea.
Yes! FL SG Ladapo: "I support the decision to consume raw milk when sought for potential health benefits and protective factors." But then he absolves himself of responsibility for bad outcomes: "Be aware of your source and know the risks." 🤦♀️ www.wlrn.org/health/2025-...
New protest sign, because the Epstein files continue to be hidden by those claiming to make America great again. "You really don't care who you offend, do you?" No, I do not.
Please read the entire thread.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
ucanr.edu/blog/under-s... 6/6
The moral of this story: before planting anything new, examine the soil and eliminate any invasive plants. The workers the neighbors hired unfortunately skipped this step, hence my current battle against these noxious weeds. 5/6
Little did we know that the soil was infested with asparagus asparagoides! So for the past month, I've been monitoring the newly planted hedge for any unwanted growth, and digging out enormous rootballs, one half the size of my head. 4/6
The strip of land between my house and the neighbors previously contained an ersatz hedge made of random types of vegetation, very ugly and difficult to maintain. So when the neighbors proposed removing the mess and planting a real hedge, we were delighted. 3/6
The green vines grow quickly and wrap themselves around anything nearby, then dry out in summer, presenting a fire hazard; the matted roots compete with other plants for water and nutrition. The only way to eliminate this weed manually is by digging out its tuberous roots and rhizomes. 2/6
This is asparagus asparagoides, also known as bridal creeper, a South African native herbaceous vine in the Liliaceae family. The emerging plants are deceptively tiny; around 87% of each plant is underground. 1/6 #invasiveplants #gardening
Besides the emotional aspect, there's the physical. If immortality isn't coupled with a cessation of aging, then continued existence will produce endless deterioration and misery with no release. For an example of this, please see the struldbrugs of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
On taking down the world’s richest man, here was our little action in SF last night:
Hey there, Cassandra checking in! Anti-vaxxers like RFK, Jr. spread violent misinformation, directly encouraging a man to gun down the headquarters of the CDC. Who could have possibly seen this coming??? skepchick.org/2025/08/anti...
Nah, better that his loud and obnoxious views warn sane people to keep away.
Creating a new sign each week and protesting with a dedicated group of people. bsky.app/profile/arct...
New protest sign. A pertinent insight from Lady MacBeth: "Yet here’s a spot. Out, damned spot, out, I say!..What, will these hands ne’er be clean?...All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!"
"How long until ppl who think they are safe from this find out they aren't?" It's already happening. Lots of stories like this one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Agreed, but men are also vulnerable post anesthesia, whether they consider the statistics or not.
Same day surgery also strongly advises patients NOT to use Uber due to post-anesthesia vulnerability. Those without readily available friends or family are advised to use non-emergency medical transportation companies.
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But he's all about exposing waste, fraud and abuse, ammirite?
Trump's St. Vitus Dance is contagious...😬
Senior advisor to the "Justice dept" caught in 4K saying kill the police. Sick of this ....
Insurance strangleholds increased exponentially (maybe 12-18 mos ago) and my theory is that they all switched to AI to do their denials. They make denials that are wrong, even based on plan stipulations. Accordingly, it has also exponentially increased my burnout as a nurse practitioner.
"I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations. www.cbc.ca/news/world/v...
Prediction: The MAHA clowns will claim the 21 had preexisting conditions, because healthy people with robust immune systems BENEFIT from exposure to pathogens... 🤦♀️
Let me guess...was the Coast Guard investigation lead by this guy?
But when another protest participant joined our discussion, she vehemently denied saying that we shouldn't welcome immigrants, and waxed rhapsodic about the power of prayer to affect change. Very strange!
New protest sign. I thought it obvious, but a passerby asked what my sign meant. "What does the SoL symbolize?" I asked. "Freedom!" she responded. When I recited Emma Lazarus's, "Give me your tired, your poor..." and described ICE's activities, she said, "But we shouldn't welcome immigrants!" 🤦♀️
Sure they can. Online schools do exist, and for those families that shun the internet, there are plenty of companies that sell curricula, both secular and religious.
Republican strategists want to privatize education, so if vaccination mandates are withdrawn, and parents pull kids from public school petri dishes, they'd consider that a win.
Uber is not a good idea if you've had anesthesia or sedation, particularly if you're prone to vomiting. Around here, non-emergency medical transport services are a safer choice, but they aren't available everywhere.
Why we have continued our Bay Area Tesla Takedown; Elon continues to meddle politically!
Given Musk's track record with Tesla Full Self Driving, SpaceX launches, and Cybertruck fires, what could possibly go wrong with Neuralink? 😬
And there's a big part of the problem.
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Believe me, I noticed.
Jennifer Powell is the victim's mother, and Rustom Bhagwagar's ex-girlfriend. "The girl...had been abused...from the ages of six to 10... She added that her mother would allegedly often be present during the abuse, according to investigators." Disgusting! www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
How frustrating; that's awful.
Incident report, I hope?
Dropkick Murphys for the win at Warped Tour over the weekend in Long Beach playing their song "First Class Loser" with an epic backdrop video 🔥
None of the above. WAY too sweet! 🤢