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The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Yeah, that’s what I said, but I hope you feel good for restating something a woman said, I hope it affirmed your masculinity.
JUNIOR AS EXECUTIONER In fact, most Medicaid adults under 65 who aren't on disability are working, with around 64% of them working full-time or part-time. Of the remaining 36%, most are not working for reasons of illness, caregiving, or schooling. (See comment) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hi did you move your newsletter away from substack? drop it in the replies so people can find you and subscribe! I am big on rewarding good choices
Church of Alf?
Also, the 2024 election was tainted by the fact that the Supreme Court ignored the PLAIN TEXT of the Constitution and allowed Trump to run. Trump was patently ineligible! Insurrectionists cannot hold office. That the Court is corrupt doesn't change that. We can read the Constitution! 1/
True, and has been state of the art for over a century now. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth once realized at a WH dinner that she was in the room where she had her appendix removed while her father was President. And Alice being Alice, blurted it out.)
Your periodic reminder that nobody would ever have heard of Johnson if it hadn’t been for @semaforben.bsky.social’s avid promotion of him. Soon after that, Ben was hired by the New York Times to explain the news media to us.
That explains a LOT, actually.
A horse would be an observant Methodist — no drinking, no cards, no dancing. And the horse isn’t gambling, he’s just doing his job.
He is also on some seriously heavy duty cardiovascular drugs that aren’t indicative of a future nonagenarian like his parents.
Yeah. And it’s a fair reversal; they’ve gaslight so much, the Magaset can get some on their plate, too. Though Walter Reed has been the primary for presidents for most of my life, which I never questioned until I looked at the geography, and that seems… problematic in an emergency.
Many have explained in quotes & replies that the “enhancement” (aka, use of AI) distorted the image. Instead of deleting it & apologizing for creating & sharing misinformation, he’s reposting for more attention from 333k deliberately misled followers. Misinfo is dangerous. Blue MAGA is dangerous.
It is absolutely criminal that as the GOP crows about urban crime, every Dem isn’t on TV saying, “Look, Larry Hogan is a so-called ‘moderate’ Republican and crime in his state’s largest city has plummeted since he was replaced by a Democrat.”
You’d think there might be a closer hospital than 10 miles away on low speed, high risk surface streets. Like maybe George Washington, a mile away. It’s not like GW isn’t a critical care, high level teaching hospital.
Yep! Ted is Dorothy, he has to go back to Kansas so the story wraps properly. And the less we talk about the later Oz books and movies (especially movies) in this extended metaphor, the better.
These fucken idiot bigots need some new material.
Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of another season because they wrapped it perfectly and stories can end. I would LOVE a Keeley and Rebecca Build the Lady Greyhounds, though. And they can keep Jamie and Roy and anybody they want for guests.
You would not believe how many times my XY rented the Police Academy movies for family movie night. Amongst many other raunchy, violent, utterly stupid movies.
My patreon is a little lower, which makes sense, but I'm afraid I still must raise $25 for rent because of it. I am sorry
When you see union issues depicted on US-filmed, scripted TV shows, it's a good time to remember that nearly every single person who made that show possible is a union member.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness (My favorite bromance)
It’s entertaining for us, and it has to be infuriating him and people around him, and you know what? That’s all to the good. I have zero problems pushing their buttons.
It’s COLOR TASTE TEXTURE’s 2nd Book Birthday!! Thank you for everyone who has purchased my book. Its creation was such a journey and it holds so much importance to me. I went from living in a homeless shelter to having a Big5 contract within the span of 2 years, and I couldn’t be prouder of my book.
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
New York, probably. She really hasn’t been present for a couple months, at least.
You know what I think is a a sign something is seriously wrong? No leaks. I can’t imagine White House preventing any leaks unless they’ve tightly restricted those who are around Trump Who’s CiC right now? Can Trump perform his job as well as he could 2 wks ago? Is it worse than Lloyd Austin?
Impressive how quickly the ‘abundance’ frame got co-opted by the worst people in the world (maybe because it demands nothing of them)
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Of note, as always, that many federal employees are Black and an attack on them is explicitly an attack on Black workers, in particular, Black white-collar workers.
The only AI thing I want is a non-connected household assistant that will answer when I call it, will record my house inventory and where I stashed it as I say it, will update it as I remove or move things, can accurately tell me where I put stuff, tell me to order more, or print a spreadsheet.
I do think he’s been a mouth breather for a lot longer than anyone will admit. His weird Sudafed thing, the nasal sound of his voice, his weird diction (because his breathing is off, he doesn’t hit natural breath marks). I assume he snores, probably has apnea, refuses a CPAP/sleep study.
Reducing women to their capacity to breed is monstrous to do to cis women and a sign of patriarchal overreach and right-wing rhetoric. Yet it's the sole, essential bar in the exclusion and dehumanization of trans women. You cannot be a leftist or feminist and be anti-trans liberation.
I don’t know if you all remember, but Sharice Davids was reelected in Kansas even after the GOP gerrymandered her district…
It predates https so your browser may complain, and it’s old school web dev, but it’s far more specific and hits way more of the obscure stuff than the modern association does. (Which to be fair, is a security risk.)
Oh, I finally found again the best resource on the white house I’ve ever found (the official one can be very opaque.) That window is probably the bathroom attached to the empire sitting room (per Jackie Kennedy’s naming scheme) rather than the Lincoln bedroom. www.tysto.com/Floor2.htm
Seriously. With Labour like this, who needs Tories?
People who say progressives scare "normal people" have pockets of bigotry in their hearts & behavior that they think of as common sense & don't like hearing otherwise. They're used to being at the center of the discussion & don't like being told to skootch over. They bug the crap out of me. 3/3
I mean, if you’re gonna violate the safety protocol to throw crap onto the walkway roof, best to do it when the principal is out “golfing”. I do think whatever it is is landing on the strollin’ roof.
YOU MUST BE JOKING, @safety.bsky.app, ARE YOU SERIOUS? TWICE?????
And while I am yelling about shit will you motherfucking auto designers get rid of all the god damned tactile free buttons and touch screens and go back to knobs and switches you can operate without looking at them. It's horribly unsafe.
the american mind cannot comprehend the kobayashi maru
Sure, whatever. Still makes me wish they had a telephoto.
Alas the bar folk not having a telephoto lens, then. This is when you carry the 600mm.
Yeah, though the isometric does actually make it a little easier.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
You know what, I’m still pissed. You can have some data. There’s a problem here, and we’re not it. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
I hope that is someone still learning to parallel, and whoever is teaching them is somehow completely impaired so someone else can teach them parallel parking. They’ve almost got it! It’s so frustrating. (Though hooray for the little Smart for having the torque to reclimb that embankment.)
And because of the building in the background — those white square windows. It has to be from the Treasury Building. Nothing behind it would have the view.
Either the Treasury Building or the Eisenhower Executive building (if it’s the other side of the White House. That angle makes them hard to differentiate.) Sounds like an office party which may or may not make sense for DC on Labor Day.
Turns, cooperation, control of self… all skill sets that armies need. Can’t make an army out of the feral.
Homeschooling is used to keep abuse under wraps. And I consider this kind of shit abuse too. Fucking up your kids chance to survive because you're a selfish moron or a disgusting pervert. Neither are good.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is appalling. Civilized countries look at us and are rightly horrified that this idiocy and cruelty is sanctioned by--encouraged by--our government. (I originally wrote "Other civilized countries look at us..." But do we any longer count in their ranks?) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Hey, medical professionals: gonna need you to back way the hell off on judging disabled folks’ distrust of you. Many if not most of us have been subjected to humiliation, invalidation, or literal pain by members of your profession. Maybe practice some active listening or a self craniorectomy.
Some of us have been ridiculed on TikTok by your peers. Some of us have been assaulted by your peers. You want to be mad at someone for the distrust? Start with your colleagues, not the people over whom you have disproportionate power. Thaaaaanks.
My strange meter’s needle is buried. Aliens could set down across the street.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
So no, I'm not surprised. BUT IF I WERE, implying I'm stupid for taking this long to join the rest of the class wouldn't actually help, you know? A lot of people will be surprised at some point, if they haven't caught up yet, and we're just gonna need to hand them our notes when they get to class.
The long video is even weirder. bsky.app/profile/aska...
There's a very understandable emphasis on some of the specific, classic books being banned here - Atwood, Angelou, Orwell - and I understand that impulse. But I think it's important also to defend kids' rights to pick up paperback fantasy and romance at the library! Teenagers get to read that stuff.
The way to fight for us to "exist without commodification" isn't to force trans people off of HRT, it's to decomodify HRT.
The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
Also I was alive in the '80s and '90s and we did not get as far as we did on LGBTQ issues by putting a pause on the causes??? I've read enough about the Civil Rights movement to know that they didn't either. What a horrific thing to say.
i know people are lazy but there’s a lot of authors i would love to give money to one day if they leave substack. and won’t unless they do.
Any time!
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So much of the language surrounding "learning loss" drives me nuts. "A once-in-a-century disruption means a cohort of kids won't hit a bunch of benchmarks we made up. But we can't adjust the benchmarks to accommodate that once-in-a-century disruption because...reasons...??"
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
No one is "disregarding" this, it has been the subject of relentless coverage from media and politicians since 2020. Everyone knew school closures were going to be very hard on kids. The trade-off was that not closing them was going to result in mass death. No win-win scenario was on the table.
This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
WTF is he even talking about?!? I was in Hawaii during Covid, no the bars weren’t open, some illegally opened but got shut down real quick! Like Maui was shut down shut down, and our numbers stayed pretty low and safe. WTF happened to Schatz, what brain rot did he get?!? Lordy!
The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didn’t just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isn’t as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesn’t justify putting up with the platform’s support for Nazis.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
yep. stealing 50 cars and then opening a car dealership isn’t a business. “but we change out the bumpers! our cars are our own!" that’s a chop shop, asshole.
Yeah, I couldn’t live there anymore, and yeah, it’s not getting better, mostly thanks to the built environment. (It’s less bad out in the desert, which is wild.) And then listening to some of my relatives bitch about solar just makes me want to dam up the Colorado at Glen Canyon and be done.
Oh, yeah, I’m so sorry!
Seeing positive covid tests allllll over my social media. Mask up folks
We don't know that Melania is tossing Loomer's lingerie out that window, but we don't know that she is not doing that, either.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
The profit extraction of the Southwest energy companies is outrageous, I 100% agree. Their rates are ridiculous. And the PUCs are such entirely captured agencies it’s pathetic. I grew up in Yuma and the Valley, so have been there, it sucks so badly.
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I do not disagree even a little on paving and alfalfa farming and water waste, but that water being exported in Saudi horse feed really should have been kept in citrus orchards, which were remarkably good at cooling the Valley and maintaining livability.
You do know that, in terms of energy, it’s significantly cheaper to cool a space than to heat it? It takes between 20 and 30% of the energy to cool a space by 1 degree than it takes to heat the same space by 1 degree. In energy stewardship, the Mojave is better than New England. 1/2
INDRI Single Malt Whisky owner is Siddharth Sharma or his previous name Manu Sharma, the son of a rich politician who shot Jessica Lal because she didn't serve him alcohol. He skirted justice for years until public outcry. Now that he's out, with tons of money he's revamping himself.
Factories have about a 40-50 year useful lifespan, and either need significant updating of their ventilation systems or to be replaced on about that schedule. This is critical in textiles, because of White Lung (pulmonary fibrosis caused by inhaling fibers). And Congress wasn’t willing to help.
The dismantling started in the 70s and accelerated in the 80s. Textiles were transferring overseas by the early 1980s because the US factories desperately needed modernization, but Congress wouldn’t approve low interest loans to keep them, and other countries offered very nice incentives to move.
Okay. Let’s talk about AI “historical dresses.” If there’s pleats completely unmoored from the structure of the garment, that’s AI. If the lace has no coherent pattern, that’s AI. If this is supposedly a surviving garment and it looks pristine, that’s AI.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
And even when you know it intellectually, your emotional systems will not comprehend the editing and curation, and will react badly to not being effortlessly perfect.
This! And one more I thought of late last night: walk away from influencing. If you can find crafty Youtubers who are messy and show the process and the errors, that’s much better, but influencing in general is highly curated and edited, and presents an entirely unrealistic view of the act of art.
YES.
Also ban asset forfeiture, which incentivizes arresting people inside their homes with raids instead of when they are arriving/leaving. Somehow arresting them at home makes it easier to seize the house itself as part of the proceeds from their crimes.
And because between 10 and 25% of the entire planet’s industrial infrastructure had been destroyed, leaving North America the only place with an intact manufacturing capacity, which meant gaining the profits. Which lasted for decades, but was not husbanded against the future.
There was a brief, odd blip in the 20th century when a majority of people started getting married young and having a ton of surviving children. But the norm for the average man throughout history was working his ass off so that maybe, MAYBE he might afford to get married and have kids someday.
instead of having a "for you" tab, make a list of things you like looking at and check that feed every day and it will improve your life
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.