The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
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The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Yes, please.
The creepiest part of this article is the photo where Trump doesn't have on a tie, so everyone else in the photo takes off their ties as well, even though normally they'd all have on ties. Feels like a very weird "Dear Leader" sort of moment.
Yep. They want to get rid of birth control for women. They want to go back to women being servants for men and trapped by having lots of babies and only being able to depend on a man for survival.
Just some useful info: Husband has covid and we got a prescription for paxlovid. It took 5 different pharmacies to find someone who had it in stock, and when we found it, insurance wouldn't cover it.
I imagine mainstream media members behind the scenes being like, "WTF is going on man, this is so mysterious!?" and then completely ignoring it on air. Just like I imagine a lot of Fox people BTS are running around like, 'OMG can you believe this guy is president!?"
Well, my husband just tested positive. 😭Son is still testing negative, but he's probably got the same thing. Daughter and I are currently fine but I'm pretty certain that we've both been exposed. I had really hoped we wouldn't have a close call until we were able to get vaccinated. 😩
If you have more money than you could use even on the most lavish lifestyle over hundreds of lifetimes while so many people don't have enough to survive, you're part of the problem.
Tossing a handful of that pile off the mountain for them periodically doesn't make sitting on the hoarded pile of gold any less evil. Unless someone is actively giving away vast portions of that wealth, they're a bad person, IMO.
I don't believe it's possible to be a billionaire and also be a good person. If you are a billionaire, even donating a tiny fraction of your money doesn't really mean much because you are still a dragon sitting on a hoarded pile of gold while the villagers around you starve.
This seems very anti-Christy.
A huge F U to everyone who tried to dismiss the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, its unfolding chapter by chapter. Everything that’s happening at the CDC is written down and they’re enacting it while their ghoul RFK Jr is taking the heat.
A huge fuck you to everyone who told us we were "overreacting"!
It's outrageous. I also bought a pound of meat, and I did get the cheap one for like $7 but it's still outrageous to me that it's that much. I usually buy at aldi, and we get meat at either Costco or from a local farm (we get quarter cows) so it's much cheaper,
This looks amazing.
I think I bought 15 or 20 last time and just had the box in a cabinet, so I took for granted that I had plenty.
Wouldn't it be more likely/accurate to say "kids who have chronic absences are more likely to miss in the first week of school?"
Okay, found somewhere with flow flex tests that delivers, and ordered a bunch from the cheaper website so hopefully I'll have enough for a little while (and hopefully this isn't covid but just a normal cold).
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
As someone who buys laundry supplies from Costco who went to the grocery store today for emergency dryer sheets when she ran out, WTF asking $10+ for a box of like 100 dryer sheets? I mean, I got the $3 store brand ones, but seriously. WTF?
I don't know. Now I'm on a mission to try to find more covid tests.
Ugh. Well my son is definitely sick and I just realized I only have one covid test left. My husband thinks they have the same thing, but they started showing symptoms really soon after one another, so I guess one of them might have been infectious before being symptomatic.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
Everyone who doesn’t have kids, when they talk about toddlers acting badly, is always like “when I was a kid my parents would never have put up with that” and that’s bc you don’t remember being under 5. You remember being a kid that was too old for that behavior, so they no LONGER put up with it
For many it seems they take democracy for granted. It is all they have known. Yet look at the world: regression, violence, brutality, injustice, dictatorship. Be careful or autocracy is not a distant word, but it becomes your way of life.
Is RFK Jr. a narcissist, too?
Bernie Sanders: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.”
How utterly infuriating is it to have a man who doesn't trust or believe in science or expertise in the most important position that should be held by one of the top scientists and experts.
I'm glad you've managed to get that agreement. Can I declare you head of HHS?
I do get the feeling that Vance is itching to be president.
My theory was that he was either sick or had a fall and wasn't fit to be seen in public for a few days. Could be something like steroids?
It doesn't help that everything was already stressful and I was feeling really bad before all of this. Work stuff, the whole CDC thing, worrying about my kids future, already had me trying not to break down, and now to add this. I'm just not up for this right now.
The fact that he's made a shirt into a sling makes this look like he's trying to fake an injury for attention.
I'm so scared to get it again and afraid of the damage it's doing and afraid it won't go away if it does happen again. And then there's the petty stuff like not being able to work out for weeks, figuring out how to work or what to do about the kids. I just want to cry but the kids are up.
And the scary thing is the things that weren't normal were my breathing and my heart. For weeks I got out of breath just walking a few steps, and my heart would just race for no reason. I'd be sitting down working and it would be 120+ for an hour or more with no activity. I couldn't think right.
I'm so freaking stressed right now. My parents are supposed to come visit next weekend, I have work. I've been working out and I'll probably have to stop that if we get covid again. The threat of long covid terrifies me. It took 2.5 months last time for me to feel normal.
Hell, point one is a lie, too. Can you think of anywhere in this entire country that has a vaccine mandate for covid?
I'm about pg. 600! I think you read faster than me, though to have caught up this far. Loving it.
Great. My son says he's feeling fine but my husband who is the only one who doesn't reliably wear a mask is not feeling well and everyone he works around has been getting covid so if he's sick I'm super worried it's covid and he'll give it to us again.
What happened?
*accelerating. Accelerating those deaths.
Playing the is it allergies or is he getting sick game with one of my kids. 😣Praying he's not sick, and if he is, praying it's not covid.
Oh fuck this dude.
I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
Legal and constitutional experts worry Trump is laying the groundwork to use the Guard to seize control of any city he wants to bring to heel. On Monday, he signed an executive order that primes the Guard “for rapid mobilization,” across the country. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
If Mike Johnson doesn't set off every bell in your creep alarm, you need a major reset – cuz it's fuckin' broken.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
This would be lovely. I'm at least lucky enough that a couple of my providers offer.
so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do
And it's going to cost millions more as they fight this in court. Sure, we could have fed the poor or housed the homeless with that money, but I guess this was better for some reason.
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
I wish the media had listened and appropriately reported the threat we were under, and I wish that people who were aware and who were warned had actually listened instead of telling all of us that we were overreacting and "don't worry, he can't do that."
Here he goes.
Not to mention the loads of nuclear weapons and a president just itching to send some flying.
We can't depend on others to free us. We need to free ourselves.
We didn't go into Europe to free people. We went in because we were attacked so we got brought into the war. That's what worries me. Countries seem happy to let genocide occur as long as you're not invading them and you are needed economically. Look at China.
I do not believe he won and I wish SOME reporter out there would do some investigating and talk about this shit.
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
I was actually thinking something like this the other day. That the only people who are going to sign up are the worst kind of people to do it. Angry people who are okay with violence and want to join to abuse others to cover for their insecurities.
Apparently "meritocracy" actually meant shitty white men who are woefully unqualified for anything like the position they're in, but who now get to benefit from the power and clout while they destroy everything around them.
I wish the media would pick up and run the RFK Jr. story from the perspective that they don't understand why he would want to destroy Trump's covid vaccine legacy that he was so praised for because it might actually mean Trump would put a stop to it.
And they should have to write an essay explaining why they think removing this particular book from everyone's access is justified.
Sad that they think these things would let them keep their cushy jobs.
The chaos at the CDC wouldn't have been possible without Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, providing the crucial vote to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. We should make sure he never forgets that.
Oh no! Hope it's feeling better soon.
Can his name be Sid?
This is precisely what's going on, with a hint of people doing things because he randomly raged about it earlier and if they don't it'll piss him off.
it may say “bus only” but that’s actually a special lane just for you! those green boxes with bikes painted in them are just for you too because you’re special! speed limits are just a number! you’re special and no one else matters
We have a thai place that has massive portions and if we get a dinner portion, my husband and I can share and then still have enough for lunch the next day. It's awesome.
Or a kid who attends school.
Trust me, some of us have been trying for years. I can't express how sad and infuriating and tragic it is to live here. And right now things are just getting worse by the minute.
Oh, and another really awful fun fact about this is that you're actually more likely to die in a mass shooting at home than at school because most people are shot by people they know. Literally nowhere is safe as long as guns are everywhere. Nowhere.
And if you homeschool, you can't take your kids out to public places to learn things without a risk that they'll be shot there, either.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
I have to admit, something I think about regularly is how every year my kids are in school, the likelihood of them getting shot there increases.
Hell, Columbine was a test. Most other countries don't need more than one big one to actually do something meaningful to change things.
People making a shit ton of money on guns convinced people guns are more important than people and then politicized this to the point that no one is willing to do anything because they might piss off someone enough that they won't vote for them anymore.
Guns don’t kill people. Republicans who allow easy access to guns and assault weapons do.
Yet another reminder that they have antidepressants in other countries. They don't have mass shootings of little kids at church.
Yes please don't come because it's not safe right now.
Good thing bird flu isn't famously spreading all over the country and infecting more people than ever before or anything...
Since AAP says I can vaccinate my kids, will I still be able to, do you think?
Or considering the real world consequences of people being constantly exposed to racism.
Have any reporters been following up with all the doctors in congress who voted for this man?
I'm so tired of "we have the tools" and then systematically removing said tools.
It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even like sending my kids to school anymore. We don’t have to live like this.
Except I could already have the bad effects.
Someday I am going to write a book about how America managed to create a strain of Christianity that is completely antithetical to, well, Christianity.
As someone who had already shingles in her thirties, I wish it wasn't blocked until I'm 60. 😣
Like not just win but pack the damned senate and house to the point that there can be consequences and republicans are forced out and we can build new coalitions of whatever comes after (ideally new parties all around and more than two with ranked choice voting).
I need Trump and republicans down so far in polls by next November that democrats can win even in spite of the cheating they're definitely trying to do. Overperforming like 16-20% might manage it, but damn I'd like to see even more. The damned map needs to look like 1964's electoral map.
Boy do I hope so.