HOW THE HECK DID I MAKE IT OUT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
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HOW THE HECK DID I MAKE IT OUT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
It’s such a cheap shot, too. When I started Getting Into Politics, it was activists from Alabama and Georgia and Missouri who taught me the most. They FIGHT HARD to protect their communities under the most difficult of conditions.
Just when you thought they couldn't get any eviller, they remind you that the limit does not exist.
Totally different planet on Twitter where news of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommending a different vaccination standard for #COVID19 than the CDC recommends is being treated as proof that the AAP is corrupt and has sold out to pharma corps. I don't know how we fix this.
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Sandwiches now outlawed, hamberders mandatory
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As a prostate cancer haver, thank you for your efforts in raising awareness!
Good for you, yes, but I still feel sad for the people who had to close their bakery after 12 years unless of course they won the lottery or something in which case eat the rich
🥹 Bless Mr. Cayce and all teachers who walk his path
Every time I hear Health NZ representatives say the nurses are putting people at risk I think: no, Health NZ, you are putting people at risk and this strike is Nurses trying to stop your harm
Aw now that's just sad
Oh very nice
Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future. (Me interacting with the rest of the world / me with my Bluesky peeps)
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
* And their hard, often invisible hospitalizations, deaths, new heart conditions, and #LongCovid ** We are still DURING COVID ffs
I wish the press were as interested in Trump’s health as they were in Biden’s
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Happy Labor Day...
I don’t love the “don’t write essays in other people’s replies” discourse Yes, neurotypicals, we hear you. Would you please hear us when we say this is often just a neurodivergent thing? We do it because we’re trying SO hard not to be misunderstood We accommodate you all the time. Give us a break?
Osborn is running as an (I) and while the Democratic Party should not explicitly support him (it could erode his credibility) I think randos like us should absolutely donate to him if we can He came very close to winning the Nebraska Senate seat last year, I think in a midterm he has a real shot
life is short, keep scrolling so you never miss a post
American democracy isn't worth saving if we have to keep transfolk in an Omelas hole
Yeah, you know what, if it drives business off of Substack I'm good with that
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
why can't the democrat messaging on trans people be "no, we are not going to force children to undergo genital inspections in order to play sports"
No no no no nonononono NO
The time to get off Substack was several years ago when they doubled down on platforming Nazis but the next best time—if you have any interest in maintaining control over your content and subscriptions—is now, now, now.
Gone wrong, eh? What was the body count? (Yes I just watched a heist movie (Eenie Meanie, starring Samara Weaving, on Hulu, recommend), why do you ask?)
Sorry, calibrating
Like, it's okay to not know things, you know? You don't know something until you do, you aren't aware of something til you are. No judgement there. But why assume you're DISCOVERING IT? Shouldn't the impulse be "oh I haven't known what I'm talking about: WHO HAS, let me go check out what they say"
You've gained skill, strength, confidence, and have come to know yourself better through the process. I admire you and look forward to seeing what comes next 🤩
It's. A. Primary. Race. This is the designated time to find the perfect candidate. You're not required to pay attention to any primary race posts.
Some people have visions. Floyd Anderson had at least two.
How is California not doing this already? Public health based on real science is anti-fascist at its core! Whether Newsom is running for president or not, he and the state lege leaders should want California to be in a leadership position on public health.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
If you haven't been wearing a face mask in public lately (or just not consistently), now would be a great time to start. You deserve to protect your health.
I've seen many debating what to do if COVID vaccines truly disappear in the US & what they told me in Canada (as I can only safely receive a vaccine our government no longer buys)- is to "get infected to avoid infection" which is obviously bad advice. So, I wear an N95 everywhere in public instead.
Two people to take the Ring to Mordor? I mean
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
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Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s
Le Guin undefeated at "the fuck you say to me" as subtext
You really want to be obnoxious, go with the French pronunciation when discussing it with English speakers of either stripe: "Don KEY-shoat"
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Medium's head in the crystal ball via Zoom
This is phenomenal messaging. Hello Democrats? Knock knock, anybody home?
i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often
I love this idea (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
There needs to be a sister competition to the Spelling Bee-- a Pronunciation Bee, where the judge spells an obscure word for you, gives you its definition, and you have to pronounce it correctly
I think it's the exceedingly friendly, even avuncular, appearance of your avi. Maybe if you used an AI-generated one you wouldn't seem so approachable
Y'all need to team up with another pair of armed guards who guard a bank somewhere way far away from yours. And then do a Hitchcockian criss cross--you rob their bank and they rob yours.
I wish more Americans would realize the same holds true among nation states as well
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
I want people (nonmaskers) to note the “just asking questions” to being provided with numerous studies to “actually I just don’t care about others” pipeline and tell me, how is this refusal to take in facts and adapt to them distinguishable from Republican rhetoric, and are you also doing it?
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
I love this and am irrationally jealous that I'm not a patron of this library
If you really want to impress them tell them how many times you peed off it
Trying to formulate why this week's ep of SNW bothered me: They just spent an hour telling nonstop racist stereotype jokes (some funny but some really cringey) and it's ok because the race in question is a fictional species. (But yes, I did laugh at the post-credits scene. Patton's that good.)
Cute hair! 🤩
Again, it's only temporary respite, but usually it works long enough for me that by the time it wears off my attention is elsewhere and it takes awhile for the tinnitus to impinge on my consciousness again. And you can always repeat as needed. Hope this helps!
Drum your fingertips against the base of your skull, so it sounds like a cattle stampede inside your head. Continue this for several seconds, just past the point you get bored and annoyed. When you lower your hands, the tinnitus hum will hopefully have abated, or at least diminished significantly.
Here's a "this one weird trick" that actually works for me, albeit briefly: press your palms firmly over your ears, forming an airtight seal, with your fingers wrapping around the back of your head.
I'm thinking at least three of them did it
*match strikes, lights fuse* *cue Mission: Impossible theme* (I tried to find a gif but all I got was stuff from the Tom Cruise movies, mostly Cruise in a wire harness)
Live your life in such a way that a press pool photo of you with your granddaughter who's wearing a mini skirt doesn't make you look like a pervy old man
Fucking Maggie Haberman cannot stop fellating the Trump administration.
Pssst Dave Your math is off
Manifesting
RFK Jr may have seen to it that our HHS and CDC are utterly worthless, but my state still has a functioning public health agency ❤️
Okay, as the timeline stands, but imagine: Dalton and Brosnan trade places
"has returned to custody" is incredibly intriguing wording
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[spray-on] sun [tan] king
R's made our homelessness systemic and inevitable; D's blamed and punished us for being homeless: linktr.ee/nowordforwater
You'll note there is no statewide task force to create more shelter space or housing for homeless folks. This is fucking pointless. This will force homeless folks to lose all their belongings and relocate to another neighborhood. People in these camps form support systems and this will upend them.
if I stay very very still maybe the despair won’t see me
Looking cuter with one paw than many cats can manage with four
This is 100% unnecessary and chances are at least a couple of those kids/teachers/staff walks away permanently disabled or with vascular damage.
The most important thing that New Orleanians want you to know about the history of Hurricane Katrina is that we do *not* consider it a natural disaster The local paper had already published a 7 piece story on the impending breach of the levees. Legislators deliberately destabilized infrastructure.
I would have more confidence in a kindergarten teacher than I do in Jim O'Neill in leading the CDC.
How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition
Gerunds were assigned verbs at birth but they identify as nouns
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cc: @governor.ca.gov
Current pop. Of CA: 39.5M Avg # of constituents per Representative when the Reapportionment Act was passed: 212,000. 39,500,000/212,000 = ~186
If Newsom truly wanted to be a visionary, he would direct the CA redistricting efforts to ignore the Congressional Reapportionment Act of 1929. Create 186 districts.* Send 186 new Representatives to Congress. Demand they all be seated. Maxim chaos.
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Californians, as you’ve probably already heard you can get the Covid vaccine at CVS. You check a box that your high risk, but you don’t have to specify. You click on “other.” I highly recommend you sign up immediately. We don’t know what’s going to happen.
Not sus (or at least not especially/specifically sus), just petty
Resilience targeting
Another reminder to call your Senators to demand RFK Jr be publicly humiliated and shunned from political society I also think it’s critical we ask states like California, who employ credible public health officers, to encourage them to engage on social media and correct RFK Jr’s atrocious lies
National tour when
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Or inconvenience themselves...