there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Can we stop the BS “we won’t be” framing please? Biden and Harris were big on this, too. “We won’t go back” “we won’t let them”— followed by no plan, no facts, no actions. It’s a big part of what I hated about their lame messaging. Instead—How? Where? When? What can we do?
Oop.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
YES!!!!!
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I really need everyone to remember these reactions when these two clowns, Shapiro and Newsom, are running for president as democrats. It’s not hard to say, Killing is bad and then just stop. You don’t have to glorify a terrible man.
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
people are all like oh my god what if the AI robots take over? and listen, I’m not worried because it can’t be worse than men running things
Kafka is thinking, “My work was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook.”
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
If only Dems had also learned that people actually like government to work instead of rushing rightward all the time.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Both of these covers suck.
If only there were a fail-safe process for killing the bacteria raw milk can harbor making it perfectly safe to drink
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
the thing about the NYT is is you look like mamdani you have to be accountable forever for everything including a form you filled as a teenager and didn't do anything wrong with but if you look like Trump laws you have sworn a public oath to uphold do not apply to you at any point in your life
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck these psychopaths and their narcissistic inability to consider the needs of anyone other than themselves. Horrible. So glad you did this debunking.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude, whatever. You’ve been sucking up to his lieutenants!!! Hopefully you are growing a spine and remembering that you’re technically a democrat.
Don’t put anything in text that you won’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times.
It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions. The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).
I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an open white supremacist, has a child's understanding of how government works. He has fired tens of thousands of people and believes all taxation and spending are illegitimate. He thinks his financial assistance to Trump gives him the power to set policy.
Thank God somebody brought this up. I read references to it in a very stupid pseudoscientific piece in the New Yorker last month, and the retconning of the lax Swedish lockdown strategy makes my blood boil. It's not that long ago: they had so many excess deaths that they changed policies, months in!
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Hutson claimed she had the answers to solve all these problems when she was campaigning, a campaign that was heavily supported by The Lens. What happened? Did she not have the solutions? Was she not held accountable? We have a major problem that must be solved!
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly, these guys always beat the odds (or have enough money to hide while they cure the illness). Ugh. We have entered a deliberate age of trampling science.
RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Is the Lens going to start covering the jail again?
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
ESPECIALLY since this guy shows zero signs of awareness or remorse. He’s just mad he didn’t get his money’s worth. He’s not at all self aware or concerned that maybe people should be able to buy influence in this manner.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah. We don’t have to be nice to people who are trying to kill us. Trump’s pivots are evidence of that mockery is effective.
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Hard to feel sorry for this guy. He’s a Trump super fan who is *just* noticing this stuff? Suuure. Hope you develop empathy and the ability to think critically, kid.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
I suspect his constituents in his sparse district love him and his hatefulness mixed with faux Christian rhetoric, even as he grifts on their backs and makes their lives worse.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social)
Thanks a lot, mainstream press. Your normalization of Trump is part of a big problem in coverage.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
My Boomer parents love Meet the Press and treat every word they say as a message from on high. As a result they are surprised when I bring up actual news (loss of habeas corpus, arrests of judges and opposition party members by the state, big terrible bills). MTP sucks.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Mainstream media: “Trump talks trade, tells anecdotes at graduation speech.” They don’t cover this or cover it up every time.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Let me guess: for the same reason Alex Jones is obsessed with Star Wars? Alex loves Star Wars, but it’s the Dark Side and the Emperor that he unironically loves and roots for.
They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
A party that didn’t mention the “overthrow the government” stuff while campaigning! WTF, Dems! That should have been the daily rallying cry!
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Absolutely ridiculous and highly suspicious. Why wouldn’t Hutson process the crime scene? www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
I wrote about some of the worst journalism and punditry I've read lately, from the misbegotten journalistic philosophy of The New York Times to the unhinged ranting of a law professor.
the criticism that Dems put forth old and ailing politicians to their detriment is unquestionably true, but there’s a large contingent of the party dedicated to calling you a heartless scumbag if you point it out
Let’s just be honest here: there are, while not as many as the right, certainly many left and left-leaning streamers and podcasters. Kamala Harris dodged ALL of them and we all know why: EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of them would have taken her to account over Gaza.
Damn. Ken cooked.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social)
MAHA trying to do the opposite of public health, as usual. This is evil. If you don’t want a vaccine, fine. You should do it anyway for the sake of others, but I guess we can’t fix stupid. But don’t take my right to make my own medical decisions from ME!
Thread. Inconveniently for the lie a lot of people have sallowed, the government is actually not that inefficient. *All* the jobs are important, not just the ones that make headlines.
A reminder that Hassan voted for Noem to be Secretary, so joke's on you, Hassan, you voted for this
Hard to imagine a more wrong answer. Kristi Noem was a member of Congress from 2011-2019 and has been in public office since 2007.
While Elon Musk’s DOGE is taking an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. Seems fair, right? The US DOGE Service—formerly the US Digital Service (USDS)—has been interviewing candidates and offering salaries at the top of the government pay scale.
This can't be the "merit-based" hiring Trump's been talking about! 😂 Kristi Noem cannot answer simple, basic questions about the principles this country was founded on. It would be funny if it wasn't so embarrassing.
Biden said “healthcare for ME and not for thee” and you bitches calling him Uncle Joe. TOTAL HELP ME SING
Elon Musk’s DOGE is still wreaking havoc across the federal government. Thousands of federal workers have been fired, rehired, and fired again in just five months – throwing their lives into chaos and disrupting crucial services millions of Americans rely on. How efficient.
Laud what politicians do when they deserve it, but do not herocize them. Approach them with healthy skepticism and avoid any and all cults of personality. You have to be willing to scrutinize everyone.
covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power
Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.
I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Repeatedly! As do all of the Dems on this list. Useless quislings!
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the Democrats’ normal line up of quislings. Ugh.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, definitely. The pathetic thing is that they could greatly improve their ratings just by throwing us a few sops, but they don’t even think of us enough to do that.
I don’t think you have a moral obligation to be polite when speaking about people in power who are personally responsible for violence, barbarity, and mass death
“abortion pills have a lower rate of serious complications than Tylenol,……It is because of abortion bans – not abortion access – that women in America are facing dramatically rising rates of “sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging” and death in pregnancy.”
I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
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And that’s without getting into the exact amount of sympathy I have for a man who was indifferent to the suffering of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians as he funded the bombs that slaughtered them. Or even his indifference to the loss of rights of US women. Not sympathetic at all.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social)
Your reminder that this man, who fought against universal and single payer healthcare, will himself receive state of the art care as the evil administration he caused to win destroys an already insufficient American healthcare system. We can be clear eyed and not turn him into a saint.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
We don’t have to turn these selfish politicians into saints. We can ask them what they did for their country, which is supposed to be their job and mission. They rely on us to forget that part.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Honey. Check out the health insurance that presidents and members of congress get— gold standard coverage FOR LIFE. He had a White House doctor, too. It won’t prevent cancer, but it will allow him not to worry about access to care, treatment, and therapy, unlike the rest of us with crappy insurance
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Your reminder that this man, who fought against universal and single payer healthcare, will himself receive state of the art care as the evil administration he caused to win destroy an already struggling and insufficient American healthcare system. I’m not very sympathetic to him.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Your reminder that this man, who fought against universal and single payer healthcare, will himself receive state of the art care as the evil administration he caused to win destroy an already struggling and insufficient American healthcare system.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally all of these centrist governments, including ours, could have won on just doing real things for their constituents, rather than for donors. I guess it’s nice Trump reminded them of the alternative, but after all, it’s his SECOND term. They should all know.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure…but you were a big part of the problem, “access journalism” folks.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tax cuts it quietly guts federal protections and reshapes entire agencies. Here’s what’s buried inside:
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
At universities altogether! It’s short sighted and we are already seeing the effects of an inability to communicate, ignorance of history, and removal of literature and art.
theconversation.com/vaccination-...
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Ugh. The Trump playbook. Throw out a bunch of conflicting statement, scream “witch hunt”, blame a fall guy.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Hutson ran on “transparency” but she’s the opposite. Her whole administration is a shit show.
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
The white rural reckoning: "Given the damage of Trump’s first-term agriculture tariffs, rural American farmers may have forfeited the right to express surprise or dismay about what’s happening to them — again."
A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.
It's even worse than this! "No one can be deprived of liberty without due process of law" goes back to Runnymede, far predating the United States. (and further: the barons who wrote the Magna Carta also believed they were merely enshrining in writing rules that already existed since time immemorial)
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Not mentioned in the article: how many of these elected officials supported Hutson’s campaign, despite her easily disprovable lies. www.nola.com/news/politic...
"But this is disaster season prep under the Trump administration. It takes the usual ingredients... and sends it all through a kaleidoscopic blender, outputting some unholy approximation of what had been built up over decades into a reasonably good system aimed at minimizing death and loss."
There does not exist enough gold yet discovered within the bowels of this planet to build the appropriate sized Fell For It Again Award for this one
Another historic transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
An all too short and sad road. It’s mind boggling that Dems can’t even respond to this obvious “we want granny to die” and direct, basic eugenics statements.
60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%. Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.
The MAGAs are one step away from saying that illness is the result of sinful behavior and the sick should be punished rather than helped. They are cruel beyond belief.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Happy to talk about the stuff we did NOT do— increasing air quality standards, normalizing masks and preventative measures, and increasing public health measures on all levels. But I guess we’re not going to do any of that.
Reminder: If Mother's Day sucks for you, that's okay, and it's okay if it's complicated. first-draft.com/2018/05/13/i...
Funny the way the "bigger tent" always needs to include right wing grifters and not abolitionists and socialists.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
What the hell happened to politicians who were actually good at politics? That’s not Biden; certainly not Harris. Couldn’t we have found anyone who actually has a deft political touch to run?
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately, this line works. I have uninformed conservative relatives who explain this to me all the time about both Trump and Musk. They buy this idiotic “he’s very altruistic” line and use it to not notice that they are making plenty of money as they grift off the election and the positions.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, they can, but they won’t implement. Whereas the fascists are just like “Nobody cares, eggheads!” as they trample rules under their feet. Dems ABSOLUTELY could have done so many things then, and could be doing something now! McConnell even provides a model!
Yeah this stupid gibberish of "WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING DEMS WHEN WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON THE EVIL ...." is so frustrating. People criticise Dem leadership or strategy BECAUSE theyre the only ones in a position to stop the 'Evil--' If they do a bad job, thats how the Evil XX-- wins.
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That’s because we don’t have the money! Or the space.
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social) reply parent
I am so sorry. Are there any local Still Coviding events? I so rarely bump into anyone else who is!
Hilarious statement from the inventor of presidential immunity
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I kind of assumed that Westpoint was already doing that. Isn’t half of military training learning to follow orders without question?
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
janepatience.bsky.social (@janepatience.bsky.social)
Yup. And democrats doing nothing to restore faith in government, often helping to make it worse!
They are stealing from us.
Joshua Holland 