Oh this gives me the ick. I will not use AI. #writer
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Oh this gives me the ick. I will not use AI. #writer
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
After a really, really long wait at my local library, I finally read EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS. It’s engrossing and fascinating, but as I finished the book, my heart sank thinking about all the cuts to research here in the US.
Good grief! When you think you’ve heard the worst of his takes, he offers up another one. This is gross.
I always think he can't get any stupider and he always surprises me
While lately it feels like there is a much closer than usual thin line between satire and real life in the McSweeney’s pieces, this one is more real life than satire - and it’s devastating.
WTF, @ticketmaster.com These seats did NOT say limited view when I bought them day of on sale. It’s a crime to charge this much for these seats at Globe Life Park.
Earlier this week, Trump decided we didn’t need clean air anymore. Today, he decided forever chemicals are good in our water. What the hell is wrong with this guy? I didn’t think this was controversial, but I believe everybody deserves clean air and safe water!
The July jobs report is a bad sign for the economy—and on track with when economists forecasted we would start to see a downturn due to Trump's trade war. Trump's tariffs are making it impossible for businesses to plan for the future and will continue to drive unemployment even higher.
I don’t think we’ll see movement here until Medicaid cuts go into effect. There are a lot of people here who don’t realize what their Tenncare really is. They won’t care until they are affected.
This is the kind of energy voters need to bring to the polls.
Unfortunately my senator is Marsha Blackburn and the only town hall she’s held in years was recently, via phone, for registered republicans only. Shes as greedy and awful as the rest of this lot.
And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
And I doubt he’s actually police.
The crew got space but he didn’t. He then proceeded to ram his bag into the suitcases in another overhead compartment (we’re on an Embraer 175 with small bins) as if he hit them hard enough his bag would magically fit. So glad he’s not my seat partner as I bet he manspreads too. 2/2
The rudest man ever is freaking out because the space for “his suitcase” in the overhead compartment is full. The flight attendant had to explain the seats are assigned, the overhead space is not. She also explained that the bags in that space were crew bags and he was griping about how 1/2
The power of reading can not ever be overstated. There are worlds to explore, villains to conquer, & shoes to walk a mile in. At your fingertips, there is a vast supply of freely available e-books awaiting you. Read. Fascists hate that.
“Everyone dies” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”
While Tapper presses a former president's health, the sitting president is telling the world that Biden was executed in 2020 & replaced by a robot. These are unserious people holding the rudder as we careen towards the rocky shoreline.... that they laced with mines.
A friend crocheted us all “f b*mbs” during his last term for just this reason. Highly cathartic. Would recommend.
ABSOLUTELY!🌈
Seems like another idiotic thing to throw out to distract us from what’s really important. So…what has he done now?
I mistakenly thought she was going to show some humility and actually apologize. Instead, she showed us, once again, exactly who she is. And that’s a soulless, “let them eat cake”, greedy half-chewed-gum-stuck-to-the-bottom-of-the-chair kind of human shaped organism.
Are we great yet? Because taking help away from those who need it, via successful programs, seems like the antithesis of greatness.
Why do billionaires need more tax cuts than kids need health insurance? Why do billionaires need more tax cuts than hungry kids need food? They don’t. The bill Republicans are trying to pass is WRONG. Every Senator needs to vote NO.
How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
The irony of his talking about hurting people after cutting USAID (which is literally hurting people), cutting thousands of jobs in government, pulling student visas, etc, etc…
I’d also look at my old contract to see if there is ANY language about other use of material (like feeding it into AI)
Well, the old contract became invalid from nonpayment so the question is will the UK courts acknowledge it? If they are assuming all old contracts and no new ones have been issued, was that tiny payment their way of trying to stay in contract?
Not only do need to hit them with a cease and desist of selling your book, you need to put them on notice before they feed said book into their AI machine. I wouldn’t doubt that THAT was a part of their investor’s plan. This sucks all around and good on you for doing your homework.
When you take ALLLLLLLLLL your meds at one time
Finally caught up on 9-1-1 and…what the hell kind of a decision was that!! (No spoilers). We are so damn mad I have no words.
Also - at what point does the buying slowdown start to affect these wealthy dudes? How do their businesses remain unaffected by all this?
Also - holy shit, he’s out of touch. And WTH is he going on about with pencils.
We patiently wait for Disney's cease-and-desist order after this one.
It might be but it’s also pathetic and gross.
Say it with me: Disabled people deserve to live even if they can’t work.
Former Catholic and this still appalls me. Also - didn’t he claim to be Protestant? Even if it’s a joke, it’s inappropriate for the White House to be posting
Also - @scalzi.com is a damn delight and his books are the escape I need right now.
Happens every time - when I was out running errands, I saw a notification from the library that a book on hold is now available, but when I get there multiple are available. I still have two unread from the last trip when I went in to pick up one and left with four. What are you #reading today?
Well it didn’t take long for the WH to get pissy about showing tariff costs. That’s the FO part of FA, right? They aren’t the only ones breaking out tariffs though. I’ve seen several other websites break it out in the shopping cart. It’s their right.
Our local Dunkin Donuts is constantly out of donuts. Someday they sell out by 11, some days 9. We asked them today if they ever restock - they pointed out that they’ve changed their name to “Dunkin” and dropped the “donuts” and are really more a coffee shop. What???!!
What?
Ew. Also there is nothing in the divine about Vance.
If you see this, it's your sign that you should buy so much Easter candy, (better than Halloween candy, fight me) get stoned and submit something to the TBQ this Sunday. We open 4/20. We are a Literary Magazine from the Literary World
A federal research grant is not a gift, but a contract in which the grantee has to complete the work for which they were funded. Receiving a grant comes through a competitive process, and the terms of those contracts are not arbitrary. Harvard doesn't get free money. Grants are hard-won.
I’m relieved he is alive. I hope he isn’t treated worse for having been trotted out.
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
I mean, he put the man in street clothes and took him to a hotel to feign that all is great when we have other US cretins posing in front of prisoners. It’s not like we don’t know what the prison situation is.
Kristie Noem shot her own dog. She’s not a paragon of character.
I don’t want to stop shopping at Food City but 90% of the time they insist on bagging my groceries even when I say I’d prefer to and so I have to rebag everything in the lobby. Canned goods on top of my bread. Jars on top of my fruit. Food is too expensive to be bruised and smashed
There is no way on God’s green earth that that man weighs 224 at 6’3”. None. No chance.
📣 “We stand with our classmates. We stand with our community. Deportation without due process isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional. #NoStudentLeftBehind #AbolishICE #DueProcessMatters #PellissippiProud Read more here: www.imaginarygardens.org/index.php/20...
Maternity care. Cancer screenings. STD treatments. Birth control. The GOP attacks on health care never end. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Haven’t noticed this - will have to ask my husband who watched the Roku Run tv more.
Oh, I know, but I weep for the possible loss of so much work too
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Just another example of our embarrassing administration following the will of our thin-skinned Dear Leader. Dislike for the current president is not equivalent to hatred for the country or democracy.
Hey folks. This needs to be said. Loudly. Crawford's win in Wisconsin is a big deal. Democracy beat bribery. A Democrat won a heated electoral contest. Public opinion was against Musk/DJT. We are in the midst of a struggle, and it sure as hell isn't over.
Two of the remaining three Republicans who tried to overturn Wisconsin's vote for Biden in 2020 will be up for retention elections in the next two years. x.com/MikeSacksEsq...
I sure hope their work was backed up someplace safe - like on a disk drive at home - at home ahead of all this idiocy.
"Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
look it’s not that shitposters don’t understand the gravity of the current moment it’s just that we want to laugh about it while it’s still possible
This vibe. (art by Ainsley Drew)
This Senator from Indiana is everything that’s wrong with American leadership today. The utter disrespect is just gross.
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
Booker on Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here in spite of his speech. I'm here because as poweful as he was, the people were more powerful."
What’s impressive to me is 20+ hours into this filibuster Sen. Booker is focused and clear - and despite how exhausted he must be he still makes more sense than Trump on ANY Truth Social word soup post.
And Sen Ted Cruz, correct? Damn, that’s one way for Texas to be free of him.
I have mine! It’s one of the first things we do when I move to a new area! I love that I can put books on hold with the app and download books to my ereader using Libby.
My God. The second woman isn’t sure she’s vote for him again? What tiny bit of idiocy does she still believe in that she might consider it???
Are they? Some of the people they’ve “detained” are just getting shuffled from holding facility to jail and it doesn’t sound like there is any court hearings.
He really likes the phrase “the likes of which no one thought was possible” and uses it frequently. And erroneously.
Tell me something good as my brain needs a cleans after reading today’s news about the Most recent Executive Orders!
Tell me you don’t know how your phone works without telling me…. Oh, FFS this shit is getting old. The lies and defense is just getting bigger and more idiotic the longer they fight it. Fire the whole damn mess of them as they’ve proved themselves incapable of national security.
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
The Smithsonian, tasked with telling the story of America, could see changes under President Donald Trump’s unprecedented executive order. Here's what to know about how it operates.
Poor Stefanik. All that ass kissing and personality changing just to lose her leadership position and get her nomination pulled. Anyway, I had Greek yogurt for breakfast. With blueberries.
hell. yeah.
Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”
It’s really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie.
My mom can’t remember! I told her to get her titer checked.
Same. My doc had me get boosters after the birth of each of my kids and I had another a few years ago when there was a small outbreak locally in a homeschool group. I just got another last month as we were traveling back to Texas.
She is disgusting.
Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die
If you attack the Capitol to overturn election results and to overthrow democracy on behalf of a criminal, you’re a hero. If you attack a Tesla dealership, we’ll throw away the key.
Here’s Elon cutting pediatric brain cancer research 👇🏻
I’m sure these nurses on Telemedicine would be thrilled with spending the first five minutes on the phone with her trying to tell her to turn on video and then the next 10 waiting for her to find the remote control to the tv so she can turn the volume down.
Democrats, use her as your role model and FIGHT.
I find "listen to the women" excellent advice in this specific case and... in life in general. ♀️ #VoteNO 👎
Telemedicine? If you spent 10 minutes with my sweet MIL in her assisted living facility with her trying to work her computer you'd know computers are not the answer. Telemedicine in Nursing homes is NOT the answer. Quality care "equivalents" are not the answer. Quality care is the only answer.
Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK
So who were the 9 Dems that voted for cloture and what Dem candidates will be looking to upset their seats? Need to know where to send my money, because this is bullcrap.
Indeed.
