Detroit!! Also, it looks super good, I hope it makes it
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Detroit!! Also, it looks super good, I hope it makes it
State medical boards and bar associations should be busy defending their professions against the assorted killer clowns of the administration but
I need one or more national level Democratic leader to call these people pussies at least once a day while the militarization of our cities continue unabated "These people are afraid of fuckin ***Chicago***, absolute bitch-coded shit, completely disqualifying for leadership of any organization"
The contemporary Republican Party has gathered together, under one banner, the worst human beings in the country. It barely even has an ideology any more beyond "be your worst self."
sorry to any florida newborns who share space with school aged kids but whooping cough apparently has more right to life than you so
One of my favorite stories about Sparta, mostly because I find it funny that most people cut out what happens after the "If".
'oh you claim you don't need heavily armed weekend warriors patrolling your streets and yet just this week! a murder!!' if you don't get the fuck out of my face with this freedom hating bullshit
the idea that military occupation is good and needful anywhere any crimes occur is so obviously and stupidly fascist that our nation's Great Newspapers are naturally compelled to jot that shit down and share it with the world
Fwiw, as an epidemiologist whose background is in infectious disease but now works in maternal-child health epi, I tend to use the phrase "during COVID restrictions" for data collected ~2020-2022, especially when talking about things like mental health or access to care
All I want is for everyone to hate these fucking fascists as much as I do. That's really all that remains of my politics.
A lottery pull of a random Dem voter in his district would be an instant 10x improvement over this dish sponge
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We don’t need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
which could mean nothing
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
is he dead? of course not, we aren't that lucky. is it fun to imagine something beautiful? yes, obviously. but more than that, he's notoriously thin skinned and hopefully this will push him to prove his health & vitality in a way that is very damaging to his 80 year old heart.
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Finding it difficult to write a simple straightforward update on international shipping for my print shop without it turning into a profanity-laden tirade
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
My stance has been that the US drifted into a third-rate PK Dick novel in the mid-2000s when a man named Butch Otter was elected governor of Idaho The recent onset of the fake fakes is not disabusing me of this belief
the specifics that gave rise to this bit of wisdom are unimportant
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Butlerian Jihad now: defector.com/butlerian-ji...
It's the perfect time for the Michigan House Republicans to propose cutting back food safety monitoring in their bullshit budget www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
uhhhh
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
I have a "2016 SUCKED" T-shirt and I like to look at it and shake my head at my innocence, my naivete
Travis Kelce did an ad for the COVID-19 vaccine and I think that was cool of him
Surely this group of men have the Democratic Party's best interests at heart! Put them on the DMC stage, this will win over the very real centrist voters, the only potential Democratic voters who matter!
I subscribe to Puzzmo which has a variety of word games and other puzzles and also a daily crossword and also doesn't have any stake in whitewashing fascism: www.puzzmo.com/today/
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
if jd vance calls you a fucking out of touch elitist for saying "lgbtq" then the correct response is not "yes sir i'll say faggot next time" it's to call him a fancy ass yale motherfucker and say you'll use whatever words you want
The alma mater is a disgrace, it must be said
maybe it's my working class background speaking, but most people know this? here in Michigan literally tens of thousands attend schools with major commuter student populations, like Wayne State, Oakland, Grand Valley State and Eastern Michigan, and that's just among the four-year schools
At a recent public health conference I attended, the keynote speaker was the sort of 'build a stronger team by practicing REAL diversity and inclusion' management consultant type Any other year I am no fan of any consultant speaker but this year it felt like. rebellion.
"This is an unprecedented emergency requiring an unprecedented response, which is why we are forming several committees"
With Shin Godzilla back in the zeitgeist, my take is that it remains the single best portrayal of government work during a crisis
Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?
Chat, I think we have a small civil-military problem developing
I have bestowed upon the wait staff a rant about how many services would have been required to watch every Wings game last year and I frankly have had enough
It is stupid how many streaming services and channels are hosting a single pro team's games anymore At the bar and Apple TV is apparently showing the Tigers game and it's the one channel they don't have and what the fuck? Apple TV???
crucial step to attaining the mythic Blutah
Pritzker's queued up in preparation youtu.be/9saEpqhBP5M?...
All right, lads, this should get Dems back in power by making them completely indistinguishable from the losers in power who demanded we take the "TQ+" out of a ***citation*** used in federal grant application Language policing is fun and guarantees victory!!
will they get a boil that turns out to be MRSA but Grok tells them it's just a cold sore and they die of sepsis insisting it's fine, Grok said it was fine, they don't need a doctor, only an idiot would be a doctor now that we have Gemini?
what a beautiful future these fatuous dorks wish to impose on us ever since I was a young girl I longed to not get into anything
I don't even know what justice looks like for these DOGE fucks, but it needs to be massive and devastating to their futures
for Red Wings fans in this coalition: imagine Ken Holland trading Sergei Fedorov for Claude Lemieux because he remembers the good old days when everyone would fight it out on the ice then go for a beer and just wants to get back to that and also the NHL needs a strong Colorado Avalanche
Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.
"I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is what happens when someone attempts a Wilco parody
at some point the opposition party is gonna have to oppose fascism and that means a full throated defense of trans people's right to exist in our country.
At least all this Republican kissing of Russia's ass has Reagan rolling in his sulfurous, moldering grave
very politically astute to highlight that their opposition is elderly white people, not just college kids and people of color, while also insulting elderly white people, who I believe comprise at least a minor constituency in the GOP
I'd say I'd be halting my contributions but the endowment has always appeared well-fed enough to not require my little public health dollars, so instead I just shake my head to show disapproval
Between the total complicity in the DEI realm, the weird private security stalking of pro-Palestine activists, and now this, the ol' alma mater is not covering itself in glory this year
“In a far-flung province known for its extreme right-wing politics, the ruling party is holding an opposition party official hostage in the Capital building. The lawmaker, who is a member of the Black ethnic minority, has been told she’d be arrested if she leaves the building.”
Saint Lucia’s Supreme Court has struck down laws criminalising consensual same-sex relations. Their repeal marks a clean break from that legacy and aligns the island with a regional push to dismantle anti-LGBTQ+ laws. buff.ly/RDCOlka #ShareGoodNewsToo
They told me they no longer wanted my gay little dollars and I respect their boundary. Sorry about the failing business or whatever I guess
Reward politicians for fighting and solidarity, punish them for seeking bipartisan solutions and abandoning marginalized people or any other appeasement strategy. Replace anyone who doesn't get on board. Repeat until we have driven every Republican and every other fascist from public life forever.
lol, after that $1m to Trump's inauguration I don't know if this store will ever see my gay little dollars again and I'm sure he's making more money losing this job than I will over my whole career
American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...
this is an invitation to deny gay people the right to become citizens. It is almost certainly a first step to deny trans people the right to become citizens.
I find this to be so debasing and frankly just pathetic. the Biden administration gave Teamsters everything they asked for from a policy standpoint but most of the Teamsters voted for Trump simply because Trump hates the same people they hate
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers. The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.
there are 250 Democrats in Congress who should be out on the streets telling these folks to go home right now
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee spent four years and hundreds of thousands of lives trying to occupy Washington, DC. MAGA accomplished it without firing a shot. South Carolina was the first state to secede. If South Carolina troops are the first in DC, let that symbolism not be lost on anyone.
I just want a Dem representative from a major metro to respond to one of these rural district chuds saying that American cities are crime ridden warzones with "you call the people of my district a blight on society when the economic center of yours is a meth lab."
at this point we can probably campaign on disbanding the federal law enforced agencies as a make work project
There is a lot less news reporting coming out of Gaza since Israel killed the entire Al Jazeera team of journalists.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
BREAKING: ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...
Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society. The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
not only do the people need to know but they WANT to know, I have never had so many people thank me after a talk in my life and it wasn't because of all the trend data I reported on
when I described the repeated removal of publicly accessible federal data websites, I told my audience that the administration was STEALING data WE have already paid for with OUR tax dollars, and just because they returned it doesn't mean it wasn't stolen before and won't be stolen again
several of the talks alluded to "current times" or whatever, but we're not willing to state plainly what "current times" means! tell people what you are seeing! we do not all share the same reality! tell people that you are mad about it!
gave a data talk at a conference for child & adolescent health professionals where I briefly described in plain terms what is happening with federal data collection and sharing and my takeaway is people are STARVING for anyone willing to be honest and not euphemism their way around reality
beta cucks are afraid of big cities real alphas walk the streets
the number of drunken 3 am bike rides I took through early gentrification Midtown Detroit as a 21 year old white lady with zero crimes committed on or near my person suggests to me that these dudes are some S tier pussies truly elevating what it is to be a lil bitch, almost transcendent
PERSON WHO SPENDS 98% OF THEIR TIME IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER, IN A TV GREENROOM, OR AT A GOURMET RESTAURANT: Things are probably bad outside
A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
There is a reason my favorite professor (infectious disease epidemiology, fwiw) described his time teaching there as "the jail at Yale"
Moderates remain America's most pathetic soldiers
The president wants nothing so dearly as he wants to see American troops gunning down the people he doesn’t like
Democrats need to stand up with one voice to call these losers out for the complete titty babies they are, just S tier pathetic weenie behavior, a confession you could not waterboard out of a person with a whisper of a spine
so much for the alleged honor and integrity imbued by military service, just as quick to complicity as weak-ass university and business leadership
Put my grad school mortarboard on my beloved Charlie Bad Dog in 2011 due to the grip this headline has had on me
it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving
Fashionable, feminine, and a rebellious source of entertainment. In the Johnson Publishing Company Archive you'll find iconic images of drag ball performers from the 1940s–60s. [🧵1/4]
the gender equivalent of dudes open carrying at the grocery store -- like do you not see how pathetically wimpy you look right now??
These people are acting like there's some sort of inalienable right to never feel even a little uncomfortable in public and it is so absurdly unworkable on every level even if bigotry had nothing to do with it like. toughen up, babies??