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Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
My first op-ed workshop coming up and I've added two NEW workshops. One is a reworked version of my personal essay workshop, and the other is about idea generation and developing a practice. The second is experimental so the price point is low ($50) in case I suck www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Send this to all the genocide deniers in your life I’m sending it to my rabbi
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California stepping up.
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
Hah! Just told similar story with father in law munching dog jerky 🤣😂
My mother-in-law and I saw my father-in-law down several pieces of jerky from a tub. After the third handful he made a face and said they kind of taste like dog food. When MIL burst out laughing I knew it was dog treats 🤣
So last night I decided to try a piece of banana bread my wife made. I immediately felt bad because I found it incredibly dry and quite bland; I didn't have the heart to tell her. Today I learned what I'd eaten was a regular piece of bread she put on top to keep everything fresh. I'm an idiot.
Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines
“Stop talking about that time we did a insurrection”
That's what Putin says to him too!
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
They all must be strong black women! He obviously fears them the most! They're the best at bringing out his yuuuge white male insecurities.😅
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
This thought made me smile! It probably spins him out with every cough 🫢
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Now a lot of you are going to be hearing about this incident so let me just get ahead of it and say
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Bill said he "thought over the weekend about Kennedy's qualifications". Did He? Kennedy is: Not a scientist Not a physician Not in his right mind Not a believer in scientific process All of which has been evident the entire time of his vetting
The destruction of public health in the United States is Bill Cassidy’s legacy. Never forget.
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
Source:
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!
A white man says something blatantly false and ableist. But he is an “expert” and his field doesn’t do the essential work of including the impacts of disability so he shouldn’t be criticized. Imagine how his field would change dramatically if it understood how disability impacted its understanding.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Every single US city needs to do this, and enforce it.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
10/10 🎯
it's the wave of the future, because we will tell you you're old fashioned if you don't use it, but minimize your contributions if you do. either way, we win and you lose. meritocracy!
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50 members of Congress seek answers about arrests of fire crew replica.seattletimes.com/popovers/dyn...
This administration could care less about small businesses. They can't grift millions off them to curry favor.
Because the RW has bought up news stations/ publications for this moment. Horrifying!
Pro-life crowd -tell me more about protecting kids. Sick fucking assholes!
The USS Lake Erie, a guided missile cruiser, has passed through the Panama Canal into the Caribbean to join other US warships and a submarine off Venezuela.
Early voting starts today, Boston! Find where and when at michelleforboston.com/vote.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
“bluesky has no pull” we had the world thinking the president was dead, we’re becoming more powerful than they could ever imagine
They meant the skeets 😏
I endorse donating to Innovation Law Lab. I’ve worked with them a number of times over the years, they’re legit.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Bold move to empty out the CDC when you're one rough Stephen Miller handshake away from death.
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
Everyone replying that this doesn't sound like he wrote it himself is right. But what does it say that his aides think he'll be A-OK with this story about him wandering around the grounds yelling?
It's a good thing nothing is going on in the world that might require the attention of the president of the United States, otherwise he might not have time to supervise the contractors.
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/
🚨 Trump’s FCC targeted Disney a week after shareholders voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal. Investors voted 99-1 percent to defeat an anti-LGBTQ+ proposal in March.
@marisakabas.bsky.social Someone just followed me with your picture and name. I was so surprised/excited, went to the page and it was a scam. Without thinking, I just blocked before reporting and getting a picture.
hot ghoul summer
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
Go for it! Recipe: 125 g starter, 150 g pumpkin purée, 250 g water, 50 g brown sugar, 10 g vanilla extract (or maple if you have it), 500 g bread flour, 2 tsp cinnamon powder, & 10 g pink salt.
* looks beautiful too!
All it needs is butter 😋
I’m so happy with how this turned out. It smells so good! #sourdoughsky
That is stunning! Worked in a bakery for years. I love the art of it all 😍
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
Human Rights are like using your candle to light some one else's. You lose nothing but make them equal in the process.
I have the other rolls, the non-muscular kind 😬🤣
The last physical pool sighting “Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 3:49 PM. Trump was answering questions for 30min.”
* Trump, of course
That'd be the only thing we celebrate about his vice presidency.
Have to say if he isn't gone, that it's particularly hilarious that the speculation began to spike after JD Vance told USA Today that his "200 days" of experience as vice president had prepared him to be commander-in-chief.
I am. Obviously I'm not an ai/computer person. Thanks for the info. I didn't think of it as a separate thing, just kept hearing about math issues.
Beats per minute. Sounds like AI's math doesn't work so good.
And the shame of a traitor.
Article just published by Russian Interfax Translation ⬇️
It can't do math, so good luck getting bpm ect.. 🙄
All in all, I’d recommend not to ride the “is he dead” train but think why was this trendy rumor planted now and what shall this redirect your attention from.
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.
If true, they should be doing Kid Rocks version Spawn Lake. Chachi is the lead.
Trump version: Scandal in the Wind
trump dying is just a distraction
I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
In addition to everything he details about data concerns, which is important, do note that Borges makes three statements that certainly sound like an employment lawsuit is coming: - "involuntary resignation" - "constructive discharge" (means, functionally, you fired me) - "hostile work environment"
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim O’Neill’s appointment to “making Elon Musk head of the FAA.”
This is really a lie about access and information gathering. And may I remind you how many pedophiles are white Christian men.
I think it's framed somewhat different since it's focused on identity rather than vote choice...but I mean, Rs regularly say that Democrats are a cancer and intimate they should be rounded up and shot.
Believe them when they say they will hurt you.
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
His 1st presidency should have done that!
Welp guess who figured out a new way to explain bad tariff policy to his kids.
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.”
We all know the problem is easy access to ridiculous fire power, it is the guns, which is why these clowns have talking points to lie and say it isn’t the guns.
Lowell responds to this: Either "cause" means nothing -- and the president, like Humpty Dumpty, gets to choose what words mean based on what he thinks it means. Or "cause" actually means something, as it does in other statutes...
Gavin Newsom responds to a completely fake Vanity Fair cover being spread by MAGA, who think it is real
When the executive ignores laws they find inconvenient, it is called a dictatorship.
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The Justice Department has led an unprecedented effort to access states’ sensitive voter data, but no one safeguards elections more than state and local officials. Colorado officials proved that by pushing back against federal demands, Pamela Smith writes.