Remember when Michelle Obama blocked access to vaccines? That was such a bad idea.
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Remember when Michelle Obama blocked access to vaccines? That was such a bad idea.
It means “Won’t welcome Nazis.”
The intern started typing “Thank you for your attention—“ and then thought, Fuck it, too much work.
You have to understand that some of those children had temporary tattoos.
US looking to maximize crimes against humanity during Trump term.
I’m sure you’re right.
Been there. Great experience! Definitely going to check out these wineries next time I’m in the area.
Typical newer EV could make either of those trips, but you’d better be fully charged when you leave and absolutely no exploring!
It’s often very difficult to convince non-rural people that the infrastructure just isn’t there for pure electric vehicles.
Could be Dobson kicked it off.
Someone this clearly out of touch with reality ought to be removed immediately.
Really don’t understand why there isn’t a movie or prestige tv series about this woman.
Unreliable technology is still unreliable when the good guys use it.
Doctor: They are not trying to run an agency, they are trying to get the agency to do what RFK Jr wants. They pulled data off their website. They are issuing guidelines about vaccination that don't comport with the science. We are well into the play here of dismantling the CDC as we know it
I’m pretty sure every single message that comes out of the Trump administration is related to having no logical arguments.
Has Vance ever thanked Putin for getting Trump elected?
.. and giving the Hindenburg pilots bonuses for flying into power lines.
Let’s take a notoriously unreliable technology and use it to make life-and-death decisions for individuals seeking care. It’s like sending the Hindenburg up over and over and over again without fixing the part where it explodes and kills everyone.
“If you have time to tell the truth, you’re not doing your job. “You don’t see Republicans going around studying facts and ‘understanding’ things.”
“If you have time to tell the truth, you’re not doing your job. “Look at me, for example.”
The administration is going to release the Epstein files in a big ceremony in which they also releases their healthcare plan.
Up until this moment I was staunchly opposed to the death penalty.
I live in rural Ohio. Many of the programs and policies introduced by Democrats are generally popular but voters have no idea that Democrats were responsible for them or that Republicans oppose them.
He’s a very good lawyer is all. No conflict of interest here.
If we’d been nicer to him RFK Jr wouldn’t have had to eugenicize so many of us.
I suspect this will make sane countries even less likely to import our products. Who is going to pay massive tariffs on rotten food?
What’s crazy is these guys could just do nothing, let the true professionals continue doing what they do and, because they are Republicans, the media would fall all over themselves praising them for their brilliance.
“Harshly critical?” No. Last couple days have been awful for Trump: CDC exits, plummeting polls, busted in Greenland (!), multiple Trump gaffes, relentless Epstein file demands, Pritzker speech, Trump health questions. Massive banner headlines “WHITE HOUSE IN TURMOIL” r more than warranted. But no.
We’re busy fighting a war (read “picking up trash”) in Washington DC. We can’t be bothered with what’s going on in Ukraine.
Not “healthy” to talk to members of congress about health.
The were, not long ago, National Park employees picking up trash. But back then (March) it was considered government waste.
Trump admin experiencing “growing pains” Or Democrats struggle to respond to Trump admin brazenness
So the Trump administration is shedding CDC officials like their flakes of dandruff, Trump’s approval is tanking on his handling of … wait for it … crime, and his people have just been busted running Putin-style psyops in Greenland. What will the NYT headlines be tomorrow?
I wonder why actual scientists and health professionals are resigning.
Ah, so AI wrote the op-ed praising AI. Makes sense.
RFK Jr’s attempts to ban the Covid vaccine as dangerous hit a cognitive dissonance wall if they are approved for people at “higher risk.” Either the vaccine is expected to kill the higher risk group, or to kill the general population by its being withheld from the public.
If the theory is that the vaccine is worse than the disease then why would we give the vaccine to people at risk? (Spoiler: the theory is wrong and on some level even RFK, Jr. knows it.)
Incredibly stupid, but to give the benefit of the doubt here, drivers often have no idea that freeways were built to bypass already existing routes. I remember a flood that closed a freeway years ago. Most of my coworkers claimed they could not get to work. I biked there just fine.
Well … an evil human …
“Thus, we have concluded that kids should not contemplate suicide near or products for more than ten minutes at a time. This concludes the matter.”
What if the bicycle lobby got so powerful that every store had acres of bicycle parking outside of it and our hard-earned tax dollars were spent subsidizing chain lube, Gatorade and massages and we limited liability for damages caused by cyclists? What would that be like?
He can’t remember who she is.
Really the majority of elected democrats since forever.
IANAL, but if that doesn’t meet the definition of criminal negligence then the law is broken.
I’m sure that’s ok. She can just trust what ICE tells her about the conditions and operations there.
Headline: President plans to start wars.
I am certain MAGA’s wishes will come true and Taylor will give up her music career to drink raw milk and pump out babies. And that’s exactly why Travis proposed. That’s what marriage means, right?
Happy Dog Day! Rosie is either doing this or tearing around the woods. Hard to get pics of her in the latter mode.
He really doesn’t know how fucking stupid he is, does he? He really doesn’t have a clue. We see it all the time but it’s still so astonishing.
Being a centrist politician means you don’t have to hold, promote, or defend any particular values, actions which can be politically costly, intellectually challenging, and emotionally exhausting. Easier to just say “Americans are all centrists so me too.”
Is this all a Texas thing? I was not aware until just now that cities had flags.
CNN out there trying to expand viewership I see.
“Republicans are building concentration camps. You know, like the Nazis did in the thirties. What an idea! We just want to help them do it more sensibly!!!! Vote for us!!!”
The gap between pontificating and reporting is WAY smaller than the example above & there’s demand for both. So why can’t they coexist? My guess is it’s expectations on returns, not that reporting (or other long from narrative) can’t be profitable. But IDK. I’m genuinely asking.
Of course. I get that. I’m thinking more of the production studios’ choices. In the video world it’s SUPER cheap for kids to make TikTok dance videos (do they still do that?) & super $$$ to make MCU blockbusters. But both exist. The film industry hasn’t turned entirely to short amateur videos.
In unrelated news, Alito and Thomas are suddenly the proud owners of new private jets.
Yes pontificating is ridiculously cheap. I refuse to believe reporting (or long form narrative, for that matter) is all THAT expensive, though. What counts as “expensive?” Could it be that investors are looking for unreasonably large margins? As they have since the initial dotcom boom?
JFC. ChatGPT has been trained on the script for Dead Poets’ Society.
There are some smart, well-informed voters in America. And some phenomenally stupid congress people.
Or, you know, oil spills.
I’m not a doctor but I’d hypothesize that even a dead worm could cause some ongoing damage in there.
Oh. Well that’s ok then. People should not have or stand near cameras. Everyone knows that.
But what if the flame DID appear when you clicked the button? Imagine what it could do! Probably take us to Mars!
Also don’t forget there are three Bs in blueberry and 2+2=5.
I beg these reporters to take five minutes to understand the difference between AGI (which remains entirely elusive) and an LLM which is simply text prediction. LLMs are not going to lead directly to AGI. AI companies are intentionally conflating the two to inspire exactly this type of PR.
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Sad and lonely but yes also deeply evil.
Do they think it’s possible that a guy who lies all the time might be lying this time? Maybe?
I had this one friend in Beverly Hills, he left a twenty on a table at a restaurant after he was finished eating and when he came back like five minutes later it was just gone. Poof! Who would just take it? This is why we need the National Guard in LA. And they better be armed.
I can’t find my damn phone but this electrical socket is right here …
With you. I’m largely allergic to emojis but I find the shrugging one useful. Even as a ginger I feel weird about being forced identify as the white blond guy.
Maybe he just keeps losing at bloody knuckles to Stephen Miller.
Huh. Maybe there’s not really any D&D community either. Just some people who think they’re wizards and some who think they’re trolls and some who think they’re fairies and there’s just no reason at all for any of them to get together ever.
Maybe the world can handle your heels but not your ankles?
The war got worse after Trump ended the war.
Too stupid to even know he’s virulently racist.
Topic for the pundits: Is it more or less dangerous to the nation and the world when Joe Biden gets senile or when a child-raping psychotic insurrectionist racist felon POTUS gets senile?
Its leaders and members should face investigations and trials.
Tim, the next time some consultant tells you you’re in trouble for calling fascists fascists, give them a wedgie. Eventually they’ll stop.
You see inciting a riot and then using a flag to beat a police officer is free speech. Burning a flag, not so much.
So now inciting a riot is bad?
I remember all the visits with my wife and kids to DC. Love the museums. Great public transit, honestly. Love the restaurants, especially the Ethiopian restaurants. Hated that we all got murdered.
Remember his confirmation when he swore he wasn’t anti-vaccine and everybody in the world except a couple of purple state Republican Senators knew he was lying?
Interesting that Michael Bailey did not mention in his own tweet that he is a dickhead.
Chalk a crosswalk somewhere else. Chalk all the crosswalks.
The more Trump acts like a Nazi, the lower his approval numbers get. So of course Dems want to avoid capitalizing on that.
Since the early 1990’s I’ve been saying this: in the vast majority of situations, we already have the etiquette to make digital society work. It’s the same etiquette as the physical world society we live in. We just have to use it. And demand it from others.
Cuban’s, I mean. Not @radleybalko.bsky.social ‘s.
Fucking stupidest hypothetical. It serves only to make reasonable, sensible, principled people seem extreme.
I think he really does just take every opportunity to lie. Doesn’t matter what the subject is.
Not only should Dems not say those words, they should talk about not saying those words. Without saying them.
Either they have no core principles or they’ve been told to never talk about them. In the end, that distinction doesn’t matter.
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*National Guards. I know the apostrophe doesn’t belong there.
Rambling garbage interrupting asshole. Also governors control their National Guard’s by default. So, whatever you think of Hochul using it, it’s not the same as a federal deployment.
Free market schmree schmarket.
There’s not a single bit of truth to this. The history is wrong and the role the Trump administration has been widely reported as seeking access to resources in Ukraine. JD Vance is incapable of uttering true statements. I’m convinced this is why he had to change his name.
Democrats HAVE to be responsible for the worst acts of the Republican Party. Otherwise lazy centrism collapses and pundits have to think about things like what’s real and what’s right and what’s wrong and what’s best for the country. Just WAY too hard.
Ultimately I think this instructive as reductio ad absurdum (Hitler scenarios often are). It’s as ridiculous to ALWAYS vote for the lesser evil as it is to insist on a perfect candidate. The hard parts are figuring out where the line ought to be & what to do once we’re on the bad side of it.
Give him a break. He’s trying to find somewhere in the world where people don’t hate him. It’s going to take time.