you are going to lose all your teachers as american education becomes worthless, and we will still exist
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you are going to lose all your teachers as american education becomes worthless, and we will still exist
Yikes! I've been terrified of small doors ever since watching the old "The Changing". Some crazy supernatural creature could have been living in it. Or, it could have been used for deliveries of small items, they have those in old homes here. Or storage for things guests would use.
So lovely! I'm glad it's growing well for you there.
Let me tell you, as someone who hid in a closet many times as a child, being tough on crime means keeping women and children safe in their own homes.
We were just there and were FORCED to go to a kick ass bar that has an open beer garden and three band stages with literally three awesome bands playing at one time FOR FREE (other than whatever drinks you do or don't buy) and I can't believe we survived!! Lucky to get outta there alive.
Wow this is fabulous! I looked it up and it says the Hardy version can grow here in MI up to zone 6 so now I am so excited and so getting this next year. Thank you!
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.
These motherfuckers are so racist and so don't care.
Nobody has ever told on himself more only to have so many people pretend they didnât hear it.
You push back and resist. You let them know that if you try it youâre gonna go through some things. Watch them blink.
Imagine going back in time to like 2010 and telling people that the HHS Secretary would be promoting burgers and fries on TV while expediting review for nicotine pouches. And he'd be testifying to Congress with a pouch in his mouth. All while calling his agenda Make America Healthy Again.
this is such an important secondary message 1. trans kids get to see their idol using her platform to celebrate and advocate for them 2. cis kids see their idol declaring that the presence of trans people makes your life better and cooler and more joyful and that that's a world worth fighting for
1. This is a great example of how everything's gone off the rails at the NYT. Step 1: The U.S. president clearly threatens war against an American city - my idea of a huge story - and the Times grossly underplays it. The next day, they instead make the BS denial the emphasis of their story. Why?
US health insurers are raising insurance premiums by the most in 15 years. Recall that Trump recently threatened 250% tariffs on pharmaceuticals. GOP lawmakers also chose not to extend the expanded premium tax credits that expire at the end of this year
Sweet, his friends and family protected themselves against a White mob at their Detroit home in 1925. Someone inside the home shot into the crowd, killing someone. A trial acquittal affirmed Black people had the right to protect themselves and property.
at this point i can barely muster the strength to be disgusted at trump for this shit, but the hatred of a thousand suns goes out to the media thats just going to pretend this is normal and let it slide
I love the US Open. I even went in person once. But Iâm not watching the final because I canât support the US Tennis Associationâs order for broadcasters not to share negative crowd reactions to Trumpâs presence. Youâre either for a free press, or youâre not. USTA is not.
I really wish they'd crosstab these polls with "Fox News/Newsmax/OAN viewer." The underreported phenomena is how an unprecedented onslaught of propaganda is convincing 30% of the country Trump knows what he's doing with the economy.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
i don't have a lot of non-sarcastic responses to this that don't include the words "concentration camp"
I know this is low hanging fruit but can you imagine Trump taking the current citizenship test?
I mean, holy shit.
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
Reporters, I beg you, please stop using headlines with the form âTrump does Xâ when X is something the president clearly lacks any legal authority to do.
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns. Since 2018: â˘4 trans shooters means 2A is null & void â˘4193 NON-trans shooters means 2A needs expansion Here's a better idea: Solo men commit 94.6% of all mass shootings. Let's ban firearms from solo men & see how it goes.
At the core of transmisogyny is, inevitably, misogyny itself. The viciousness with which some people trash trans women for how they look, or their supposed artificiality, or perceived errors in their behaviour, comes from a fundamental loathing of any women who doesnât conform to their expectations.
Parents of all political backgrounds overwhelmingly support school vaccination requirements. Even in Florida, 82% of parents said public schools should require vaccines for measles and polio, with some health and religious exceptions. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
"Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?" [stares directly at the camera]
Personally I think it was the guy who was running the country. Whoever that was
I swear in the pic on the right he looks like David Lottery Dream House now.
How in the hell did Laura Loomer find out about an âunpublicized, CLASSIFIED visitâ in the first place?
The idea of my 9th-grade geometry teacher â whose forehead veins would bulge wildly if you so much as mixed up an isosceles and an equilateral triangle â carrying a 9mm Glock, is not something we should remotely contemplate.
BRO. THATâS THE BOOK. THATâS LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.
"Simply put, U.S. states may not invade one another. The deployment of one stateâs National Guard into another state in State Active Duty status without the receiving stateâs consent would therefore be unlawful."
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
it's giving sale at hobby lobby
If Trump had any real interest in addressing crime, his regime would work with law enforcement & Chicago leadership. Instead, he talks about âgoing in,â like heâs prepping a military invasion. This is nuts. This is dangerous. And itâs pitting states against states, echoing Americaâs deadliest war.
Maybe itâs the healthcare plan we were promised in 2 weeks, 6 years ago. đĽł
Book grift. I think she's wrong on two accts: 1. It's the will of the majority of Americans to have Roe, and 2. It's not the courts job to "respect the choices of the American People" in the direct democratic sense she implies. It's to interpret and apply the US Constitution and Federal Law.
I heard this in BjĂśrkâs voice
So great!! We've focused this year on adding more pollinator friendly plants. One interesting thing is that our catnip plants (for the cats) have become one of the bee's favs, provided you let some stems grow long enough to flower. Serves two purposes then!
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Me when my wife sees the browser history
This is an extraordinary thread. Click here, but scroll back to the top. Extraordinary.
âHow do you talk a 16-year-old off the ledge when it is very clear that the government around them doesnât care and keeps trying to strip them of their rights? Itâs very sad, but thereâs a lot of people fighting and itâs not hopeless.â
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trumpâs tariff folly. Iâm sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
As I said earlier this year⌠www.editorialboard.com/unsaid-make-...
If something has happened I hope theyâre letting RFK make all of the important medical decisions.
Good piece, includes the fact that Pulte was investigated for giving $500K to a Trump superpac via his wife and a shell company he controlled.
Their eagerness to look at *anything* other that what *really* causes this nationâs problem with mass shootings (hint: GUNS!) would be comical if it werenât so dishonest, bigoted, and led to more deaths.
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
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...
They said "hey we don't want to eliminate trans persons, we just don't want them to play sports" but what they really meant was "yep we want to eliminate trans persons". They're trying step by step, bit by bit.
The chorus is growing louder. Call your Senators and Rep and demand they #FireKennedy.
đ§ľ: I'm not posting this to dunk, but because I'm seeing it often enough it looks like a coordinated campaign, and I want to give folks a heads up on some of this, if they're not familiar the dynamics. It's about the broader pattern, but comes back to the idea of dividing the Democratic Party. 1/x
This is great! High five, @aspwriter85.bsky.social!
My contempt for RFK Jr is boundless. He's dumb, he's arrogant, he's a piss-poor leader of others, and he shouldn't be running an organization larger or more complex than a one-man driving school.
Are there any Trump policies that are actually good for children?
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Right-wing pundits and hacks are only concerned about the Minneapolis shooter being identified as a trans female. The mass shooting, the assault rifle, the radical hate and anti-semitism, the embrace of previous white nationalist shooters, the endless gun violence in this country? All good.
Any hint of supporting medicine or science will not be tolerated by the head of HHS
Theyâre sending us back to the early days of the vaccines, when you had to scramble and perhaps drive hours for a jab. Note that âboosterâ is a misnomer. Theyâre actually new updates that protect against the latest dominant variants.
I hate raising my children in a country where "someone opened fire on a bunch of kids" is just a normal thing that happens
The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal. www.freep.com/story/news/h...
every democrat who does not speak out about this enables it. what the administration is doing here is a large-scale tactic to isolate trans people and strengthen future attacks on us. the gains we have made are built on visibility and public knowledge of us and our needs.
Founder: "hey, what if we started a school without teachers and pocketed their salaries as profit?" 99% of the world: "this will never work, people aren't *that* dumb." Founder: "you just watch!"
EVERY FUCKING MEDIA OUTLET SHOULD BE BLASTING THIS AT FULL VOLUME
the exact center of fascism is the point equal distance between 14 year olds are too old for redemption and 25 year olds are too young to transition
I emailed our Rep Tom Barrett about this and got a response stating "I'm sure you can agree that this won't be a problem." No I can't, that's why I contacted you. Now this.
Truly frightening. And of course Big Balls had his hands in this. Just infuriating that people of that caliber can cause the rest of us grief like this.
Oh look, one of the catastrophes that people watching what DOGE was up to worried about and warned would happen has happened.
Haberman not even bothering to go with the "Trump moves" or "Trump says" qualifier. "Trump dismissed" Cook, in an "aggressive" move. Never mind the law.
Iâve been a supporter of Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell for standing up to Trump. But this is the real test. Will he stand up for Lisa Cook?
Real slow so you understand.
đ¨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new âelection integrityâ post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
It is now April 2027. Donald Trump is insisting that he has stopped "1,027 wars" and Donald Trump is claiming that drug prices have fallen "one billion percent" and Donald Trump is stating as fact that someone is murdered in Chicago every 0.03 seconds. Reporters have made no effort to correct him.
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Once again, this regime will preside over deaths of Americans. And I will nerve stop holding the majority of white voters, apathetic non-voters, and purity demanding voters, accountable. #Complicit
so a generalized decree of martial law without pretext
Not the point, and obviously not important, but nothing about that description is like EPCOT
Nothing pleases me more than seeing the joy and comfort of Wallace the former stray. I think of him shivering and injured, angry and semi feral, last January⌠and now he cuddles and plays and just enjoys his life. I basically want this for everyoneâMay we all be warm and well fed.
I think if you see someone reading in public and assume theyâre doing it performatively that says rather more about you than it does them, and I think itâs bad for us to develop a cultural stigma around reading, a thing we shouldnât be trying to discourage, in public or anywhere
New, wrong account of how World War II ended, from the U.S. vice president:
Here in Michigan, gross ACA premiums are going up by around 17% on average statewide starting January 1st,, ranging from 4 - 25% by carrier. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
FWIW, the situation here in Michigan is similar. Insurance premiums for our ACA plan are about to skyrocket as well (no, the irony isnât lost on me). If youâd like to support my healthcare wonkery once or on a monthly basis, you can do so here, thank you! secure.actblue.com/donate/acasi...
My mom was on IV lasix for CHF routinely as her illness got worse to keep fluid off of her lungs and surrounding the heart and they'd need to alternate where they placed the IV needle. Her hand looked like this.
Our longevity as an entire functioning ecosystem AS A PLANET depends a shocking amount on bees sticking around, so this is worth celebrating đž
Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...
I guarantee you that none of the men who paid for sex with the girls Maxwell and Epstein trafficked were roofers looking for work at a Home Depot
In related news, the Trump administration is cutting 30K employees from the VA
Always fun to have a president who is not only an idiot, but also a vindictive prick. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
So the administration is officially and proudly lowering standards for the FBI, but also punishing universities for allegedly lowering standards in admissions, is that right? Just trying to keep up!
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares" is an interesting way of describing "the U.S. released $8.9B in CHIPS funding intended for Intel in exchange for $8.9B in stock." Perhaps Congress could've demanded shares for CHIPS money, but POTUS adding this ad hoc is simply unconstitutional.
i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo
Remember how the Trump administration claimed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had to be brought back to the United States to "face justice"? That it wasn't about the deportation case, they just HAD to prosecute him? They lied! The whole thing was a lie! And they don't care at all that you know that.
UPDATE: Fox News reports that ICE told Kilmar Abrego Garcia they are going to deport him to Uganda on Monday.
Absolutely disgraceful and despicable. If you are a partner at Paul Weiss or Kirkland & Ellis you should be ashamed of yourself -- that is, if you had any shame left.
