And the protests DIDN'T "get a pass", but it was actually important, and people risked their health and lives for it, and did it knowingly. Again, the Sturgis rally was... the opposite of a protest and totally frivolous.
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And the protests DIDN'T "get a pass", but it was actually important, and people risked their health and lives for it, and did it knowingly. Again, the Sturgis rally was... the opposite of a protest and totally frivolous.
Also, the protests at least attempted to take reasonable precautions. It was actually important to protest. The Sturgis rally was just fun that was totally unnecessary that year, and that got a bunch of people dead, because people couldn't stop partying and drinking during a freaking pandemic.
I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be
Why not both! 🥳
"You will recall that two years ago Giuliani was sued for defamation after he accused a man of causing him “serious injuries” after being patted on the back." How karmic.
I know wifi connectivity sounds superfluous, but you can start your laundry when coming home, or getting notifications when it's ready and you're doing something else... I'd find that feature quite useful (though I'm in a condo where the laundry room is shared for all residents).
Dear @massgovernor.bsky.social, let's go!
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
He deserves all the sleazy speculations and more.
Wrong. It's very conservative and part of their theory of "smaller" government and power to corporations.
Again? I'm behind.
Oh so like... I dunno, a modern Bob Dylan?
Oooh or a beautifully colorful set for Go.
Does this count as proof of life? 😰
All her volumes are available on Amazon, though only the 3rd is on Kindle. BOUGHT!! Can't wait to read them!
That's how you treat a presidential scumbag.
What a fearless and fascinating life.
That ally deserves a drink at every gay bar.
You also described Cruz and DeSantis.
Uh huh.
They don't just dominate, they own it outright. We ceded basically all media: legacy, digital, and public spaces to them. It's waaaaaay past time to build our own.
“My wife has Stage 4 lung cancer. She is one of the people the COVID vaccine actually helps." Of course, only when it hits THEM.
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.”
Let's be honest, we all are.
Now, the GOP has also been spewing their propaganda and building their info networks for decades and Dems have just sat quietly. It was clear back in 2000 that we needed left-wing media infrastructure & Dems did nothing.
That's their way of saying that they don't consider women as people.
How is this news though? She was always antigay.
My abbreviated summary of this rant: Dems need to run against the entire Republican Party on the economy by reminding people economic changes take time to affect the public, and then presenting 50 years of economic history with easy to understand charts and graphs, over and over again for 3 years.
Paging @kenmartin.bsky.social
Oh what could go wrong? 🤷♂️
I'd love to, but your website hasn't worked for more than a YEAR on Chrome?
Yes they are. They're both about racism.
Holy fuck that’s the actual Image! In my lifetime we have gone from: “other stars probably have planets” to “We are directly imaging baby planets in young stellar systems.” We could do more of this instead of the fascism and genocide.
That's ghoulish and I've said so to people who tried that line on me when my mom passed away.
What a fucking ghoulish thing to say.
So a private company spent tons of money on a perfectly legal change they have every right doing, and the WH is taking credit for causing the PR disaster from that change that now the company has to swallow. Gotcha.
Let's make LA County into 5 or 6 states. They'll still be more populous than half the Midwest states.
Now I wanna brainstorm weird stuff.
Article is mistaking "appealing candidate with a strong message" for "appealing socialist candidate with a strong economic message". It's really that easy.
It’s still amazing to me that we’ve basically let ourselves be tricked into buying that THIS is what “freedom” looks like. #CarDependency
Didn't I see him behind MLK at the "I Have A Dream" speech?
Better do it fast, WormBrain is gonna ban them soon.
He’s been positioning himself as a dictator for a while now, and now he’s just outright saying it out loud. And he sees the absence of near-universal outrage and condemnation as a green light to just make it official. He says what he’s going to do, and counts on rational people underestimating him.
Empathy is evil now, according to right-wing religious people.
Back up a sec and appreciate that this was... on a podcast.
I could go on, but I think the point is clear. The US is tragically behind the rest of the Western world by every measure. And the problem is that Americans are so beaten into acceptance of this bull shit, that they think every performative action made is some ground-breaking act of progress.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
That morning was Nov 6.
The takeover of DC by the military isn't a distraction. It's fascism. Please wake the fuck up.
... AGAIN.
Need to visit it before they change it to an exhibit of how the slaveowners got cheated out of their property.
Corporate support for their LGBT or other minority employees and customers isn't support as soon as it starts to get hard. An ally is supposed to be an ally, period.
We didn't abandon Target because your stores weren't nice, we left because you were supposed to be one of our biggest allies and for two decades we supported you. Now when we actually needed you, you threw us away. #lgbt #blacklivesmatter #translivesmatter
At it's core, Republicans are masters at creating news in their favor and Democrats are horrible at reacting to news, and that's all they do.
He always was.
Not untrue.... Buuuuut what where you defending a decade or two or three or four ago? Shepherding ALL THIS in.
What pisses me off is the more than 30% who are ok with this??? That's insane.
All Nazis are assholes but not all assholes are Nazis? 🤷♂️
Remember when he publicly called someone else a pedo? Accusation, confession.
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
Because he doesn't want anyone who doesn't know English to be welcome. Guys, it's called racism, you should learn to use this word.
Cuomo's using "woke" like a gutter racist. This guy's just another Trumper. Destroy him at the polls, friends. Vote Mamdani and get everyone you know to vote for Mamdani.
Sigh. Yeah. I knew there was a reason why I didn't block off my lunchtime. And I'm saying this as I'm right now eating lunch at 2:25pm because I had meetings between 12 and 2.
And what happens when it's HIM that's the national emergency? What do we do?
Partial symptom of working with multiple timezones. I know I have to go to a meeting at 12 EST for my coworker on the west coast.... Of course, I should just block off a lunch hour in my calendar...
Why the hell are there still some red districts left after this? Wipe them ALL off the map!
*ahem* 2001.
He WISHES he had a biiiig black wall, but he has a teensy tiny mushroom-sized wall.
Why the hell are there still some red districts after this? Wipe them the fuck off the map.
And used for exactly the same reasons. Racist pigs.
Next on RFKs chopping block...
Franky missed a total opportunity to move in with Bennie and do a Golden Popes series.
Mazel tov.
Hopefully you don't have as long a wait for that one.
One could argue that we don't really have a constitution now anymore. I mean, really, do we?
Leo & Shirley
*waving at the last 30 years*
However, black is slimming.
Live your life to have this be your obit headline.
Sounds like moochers to me.
I'm also apparently grumpy today. Wow. 🤷♂️
I'm not blaming or fighting you, I'm just so stunned that literally the government & democracy are being dismantled in front of our eyes and I'm not seeing what I wish I was seeing.
Why is it just one governor who knows how to make a media splash? Why aren't ALL OF THEM generating damned headlines? Every Rep, gov, senator, state, should be on TV, ticktock, podcasts, outraged & calling for impeachment & telling everyone what's happening. DAILY.
Why aren't we challenging the media with their fucked up narratives? Storming their microphones, shouting at anyone who'll put it on the news? How about protesting in front of news orgs so they cover the truth?
Can't help but ask: what would the French do? Or the Germans? Or in Argentina, Canada.... Would their resistance be "ok let's make speeches, merch, & fingers crossed for the next national vote"? It's disheartening.
...yes? Then I look in my workplace: most people don't care, aren't paying attention. Then I look at my family in Miami (they're immigrants and some even on a green card!). They don't care, aren't paying attention. Up & down the list, that's mostly what I see, with only pockets of polite resistance.
And how much of this is filtering down to schools, workplaces... this is a metastisized cancer.
Soooooo many things would have brought down ANY. OTHER. ADMIN. I really don't get it, it's insane there aren't regular protests in the hundred million range.
Still think it's underrated the degree to which Trump's willingness to just say a scandal out loud instead of in secret makes it seem Less Bad. In this case, he said explicitly that he wants to end mail-in voting because he thinks it'll help Republicans in the midterms
The third type is the "why aren't y'all DOING something?" aaaand... I don't have a defense against this one.
Wellllllll... I'm in my blue bubble in Massachusetts and looking around and.... kinda wondering that a little bit myself.
And the worst thing is: they're totally right to do so.
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His face looks like it's related to Ted Cruz.
