Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
Big fan of GMacht's hiatus beard, the sister wives and the dude with the middle name Johannes, FWIW. Used to count shits. When I'm not being an insufferable fangirl, I'm...an insufferable person with BIG opinions and analysis. Basically just insufferable.
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Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.
The fbs are showing me something about Lady Gaga apologizing for canceling a show over "vocal fatigue." Meanwhile, Pepperidge Farm remembers: ew.com/lady-gaga-ha...
Covid is over for you until you need a doctor for something else and have to wait eight months because so many health workers are being permanently disabled.
Somebody, please primary this sack of shit.
I am, once again, asking what @joshsteinnc.bsky.social can do. I get we've got an, uh, interesting situation in government down here, but...
Especially bizarre that the US Government is saying "we committed a horrific war crime and are struggling to establish a post hoc justification for it" and the Venezuela is saying "no, we don't think you did actually"
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
"Two words: Fuck you." And this is why I continue to love Mr. Stephen Colbert way too much.
To believe that "grab them by the pussy" guy, who fantasizes about his own daughter, who has said and done countless other things would "protect" any woman is a real trick of whiteness.
Oh, ok. I didn't hallucinate this quote. When folks say white women constantly vote against every single one of their interests other than white supremacy, they mean this woman. What she went through was horrific. She and the other victims deserve so much better. But holy fuck.
There was not a lot of Ben & Jerry's left in this pint, so I guess I am required to open the other one.
Local news calling RFK Jr. a "vaccine skeptic" and acting like any of this is just a "well, some people disagree" thing is such a disgusting, dangerous dereliction of duty. Add to them playing a clip of the dude from Florida, but not at all his worst hits, and really WTAF are we doing here.
And now, I'm reminded of the person I knew in undergrad who admitted she thought one of our professors was a student the first time she met him...a thing I will never understand. 😂
I casually knew a family that picked up and moved across the country because their kid was so good at gymnastics and wanted a top coach. ..."career" ending injuries in, like, high school.
Matt Jacoby and Alydia Livingston were one of the best young skating duos in the country. But in January, tragedy struck, when 28 members of the figure skating community died on Flight 5342. The Livingstons were on that flight. Now, Jacoby skates in Alydia's honor: www.inquirer.com/sports/bala-...
Horrible for both of them, sounds like. It's also very easy to tell which dance parents are putting their kids in all the things because the kids genuinely love it, versus the parents just wanting to live out their own missed opportunities.
I wrote about the Columbia University settlement with the federal government, and how it makes my job teaching college Jewish Studies harder. forward.com/opinion/7663...
Did she...did she just say "I voted for you...for this country"? #LastWord
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
FB is really trying to get me to go full Anna stan again. I know better. I knew better at the time! And yet. All I did was mind my business, and it was like "check out this quote. Go look at these pictures." fs-gossips.com/14207/
And BFFR if you don't see why she's enthusiastic about that particular pedophile, with that particular name, being fried.
MTG standing there, pretending to give a shit about Epstein's victims, is...something.
really appreciate that JB Pritzker's response to Ted Cruz saying 'you're fat' was like 'and you're a sorry excuse for a public servant, so.'
Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.
Shithole. Country.
TONIGHT: Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
To the people saying “good, let the stupid people die” that’s not how it fucking works. Unvaccinated people get other people sick. Babies too young to be vaccinated, immune compromised people, people who can’t get vaccinated for a medical reason, etc. without herd immunity, people will fucking die.
WTF kind of shithole country do I live in that would deport Brigiding???
Hilarious that they offered Adams a position at the US Department of the only thing they hire black people for
SO CLOSE YET SO FAR 😭
Sitting on my couch, joining the "Mama Pao" chant, as one does.
Sitting down for the new episode of #SlaysianRoyale like
Me, flying for the first time since pre-plague and pre "no more DEI" just to crash with a friend and get some shots? More likely than you think.
Word is it'll be for "gallery upgrades" and reopened in February. You can still look at their online resources or visit a traveling exhibition. If any Jewish orgs start sending letters about making sure those "upgrades" are legit, count me in for a signature. www.ushmm.org/information/...
I simply do not understand how there can be so much headassery every single year, around things THAT HAPPEN EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
Who?
All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
You cannot “rebrand” crap.
#OneChicago promo teases #ChicagoMed's pregnancy reveal & #ChicagoFire and #ChicagoPD's new additions: www.givememyremote.com/remote/2025/...
Neville Chamberlain-ass appeasement bullshit
I say this as a former longtime employee of the Chicago Tribune: fuck ALL the way off with this bullshit.
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
Anyone else remember hearing about "Killadelphia" for years, or is that just me? Anyone else grow up amongst folks who were automatically all "lock your doors" when entering any major city, only to have LITERALLY NOTHING HAPPEN OTHER THAN OCCASIONAL SHITTY TRAFFIC?
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They aren't covering a lot of the recent protests because there are no Black people for them to scapegoat/turn violent against and then blame, so there's no "news" to spin. Read that again.
Propaganda ads for the local MAGAts down here in NC, talking about Dems unleashed a VIOLENCE!111 in our STREETS!111, when LIVE local news coverage showed peaceful protestors and journalists getting roughed up for no goddamned reason. BFFR.
All the pearl-clutching "WHY ARE THEY TEARING THEIR OWN CITY APART?!!11" nonsense I saw from folks around the protests in Baltimore (pronounce BAWLMOOR) from folks right down the road from the alleged "torn apart" city, living their lives. 🥴
This. Fellow white people, if you don't remember the big "OMG LOOK HOW VIOLENT" propaganda from any of the earliest BLM protests, or how cops instigated all sorts of mess in front of cameras in 2020, I don't know what to tell you other than please get your memories checked.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Also they're going to make so many fat jokes and Pritzker is going to laugh them off and tell them to fuck themselves and people will love it.
Apropos of nothing, being against ageism doesn't make you a "stan" of anything except respecting your fucking elders and realizing there are people twice your age who can run fucking circles around you.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
HIT HIM AGAIN KHAN
And to be clear for the scolds, I love science. I believe this testing works. And I also believe because it is gendered and for women, the establishment doesn’t care about the discomfort. Like most medical things, women are supposed to shut up and endure it. No thanks.
Doesn't Ted have a flight to Cancun to catch before the next tragedy hits his state?
Something I wonder a lot about is where the tipping point is on social issues, at what percentage do most people feel comfortable revealing, say, a despicable prejudice, because they think they have enough social support to say it without consequences?
This 30%ish number keeps coming up in recent studies and if you think that’s bad after 5 years, wait til ten. Because while you can recover from long covid, you can also relapse with it, often by reinfections. Only 38% of those with long covid were back at work after a year. Think about that.
"Deplorable" was too kind a word.
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
LMAO literally begging for some whack-a-troll funsies with that last one.
Something, something, Kamala Harris "no different." 🤡
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
Fixed it: U.S. Secretary Rubio defends war crime, warns of further war crimes.
Not Unwashed Thom pretending to give a shit again
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
And no, you do not need to submit a second registration, with no changes, 17 hours after you submitted the first one.
"How do I come to Yom Kippur?" Check the website. "If I wanted to come to the High Holidays, do I need tickets?" Registration and all information on the website. "Do I need to pay for tickets?" Guess where to find that information. GUESS.
I have been saying for months that it is critical to monitor your state’s vaccine requirements for school entry. They are the only things standing between us and massive infectious disease outbreaks. With Florida ending these requirements, other states are sure to follow.
WHO IS CANDICE BERGEN?! ... this aggression will not stand, man
It's one of my all-time favorite books, despite all the people who make hating it their whole personality. So, if they screw it up, I'm going to be BEYOND pissed off.
Sick of the whining coming from those who spend all their time bashing Democrats instead of fighting back against the Republikkklans? Here's a great collection of receipts you can use
Herd immunity only works when everyone who can be immunized does so to protect those who can't be immunized. This is enabling the worst people not just to medically neglect their children, but to create danger for other people's children, and I cannot fathom how anyone is okay with this.
I will consider it over when it doesn’t have globally widespread waves and vaccines or prophylaxis that are strong enough to withstand the constant mutations of the virus to make outcomes predictable. IE, when it’s actually not a pandemc by definition, words mean things.
shortened this (grim, awful) headline for you
![BREAKING: Florida will work to eliminate all child [vaccine mandates crossed out] in the state, officials say](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:quzcwmqdsnbosevdgj3bmtq2/bafkreiaynrjwka4m34rmbxiixwh2oqbpqltgvsv6q4zm6kl3dkavjkgvey@jpeg "Click to view full size")
the two americas
I mean, sure. The idiots working on the school at the corner should totally just block the wholeass entrance to the road, with no signs to say anything and nobody controlling traffic/blocking one of the left turn lanes so someone can come in the out way. No fucking sign either. Genius.
Got excited about That Girl Jordan Chiles doing DWTS. Saw the rest of the cast full of “influencers,” reality “stars,” and Alec Baldwin’s wife. FFS.
Dude’s just got back from traveling, so let’s put him up in my face as he lets lets me in the improperly capitalized “Sanctuary.” What the fuck. This ain’t the TV show. It’s a fucking room. Not a title.
Not anywhere near what they should or what they could if they weren’t self-congratulatory idiots obsessed with appearances, no.
What in the pro parasite
“Bleach might drip on you when you come in because we’re paying someone to use harsh chemicals on the windows instead of, you know, doing anything at all about not boiling and suffocating you in that office or, God forbid, fucking paying you.” 🥴
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Oh, God. Yuck. Ew. I need to bathe in bleach.
It's possible I just threw up in my mouth.
Honestly upset the majority of my friends aren't sending me links to various articles with this bit of news yet.
One way to tell your website is getting more hits is by seeing how many more spam messages you have from people offering to help you get more hits.
COVID-19 case rates are increasing, so it’s important to take precautions to keep yourself and others safe. Wear masks, get tested and treated, and stay home if you test positive or are not feeling well. Free tests are available for pickup here at the health department: dconc.gov/Public-Healt...
I bet if one of the drug companies offered to name their next groundbreaking discovery in honor of KKKing Fuckface, Kennedy would suddenly be out. Not saying I'd exactly want too put a "Trump vax" in my body, but if the alternative is public health by brainworm...
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
I was subscribed to that list because, originally, it watch catching a bunch of garbage people. ...started noticing people I knew weren't engaging in that gone. Found 'em there. So confused. Had to unblock ALL the people, which means I also had to unblock the actual bigots. 🤮
Welp. That'll teach me to subscribe to blocklists from people I don't know. Couldn't find a mutual, figured I said something shitty...list blocked them for something I've definitely never seen them do? Ok then.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: The most perverse thing during Blanche/Maxwell interview was their laughter youtu.be/r8UG4wfLYMc?...
Colbert, laughing about "while supplies last." Me, about to pre-order 2398743 Colbert Funkos...
New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode "What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."