RE: RFK Jr. and the crater he's left where public health infrastructure used to be: It occurs to me that Star Trek was only off by a few decades, and we're right at the beginning of the Eugenics Wars. #TreksSky
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RE: RFK Jr. and the crater he's left where public health infrastructure used to be: It occurs to me that Star Trek was only off by a few decades, and we're right at the beginning of the Eugenics Wars. #TreksSky
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
The only proof of life I will accept is a picture of him holding up a printout of every post from last night hoping for his demise
Goodnight, loon Goodnight, all those waiting for The News to come soon Goodnight, "proof" of life Goodnight, garbage wife Goodnight, weird hand bruises Goodnight, red hat losers Goodnight, nobody Goodnight, cow And goodnight to the internet whispering "let it be now"
If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.
Personally I think we had a very fun dress rehearsal and we can’t wait to do it on the night.
I want to feel what these soldiers were feeling.
Umm...there hasn't been an all-caps TruthSocial rant showing proof of *Life(Termsandconditionsmightapply..) as of yet tonight so.... are we well and truly at the Z-word presidency stage now? Just asking to know how to calibrate my bug-out plans.
Champagne chilling, just in case... (oh please oh please oh please....)
Also so many wink-wink/nudge-nudge little easter eggs for us terminally Anglophilic media nerds. #GoodOmens #MagpieMurders #Red #Mobland I'm sure I'm missing some .. Anyway, should Helen be the Doctor, or the Master, and vice versa for Kingsley? #DoctorWho
*Helen Mirren, obviously. Edit button when @bsky.app ?
I needed a mental palette cleanser tonight so we watched "The Thursday Murder Club" and I have to say, it raises the odds of Hellen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan turning up on #DoctorWho significantly. Because very nearly every other single cast member has been
I’m exhausted but part of me doesn’t want to go to bed because we all know the worst news for them gets dumped on Friday nights, and just maybe …..
I really want the ghouls in the Trump Administration to be held accountable. If we get a Dem in White House, will we see criminal prosecutions of any DOGE employees, cabinet members, or other staff? I fucking hope so, and I hope it starts with Stephen “Doogie Himmler” Miller & the brain worm guy.
No electoral college or similar body. Universal suffrage. Formal adoption of the UN Charter of Human Rights and recognition of the ICC. Stating clearly that all persons have right to a sustainable and healthy environment, housing, food, education and healthcare. For starters.
Trans people aren't stopping Americans on the street and demanding to see their papers. But Trump's Gestapo sure are.
Damn I miss Molly right now...
I miss the old brand #CDC
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, that's pretty weird, right? I wonder how many days he'll go without being in public until an intrepid journalist asks why. Might even be a book in it. Do you know anyone?
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
anyone who uses tragedy to attempt to take away trans health care is a genocidal maniac who wants to inflict pain on an entire community
Antidepressants are not a mass murder weapon. It’s the guns.
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
A trans person has never threatened me. But the leather-faced worm-brained science-denying conspiracy nut in charge of America's healthcare is openly threatening to kill and maim tens of thousands of us.
It's a cargo cult version of authoritarianism. Truly surreal even while it's terrifying and abhorrent.
The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trump’s agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema “preserved democracy” with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP won’t meet.
Anyway I know how harmful and painful Bill's fate is in "World Enough & TIme/The Doctor Falls" is, and still, yet, the Doctor's speech, especially right now, has me falling apart. We have to do what is right, because it is right and kind, no other reason. Where we stand is where we fall #DoctorWho
*WEAT/TDF. Edit button, please?
Middle of the first week of classes. Been putting out fires with digital course materials fires for 3 days straight. Trying to keep cool w/students & faculty while also fielding mom-estate related tasks and decisions, while the world ends. Watching comfort #DoctorWho and it brings up WWAT/TDF. Umm..
I’m wondering if it was a mistake to let a thin-skinned, anti-science nepo baby lead the nation’s health and medical agencies
Meanwhile Morning Edition and All Things Considered consistently keep normalizing and both-sidesing like it's still 20-effing-15.
It's been amazing to me that @marketplace.org and @kairyssdal.bsky.social are almost the ONLY programming on NPR that is even close to honest about how bad things are.
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
I am so tired of this shit. Get on the right side of history or get out of the way.
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of reasonable men committed to speaking of vital kitchen table concerns.
They want us focused on street crimes so that we won't be focused on theirs. And the toll of theirs in lives and money and total victims dwarfs anything happening on the street. Street crime is real—but if you're obsessed with it, they've got you right where they want you, pal.
so fucking wild to think about how absolutely obsessed the media was with Joe Biden’s mental and physical health and now that Trump’s body and mind are literally rotting away like an old banana in front of our very eyes the entire Fourth Estate is like HAS GAVIN NEWSOM GONE TOO FAR or whatever
If Joe Biden’s hand had looked like it was covered in grey scale Fox would be running that shit on a loop 24/7.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
ALL OF THIS! Happy Monday everyone...
This is like when my mother was 100% certain that a strange little man was living in the house under the basement stairs and kidnapping random children that she then had to take care of. Stated just as confidently and not connected to reality in any way shape or form.
A politician and his party who don't accept they can legitimately lose elections have no basis to insist they can legitimately win elections.
Anyway I have no idea where to start with this all but damn
I missed the watch-along but I *adore* this movie and have done since I saw it as a double-feature with "1941" at Carleton in 1988. Our polycule can nearly recite the damn thing from memory.
I have well and truly been down a rabbit hole most of the day with some of the flatware and china that mom got from her mother and grandmother who'd held onto it forever. Pretty, beautiful even, but so much of a much, and such a story of generational class striving and insecurity.
May Illinois Nazis (and all Nazis) plunge to their deaths forever
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families. We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.
Some days I watch footage of him and just can’t believe that (mostly white) people opted to elect this sociopathic motherfcker twice.
I would pay money to never have to hear James Carville’s opinion on anything ever again.
there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves
I strongly encourage moderate organizations to primarily focus on language policing. I will be busy organizing all of your people, who are radiantly furious with Democrats and ready to clean house
What, and I can't stress this enough, the FUCK is the matter with these people's brains?
I can keep two or even more things in my head at the same time.I can loathe Gavin Newsom's cynical political triangulations as he throws trans people under the political bus AND still appreciate how effective his socials team is at trolling FOTUS.I can also push for better choices for 28.
This has been a fucking hell of a century of a decade of a year of a month. Mom passing, pulling off her memorial at the house in Idaho, then cleaning out said house, now trying to fit all the stuff I couldn't let go of into my own house.. Waves of grief, overwhelm, all while democracy dies. Fuck...
I want to say it's political malpractice but it's so much fucking worse than that...
I would be OK with Nurse Hame running a city....
Ditto - with the extra fancy popcorn.
Much though I love Robin Hobb and the Elderlings series, Polar Weasel has the better card here.
Everything old is new again. This is white supremacy. They know it. We should know it and speak it too. Full stop. And this kind of racist gerrymandering is the only way MAGA can win. They know that too. They know they're fighting a losing battle. The flop sweat panic is behind everything they do.
And nothing of value was lost.
Well there's some good news finally!
If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
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Folks are asking re: charges being used to hold Rep. Collier hostage But that's beside the point. Like the "how much crime is there" question is beside the point In both cases, IT SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING. There's no justification for holding a rep. hostage Think about that statement for a moment
Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.
Every single museum in America needs to print out "Actually, slavery WAS that bad" and post it on their front door today.
Poll: Do you want politicians who work together? Respondents: Yes! Poll: On bad things? Respondents: Wait what
No sh*t, right? I reread it earlier this year, right after the fires, and.... as you say, welp.
Oh nooooo. Watch the animated one instead!
For me it's crying behind the closed door of my office instead of working.
Elected representative in Texas left locked in the House chamber because she refused a DPS escort. I know there's a lot going on, but if this isn't a front page story in every US newspaper tomorrow, our press is massively failing us. And yes, I know that they already are.
Thank you, I appreciate that. One (small) blessing is she doesn't have to witness all this insanity and cruelty. She spent most of his first term incandescently furious.
It’s one of those moments where I cringe with national embarrassment.
It seriously reminds me of convos with my mom when we were in the process of finding a memory care home for her. The blank face, then the surprise, then trying to cover...I don't see how anyone can watch him and NOT see that he has advanced dementia!
This is how the legacy media is reporting on Trump's unconstitutional attack on free and fair election versus how Democracy Docket is reporting on the same. Support pro-democracy independent media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
All this happening at the same time as I'm processing my mom's death from dementia and aaallllll the shit that follows from that is just about breaking my brain. And heart. And pretty much everything else.
I feel so seen... we just purged our chest freezer last month.
Jeri Ryan has done some good work in mobilizing Trek fandom for progressive and pro-labor issues, and I agree the potential to do more is there! I think there's a lot of potential for progressive Whovian organizing too, but it won't come from anyone still tied to the BBC.
It’s really wild that Fox is calling Newsom’s tweets immature and unbecoming of a leader when he’s literally just mocking the way Trump tweets. 🤣🤣🤣
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... This really is what it feels like working on a university campus right now...
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
If you do not see where this is headed by now, no one will ever be able to sway you until it is far far far too late
To everyone claiming disappointment, Costco never sold mife. It's not a victory at all, narrow or otherwise for Alliance Defending Freedom. This is dumb journalism from a newspaper owned by a rank shitlord.
Everyone remember those Copaganda shows from the 90s (“COPS!”) and such with dramatic music as law enforcement targeted and chased down innocent Black men? That is basically the content being produced by the White House right now to make Trump look tough.
I have been thinking about this post for two days, and it is the absolutely necessary messaging we have to lean into now and hard. Every single Dem running in 2026 needs to commit to it. Same for 2028. No more fucking around. It’s reconstruction time, part deux, this time no compromises.
Yup
Read this. Share it far and wide.
If you had told me a year ago that a cybercrime-affiliated kid nicknamed Big Balls getting his nose broken at 3 am on a quiet street in NW DC would be Trump’s Reichstag moment, I would have looked at you like you were insane. But here we are.
The party of small government is currently advocating for federal troops and members of the military to patrol the streets and detain citizens. And the GOP fluffers on social media are just… fine with that?
