You know, it can be hard to prove later whether people knowingly intended to ignore the law or not, but not always.
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You know, it can be hard to prove later whether people knowingly intended to ignore the law or not, but not always.
"If you've ever worked in a nation without a functioning public health system, it's unforgettable." Seems like we're about to find out. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/cala...
Among other things, this is a ridiculous thing to say about Minnesota. Many MANY people in the Twin Cities metro are hunters. To suggest rural people mostly know guns as hunting and “urban” people only know them as threats is absolutely false. Source: People I freaking knew personally.
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 Infrastructure Week!
Graham Greene has passed away at 73. A proud Oneida from Six Nations, he was more than an actor — he was a Canadian icon who brought truth and depth to every role. From Dances with Wolves to The Green Mile to The Last of Us, he carried Indigenous voices worldwide. 🌍
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Don’t forget typhus and cholera!
These poor people. Too much suffering has come to them.
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Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
“Girl don’t know who Ginuwine is. That’s one of my ‘Oh No-Nos.’ Jerry’s 16th birthday. Another great episode.
And Jeff Tweedy. And Ginuwine. And The Decembrists. And Letters the Cleo. Best episode of the series.
"Median net revenue per physician FTE was $774,118...up 7% year over year and 19% since 2023." But also... "Physician productivity increased 8.4% in the last two years while support staff levels dropped 2.6%." You're being exploited. www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/phys...
RFK Jr "the nation’s leading public health official does not have any real interest in — or possibly any real understanding of — public health" @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
We truly do not have to live this way.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.
This is the language of a person who thinks he is very smart who is actually quite dumb but who dumb people thinks is smart.
Remember when all the really mature adults in the room said it would stop at bathrooms and sports and protecting the kids and that transphobes had legitimate concerns.
As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.
Absolute certainty that you (the pseudoscientist) are 100% correct all the time, always.
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Honestly, anyone who watched a single episode of “The Biggest Loser” can’t possibly be even a little surprised by this.
This is exactly right for me. I’ve never been interested in trauma porn. I only seek validation of a world view in which people who fuck around do, in fact, find out.
I hate to be this person but like 95% of Americans have no idea how bad this is.
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him. But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
The "facts don't care about your feelings" lot are some of the most emotionally disregulated people on the planet. EVERYTHING is about these people's feelings and they are so blinkered, segregated and delusional that they have convinced themselves their feelings are empirical reality.
This is a great graphic: all of the studies with a dot in the corner were conducted by the Geiers -- one of whom, David Geier, practiced medicine without a license
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
I get all that as, like, GOP tentpoles. What I don’t “get” is on the human level. How the regular folks with no power seem keen to rage at every last thing. How does a person go through life that mad about shit that truly does not matter?
These folks just keep telling on themselves. This Congressman, in his effort to sound purposefully xenophobic, is actually showing just how little he understands the American economy.
My family and I went there at least dozens of times in the 90s. I could have told you the layout of the store floor off the top of my head. The only logo I could recall is the one on the highway exit signs. Why does it feel like the MAGA people are always in search of a grievance?
On that, I need no explanation. I really did solve that game about 400 times when I was 8. We stopped there on the way home from my brother’s baseball tournaments in the early 90s.
Y’all, look how cute he is 🥰 Also, we moved back to Cincinnati this month and couldn’t be happier!
I feel like Chappell Roan is going to have a banger on her next album about this
I spent the whole day replacing cabinet hinges and painting the office. Someone please explain this Cracker Barrel thing to me like I am 8 years old and the world makes sense?
The first time I took the Amtrak, I got there an hour early (I had no idea lol). I was in and out of Union Station at least 12 times in the last 2 years. I didn’t feel unsafe for a single minute of it.
The scariest part of this for me personally is just how directly we are rocketing towards what the 2nd Amendment was actually meant for.
Good God.
I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.
Ok I’m sorry for this woman’s outcome and my comments are not personal to her, but… THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DECADES OF 150+ YEARS OF FOOD SAFETY SCIENCE AND POLICIES What do you think is going to happen when we no longer have a functional USDA or FDA?
At least the photographer really captured the “Bare Fucking Minimum” energy and the absent chin of these men.
can't have bad numbers if there are no numbers
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas. So don't tell me this isn't about race…
Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is:
And 1 to 3 tote bags to carry them
Meanwhile, I applied for a job at the VA and can’t even get a phone call or email response.
Or, in my case, a white dog and dark furniture and floors
The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men
Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, 10,000 Maniacs, LL CoolJ, Mariah Carey, Neil Young, The Cranberries… so many excellent shows/albums. Peak of music in my book.
Look who is not a board certified physician. 👀
@erekmajka.bsky.social and I were just having this conversation the other day. Do the MTV Unplugged albums count? If so, Alice In Chains and Nirvana need an honorable mention at least. Also, for a wild card, I love Matisyahu Live at Stubbs.
Truly, this is so embarrassing.
It's no longer a question of if authoritarianism comes to America; now it's just a question of how bad it gets, and how long it lasts. It's here. We can get rid of it if we fight together.
This was cute. Thank you to you both for that tiny internet gift.
Like, I feel like that’s pretty clear….
Episode 1: “But Annie, what will you fight FOR?” The expanded, permanent, fully refundable, child tax credit.
Full fledged Cincinnatians once again.
The illusion of choice.
I DEFINITELY CANNOT
@drannieandrews.com is exactly the kind of fearless, intelligent, empathetic, and tenacious person that we desperately need in the Senate. I’m proud to support her. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/nanc...
This is really and truly pathetic. Big Emperor (and his lack of clothes) energy.
I am currently mired in a horrific multi-state move with several logistic failure and @theferocity.bsky.social re-capping Frasier is the only thing getting me through.
No, please don’t apologize! I’m excited for you!!! I’ll read it as soon as I get it. I support you and my public library.
My local library has a 10 week waiting list. To be clear, this is a “don’t hate; congratulate” post.
Parks & Rec’s community engagement scenes predicted the Trump Presidency. In this essay I will… .
It should never be controversial to speak up about mass starvation. Having regular access to safe and nutritious food is a human right.
Feel like a lot of people are running for office believing that you can win an election by trying not to offend anyone, when you should really just believe in things and try to persuade people that you’re correct.
Students who are scared of judgement so they perform cynicism... I see this in some young organizers too. This is precisely why I constantly say that sincerity is A VIRTUE. Let's bring back EARNESTNESS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGs...
The Lucy Bronze playing with a fractured tibia story is reminding me today of how normalized it is in the NHL and the mess of injuries revealed after a postseason run My "favorite" is Ryan O'Reilly winning the Cup and Conn Smyth in 2019 with a ✨cracked rib✨ www.stlouisgametime.com/2019/6/13/18...
You know how I know the American Congress will never care about 2 million starving Palestinians? They don’t give a hoot about 13 million starving American children.
Chloe Kelly should have ran directly to her own goalie.
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
I made a special trip to the Whitney to see this exhibit. This painting - the entire collection- is breathtaking. It’s a shame fewer people will get to experience it, but I support her.
I get it. I just think it’s worth saying it out load, as plainly as possible, over and over again.
They scooped the next episode of The Gilded Age.
Y’all. The president of GMU is a Black man. I’m not saying it’s just that simple, but it’s not that hard either.
While I was packing up the house last week, I found our old stash of COVID tests. I thought, “huh, I wonder if these are still good.” Today, I found out that they are. 😐 Anyway, what’s your favorite sick day movie? Mine is The Princess Bride.
hi! authoritarian expert here, this isn’t funny, authoritarians only do this when they’re worried they’re going to be exposed
This morning, I had a dream that I was FINALLY getting my chance to audition in front of Lin-Manuel Miranda. At the last second, I panicked, couldn’t decide what song to sing, randomly picked a song, and then forgot all the words. It’s maybe the worst dream I have ever had.
Smart and good stuff as usual by @saracivian.bsky.social!
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
Remembering Some Guys is possibly the most singularly wholesome, non-toxic activity many men engage in you want to get dudes out of the fever swamps of the manosphere? get them together and start arguing about relief pitching
NYT: How Trump turned pedophile lemons into racist lemonade
I'm a straight dude so I can only repeat what I hear but the number of times I've heard straight women use the words "Colin Firth" and "pond" in the same sentence is a whole lot more than I've heard them talk about "shredded."
I watched this for the first time in decades a few years ago and SOBBED at “Not in Nottingham.”
this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious
“When did America become this cruel?” Literally, it’s founding. Crack a book, Trib. What an embarrassment of a take!
The thing this is exactly the kind of thing Trump would think was funny. He loves “secrets.” He also cannot help but talk about the illegal things he does. And, especially years ago, he really believes he’s clever. Vile.
Note also that the lawsuit alleges that because race and class are correlated, providing free tuition to lower income students is also racial preference. They just want a pure aristocracy of inherited wealth
If you have ever wondered why we have to say the words “Black Lives Matter” over and over again, it’s because the systems of power repeatedly say that they don’t. Black Lives Matter.
I cannot get over the casting of Season 3 of The Gilded Age!