If I never hear from a messaging strategist again it'll be too soon.
He/him. West Virginian. Opposed to fascism.
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If I never hear from a messaging strategist again it'll be too soon.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
He can make the light turn red for caps lock.
London bombings raise questions about Hitler's commitment to long-standing international norms.
They'll train an AI on his tweets and let it be president.
It's a long weekend, baby
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Tom Clancy's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.
when the covid vax first dropped we were in the middle of a pandemic and it was so hard to find there were entire twitter accounts devoted to the process -- because people, correctly, wanted to be vaxxed and get back to more-normal life. Now the idiots in charge are replicating that for fun.
Wow. This is a powerful letter.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
More images from I-68 overpass protests in #Cumberland, #Allegany and #Garrett Counties:
BREAKING: We won’t stand by while the governor sends vital National Guard resources out of state to participate in a political stunt by President Trump. We just filed a lawsuit on behalf of WV Citizen Action Group to halt deployment of the Guard to Washington, D.C.
Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."
Vaccine Integrity Project presents reassuring data on #vaccines for upcoming respiratory virus season The new data reveal no notable safety or effectiveness issues. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Thank you for trying to sort this out.
I tried to figure out what is going on with fall vaccines. - Flu vax is for everyone 6+ months and availability should be normal - Covid-19 vax likely be limited to ages 65+ AND people with health conditions. Still some uncertainty. - RSV for older adults and babies substack.com/home/post/p-...
I can never get get over how many people throw away perfectly good possums.
The storms usually aren't still hurricanes when they get to West Virginia, but the remnants have caused most of our biggest floods. We could all use state leaders who aren't reality challenged.
Hurricane season is starting up. The Guard needs to be getting ready for real work, which includes having everything caught up at home in case they're deployed later.
But they wanted to distance themselves from THOSE conservatives to their non-conservative friends. THOSE conservatives varied by what was in the news. Usually they were religious conservatives, but when the Iraq war started going badly, they also included neocons. (2/2)
My experience with libertarians has been with mostly guys, mostly moderately well off but some with excessive money, who never experienced bad luck. But that describes a lot of conservatives, too. The guys who called themselves libertarians did all smoke pot. (1/2)
I always thought they were conservatives who smoked pot.
Lmfao
I learned from watching Joe Manchin that "common sense" really means "something someone wants to believe even though the evidence is against it." Here's hoping that his book tour is the last we hear from him.
Male Snouted Toad: Dear Dr. Tatiana, I have an overpowering desire to suffocate my beloved during amplexus. But I love her! Can you help me? Dr. Tatiana: Uh...
Food dyes don't matter when 13 million kids don't know where their next meal is coming from. Let's Improve the Health of Americans Together. #IHAT #MAHA #IHATnotMAHA
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:
JD Vance's supposed Epstein strategy meeting was actually a planning session for invoking the 25th amendment.
I almost listed Nashville.
Yes!
DOGE stole an OFFICE BUILDING!
Impoundments!
I would start with New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, and Kansas City, because their states treat them like they're Sodom and Gomorrah. Houston, Austin, keep it coming.
64 is a round number in base 2
DC residents deserve to walk around free in their own city without harassment and militarization from the Federal government.
It would also be interesting for the right person to ask Laura Loomer what she thinks about discussions about the 25th amendment between Vance, Vought, and Kennedy.
I went for it anyway. I have faith in you!
I checked for them at Bookshop, but they weren't available there. HOWEVER, I found that Side Quested v. 1 was available to pre order! I had not known that!
I'm really sorry.
I'm sure that Trump just never thought to do that.
Shelley Moore Capito's dad, when he was governor of West Virginia, once had the state police drop him off at a car dealership to test drive a car. He drove it off the lot and never took it back.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
I am now a single issue voter and my single issue is this👇 data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
Tom and Ray Magliozzi said on Car Talk that it's important to use saltwater and lemon juice to maintain the finish on cybertrucks.
I genuinely think it is far past time to treat any republican claim to power in the same way. The party's hold on public space is illegitimate; it has delegitimized itself through deliberate sabotage of the public good and deliberate immiseration of the people, for the sake of bigotry and greed.
As I think about it more, during contested primaries, most of the candidates who are still active in May show up. But it's a late primary and easy to tune it out.
Bernie did some appearances with Joe Manchin on his last campaign. Elizabeth Warren came to, I believe, Matewan when she was running for president.
+1 for Relix.
Encrypting and decrypting the messages. I assume they implemented it to discourage people from logging out.
Possums sometimes have problems with dogs or coyotes, as in, sometimes the canines kill them. Under the house sounds good. You may have enough cover, especially if you have plenty of trees--but maybe look around the yard and ask if you'd need more places to hide if you were small and slow.
Andy Griffith!
Oh my fucking god.
For some of these plants, like cilantro, there are interesting flavors for different life stages that you only get from your garden. Cilantro blooms and green coriander berries are great. Chive blooms are great. So are radish blooms and tender seed pods.
The AP article was circulating yesterday, but it's from June 11. That doesn't mean that Vance and Murdoch are in cahoots now, but the timing is a lot less convenient.
Merlin, confused by cicadas
Or younger than 18? You're right, the prenup is obviously permissive toward him, but it might have some limits.
Maybe there's a clause about hooking up with women who are younger than Melania? Maybe he's not supposed to spend his own money connecting with them?
His divorces are about as close as he's gotten to being held accountable for something. The lawyers who reviewed the files in 2019 might not have been deeply familiar with his prenup, or might have still been hung up on conventional boundaries for government lawyers.
So... what if something turned up that violates his prenup? Maybe it's even legal, or not so illegal that it'll freak out MAGA, but it lets Melania out early or lets her keep more of the money? He wouldn't want something to get out that would cost him a lot of money.
The guy the general contractor sent over with some of your tools that went missing at the last job site.
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
i think the last decade is a clear evidence that hypocrisy is preferable to honest displays of cruelty and depravity
Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
AltNPS is a scam account run by bullshitters.
It's pretty likely that your favorite indie bookstore will have a storefront on Bookshop.
what the fourth feels like this year 🇺🇸
I often worked with scientists and regulators from EPA. Without exception, they were dedicated, conscientious, and fair. I may be belaboring the obvious, but only a horrible administration would have made them object to policies, and then respond with retribution.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
Welcome! If you're new to this account and want a primer on AltNPS and their increasing drift into plagiarism and resistance LARPing (and why I even care about this), I've written a few articles on the subject. Part 1 is an intro, and explains my main concerns with this account.
Get on your Canadian tuxedos, it’s a fish party!!! Midnights! Blues! Queens! Rainbows! Tangs! Snappers! Angels! Let the detritus fly!! #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
if you stop off at the post office before work is it the pre office
Morally and ideologically corrupt. Several of them are venally corrupt, but ideological corruption was the problem with this case.
No. The 14th amendment is already perfectly clear. The problem is that the Supreme Court is corrupt.
So, when folks look at what he's doing now with Iran, they try to make sense of it as policy, and they talk about his poor understanding of diplomacy and deterrence and such. But it's not policy, I don't think; it's performance.
Just wanted to clarify here that I'm not talking about the democracy/autocracy stuff, although that's certainly a thing, too. I meant the nature of the presidency itself, and what it means to be in that role. I think he's producing and performing a show, not trying to govern a country.
The Iranians will greet us as liberators.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
Look I am always here for a religion angle but "I want to thank everybody and in particular God, I want to just say we love you God" is a weird-ass thing to say at a briefing
still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
Republicans used to talk a good game about freedom. I wonder what "Party of Lincoln" means to them now.
I read the headline and wondered if Pete Townsend was also making him email five bullet points about his accomplishments every week.
You know it'll be his fault that the parade sucked
Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
RFK is going to be responsible for a lot of death and suffering
He'll probably be able to get out anyway.
This is extremely bad.
Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as *their* failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.
i sincerely think a lot of you believe that the people who join the service are robotic psychopaths who will mindlessly listen to whoever is in charge, and there is nothing i can say to disabuse you of that frankly delusional belief