Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
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Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people
I mean, people are already hostile to allergies, but a big example would be Popeyes, which has been using beef tallow for some time now without really stating it outright. I, a person who cannot safely consume any form of beef, would've easily assumed a chicken place would be safe. But it's not!
That's horrendous.
Love should be able to tell you apart, too, tho
Oh good lord has it gone that far already? I'm so sorry. Crossing my fingers that they don't start frying donuts in it.
They think the gathering part was too girly.
Eeew gross. Like, politics and ideology aside, even. Just eeeewwwww gross.
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I was so confused. Also my actual jacket was on the conveyor belt in front of us. I pointed to it. Also I was wearing kind of an insufficient T-shirt under the sweatshirt, but finally I took the sweatshirt off because there wasn't anything else to take off.
They should also just calm down about anointing *any* candidate this far out. It's not like we're down to the wire and Newsom is all we've got. Plenty of time to find a candidate who isn't loudly sacrificing anybody.
Conversely I was once stopped by TSA in an airport because they kept asking me to take my jacket off and I wasn't wearing one. It was a shawl-collared sweatshirt, but I was just sooo confused. One of those moments when I wished the people with power to detain me could be clearer in their demands.
More recent reports have identified the driver of the car that hit Giuliani's as a 19-year-old woman.
I'm so sorry. I hope you have a short and easy time with it.
Email the governor here: www.mass.gov/info-details...
Ah. I hadn't seen the follow-up.
He's implying he was rear-ended by the woman's attacker, right? Rather than that he stopped short for no reason in the middle of the highway at night.
Real question is "Why the fuck..." She sold "Eat, Pray, Love" into a movie and I guess her agent made her a good deal is the "where."
Hmmmmm.
$2,500 per is nothing compared to the cost of the deployment but a huge amount of money for the individuals. They're going to start violating the third amendment any minute now.
Trump spent part of his Saturday night posting that he wants to sign new executive orders aimed at voter ID and mail-in ballots. That would be unconstitutional. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I just keep thinking in this context the Democratic Party could get mileage simply on being the party of life. For everyone. Because the Trumpists sure seem to be the party of death for everyone. Picking out only some whose lives you're going to value is accepting the Republican framework.
The midichlorian burden is what turned Anakin to the Dark Side.
I am kind of weirdly mulish against elevating "strategy" over decency. But then I can barely shop anymore now that "brand" is divorced from quality and consistency.
And just think! He can *see* them!
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Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
This is frankly even more terrifying in an era where more and more critical journalism is being done (only) by individuals (barely) supported by readers. They're going to need an organization with enough money to hire lawyers if this goes through. Band together, website journalists!
Thanks, Elie. I'm going to save this to reread on the days I just want to hide under my desk.
Usually the MAGA cap is sufficient to cover his bad hair days, though. That gray thing is like a disguise. Makes me wonder where he's coming from that he wanted to be incognito.
Um, you can still get spongy square white bread in any grocery store. This is a person complaining that he eats in restaurants.
Well, cream. When you're making butter, for example, and it starts to separate into whey and butterfat, it is starting to clabber.
We were trying to talk about different appearances for Hardie board, because you can get it to look like shakes or like, well, clapboard. I think of "clapboard" as what you call the siding that looks like clapboard. Like we have aluminum siding but it's still clapboard style.
The only people I know who know about clabbered milk also pronounce clapboard correctly.
Been talking to contractors of late and they look at me funny when I say "clabberd." Are they really expecting "clap-board"? Also I keep getting in trouble with calling an introductory overview a "primmer." When I say "primer" I mean a preparatory layer or something that helps set off an explosion.
Have never seen this expressed so well.
Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.
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Captain America "I understood that reference" meme.
Hey, I think I'm down to four.
I continue to be confused about why our corporations are not doing a better job of bribing the president to change his mind.
I am permitting myself this schadenfreude.
Question for the hivemind: Anyone know what this is from? I found this button in the pocket of some shorts I got at a thrift store, and I kinda love it, but I'm wondering if the little angel thing is, like, from something.
I really only give blood for the free bottled water and Cheez-Its.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Oh, like RFKJr can do that much arithmetic.
He'd rather you get your supplements from a grifter, drink raw milk, and get measles. Gotta thin the flocks down to the few turkeys who don't die of bird flu, then rebuild from there. If I were a eugenicist, he would be on my list.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
For me it comes down to this conversation I had with my anti-vax neighbor. She's comparing vaccine risk against zero risk. When I asked her how the incidence of MMR vaccine side effects stacked up against deaths and long-term effects of the diseases, she answered, "I never thought about that."
please mask, if you purport to care about other people at all, this is such an simple way to exhibit community care. maskbloc.org
Yup.
NGL, I'm impressed you got this detail out of plaster of Paris, and also managed such nice paint because, yes, it is thirsty. I hope your sealant is excellent because it would be a shame to lose these lovely pieces.
With the important corollaries that they believe they are the strong and that they themselves will be going to paradise, and these believes make them feel good right up until the moment they turn out not to be true.
A lot of people at this point have zero idea what public health measures have done to protect them. They are ahistorical — the relative health they've seen around them all their lives is some kind of "natural" state. They chose to believe the CDC caused Covid so they don't have to change that.
There was one and he folded.
I get the M. Ford Creech newsletter just to look at the pictures.
Three Georgian wineglasses (c1730-50) of baluster form, with knops (swellings) to the stems. With M. Ford Creech, Memphis, Tenn. #c18th #c18 #18thc
If someone has a good relationship with your prescriber, I would advise asking if there's something like this they can do to help build a stockpile.
I didn't put this earlier because most people just don't have these options, but, yeah, I'm lowering my dose on the SSRI, I lost 50 pounds so I won't be at as much risk if I can't get blood pressure meds, and I've located an essential oil that could stand in for one of my inhalers.
I am not fully prepared for 100% inflation on produce.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
Oh, look, they are on here: @loftypursuits.bsky.social
You should get these. They are delicious little small hits of flavor. www.pd.net/products/mex...
It's eugenicists all the way down. But RFKJr. supports fitting out everyone with glucose monitors, especially people who do not have diabetes so they can eat more perfectly. So maybe you can get away with keeping one of those, even if you actually need it.
Sleepy former healthcare-industry writer should probably take herself offline for a bit. Thinking for some reason of my lunch with Uwe Reinhardt.
Also it is not time yet to even make this calculation, at least not at the presidential level. There is no candidate. There's still time to choose one who throws no one under the bus.
Hospital, oops I mean, HOLIDAY weekend.
I have to say I thought Big Pharma would fight harder.
Time to riot.
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What Netanyahu is calling a "tragic mishap" claimed the lives of health care workers, journalists, & civilians. None of this is a mishap, and to say so is an utter disrespect of human life. We must end the genocide, cut off offensive weapons, and surge aid now. www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
Your daily reminder that most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Don't worry. Things will continue to suck.
Sympathy. The health insurance business is already a dangerous travesty. I hope the prior authorization comes through.
Good.
What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
The one thing I do is set automatic refills at the mail-order pharmacy. To keep their own cash flowing, they will refill as early as they can, and sometimes I can get a couple of weeks ahead. Not good enough, but something.
Yeah, they've come for Medicaid first but it's going to be bad for everything pretty quick. CVS and Walgreens being afraid to give Covid vaccines is the tip of the iceberg.
If the states are going to stand up a functioning shadow federal government, they're going to need to start taking their money back. Wonder if they can get one of the DOGE kids to divulge the Treasury passcodes.
Into the blender with all us defectives.
Every time I take one of my prescription meds I wonder how long I'll be able to get it. Will the CDC withdraw approval so my insurance doesn't cover it? Will tariffs make it too expensive or kill the supply chain? Will RFKJr. outright ban it? Because obviously if i need meds I'm unworthy of life.
That, indeed, was a choice.
Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
C'mon, just say "Congratulations for figuring out a successful pitch to the NYTimes. This will look great on your resumés, and your skill in playing to the prejudices of such an important publication will stand you in good stead in your short freelance career before you go to business school."
Trash panda and electrified rat! Love them!
"We’re looking at a battle between RFK Jr. and Elon Musk for who has racked up the most deaths around the world. We’re not talking about the hundreds or thousands, but potentially even millions." On the pod @donmoyn.bsky.social is fantastic on CDC mess and Leavitt BS newrepublic.com/article/1998...
I hate how basic bitch apps expect you to pay 60 dollars a year for a subscription.
NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
Remember that program where even treatment for Covid was free for the uninsured?
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Genuine Gold-Tone Jeweler's Metal Curtain?
you forgot park service cops
Being a boomer, I keep wondering what we're going to call the isolationist "curtain" around the US. "Iron" and "Bamboo" are so over; what do we get? The Gold-Painted Plastic Curtain? The Mar-a-Lago Shower Curtain and Classified Document Repository? The Unpasteurized Milk Moat?
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
Our current tech billionaires aren't real big on the whole should/shouldn't thing.