Gretchen Beavers

A tweet from J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) says: “Narrator: He did not fight.” It quotes a 2022 tweet from John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) that reads: “Health care is a basic, fundamental human right. I will fight for health care like the health care that saved my life. #PASenateDebate.”

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Canada is currently experiencing a large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles that began in October 2024 with cases in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. PAHO's Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission reviewed recent epidemiological and laboratory data, confirming sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.

UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.

This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

👇👇

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

I have no idea if this is a joke or for real and miss living in a world where fascism waffles didn't feel like a thing that could conceivably be possible.

What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

The voices of SNAP Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.

SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court.

Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

I hate to admit it,but it was the best $21 I ever spent on Amazon.

Brown and orange long haired fluffy cat in small mushroom cottage cat house

A screenshot of the White House instagram with the Knicks logo except it says Trump is your president

The White House just posted this they are not mad they swear they are so not mad

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

A stock photo (or possibly AI-generated) showing a physician with a stethoscope bell placed on the chest of a young girl in a pediatric patient gown. The stethoscope earpieces are clearly not in his ears.

PSA: It is very difficult to do chest auscultation when the stethoscope earpieces are not in your ears.

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

why would he come for online trads like this

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

I’m copying this next year!

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.

...and if they were, they pull a Hedy Lamar, which is when they figure it out, get as much high level information as possible, and then get the fuck out of there.

My quote of the day

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

A. E. Housman

the hill I will die on is that you will edit better with a pen than on a screen (choose your colour; i prefer green to blue, and prefer blue to red, but anything's better than a keyboard)

I didn't think I needed an "always repost the Nazi bar story" but it feels like it bears repeating far too often.

The racisms per second is like a Gatling gun.

NYC Mayoral Debate

MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live

CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything

SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull

Some people truly do change the world. Dr. Bartlett was one of them ❤️‍🩹

Holy shit, this cartoon.