A bathroom is a dangerous place for older adults

let them eat toilets.

They refuse to get vaccinated and they refuse to help stop the outbreak they may have started—an outbreak of measles that could kill someone.

“The patient has declined to be tested, or to fully participate in our…investigation, so we will not be able properly do contact tracing to warn anyone…”

They don't have to try and kill it if someone didn't catch it

Will it go thru tho? The "chief law enforcer": 1) convicted fraudster, 2) history in NYC construction, & 3) ran gambling in Atlantic City (ties to Philly mafia). If we are looking at odds, there is a better than zero chance that the DoJ will drop or greatly reduce the charges for those affiliates.

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@asharangappa.bsky.social re: AI dev for fraud detection on the pod. Healthcare has been using analytics tools (may or may not have any AI already) for years to spot anomalies: find the dermatologist that removes 100x more moles than average, or identify the hospice agency whose patients don’t die.

Don't forget that on Jan 6, the Proud Boys who kicked off the attack "dressed like Antifa" - no colors, no identifiers. Everyone on the ground knew who they were, but if the attack had gone as quickly as planned, it would be easy to use the chaos and unknown attackers to declare an emergency.

That would really hurt their tender feefees

Menswear guy for the win again!
Does it also weaken marriages?

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right - emptywheel In an attempt to do a Twitter Files dump on Jack Smith's January 6 investigation, Chuck Grassley exposed very personal details of the far right political establishment, in the process identifying peop...

Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...

By the time the Louisiana state health department issued a press release, 42 people had been hospitalized and two infants had died in the outbreak.

This is the future of public health in the US under RFK Jr.

-Putin has been touting tests of Skyfall and Poseidon this week. (The tests were of nuke-powered, nuke delivery systems-not live warhead detonations)
-The Dept of War isnt responsible for nuke explosive testing. Thats DoEs job.
-The "renovation of existing weapons" continues.

Republicans need to come back from their month-long paid vacation and do the work of democracy. Cancel the health care cuts. Reopen the government. Restore nutrition. Release the Epstein File. Cut the crap.

The app tracks your moon, rising and sun signs, and lets you ask "The Void" three free questions per day. I signed up to see Halligan's profile, and now I know important things like "transmitting Mars semisquare natal Jupiter in Libra."

And I know that's her account bc it connects to her phone.

There is zero reason for anyone, especially reporters, to trust anything that comes out of this administration at any level. This is fantastic reporting.

Like mafia no-
show jobs?
Ask not what the president’s son can do for you… oh wait

2. I was provided and reviewed discovery in this matter which included multiple videos taken by an undercover officer planted on the sidewalk outside the gate to the Ambience apparel factory on June 6, 2025. It is apparent from the perspective of the videos that the undercover officer was walking around on the sidewalk amongst the civilians who had been gathering outside the gate to the Ambience apparel factory. His videos begin hours before and include the arrest of David Huerta. The videos show that someone standing on the sidewalk could easily see through the driveway gate which gate is made of vertical metal bars several inches apart, and could see officers inside the gates detaining and transporting people of color. It appears from the videos that David Huerta was outside the gate for about 30-45 minutes before his arrest. One of the videos shows the gate opening as an unmarked white van turns off the street entering the driveway to the factory 3. Amongst the dozens of protestors at that location, on information and belief, only Mr. Huerta was arrested and charged that day. The video shows that during his arrest, without apparent cause, agents flung Mr. Huerta to the ground and pepper sprayed eyes. 4. I also reviewed reports of the events that were provided in discovery. Those reports include that David Huerta told an agent interviewing him after his arrest while still on the Ambience premises that that he was the president of SEIU USWW, a local service workers union. A search warrant directed to SEIU USWW for his phone and provided to me the night of June 6, 2025 corroborated that the government knew of his employment at the union

Note the conspiracy to obstruct charge against @katmabu.bsky.social is the same charge with which DOJ attempted to charge SEIU CA President David Huerta. (DOJ recently charged him instead w/a misdemeanor.) Here's what his attorney said in moving to dismiss the complaint with prejudice.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Lots of stuff in here to think about but two sticking with me are 1) the many terrible short and long term outcomes of lowering the standards and changing processes for committing someone; 2) there’s zero chance of appropriate staffing and what that leads to
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Really is Christmas for Criminals out there because all the federal agents and federal prosecutors aren't doing anything about real crime, they're spending their time either kidnapping people or prosecuting stuff like this:

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in addition, what you learn riding in LA transit is different than in NYC

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Camera adds ten pounds 💕

There is understanding and then there is acceptance. I can think of people in a certain demographic (age, race, education, etc.) who take the snobby, precisionist viewpoint a la My Fair Lady. There’s no point in arguing with their smug righteousness. “In America, they haven’t used it in years”

They’ve all watched The Bear where this was explained in plain English