History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

With the White House blocking media that doesn’t comply with its narrative, we assume this is why these protests are being ignored.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Welp, there goes my mental health, ability to focus at work, and (part of the treatment for my binge-eating disorder.

The United States is so fucked.

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

BREAKING: Donald trump is actually doing something GREAT, promising to crack down on overdraft fees and to BLOCK medical debt from being listed on credit reports! WOW!!!

LOL, just kidding. Actually, President Biden did all that stuff to help Americans, and trump wants to reverse it.

Fucking idiot.

Oh, and please don't tell me that it was a Roman salute. smdh.

Kendrick Lamar is a pulitzer prize-winning lyricist.

If you have never done a deep dive into his music, listened to and read the lyrics at the same time, if you can't understand that his 'beef' with Drake is about a lot more than who is the better rapper, then please educate yourself.

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone who is sick of stupid trumpers cheering every idiotic move made by trump, thinking that it ONLY hurts liberals.

You stupid MAGA jackasses, what he does negatively affects AMERICA, and that includes YOUR dumb asses too.

Go ahead, ring that bell.

THIS is my Sentiment

a woman in a pink coat and hat says progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged Alt: a woman in a pink coat and hat says progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged

Many scientific workgroups across CDC have been suspended until they are “realigned” with the Jim Crow mandate.

This includes data science and programming workgroups. 👀

#wecodebetterthandoge

I saw this somewhere, and it resonated with me:
Stop using acronyms. Stop saying you disagree with DEI. Say, "I disagree with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion."
Say it with your whole chest. Out loud. Bonus points, if you tell us which part is just too much jelly for your PBJ sandwich.

For all the unfair characterizations of women as being subpar “DEI” hires, most of the BEST managers I've ever reported to were women.

I can think of TWO highly-qualified Women in particular who aren't convicted felons who would be a TRILLION times better than the buzzard in the Oval Office.

REPEAT AFTER ME:

NOBODY VOTED FOR ELON MUSK

PASS IT ON.

#legaltok is this a thing?? Outsourcing incarceration to another country? Is this like what the UK did with Australia back in the day?? #prison #prisontok #uspolitics #news TikTok video by UnderTheDeskNews

Well, if it isn't the consequences of actions not my own.

The biggest lesson the US is going to have to learn is that nobody is coming to help, this is a lesson every country in the world has learned. This is your fight. Every country you know will continue to make deals with Trump, unless you put up mass resistance and show the world you do not consent.