Ornery Mainer

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

It’s a f*ckin bribe

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Trans rights are human rights.

This is so sad. So much progress in treatments against cancer and other diseases...all canned because of "DEI". Racism literally kills.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

They prob want to mysteriously disappear the entire grand jury

HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

They bend every law, they break every law, they hack voting machines, they deploy roving gangs of thugs to steal people off the street, they openly embrace racism, they lie nonstop, they incite political violence, and much more. Their evil knows no limits. Then they claim to be followers of Jesus.

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

Nothing screams 'freedom' quite like arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.

how sad is it that 'evidence-based' no longer applies to a government 'for the people'?

Imagine explaining Watergate to a younger person.

YOU: So, the GOP campaign broke into the DNC to gather information.

THEM: OK.

YOU: Then the Republican Administration lied about it to Congress.

THEM: ok, and then what happened?

YOU: That’s basically it.

THEM: and he was impeached???

Yes, the US Supreme Court is trying to break up the country.

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

A ProPublica investigation found that over a dozen years, a secretive group at the FDA granted exemptions to at least 22 foreign factories that had violated critical standards in drugmaking.

Lenacapavir is already sold as a treatment for H.I.V. infections that are resistant to other medications, at roughly $42,000 per patient per year. (Few individuals pay the full cost.) Lenacapavir taken to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218, according to Gilead.

Aids and HIV ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! No Kings: Millions Across U.S. Protest Trump's Power Grab, Overshadowing His Military Parade

Today's Democracy Now piece on well attended No Kings protests, t2's poorly attended vanity parade, with several protestors speaking why they're in the streets, the solidarity and "We're not scared of you and hope you have a terrible birthday."

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Trump declares war on the American people.

#NoKings in Portland, Maine ✊🏽

More pics from today’s #NoKings protest in Portland, Maine. @50501movement.bsky.social

#NoKings in Portland, Maine. #50501