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Joni Ernst voted to strip healthcare from more than 100,000 Iowans and played off Medicaid cuts by saying “we all are going to die.”

That’s not leadership. That’s failure.

Iowans deserve a Senator who fights for them. That’s why I’m in this race.

seriously want people who have not been in DC in August to listen to people who have.

This mobilization will wreck morale.

I'll say it again: it's amazing how many Americans who enjoy dystopian science-fiction media are also proving themselves to be 100% on board for signing over most of their cognitive function to technological tools run by sinister, giant corporations.

Actual PhD-level experts, rather than a large language model flummoxed by how to spell certain common fruits

Who is growing the food your protag is eating, that's what I want to know

Oh shit this is real

i literally got one that was cheaper for Father’s Day for my dad who Worries about the cats

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

One of the best things about being in an international server is that if I mention that I live in Bear Country (CO), the Australians all howl about how we need to shut up about Aussie wildlife, because THEIR large carnivores mostly stay in the water, NOT INVITE THEMSELVES INTO THE KITCHEN. (🧵1/?)

same

this was the biggest and fastest win against a pathogen in medical history

also it was a brand new pandemic pathogen

simply awe-inspiring, if you understand anything about the promise of clear thinking and hard work to do good and achieve great things

I know the obstacles to it, but remains exhausting that Dems have never been able to turn a trifecta into DC statehood. Unlike the live tensions in the five colonies, statehood for DC is unequivocally the right call and on a structural level good partisan politics, plus it'd protect resident rights

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

I ask because it’s a 2 year wait for anyone on the island…

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law

Trump administration violated impoundment law by canceling NIH grants, slowing new awards, GAO finds www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/g...

We don’t have any requirement whatsoever that vehicles be designed for pedestrian safety. We choose to sacrifice our kids instead of regulating vehicle manufacturers.

*hundreds* of millions of dollars. Costs every American of all ages about 12 cents per *month*

I will make a pilgrimage to shit on his grave.

The raw milk people are hilarious. All you have to do is meet one (1) cow and smell the situation in which they are producing that rawness and you will pasteurize everything you own for a week

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I had somehow absorbed so much ambient misogyny that it took me until college in the early 00s to realize that I could have female friends without competing with them for male attention. Instead of women supporting women, we grew up with “cat fights.”

a Norwegian king crab

Cis people being weird about trans people makes me think about king crabs.
Bear with me for this one because it will make sense.
You know king crabs, right? Giant crab, lives up north, has long legs, very expensive and tasty, featured on many a mukbang
Did you know they are technically not crabs? 1/

Trans folk 🤝 carcinised arthropods
Converging on a sick as hell body plan

With ongoing pressure campaigns, not everyone can push 100% all the time

If you and maybe a friend or two can jump in "late"? You give people a chance to recharge their batteries, so they can take over again once you need to recharge yours

Its a marathon, not a race

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has amended the constitution. From now on, he is no longer limited in how many times he can run for president — he can participate in elections as many times as he wishes.

Additionally, the presidential term has been extended from 5 to 6 years.

this email should be stapled to all legislative proposals for banning sports betting

Dexter Holland, for helping cure AIDS: thank you

Like Capt. Adama said in Battlestar Galactica, “There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

One of my favorite facts about this is that Del Toro was *painstakingly* crafting the fish man so that all the women in his life agreed he was hot.

He considered it a mark of success watching Octavia Spencer lean out of her chair to watch Doug Jones walk past wearing his sexy fish butt.

Once I tried to get @tkingfisher.com to remove an em dash. She sent me a photo of STET THIS across her knuckles.