Plotting out a scene in which my protagonist places a massive bet on whether law enforcement will kill her within the next week on the basis that if she survives she's rich and if she dies she doesn't care and that's basically where we're at now anyway.
02.03.2026 12:37 β
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What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever
We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster β and what they arenβt getting.
NEW: Local emergency managers, the behind-the-scenes coordinators who mobilize help during disasters, have raised the same point time and again:
We need resources to protect people in harmβs way β before the harm arrives.
02.03.2026 13:00 β
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This movie is shallower than the lake, but I still love it. And I think there is a place for movies you can just enjoy without swimming into the deep end.
02.03.2026 11:29 β
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Why, indeed?! π€¨
02.03.2026 13:05 β
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Cover of BAD INK: How The New York Times sold out Transgender Teens
by Riki Wilchins
www.abebooks.com/978162601682...
02.03.2026 13:11 β
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I don't know, they are saying it about trans people daily. Nazis shouldn't be the norm here, but Nazis run the government via evangelical xtianity.
02.03.2026 13:16 β
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A regional war is a step down from a Global Conflict (World War). Civilian lives killed in this middle east regional war will be massive.
A unprecedented humanitarian emergency unfolding as I type.
Of course this is what the "board of peace" had planned. Murderers.
02.03.2026 13:17 β
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Oh my fucking gods! Look at the date! π€―
Is March 1 National Defend the Vichy New York Times day and I missed the memo?
02.03.2026 13:18 β
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"This is not Iraq." Yeah man it's worse. Like in every conceivable way it's worse and dumber than probably one of the dumbest and worst American military things of my lifetime.
02.03.2026 13:47 β
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Iraq's population was around 43 million. Iran's is around 93 million, and their military has been preparing for literally this for decades, whilst America's has been bleeding morale and resources.
02.03.2026 13:19 β
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'Bias' is a loaded subject, but in media literacy, one way to determine bias is by looking at a *pattern* of unfair coverage. It is *impossible* to look at the coverage of trans people by The Atlantic over the last 10 years and come to any other conclusion than that they are biased towards trans ppl
26.03.2025 22:49 β
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Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trumpβs Strikes on Iran
Only 27 percent of respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they approved of the attacks.
Just one in four Americans supports the Trump administrationβs ongoing strikes on Iran, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.
02.03.2026 14:00 β
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Apply: 2026 Investigative Editor Training Program
The yearlong ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program aims to broaden the ranks of investigative editors.
NEW: For the fourth year, ProPublica will invite up to 10 news editors from media companies across the country to participate in a yearlong investigative editing training program, led by our newsroomβs award-winning staff.
Interested? Apply by March 30.
02.03.2026 14:00 β
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For a populace that fucking hates us and hopes we rope ourselves they fucking love jerking to our existence. They're gonna be very angry when they find we all ain't a monolith.
02.03.2026 13:27 β
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Call Grows to Impeach Trump, 'The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet'
"Trumpβs illegal war on Iran and the rule of law," said one pair of campaigners, "establish an intolerable pattern of egregious abuses of power, directly threatening our constitutional order, our safety, and our way of life."
Call Grows to Impeach Trump, 'The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet' | "Trumpβs illegal war on Iran and the rule of law establish an intolerable pattern of egregious abuses of power, directly threatening constitutional order, our safety, our way of life.β"
02.03.2026 13:22 β
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Especially as they are attacking minorities for why Labour lost and ignoring Keir etc did it to themselves and it was so predictable theyβd lost too as soon as they were racist, anti-LGBTQ+, left, progressives and the planet but pro-Right, bigotry and genocide
02.03.2026 13:21 β
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Ditto the Vichy New York Times
02.03.2026 13:31 β
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So, as we've been saying ...
02.03.2026 13:32 β
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OMFG I am living through groundhog day! π€―
02.03.2026 13:34 β
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I transitioned on massive doses of hormones from birth control pills, which was legitimately a little dangerous (I had a clot scare lol) but which absolutely did the thing super quick. And then after surgery I got the NHS Special (2mg estradiol once per day) and felt like total shit for a decade.
02.03.2026 10:49 β
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As far as I've been able to determine the main healthcare risk endocrinologists are worried about regarding DIY HRT is that you might get an effective dose without months to years of fucking around.
02.03.2026 10:14 β
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Cis people get annoyed by a trans woman once and get an opinion column in the Times. I get annoyed by trans women everyday and have zero opinion columns. This is transmisogyny.
02.03.2026 10:28 β
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but Talia, if you donβt tell some quack stranger how you masturbate how will they know the medicine isnβt magically dangerous????
02.03.2026 10:06 β
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Quite a few gals I know, me included, have partners who plan to start E-gel when menopause hits instead of playing the Doctor Lottery because why
02.03.2026 10:30 β
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