Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind

*Runs out to buy a few bottles from the state store before it becomes scarce*

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

A Palestinian doctor in Gaza shared the following urgent message with Drop Site: “Today is the first day that hospitals run by the Ministry of Health in Gaza have stopped providing meals to medical staff.” Meals for patients and medical teams have now been cut. He warns this means many patients are facing “certain death.” Patients will no longer receiving proper nutrition, leaving them unable to recover or resist illness. “Second, and even more dangerous, is that healthcare workers themselves are now exhausted and will be unable to continue treating patients.” He echoed the Health Ministry in describing the situation as “catastrophic,” and urged soup kitchens and food aid initiatives to immediately redirect their efforts toward hospitals.

I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.

😂

This feels like Wray and Nephew slander.

And this is why I tell folks that this man doesn't have a mandate. Things can turn on a dime. We need to keep pushing.

This part.

😬

please let us rest.

Amen!

I was about to check it out but then I saw the byline. We should all collectively commit to ignoring Ross Douthat. We lose brain cells reading his columns. Save yourselves.

I'm not an organizer at all but it feels like the perfect moment for mass outreach to disappointed Trump voters, to find the persuadable ones and help them see that he was never on their side. Ppl are losing jobs & subsidies & benefits, they're mad. It feels like an opportunity. Am I crazy?

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

I was already planning to boycott Target, but realizing they had the nerve to cut back on DEI after placing ads podcasts with Black hosts for BHM 2025 has really upped my commitment to the situation, cuz how DARE do that my faves at @thisistheread.com?!?!?!

The Trump Administration Might Just Spend $400 Million on 'Armored' Teslas Donald Trump's administration expects to spend $400 million on 'armored' vehicles made by Elon Musk's Tesla.

If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:

I feel like everyone who owes taxes needs to withhold them come April...

State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

Both the #NYT #Strands and #Connections writers were really stretching it today.

this has been published for over a week. somehow we are all just finding out about this. when an entire administration begins to target a marginalized community to erasure at a voluptuous degree, stories like this go under the radar.

SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts

2000: Don't be evil
2015: Do the right thing
2025: Just following orders

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The fact that the Dems continue to view progressives as the enemy rather than potential allies demonstrates that they've learned exactly nothing...

Saying the quiet part out loud

It me.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

Have more babies AND stay home with them...

QTNA

They seem to think that by going back to only white men having positions of power we can heal our divisions. But that’s just an admission that the core division at the heart of it all was white men resenting no longer exclusively having positions of power.