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As the technician
placed the bandaid on my arm
where I had just received
my various booster shots
I said: “I imagine
you’ve been doing this
a lot lately.”
But in response
he just said, “not really,”
and I understood why
the shelves in the cold/flu aisle
were so empty.

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

NextDoor makes a bunch of suburban white ladies act like they've been appointed as guards in the Stanford prison experiment

An “underage woman “ is called a girl. Pass it on.

If you are curious why you didn't know anything about the 1921 race massacre until a few years ago then just check out what Walters is doing with Oklahoma's Social Studies standards. #rewritinghistory

I don't know what else I was expecting tbh.

#ProudBlue

Bravo! 👏

More of this, please.

Its just fascinating to me that Medicaid fraud is treated like its SNAP fraud or benefits fraud when its one of the few welfare cases in which the person doesn't receive the cash from the government, the -provider- does, but all of the cuts are -patient- centric

I get that it’s easy to ignore
those telling you
the pandemic is not over,
but you should know
that the insurance industry
is worried about the
“rise in illness,
premature death
in young Americans,”
I know you won’t listen to
my concerns,
but know the insurers
are worried too.

Firsthand account of all the rotten stuff that went down on Eureka Ave this morning. TY @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for running it.

Video of the woman being taken by ICE and the Worcester Police Dept helping them. From @billshaner.bsky.social

WPD throwing the daughter to the ground and arresting her. From @billshaner.bsky.social.

UPDATE: mother was taken into ice custody and the 15 year old daughter and School Committee candidate (and school nurse) Ashley Spring were arrested by WPD. (from @billshaner.bsky.social)

Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!

Never been a time in history where the good guys employed masked men to steal women and children off the streets and made them disappear, just FYI.

Seriously?!? WTF is wrong with my fellow WP? Ridiculous numbers of us voted for this?

And the press & podbros with your “Biden is too old” bullshit?

Fuck y’all.

starting the Kentucky Roller Derby, where the horses are all wearing skates and are also lesbians

Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Eighth Week Apologies, the last thing I want is to romanticize the past, catastrophes and barbarism, cruelty and plagues, none of these things are new, yes, I understand, that we have always lived amidst crise…

They will tell you
that this virus
is a dangerous bioweapon
that escaped
from a laboratory,
but if they see you
taking any steps
to protect yourself
from this virus
they will tell you
that this virus
is really just a cold.

*

The 268th week…

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In case you hadn't noticed:

If we get through this somewhat intact, it's going to be incredible to see how much DOGE actually cost us in terms of lost tax revenue and worker productivity. Bet those costs will be in the billions, and that's even before we get into the losses caused by gutting science and tech.

Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.

But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.

So facilitating the poisoning of children is now “pro-life”.

When I was growing up autistic kids were "hyper" or "had water on the brain" and there was always a raft of "weird kids" who were socially ostracized because they had a hard time people-ing. If you don't think autism existed before it was commonly called "autism," it's because you chose not to see.

A few months ago, I had a similar conversation with another attorney. This attorney practices post-conviction law. I had called to talk about another matter, but the conversation inevitably turned to Trump. This attorney mentioned that he’d recently had some work done on his home, and had gotten to know one of the contractors. The contractor was undocumented, and feared he may be deported. In the 20-some years he’d been in the U.S., this contractor had done well for himself — he owned his contracting business, his home, and some property. He asked if the attorney could help him transfer the business and title to his home and property to his son, who is a U.S. citizen. The attorney and his wife — who is also a lawyer — agreed to help. “As my wife and I started filling out the paperwork, we realized that we might be doing this sort of work for other people over the next few years, so she suggested we bring up one of the old desktops from the basement, so whatever immigration work we were doing would be on a separate computer.” The attorney’s college-aged son had taken an interest in all of this. “My son asked if what we were doing was illegal. I told him it was all perfectly legal. Then he asked me a question I really couldn’t answer: Why did we feel like we had to take these steps to hide legal work that was perfectly legal? And all I could think to say was that this is the kind of country we live in now.”

Another lawyer interviewed in the piece:

I’m going to keep banging this drum but this happened on March 6, to someone with connections, and we’re just hearing about it now. What’s happening that we haven’t heard about yet, or might not ever know?

“My infant was perfectly normal and then hit two years old and was stolen and replaced with a child that looks exactly the same but throws violent tantrums and stopped speaking and won’t interact normally”

frankly we have more evidence of this being the faeries than the vaccines

I am going to spend the next ten minutes giving USAdians some Actual Advice from a Supply Chain Professional with 20 years experience.

1) It's going to be bad in a way you've never seen, not even during COVID or BREXIT.

2) Don't panic.
2a) Panic leads to bad decisions

1/8

Advocating for due process is abetting terrorism???

photo by me - "Followed Footsteps" - of two yellow Sandhill Crane colts being guided by their parent, one with their forehead up against the long beak as they're shown how to find food

As Detroit's own Grace Lee Boggs taught us, “You don’t choose the times you live in. But you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.”

Hard to feel celebratory, here in the Turbulent Era, but I'm proud of the way I've chosen to live regardless ✌🏾