Veronica Schanoes

Love this plan

Judge blocks Trump admin from rescinding health grants to Democratic-led states The ruling temporarily blocks the Trump Administration from cutting $600 million in public health grants that had already been allocated to four Democratic-led states.

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

Such an important decision, one that will save countless lives.

Ruling holds that syringe exchange is protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office Welcome The Stranger

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

She is here legally and after her first illegal detention the confiscated all her documentation and have refused to give it back.

By the way, the belief that Israel has committed genocide is a belief held by 4 in 10 American Jews - higher than the percentage of American Jews who identify as Zionists. (Sources: www.timesofisrael.com/poll-nearly-... www.jta.org/2026/02/05/u...)

ai guys???? they wanted to do stuff with ai that was too much for AI GUYS???????

And like—it’s entirely self-evident, but just to be explicit for emphasis:

SHE WAS CAREFUL TO AVOID MAKING THAT CONFLATION IN SIGNIFICANT PART BECAUSE THE CONFLATION IS VERY ANTISEMITIC

Because it’s fun and they want to?

This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

To the extent that any one organization has outsized influence on the humanities, and you happen to not like the research priorities, please consider that the problem is the lack of funding for the humanities not the foundation.

Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

The depravity of all of this

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

The NYC mayor’s genuine enjoyment at doing his job and positively affecting — even in the smallest of ways — the lives of those in the city he leads is a reminder that better things are possible and that “not being a miserable jerk” is somehow an underrated quality in a politician

Whomst among us has not been there?

I like to imagine Keith Richards’s reaction to Rubio telling him to his face that he’s a bastion of western civilization, though. He refused the knighthood, after all.

Art depicting Native Hawaiians stabbing James Cook

On this day in 1779, Native Hawaiians stabbed British colonizer Captain James Cook in the neck.

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This has been happening for a year. Here in Spokane, they’ve been knocking on people’s doors & saying they think they hit the person’s car. Once people come outside to see if their car is ok, they get taken.

This is the Republican platform. Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this

every plantation owner should have been put to death

Laura X got spousal rape banned in California. At 85, she scrapes by in a Berkeley hotel room She got spousal rape banned in California. Now 85, her fortune went to building a million-page women’s history archive — and to a Ponzi scheme.

Laura X got spousal rape banned in California. At 85, she scrapes by in a Berkeley hotel room

god forbid women have hobbies

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.