Amy Cogan

if you refer to children as fuck trophies I gotta know where you draw the line exactly. because how do you think you got here. you’re the fuck trophy. bitch

I was recently reminded that some people get angry with you for agreeing with them but not in the way they prefer

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

People are just walking around, going about their lives, acting like the governments we elected in the global north aren’t, right now, facilitating one of the most unimaginable atrocities in human history.

Welp

the same administration screaming at universities about “merit” is also elevating unqualified hacks to critical positions, which makes you wonder about what they mean by “merit”

Open back hatch of a gray vehicle, with an overflowing collection of freshly purchased plants.

My parents gave me a gift card to the local nursery for my birthday and I’m happy to announce that I got all these beauties settled in nicely before I leave tomorrow 💪💪💪

Williams’s argument has found purchase among journalists he might consider fellow travelers — Yascha Mounk, Bari Weiss and Conor Friedersdorf, among others. It’s also not so new; it might remind some people of the debates about political correctness that raged in the 1990s, though Williams might balk at the comparison. He would prefer that we not invoke history (or context, or ideology, or ideas of “moral clarity”) in our debates. He’d rather we understand current events through the facts of what is happening in the here and now. We shouldn’t have tried, he says, to understand the killing of Trayvon Martin on a continuum of racial violence that includes the lynching of Emmett Till, because doing so flattened the incident into a racial drama and did not deal with specific individuals and their actions. Similarly, he argues, the murder of George Floyd should not be seen in the context of racism and police behavior, but in the light of Floyd’s poverty and drug addiction (and I suppose we are not allowed then to contextualize those factors in terms of race, or the history of labor markets, or the pharmaceutical industry — they are just individual characteristics).

a sharp review of the chatterton book that notes the author’s total refusal to engage with history and his insistence that a “serious” or “good faith” discussion requires participants to exist in an eternal present where individuals exist free of context www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.

STFU, RFK Jr, you ridiculous idiot. You don't care about the wellbeing of patients. You care about politics. You are actively undermining doctors' ability to protect their patients from measles and COVID. Your party forces women who have miscarried to bleed out in parking lots over your politics.

Stephen King's 'The Stand' Gets New Life in 'The End of the World As We Know It' — Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive) A star-studded cast of contributors take on Stephen King's iconic apocalypse novel 'The Stand' in a new anthology, out Aug. 18. Read and listen to an exclusive excerpt here.

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, People magazine, and me!

people.com/the-end-of-t...

Wild to see considering how we pushed students into these majors over the last decade or so.

Dem staffers and pundits experiencing what they mocked in Twitter is my greatest petty joy.

Oh wow you are mad you’re not getting what you want and you’re being dismissed

Cool you reflecting on how it’s a poison tactic or just mad it’s you ?

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now.

Many saying “Covid is back”.

It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations.

Every infection is a dice roll with disability.

Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

7 things you can do to protect your town from ICE

I know Americans like to live in their own world, pretend everything is fine, but…

Yesterday, I went into 2 stores and 1 pharmacy, and in all 3 locations, the entire suite of medical staff - pharmacists, pharm techs, opticians, walk-in care providers, even their cashiers - were wearing N95s.

There's nothing more annoying than watching someone drink alcohol every single night and stumbling to get going in the morning.

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

CDC officials try to reassure staff after fatal shooting in Atlanta Patrick Joseph White, a 30-year-old Georgia man, is accused of opening fire outside the CDC buildings in Atlanta on Friday, killing one police officer.

Vivid details from inside the CDC campus as it came under gunfire and the calls to reassure employees this morning, reported by @lenasun.bsky.social who is deeply sourced in the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

It says everything that Republicans are working harder to arrest Texas Democrats than anyone on the Epstein list.

But Trump loves and respects our veterans.

"The climate crisis is making rental housing more hazardous ... Chicago is home to one of the oldest building stocks in the country. Decades of deferred maintenance and negligent management have left low-income tenants with limited options for safe housing."

I appreciate that dem leadership is, 10 years late, finally figuring out that they need to pursue gerrymandering themselves even if they want to maintain a platform that includes anti-gerrymandering measures. however, I do not think we can continue with a leadership that is always 10 years too late

Leaked documents reveal hidden agenda behind Trump tariff demands President Donald Trump’s tariff policy has been described by the president as a tool to address the United States’ trade deficits with countries the world over, however, according to leaked government documents obtained by The Washington Post, the policy had a series of other high-priority objective...

Leaked documents reveal hidden agenda behind Trump tariff demands

Book page. Introduction in Disaster Nationalism.

Breakfast reading. Richard Seymour’s “Disaster Nationalism”. 😭😭🤌🏿

a couple online sources claim he claimed he had been "sickened" by a vaccine, so I guess my instincts might be correct.

and that also may be why it's largely been hushed up, at least as far as the Administration is concerned

It feels a lot like we're ramping up into a quiet "civil" war where it's people who want to drag us back to like 1820 on one side, those of us who understand public health has saved millions of lives on the other, and a huge "middle group" who don't really seem to care