wildcard

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I don't like the term "cargo cult fascism" because I think it's a bit racist and frankly unfair to cargo cults, but this is an example of what people are naming when they talk about this dynamic.

You have to actually manufacture consent first for this to work

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health

After abandoning every mitigation and infecting kids repeatedly, our media wants to know: why do so many children have Long COVID?

My latest looks at the newest research, the comforting lies that just won't die, and how we got here:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

Seriously, everyone needs to stop with the "the last acceptable prejudice," or "if this were any OTHER minority, it wouldn't be acceptable"

because as we keep seeing, EVERY DAMN DAY, it is ALWAYS multiple minorities being targeted

bigotry only comes in variety packs

I feel like if democrats spent this year messaging “Donald Trump sent your kids to die so his family could buy another golden toilet” we might get impeachment going.

Like… Empire is bad, but the processes of soft power for empire building were regarded as good because they made less likely the kind of international resentment & outright war— symmetrical or otherwise— which result from the trumpist/hegsethian view of active warfighting as a thing manly men do.

My neighbour told me Kuwaiti air defence keeps eating his F-15s so I asked how many F-15s he had and he told me he just goes and gets another F-15 so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F-15s to Kuwaiti air defence and then his daughter started crying

the year 2056:
my grandkids: what did you do to help fight fascism in the USA?
me: well kiddo...

“This email could have been head-scritches.”

Begging my comrades in IL to stop this.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

“I’m giving you a performance evaluation here, I’m not looking for a response.”

Tillis is a Republican Senator.

haha no this is the opposite of "negatively impacting the creative industry" you big donkey

North Carolina:

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Maybe the only celebrity couple I’ve ever felt invested in are now married per…here

Time for a thread about some of my Star Trek slash fanzines. Hilariously, the origin story for me beginning this collection was K/S (Kirk/Spock) losing a stupid "iconic yaoi" fandom poll. Very dumb, no regrets. I'm more of a McKirk and McSpirk fan myself, but I respect my fujo elders. Let's go.

Imagine starting a whole war with an alcoholic national guard captain in charge of your forces….

Many will die

Important to remember this was part of one of the wrongest “calm down” series in history

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"

CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏

(Same goes for sport btw)

#Speirgorm

the golden age apparently requires ww2 style rationing

abbot whittling his own prosthesis out of whalebone: “had a choice, didn’t I? could either die in the great white nothing, or I could live. right now I’m choosing live.”

Dan Simmons, who wrote about .75 very interesting books, one of which made for great TV once his revolting racism was excised from it, completely dead.

It will take you 2 minutes to call your rep about this right now. Do it on company time, even. Fuck 'em

Major props to EVERYONE that showed up and out at the last several council meetings to stop this from happening!

I haven't been able to post on BlueSky since yesterday. I'm quote-tweeting this in the hopes it stays up. Share the article if you like it! Thanks!

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.