directed cyclic smash

I’m tired of pretending this is all normal. We’ve reached a point of no return. There is no more beyond this. This is the end. We can’t pretend to be okay with this. We don’t need words anymore. Words have expired. We need action. Globally. Something has got to change. It has to.

Because of the layoffs at NIOSH, multiple lifesaving programs have been shut down even though they’re required by law.

i would imagine hasan knows, rationally, not to talk in situations like this. he did anyway because cops of all stripes are very good at making you feel like in *just this one particular situation* it makes more sense to talk a bit. don't ever give in to that impulse.

this family needs your help

Hammam is trying to help his mom

“The Texas National Guard (TNG), which has around 23,000 members, signed its 287(g) task force agreement with ICE on April 11.”

Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty

Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”

This is the quiet part said out loud.

They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.

60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%.

Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.

Robert Reich, Marxist youth pastor

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

The masked ICE agents are in DC today, as rumored, whisking people off the street while covering their faces completely.

It's darkly funny how little attention the masked secret police receive. Last year it seemed that the chattering class would never shut up about masked undergraduates. Perhaps they saw the encampments as more of a threat to their interests than the jackboots?

Unironically, I think it has been a mistake to base critiques of the rich on their consumption rather than the power they have and could wield — which they would retain even if they chose to give more money to charity or bury some of their riches in the ground instead of buying yachts and such.

miso the cream rat sitting in a pile of crinkle paper looking mischievous and full of schemes

the nefarious crinkle creature emerging from her crinkle pile

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

Trump policy: Newark loses its functioning airport and gains a concentration camp.

We don't "know" the current crop any better than the pre-Internet ones, because there were tons of ways to "know" them before the Internet. Newspaper profiles, documentaries, books and videos they'd release or be featured in, speaking tours. None of those were Internet based!

Some of you act like the concept of news was invented in the past twenty years. Do you really think people weren't familiar with Nazis or scammers before the Internet?

When they say “immigrants” they mean “servants” and when they say “expats” they mean “masters”

This was never met, and now we're having to refile thanks to lawyer mess-ups. $690 needed by May 5th to refile, PLEASE show up.

I'm trying to get FREE of this BS, help me keep my child safe! Please!

$590 needed by Monday, May 5th! PLEASE, I have had VERY MINIMAL HELP on this, and I'm trying to keep my child HOUSED!

There is this very surreal feeling when you are planning out hopeful events for 5-6 months away while also stockpiling medication, checking your go bag, and making sure you are ready to leave your home at the drop of a hat. Also you are working all day like nothing is going on in the wider world.

VICTORY, THEY FUCKING PROVED THE COVID/MAST CELL LINK IS THE SPIKE PROTEIN

I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

okay

this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today

some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how

article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

Worker safety agency NIOSH lays off most remaining staff Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

THE entire NIOSH engineering group has been fired among most ALL of NIOSH. It is devastating. www.cbsnews.com/news/worker-...

shouldn't the 3 friends memes be pictures of 4 people hanging out, not 3. if there's just 3 people they each only have 2 friends

Another day of Bluesky deleting my share of the day before the day is up 🙄

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

"You can't reform a carton of sour milk," Fetterman told Ben-Ami, accordint to notes from the meeting, referring to the Palestinians. Fetterman said he did not believe in a two-state solution and claimed he had never met an Arab person who would condemn Hamas. "Correction," the notes from the meeting stated. "Only a single Arab he has met with that staff was present for wouldn't outright condemn Hamas." Fetterman wen on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, "Let's get back to killing." A person who heard the conversation told me, "He said, 'Kill them all.'" In a statement, Fetterman denied the account, adding, "Any reference to killing was solely about Hamas, and I do support the destruction of that organization, down to its last member."

I know many are desensitized to this since it has essentially been US policy since October 7 (not to mention before), but this is actually the most scandalous passage in the Fetterman piece.

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