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Josh, you mean to tell me, in the US, in Oct 2026…you couldn’t find ANY BETTER MESSAGE to spend your precious political dollars on…than to punch down on ~7 people, who have done *nothing* to harm you…while there are masked, armed militia out here *kidnapping people off the streets*?? REALLY?

Right wing politics are oft driven by disgust. Republican politicians in the Trump era have been doing disgusting things, protecting abusers, enriching themselves, betraying allies, attacking victims, livestreaming executions. They think it makes them look strong, but... Vivek ad, cherry on top.

I assume from this that he is the bottom.

I hope folks are getting some sort of value/inspiration out of the Artemis mission, being a kid that was very interested in space and rocketry and watching challenger in class, and then watching the world low key give up on crewed space missions other than iss for 40 years kind of left me too jaded.

1. An incredible bill is moving fast in Maryland protecting transgender students. It would apply to ANY "program or activity," and would even include private schools. This would include sports, bathrooms, and more. It even has a private right of action. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Wild that it doesn't occur to them to reccomend we eat the now abundant soy we can't sell to China since Trump fucked the shit out of world trade by embargoing his own country with tariffs.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

did I miss anything today? I'm on antihistamines because my entire body is covered in red because i took an antibiotic a week ago and so I've been asleep basically all day.

We could send a forensics team to mar-a-largo and the island with a ground penetrating radar system, just pay for them to live there for years looking for bodies and evidence, and still not crack a significant digit of the ICE budget.

They shot a woman named Good, and a man named Pretti, what's next a child named Justice? I don't believe in any sort of godly figure or higher intelligence making the universe just so for us, but I do think they are ignoring some pretty strong signals here.

Anyone looking for another reason why this brinksmanship over Greenland is a bad idea? ~70% of the insulin in America is made by Novo Nordisk, a Danish company. Lilly does make insulin as well but IMHO (as an type one diabetic) their formulations suck. Assuming they can even ramp up production?

HOLY SHIT THIS IS HORIFIC. I know THEY want a civil war, but can we seriously just keep letting this happen until the mid-terms? FB in an enclosed space is a deadly weapon, anyone with as much training as I have had (none, video games) would know that.

Hopefully an increasingly common SMB W.

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I wish there was a way to not be super tired all the time.

I love how the photo is selling the, "I haven't even been to Geneva offishers." of it all.

sub-zero vs ice

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

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based as heck

I've mostly been on the other place but between this and Oz saying they are going to pull Medicaid funding out of MN, I think y'all up there should be applying pressure on your 4 republican reps to put their state over their party and join the impeachment caucus.

It can't even turn the lights on reliably.

You’ve held your action for the right moment: Now is the time to act.

My kid came into contact with the Parry Gripp song about Salacious Crumb and has unfortunately contracted the Star Wars cantina and Jabba bits as her special interest. Thankful for Wookiepedia on this day, it has saved my life.

Copper was pretty good skiing despite the lack of new snow, the steep terrain I like got icy in the afternoon and I managed to slip out. self arrested instantly but managed to slam my downhill knee into my uphill ski edge. Probably just a cool bruise, leg seems to work fine.

Somehow kiddo got a giant bug bite and is running a fever (unrelated?) so hopefully some mountain photos by Wednesday but spent all day with doctors trying to figure out wtf is going on with the kid.

made it to the sign

The car is loaded, road coffee acquired, one stop planned for the middle of Nebraska then onward to the mountains.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

In case you think her stance on the Epstein Files or decision to bail out of the House meant she was maybe not a total nutbag, here you go. Very party of individual liberty of her.

1. For weeks, EITM has reported that Republicans would push a trans healthcare ban in their ACA negotiations. Now, the plan is released, and it includes heavy restrictions on ACA plans, a medicaid ban, an EHB ban, and more. Democrats must not capitulate.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

He's ended 47 wars and zero paragraphs

does this jump the shark yet?

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

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lf Dems had any sense they'd treat this guy the way the right treated Kyle Rittenhouse. Put him on tour. Give him Morning Joe's spot or something.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Voted today for the first time in the new place (a leftist enclave in a red state), kind of anticlimactic, there were no completely wrong choices (it was only very local elections). Not even one M4L running for schoolboard to feel good about not voting for.

Ben Ryan wrote an article in the New York Sun about our reporting. Apparently, Wazzou's entire ability to accredit continuing medical education courses is under threat after our reporting revealed they accredited a hate group with pseudoscientific practices for CME classes. Wow.

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism. Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

Been to 16, lived in 5 of them. I was a consultant that got on a plane every week to go to work for about 10 years though so, it is only due to avoiding Texas like my life depended on it that I didn't collect the whole set.