Grantifa, fascism edition

Inspirational piece on @drdemetre.bsky.social, who uprooted his life in NYC to join CDC, which he once saw as "the pinnacle of a public health career." Then he watched as the anti-vaxx activist RFK Jr" took charge of health agencies & undercut his life’s work" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I’m tired of hearing from racists all the time. RFK Jr. has never produced anything except dead children. We need to drive these people back into their holes

At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.

Only one Flock camera near me.... In the parking lot of my local Home Dept. WTF, Bothell? Redmong and Bellvue are covered. And what's up in Yakima that requires more cameras than people out there?

This is basically looking at a giant bill authorizing 4 bazillion dollars for flock cameras in front of every house but it also contains a provision that provides emotional support kitties to 1 family in every zip code and then yelling at critics of the bill for being anti-kitty.

Whether it's Republicans not being allowed within 200 feet of a Chuck E. Cheese or Democrats making jokes about a Cheesecake Factory, both side have a fraught relationship with chain restaurants.

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans

IT’S HAPPENING

The world is beautiful BECAUSE of diversity. If you can’t see that, you’re truly blind.

Democrats: Do your job or you will be voted out asap. We are watching We are waiting And we have the power

Residents of Dolgellau give thanks to the Gods as the clocks on their microwaves, car radios, ovens and VHS players all tell the correct time for the first time in 6 months

Republic savings time is almost here #vote

THIS IS ME: Height: Tall Age: Mature Sign: Anarchy Symbol Guilty pleasure food: Lobster Tattoos: Scars Favorite season: Autumn Favorite color: Ultra Violet Favorite holiday: Trump's Date of D Favorite flower: Hemlock

TIPPING OVER your fuel rods?! Like, odds are pretty good they'd survive, but I would think you'd have to send them all the way back to their assembly plant to redo the weld and leak testing

I'm going to point out that Jesse Singal has a very public track record of being intensely, specifically cruel to individuals, specifically the trans people who criticize him, whom he has hounded to their workplaces, harassed online, and (at times) successfully gotten fired from their jobs

This is a five alarm fire. Google illegally destroyed part of Finland. If Russia had razed this forest in the same way it would be grounds for a NATO response. We cannot allow corporations to act with impunity. Google's CEO and board of directors should all go to prison.

🧪 Promising science and medicine news about a personalised cancer vaccine (for melanoma) so I did a little video #science

Fucking miracles are happening every day and RFK is determined to prevent them.

Attn Seattle voters: Two mail bins containing undelivered ballots were found in a dumpster at Golden Gardens Park, according to King County Elections. All ballots have been reissued to the affected voters, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is investigating.

NEW YORKER: “Republicans eliminated the state’s only Black-majority district, in Memphis, so @justinjpearson.bsky.social took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In MAGA, parental estrangement is a big issue — and parents are held out as blameless victims. I suspect that's one reason why Vivek Ramaswamy ran an ad celebrating Amy Acton's vile mother. And why MAGA — including Vance and Trump — are backing him. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

So, according to Ramaswamy, either Acton was raped as a child, in which case she is damaged, or she didn’t get raped, in which case she is a liar. Quite an epistemological trap. 

This guy has the scared bravado of an absolute booger eater who’s gotten in with the school bully. He’s been told to brazen it out, and is only half convinced that it’ll work, as the current strategy depends on selling child rape as a character flaw for the child.

#Wisconsin Vote for David Crowley because Tom Tiffany thinks you losing your healthcare is hilarious. David Crowley believes the middle class works hard enough & should have nice things like- affordable healthcare & childcare, clean air, strong schools, & good jobs! #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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AIPAC announced this week that it’s ending candidate endorsements and direct PAC donations. But $83M in super PAC spending and donor checks remain. Our new Doc NIGHT FLOWER traces how money moved out of public view and how AIPAC built its power in U.S. elections. zeteo.com/p/watch-our-...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) demands an investigation to establish whether Elon Musk or Donald Trump ordered the sabotage of Ukraine’s Starshield communications, warning that allowing Musk to dictate US foreign policy puts the country at enormous risk.

Now we know why Kushner was in Albania. Israel and Albania have finalized a government-backed military trade agreement that will supply Albania with advanced weapons systems. The deal was spearheaded by Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems. And PM Rama will make millions off this deal. WTF 🤬

The word for that is "treason."

Due to its glacial vote-counting process, officials reminded Washington residents who don’t want to stressfully check 4 p.m. ballot drops for seven days straight to add an extra week of hiding.

This is lazy doomerism, but it's also just wrong. There's no way a milquetoast corporate Democrat gets the presidential nomination in 2028. If anything, someone like Gavin Newsom would be the punching bag that more aggressive and/or leftist candidates use to make their case.

👀 WPLN: “Nashville voter turnout 15x higher than last midterm so far” 🇺🇸 🗳️ wpln.org/post/nashvil...

El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"

Great news! The Trump admin went to the Supreme Court looking for permission to forcibly detransition inmates who have been on hormones for decades, deliberately denying them medical care that their doctors prescribed. Thankfully, the Court refused to grant the request. Alito and Thomas would have.

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

I’m pretty sure Walmart wants me to put up my Christmas tree and eat turkey in my Halloween costume.