Justine Summers

NBD just got to meet @redistrict.bsky.social in real life. I’ve seen enough!

Listening to Sam Harris on @profgalloway.com ‘s podcast mentioning that the gender wage gap disappears when controlled for hours worked…for a guy paid to think out loud, you’d think he’d heard of work done by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin disproving this very thing! news.cornell.edu/stories/2023...

Excited to visit Senator Wyden’s office in Washington, DC, to discuss the importance of supporting physicians and patients! #LEGCON25

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

nightmare group chat

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

The scary part: that I don’t feel like I can trust anything coming out of the CDC Thank god that our legacy media isn’t yet entirely captured (side eye @washingtonpost.com [yes I know the newsroom is—so far—independent and doing great work, but can you blame me?])

I applaud Representative McBride for responding by misgendering the Chair and moving on. While the Democrat who stood up for her was definitely in the right, I wonder if she would have preferred to register her small act of displeasure and continue with business. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

Ok this is great

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

Well. I held on when Bezos pulled the endorsement. “The journalists shouldn’t suffer for this.” But now @karaswisher.bsky.social says the journalists are fleeing the sinking ship so I feel less bad about this. I had hoped Bezos could have used some of his billions to buy a spine.

Nothing runs like a Deere

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

“If you can keep it” looking increasingly unlikely.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

Besides this just being another sign of us being in the dumbest, darkest timeline, a “patio” would be even more miserable for journalists et al for summer announcements than the grass. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

Welfare for me but not for thee.

Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.

Given developments at the Kennedy Center, effective today I am resigning as artistic advisor to the NSO. Not for me. It’s been a wonderful 8 years working with Kennedy Center President Deb Rutter, fellow artistic advisor Renee Fleming, NSO artistic administrator Justin Ellis, and the entire NSO

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Last month, @/ClareMalone wrote about the threat that Kennedy, a skeptic of medical research, poses to public health.

I guess one way to backdoor Handmaid’s Tale this thing is to push through an anti-vax HHS Head, make schools unsafe, and force women back into the home to home school out of fear of small pox. And yes, we all know it will be women. #rfk #hhs #vaccines #handmaid

Epic by @wired.com

I still think the clearest sign of the apocalypse is Cybertrucks in the wild

I know we can’t run around on fire every time Trump says something but he appears to have just announced the new US policy on Gaza which is to take ownership of it, ethnically cleanse it of the 1.8 million Palestinians there and maintain a long term ownership stake as it’s “developed.”

Indivisible pushing Dem senators to use every means at their disposal to grind things to a halt while the Musk coup is ongoing. indivisible.org/resource/tel...

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

This is a bad idea! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Here I am wishing I am wishing I could rely on @karaswisher.bsky.social and @profgalloway.com (but let’s be real, mostly Kara😉) about life advice

Every once in a while I’m reminded that what I now consider new and great is considered the bare fucking minimum by others.

Three things: 1. This is a nonsense inquiry and basically all this Trump minion has got. Not impressed. 2. NPR gets less than 1 percent of direct funding from the feds. This will impact local stations, which have broad support. 3. Brendan is an unctuous toady. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

Yeah ok

The Pasadena Humane Society has taken in >500 pets displaced by Eaton fire. Evacuees were forced to make devastating choices about pets. Some, terrified, hid or refused to leave. In other cases, owners were away from home & could not return www.latimes.com/california/s... by me for @latimes.com

Who knew the grift would cost lives before we even made it to February?

Ok, no one is going to read this but hi! I’m here! Ready to scream into the void!

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