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RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

submitted 3 hours ago • 792 comments

They let me blurb this excellent book by @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, and I know you're going to love it, so consider giving it a preorder, eh?

submitted 26 minutes ago • 1 comment

I can only imagine that the shade of Sophie Tucker is pleased to be so prominently featured in the latest revival of Gypsy.

submitted 55 minutes ago • 0 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 8 hours ago • 64 comments

“Appears,” madam? Nay, it does. I know not “appears.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

So am I allowed to call these people Nazis yet or do I need to wait for Charlie to be able to grow a hitlerstache

submitted 3 hours ago • 165 comments

Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

submitted 2 hours ago • 27 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 13 hours ago • 185 comments

oh boy, here we go

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

gonna start referring to “Rose’s Turn” as “the ‘Turn’”

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Welcome to the Thunderdome.

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

It’s Terence’s* birthday tomorrow. (*one of my favourite playwrights) “To see yourself as the world sees you may be very brave, but it can also be very foolish.” 📸 Yousuf Karsh (1954)

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

well this sure seems extremely bad

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans

submitted 5 hours ago • 47 comments

Does one have to be of a certain age or class (or even ethnicity?) to cringe a bit at the sight of a man wearing a hat indoors (as, for instance, at/on an awards show)?

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

These are the kinds of orders our soldiers swear to defy. I don't think this is going to play out the way Trump and Miller think it will.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

if there is one topic trump has been unwaveringly consistent on it is his unacceptable and inhumane policies on immigration

submitted 5 hours ago • 79 comments

*clapping between syllables on the beat* Do. Not. Separate. Tracks. On. Musical. Theater. Recordings. In. The. Middle. Of. A. Musical. Phrase. FFS.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Max Bialystock: "Shut up, he thinks he's witty."

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 154 comments

We are governed by fools

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments