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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal -- Vonnegut. Blondie/Debbie Harry, rock & roll, nature, history & other fascinating things.
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Suck it up, buttercup. You lost.

I take the subway by myself multiple times literally every day and the most memorable things that have happened recently are that a very cute dog in a purple sweater was on my train car a few days ago and today a guy with a cane got on and literally four people immediately sprang up so he could sit

Give me a break, Musk is not leaving because his scheduled time is up The litigation held him accountable, & for that & other reasons he became politically unpopular & a liability He lost. Democracy won. Only one round of the fight but a biggie!

Welp. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Someone needs to bring a big arena rock sized amplifier up in front of the White House and just put sad trombone on infinite loop.

1. In 2021, Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, predicted it would generate $835 million in revenue in 2024. Actual 2024 results: $3.6 million in revenue on $189 million in expenses. So now TMTG has decided it will just be a vehicle for buying bitcoin

Let a thousand Trump TACO (Trump always chickens out) memes bloom across the interwebs...... newrepublic.com/post/195780/...

He doesn't know about this country's history.

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

This is pretty nakedly corrupt.

Here is the same RFK Jr. book covered by 2 different outlets. You be the judge:

This guy is a complete dummkopf.

When I hear people say “why do children today need so many more shots than I did?” all I hear is “why can’t children today get infected and sick as much as when I was growing up?”

www.newsweek.com/maria-bonill...

"Nasty" is usually thrown back at a woman.

the damage trump and MAHA are doing to trust in vaccines will be generational and widespread across the globe. we are in a lot of trouble

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

It’s very telling that Tapper’s reference point is Watergate rather than what is happening out in the open every day during the Trump administration

Tapper is beclowning himself.

The rapidity with which the media conventions have shifted to "trump's mad at you, what did you do to deserve it" is disconcerting but as with pretending anti-vax raw milk drinking carnivores who sun their assholes have a point to make, power really does alter media behavior bsky.app/profile/lemi...

Looking forward to @replamonica.bsky.social demanding details of Tom Homan and Pam Bondi's lobbying deals with GEO, which got a huge contract to run Delaney Hall. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-borde...

Another milestone for U of I as we modernize their campus to meet the workforce needs of tomorrow. With a new data science center and more, this project provides the spaces students need to learn and creates lasting opportunities for our future leaders.

lol

Immunocompromised people should be masking.

"This was a tariff policy from Trump that nearly lasted one entire long weekend. He was a little unlucky—Memorial Day extended the weekend to 3 days... So Friday's policy is gone by Monday. And so we get to analyze it today on Tuesday."

🚨BREAKING: U.S Department of Justice files voter suppression lawsuit targeting North Carolina voter registration. The weaponization of DOJ for political gain is here. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction': analysis

The horrible part is that Musk has done so much damage already, and it cannot all be remedied.

One of the easiest ways to know if a physician is a crackpot fraud/scammer is if they have a cookbook. It never fails.

Since I speak fluent Trump, let me explain this. Trump announced his Golden Dome thing without checking with Canada. He can’t do it without Canada’s cooperation. Now Canada is using it as leverage in trade negotiations. So dumbass Trump is clowning to find a way to make it work.

Trump's DOJ has gotten gladhanded by the Supreme Court on procedurally improper requests so much that it is now just skipping Courts of Appeal altogether

If the left was actively hating young white men, I feel like that's something I would have picked up on in the last twenty years or so. What I have seen though is a lot of (non-left) people telling young white men that the left hates them

RFK Jr. wants to bar government scientists from publishing in NEJM? Interesting, given that his sidekicks Makary and Prasad published there *last week*. (An article laundering RFK Jr.'s "gold standard science" rhetoric as a way to restrict vaccine availability, no less.)

One thing a lot of reporting is missing is that Trump is threatening California for something that is currently required by state law. Under the California School Success and Opportunity Act, students have the right to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity.

Andry Hernandez and hundreds of other people have been imprisoned without trial in El Salvador for over 70 days now, held incommunicado at U.S. expense in conditions worse than any Supermax prison.

Her stats line up with CDC data…

RFK Jr’s elimination of Covid-19 vaccine 😡 for children and during pregnancy is unsupported by science and indefensible. Please read and share what the CDC had recommended (and why!) up until now ⤵️

None of these men are legitimate scientists. This is not “good science.” COVID doubled death rates in pregnancy pre-vaccine, and mountains of evidence show COVID causes worse outcomes for mom & baby. Evidence also shows vaccination has no adverse effects on pregnancy or baby but does protect them.

Destroying Harvard University (and then the entire Ivy League) has been the dream of the libertarian plutocrats running the Trump administration for decades They don't want free thinkers. In fact, they don't want thinkers at all.

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

Kennedy, Makary, and Bhattacharya announced on X that they are pulling recommendations for Covid vaccines. They will no longer be part of the childhood vaccination schedule, and they're no longer recommended for pregnant people. There's a process for changing recs. It's not posting a video on X.

Please join us in wishing Matt Katz-Bohen a very happy birthday today! Stay classy, Matt. 🌟 📸: Rob Roth

he is talking about a trans child in sports

NPR has joined Colorado public radio stations in suing the Trump White House, saying the President's order barring use of Congressionally appropriated funds for PBS and NPR is a violation of the First Amendment, calling it "textbook retaliation." DETAILS: loom.ly/wnd7oLo