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Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.
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More reporting on the new US restrictions on all covid vaccines, which I posted about earlier today If you're younger than 65 or don't have a qualifying medical condition, you're going to have a whole lotta' trouble accessing any covid vax in the US. 🧵1/4 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

like this would be party-collapsing if Democrats were in power it's just fucking maddening Republicans get to be unconscionable monsters and it's just baked in

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

I’ve (mostly) been off of Bluesky today for my aspirational Shabbat practice, so forgive me if many others have already gotten here, but “let them eat tariffs” is just incredible, truly top tier funny of the dark accidental variety.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is great. Everyone in the House has to put their name next to a yes or no on impeachment (even if by proxy) and I look forward to every D who votes to table (ie kill) the resolution today explaining to the electorate over the next 18 months why they shouldn't be primaried

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

NEW: ICE is raiding businesses and even elementary schools in Washington DC over what’s expected to be a 2-day operation. @samthielman.com has been working hard on this story, which we’re proud to publish:

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

We may have no COVID19 vaccines in the USA this fall. This will only cause harm to the American public. COVID19 vaccines are safe and effective. This is public health malpractice. RFK Jr. must be removed from office. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 34 days ago • 294 comments

Time to resurface the screaming peacock magnet I made in 2020.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Chat is it good when the market looks like an ECG?

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Ag’d sir, hands off.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

Seconded. I, as not a trader with only a tenuous grasp of macroeconomics (derogatory) but a fairly good grasp of politics, took Trump at his word and moved my entire 401k and 403b accounts to mutual funds on January 17. The market response has been baffling to this non-expert, to say the least.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Why Do Covid Conscious People Still Try To Stay Well And Healthy Despite All The Evidence That Their Actions Work?

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Since I’m a housing and homelessness guy I feel like I need to remind everyone that these tariffs are likely to have a cataclysmic effect on housing affordability and homelessness.

submitted 49 days ago • 17 comments

ah, but there are ways. it's just that no one has chosen to use them right now

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

submitted 49 days ago • 316 comments

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

submitted 49 days ago • 308 comments

Ending the first day of April thinking about redbuds (cherry blossoms are ostentatious, redbuds are stalwart), and how close I am to hearing the wind blow through leaves again.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

"RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM DIDN'T BEAT THE NAZIS" Sen Corey Booker And it won't do it this time, either

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

It was great stuff today. Kudos to Booker. But it needs to be the <start> of continuous action, every day, to keep this going & build on it. Prove those of us who were skeptical about the performative nature of it wrong. Use every possible platform & power as Senators to defeat the fascism. More.

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

Many people are saying

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

look, folks, I think that's as good as it's gonna get. let's go out on a high. abolish the senate.

submitted 50 days ago • 26 comments

It's now a filibuster though it didn't start as one, and it should be backed up with the tactics that we more commonly know as a filibuster but impose no cost on the people who employ them: deny unanimous consent for everything and make the majority walk in quicksand.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

Gavin Newsom's like hmmm should I hold a 24-hour podcast séance with Hitler's ghost

submitted 50 days ago • 40 comments

"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

submitted 50 days ago • 67 comments

If you live in New York State, please considering calling your state representatives tomorrow against this proposed mask ban. Even if you personally haven’t masked in four years, criminalizing masking for any reason makes us all less safe. Your solidarity matters here.

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Everything is so much, but also redbud season is happening.

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Morning! Please read this and share with fellow District residents. 51st.news/opinion-trum...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely upsetting news. As an alum I need Georgetown to have a stronger response than only the rather tepid statements I’ve seen so far.

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submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments