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Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

submitted 4 hours ago • 151 comments

Today’s art project, in process ✍️

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Something I am thinking about right now is that a 3 million dollar program that allows abused women to take their pets with them to domestic violence shelters is about to be cut because “we don’t have the money” but the government is about to spend 1000000000x more than that to bomb people

submitted 18 hours ago • 53 comments

My uncle, the constitutional law professor of 30 years, wants the group chat to know that this is all illegal. He is dropping texts about article one on top of a row of Jesus memes. Legend.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Don’t blame me, I voted for the first black President, the decent man from Scranton and the two highly intelligent successful talented supremely qualified women.

submitted 18 hours ago • 255 comments

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2009 comments

I am alarmed by how many people don’t know covid is still around and mutating

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

And here I stand both to impeach and purge

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

IF Y'ALL DON'T IMPEACH THIS ORANGE BITCH

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Furious. Absolutely furious.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

So odd that Congress is so willing to have their power usurped and stripped from them.

submitted 22 hours ago • 84 comments

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

submitted 23 hours ago • 461 comments

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2696 comments

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1097 comments

Here’s why I post so much about Covid: after your 3rd infection the risk of developing Long Covid is 37% and keeps increasing each round, this is published science. So I’d rather nag at people going to cons to mask now, than say I told you so when you are too disabled to travel to any in the future.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo at all

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

submitted 1 day ago • 217 comments

Six former CDC vaccine chairs are sounding the alarm—and we better listen. The U.S. is on the brink of losing access to life-saving immunizations. When science is attacked and trust is eroded, lives will be lost. This is not a drill. This is a national emergency.

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

Hey so this (NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SUMMER!!) is not flu season. It’s not cold season. It’s not pneumonia season. YOU ARE SICK FROM COVID MOTHERFUCKER!! TEST AND MASK!!!!

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

If you’re taking Covid precautions and got sick, please don’t feel guilty You made the effort. That’s more than most are doing. It’s harder to protect yourself when everyone else is practicing “you do you” eugenics. Masking means transmission stopped with you. You protected others. That’s a win.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

submitted 3 days ago • 212 comments

I’m fully vaccinated but I still mask in public indoor spaces. Because COVID sucks. For me and everyone around me.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!

submitted 3 days ago • 941 comments

For the first time in the United States, the invasive longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) has been found carrying Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the bacterium that causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), a potentially life-threatening disease.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Starship blowing up is a bigger deal than you think. It’s not a prototype in a sandbox anymore, it’s a $4B NASA contract to land humans on the Moon ($2.8B initially, $4B with follow-ons). Every explosion is taxpayer-funded hardware going up in flames.

submitted 3 days ago • 560 comments

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

submitted 3 days ago • 1573 comments

BREAKING: The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a powerful new drug that provides nearly complete protection against HIV infection with just a single administration every six months.

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There is no “summer flu”. Influenza is seasonal. COVID is not. If you think you have the flu right now, it’s COVID until proven otherwise by a PCR (if you can get one) or several consecutive negative antigen/home tests. And every time you have COVID, your risk of disability from long COVID goes up

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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) Judge Hannah Dugan (WI) Controller Brad Lander (D-NYC) This is not normal. This is not okay. We cannot let them convince us that this is normal or okay.

submitted 4 days ago • 157 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court. Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.

submitted 4 days ago • 632 comments

The world is…::gestures broadly:: But I will say this: if you are safely inside, there is nothing quite as soothing as a good old fashioned Midwest summer thunderstorm

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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST CHALLENGE TO TENNESSEE LAW BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH

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it is important to put into words how devastating these scotus opinions will be for the entirety of lgbtq+ america, as they appear to normalize conversion therapy in a way that’ll absolutely impact all letters in our rainbow

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Can someone please ask Karoline Leavitt why the Director of White House Personnel refuses to say what country he is from and refuses to complete paperwork for a background check? Can you also ask if “Sergio Gor” is the name on his birth certificate. Seems kinda important.

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

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Growing is tiring work. Freya is 3 months old today! #kittens #CatsOfBluesky

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ICE agents are out here manhandling elected officials—yet again. They arrested NYC Comptroller Brad Lander for asking if they had a warrant—which is his constitutional right. (1/2)

submitted 5 days ago • 513 comments

We absolutely must not forget what this administration did to Senator Padilla, because it tells us what they are willing to do to us.

submitted 5 days ago • 280 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

submitted 6 days ago • 388 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

submitted 6 days ago • 763 comments

reposting w link + text bc uhhh 'Extremely disturbing and unethical': new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order 'defending women' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments