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And THIS is why we don’t privatize this shit, thank you.

oh hell yeah buddy

Everyone: The Hummer will go down in history as the most pathetic, overcompensating, red-flag vehicle ever. Elon Musk: hold mein kampf.

As is traditional this time of year, let us revisit a valuable life lesson some grad students got. www.funraniumlabs.com/2015/04/an-a...

Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)

If you want to know what a truly brave woman looks like when speaking on transgender issues, look no further than Sandi.

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

You may have seen this post circling talking about how important it is to tell creators when you appreciate what they do. The irony is it's MY post from Tumblr stolen by someone else. Please reskeet THIS post & NOT the stolen one bc we support creators making their own work on bluesky.

Ea-nasir

Especially in abortion access, folks often assume that because they don't see it, the work isn't happening. Moving into the next four years, we must avoid this fallacy. Instead, fall in line with those who have ALREADY CREATED the mutual aid ecosystem that helps abortion seekers.

I looked at this image and fell down the stairs

Now, I was having fun here, but this passage, no lie, is probably why I first became opposed to the death penalty.

I was asked recently how to fix this. The solution is simple and has been articulated by many since the start: don’t carry anything he says, live, but record it and report on it with rigorous fact checking from the first coverage.

If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/