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This makes me so incredibly happy

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Friendly reminder that SNAP is a thing because during WW2 so many Americans suffered serious malnutrition and were consequently ineligible for combat that it threatened national security

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The government punishing a law firm for defending a client seems like the kind of tyranny we fought a revolution against.

submitted 9 hours ago • 44 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 7 hours ago • 769 comments

Trying to explain that in a Cinderella Story, CMM doesn’t recognise Sam in her mask bc it’s a story about how upper classes don’t view those under them as people, so he never cared to learn her name or values when she was diner girl, only being able to connect with her anonymously online

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

One thing’s for sure, if a man likes skinny blondes, everyone else might as well pack it up. Doesn’t matter how much he flirts with you, how much you think he likes you, if you can never be a skinny blonde

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just realized that this is the worst possible year to have my birthday, bc i have no idea what horrors are in store for the 250th birthday of America, so i’m just gonna cancel mine. Like just assume i turn 30 at some point

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

When i was 12 my librarian ran a book club for all the sad little weirdos that ate lunch in the library, and one of the books we read was called ‘Jacob have i loved’, and let me tell you, i still talk about it with my therapist. Much like the tale of despereaux, i needed it but couldn’t get it

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I really don’t understand why things and rooms and lists aren’t suddenly going missing or being misplaced in federal agencies, like maybe it’s time to watch home alone guys. Where is the malicious incompetence? The creativity??? A lost art

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Had a dream last night that i was talking to government officials about the state of public health in an old beat up building with a toxic leaking AC unit 🫠 then realized mid dream that i miss stated the r0 factor of flu on instagram the other day and had to correct myself

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Watching town halls of Republican reps getting heckled and dragged across the coals by their constituents like my own personal brand of heroin

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Looking up 3.5e clerics and ruining my own day

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

if this is your reaction to a poor person being unable to afford the medicine they need to stay alive than you’re not actually part of the project of building a more just, equitable world. you’re just doing politics as sports and cheering when the other team gets an injury.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Honestly I’m kind of holding onto Dem governors like a buoy rn, bc even the worst of them are showing more spine than my senators, soooo

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We all cope in different ways

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently i forgot about this and then my poor ranger space cowboy spent all session trying to remember funeral rites appropriate for the occasion

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Accidental cleric is my favorite dnd class

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Y'all gotta get comfortable talking about pornography and defending its right to exist and for people to look at it, even if you don't (but especially if you DO).

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

My kingdom for a left-leaning presidential candidate who runs on restarting the WPA

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Okay hear me out….. does anyone here do a really great FDR impression

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone in my family is feeling the overall gloom and anxiety of the moment, which like, on one hand makes me sad, but on the other hand is such a relief bc everyone is united against a common enemy for the first time

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Taking my solemnly appointed 15 minutes to say “myeh mYeH myHe mYeH MYEH” at every happy couple post i see in that span

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Emily Axford and Murph have such a uniquely beautiful dynamic, and the way their order and chaos areas balance each other out is absolutely wild, and makes me want to stare sadly out the window sick with yearning

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Fired: CDC's most recently hired Epidemic Intelligence Services officers – the people who fight disease outbreaks. They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

NOW - I’m live at a press conference with New York Attorney General Tish James and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. They’re about to enter a hearing re: stopping DOGE from accessing Americans’ private information and sensitive data.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

The US Nuclear weapons agency meets DOGE: "Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration are frantically calling employees back and telling them that -- as of right now -- they're not fired, despite some receiving termination emails and phone calls on Thursday." This is a mess

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

submitted 11 days ago • 148 comments