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It’s been awhile and a stroke and a right side paralysis hasn’t helped. But I’m still kicking!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

TX Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Seattle Children's Hospital turn over medical records of any transgender Texas resident under 18 who has accessed gender-affirming care at the WA-based clinic. SCH has sued Paxton who has no authority to prosecute care accessed outside of Texas.

submitted 439 days ago • 60 comments

If you're a mainstream outlet and you're being gamed this easily by a guy who is laying out his playbook days or months in advance, maybe the problem isn't the right-wing grifters. Maybe the problem, after all, is the mainstream places that allow themselves to be gamed by carnies.

submitted 439 days ago • 65 comments

In the context of the Substack statement, let me repeat what I keep repeating about Nazis: The Nazis are always the bad guys. You do not, under any circumstances, need them for a robust political discourse.

submitted 439 days ago • 1 comment

I'm putting this on loop for the next 4 days to get in the holiday spirit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQt5...

submitted 439 days ago • 0 comments

Great Barrington Declaration: Great Barrington: That's not who we are. Great Barrington Declaration: Great Barrington:

submitted 439 days ago • 4 comments

Some of my favorite Christmas decorations are the antique chandelier crystals hung on my small iron ornament tree.

submitted 439 days ago • 0 comments

For young hearts and old farts. 🎄🎶 #vinyl #xmas

submitted 440 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats truly excel at ceding the terms of debate. This could have been a layup….

submitted 441 days ago • 85 comments

Please for the love of god make this happen…

submitted 441 days ago • 4 comments

This is significant, not only for spiritual solace of Gay couples, but if the Catholic judges on the Supreme Court actually believe Catholic doctrine. (Harder to overturn Obergefell, unless they aren't faithful, but simply bigoted hypocrites.) www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/w...

submitted 442 days ago • 0 comments

farewell... goodbye #art #photo #photography ©️skinskin

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Goddamnit, Jeremy.

submitted 451 days ago • 50 comments

Nobody is making good decisions on the Doritos Juice — this is how you end up in messy clown makeup at an abandoned amusement park fighting a raccoon horde using a dildo you don’t own as your only weapon

submitted 448 days ago • 96 comments

The world is still deceiv’d with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season’d with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?

submitted 449 days ago • 0 comments

"I get millions of impressions on twitter"

submitted 450 days ago • 7 comments

The way Andrew Tate has only risen in prominence since being investigated and jailed for rape/human trafficking — in conversation with a presidential candidate and tech billionaire today — just goes to show how easy it is for alleged traffickers to achieve status and power in full public view

submitted 450 days ago • 22 comments

(INT: X HEADQUARTERS) LAST REMAINING SALES EXEC: Sir, our ad revenue is down 90%. We need to do something to convince big brands to return to- ELON MUSK: Reinstate Alex Jones immediately EXEC: Sir, I don't think- MUSK: IMMEDIATELY LINDA YACCARINO: Did someone say #football??? 🏈🏈🏈

submitted 451 days ago • 6 comments

YES! I know what I'll be listening to this weekend. CD Friday, Public Library edition #cdfriday

submitted 452 days ago • 0 comments

um sir my question was about the earned income tax credit

submitted 454 days ago • 27 comments

In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer. A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"

submitted 463 days ago • 45 comments

'Some New Tech Terms' a helpful guide I created for New Scientist 🧪

submitted 456 days ago • 4 comments

When you're a grownup you can use Christmas cookies as sandwich bread. It's legal and no one can stop you.

submitted 457 days ago • 131 comments

Easing into Sunday morning #vinyl #soul

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Wealth of Elon Musk 2012: $2,000,000,000 2023: $245,600,000,000 Wealth of Jeff Bezos 2012: $18,400,000,000 2023: $168,200,000,000 Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg 2012: $17,500,000,000 2023: $116,600,000,000 Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Three words: tax the rich.

submitted 460 days ago • 84 comments

If he wasn't a powerful and litigious white supremacist, what Elon's going through would be deeply sad. He clearly has a bottomless need for approval, has been used to getting it for years and is now destroying his life to seek it out from the dwindling number of losers willing to give it to him.

submitted 459 days ago • 110 comments

If you live in WA state, please contact your representative to lend your voice in stopping this harmful and overreaching legislation - designed as a weapon to silence the voices of our most vulnerable members of society. www.cantwell.senate.gov/contact/email www.eff.org/files/2022/1...

submitted 462 days ago • 0 comments