need the Red Sox to lock in and support my large adult son in defeating the evil empire tonight
Megzilla
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Informatics pharmacist, stepmom, reader, New Englander, tired of late stage capitalism and the broken US healthcare system. Views are my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d agoRussell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
nytimes.com
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 5d agoThe literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
thenation.com
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d agoPage One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social
HISTORICALLY, a 10-15% increase in diesel costs leads to a roughly 2-4% increase in the cost of food. Diesel costs are currently up 50%. Do the math.
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 6d ago13. The price of diesel is now extortionate. www.editorialboard.com/diesel-is-th...
grateful to J.Co for proving it is absolutely possible to verbally obliterate Chris Christie without making a single fat joke, a lesson I wish people would learn
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · last wk.RIP to Chris Christie’s 2028 campaign, murdered by an octogenarian mere hours after launch
great i have two brains and they're both broken
Ryan Boyd@ryanboyd.bsky.social · last wk.NEW BRAIN DROPPED
These are the AI risks we should be worried about and legislating against not freaking out over whether some poorly sandboxed security test leads to Skynet.
Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️
In 1960, these people were assuring you, ASSURING you JFK would allow the will of the Pope to override Congress. The playbook literally never changes.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last wk.WARNING WARNING WARNING AN ARAB MUSLIM MIGHT RECEIVE CLASSIFIED INTEL???
just tearing down the future the past built
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2w agoI graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
![A former unnamed case manager told Stat that a supervisor directed her to immediately restart a case review process for any patient who won an appeal. “And 99.9 percent of the time, we’re going to turn right back around and issue another [denial],” the former case manager said. “Well, you won, but OK, what’d that get you? Three or four days? You’re going to get another [denial] on your next review, because they want you out.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i7g62qhqwyobrqzg63yyz7vf/bafkreiggptbjt63dfxbxlrwylwnmuedc7a2nuzilggtspoc73ff3o6wmau)
look we are too corrupt and ignorant to regulate so it's up to a collection of foppish, pasty sociopaths in overpriced sneakers to hold themselves accountable for killing everyone with monopolized cloud computing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
I am suing the NIH. As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated. Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.
Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
aclu.org
Seeing Ed Sheeran's own band quitting on him is, I have to say, really doing it for me. Restoring one shred of hope for humanity.
And sometimes, honestly? That's all it takes.
RobotLyra, Single and Silly@robotlyra.bsky.social · 2w agoSometimes all you can do is just say "no the fuck I won't."
Meanwhile Talarico has said he'd ban surgery for minors and, as trans folks on here have pointed out, minors can mean anyone who is up to the age of 25. All you centrist bigots can eat my shorts. I'm not interested in your whinging or your justifications. You're useless to the trans community.
yelling at trans people for criticizing democratic candidates who refuse to affirm their most fundamental rights is not only cruel and wrong, but it is the opposite of effective if you actually care about turning out voters. surely there are other people in america you can focus your energies on.
ya'll bullied, harassed, and persecuted the fuck out of Arab Americans and Muslims of every ancestry, and you still do so to this day. the fuck are you lying for.
Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 3w agoBut that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.
Casual reminder that cis women don't need protection from trans women, they need protection from cis men.