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ex-Southerner living in New England. Married parent of teenagers and thoroughly enjoying it, for the most part; Supporter of arctophiles.
Collins is so very good at being relentlessly horrible
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · yesterdaySusan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
everyone forgot this! doctors and nurses got sick and died because of this theft! bsky.app/profile/cras...
@crashcityrocker.bsky.social · 3d agoKushner literally stole PPE that my hospital system had bought and sent it to Florida. This is big reason why why Charlie Baker is no longer (directly) in politics. abcnews.com/amp/Health/e...
BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' proposal to end Donald Trump's IRS sweetheart deal. This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed. It's corruption on steroids.
Absolutely not www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
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So Tillis and Cornyn’s position is that the slush fund and IRS immunity is disgusting, illegal, immoral, and unethical but they are willing to confirm the man who agreed to it as Attorney General of the United States as long as he takes it back.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...
Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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I wish they had this much energy for the Epstein files and for the fact that the president has declared war on a country circumventing the whole of Congress and for the 25th amendment
Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
He is literally making an argument to put Dr. Fauci on Mt. Rushmore.
Mitch McConnell stole two Supreme Court seats. Now ask yourself this: If McConnell were still Leader and a Democratic senator had been missing from public view for more than six weeks, what would he be doing right now? 1/2
🚨BREAKING: New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill rejected Trump DOJ’s demand for residents’ personal data, saying the request had “no legal basis" — the same conclusion courts have reached in 17 straight district court losses for DOJ.
‘No legal basis’: New Jersey governor officially rebuffs Trump DOJ demand for private voter data
Sherrill accused the Trump administration of using the state’s self-disclosed error to advance a broader voter suppression campaign and target residents who were registered through no fault of their…
democracydocket.com
It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID.
Put me in a room: goddamn it. I’m not a pioneer.
Good morning. As Donald Trump becomes the new McCarthy, using the word Communist to describe anyone he doesn't like, it's important to remember this is a result of fear and panic. He sees how the mayor of New York has accomplished what he cannot and despises him for it. Do not believe the lies.
“Not vaccinating your kid is like saying, ‘I don’t want my car to have brakes,’” said Dr. Mark Roberts of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. “Because it’s other people that you can hit. It’s not just you in your car. It’s other people.”
There Are Already More US Measles Cases This Year Than in All of 2025
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.
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Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
What did everyone expect to happen? Fool me…so many times.
the idea that this was a hate crime seemingly requires the construction of a hate-based ideology equally focused on ~unspecified Asians~ and Jews, and this article makes absolutely no attempt to substantiate that but just assumes that the reader, like everyone in it, will forget the Asian victim
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 2w agoMamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...
Enjoy your dinner tonight, members of the White House Correspondents Association, you miserable embarrassments to the profession.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: Do you think it's appropriate to subpoena family members of journalists to find out information? TRUMP: I don't know. Barack Hussein Obama did it all the time. He went after journalists and nobody said anything about it.
These performative chuckledicks are annoying....snatch that fucker up, and put him under oath and have him repeat that nonsense...We have to keep calling out these inbred fuckwits. It's like whack-a-mole with lies..but we have to do it.
seedless fruits, seedless produce in general, seems like a serious problem. Of course corporate greed is behind it. www.seedorastore.com/blogs/seedle...
