NerdMichele is listening to The Green Man's Foe by McKenna
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Elder Millennial and Librarian. 100% Existential Crisis. (She/They)
All Americans want is the same kind of healthcare Mitch McConnell gets through the federal government How come he gets to have a slice of the socialist pie and the rest of us don’t? The government isn’t a private company If we don’t get socialized medicine, none of our representatives should
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
I'm blaming the plains focus on my grandpa growing up in Missouri. I wonder if the full quiz would be more accurate? #Hoosier Source: mydialect.us
The feminist movement was never a threat to men. Secure men have always understood that. They stood beside women, fought for equality, and some proudly called themselves feminists too. If women having equal power feels like oppression to you, feminism isn’t the problem.
Data centers are noisy, they take out drinking water and emit tons of EMFs all in the same package. And possibly take out jobs.
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
"Our current state of unbridled free market capitalism—where food might kill you, but taxes are slightly lower—is the best version of society we can hope for. Trust us, America doesn’t get any better than this." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rel...
Relax, If Food Is No Longer Safe to Eat, Just Eat Cake
“Liberals can grumble all they want about ‘affordability’ and ‘access to food that doesn’t leave them doubled over on the toilet begging for death.’ This is ...
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The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
What are the odds the same justices issue an emergency stay on a highly accelerated timeline blocking a Democratic president from demolishing it?
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d ago#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants a stay pending appeal in the ballroom case, clearing the way for Trump to continue building the ballroom indefinitely while the litigation proceeds.
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
Guess the USA is a failed nation, as well. Can't WAIT for the war crime tribunals, though.
Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 5d agoHe must be so Credibly Guilty in the Epstein Files…..
Wikipedia *already* has humans pre-checking sources. I simply do not see how their often decades of expertise can be compared to AI's slop. (Source: Sep/Oct Issue of 'Computers in Libraries'.)
Republicans get very angry when confronted with the confines of the US Constitution. Keep reminding them that it exists.
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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63 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the first historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They understood that equal economic and voting rights were the path to ending racial inequality in America.
He won't be missed, but he will be remembered. As a plague. A curse. A cautionary tale.
You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit.
$165 million a year in taxpayer contracts to run detention camps, then $1.4 million flows straight back to Trump’s super PAC the next month. That’s your money, laundered through a prison company, landing right back in Trump’s political war chest. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.
Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.com · last wk.U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) claims the WNBA is "trying not to offend some of their players who ... [are] trying to live a male lifestyle": "They protect the lesbian structure that's inside the WNBA with a male quote-unquote female relationship that are two women."
Dereliction of duty, among other high crimes.
Flags should be lowered for Dolly Parton far more than they were for Charlie Kirk. The man never did anything for the good of others the way she did.
Dolly Parton was not a PARTISAN figure in public. This is very different from not being political in a wider sense. The truth is that she was radically inclusive, in word and deed, in a way that puts every mainstream political tendency in America to shame in the most literal way possible.
CNN@cnn.com · last wk."At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis
Dear Death: Seriously? You couldn't rail against the darkness? You had to put out another light? RIP Dolly Parton. 💔
