RFK Jr complains that people in hospice aren't dying quick enough and therefore cost too much money
Pjeanne97
@pjeanne97.bsky.social
Procrastination expert & typo queen with a thing for dachshunds & democracy
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible
Waiting for people to tell me “this is good, actually” (please don’t) Nothing like a healthy dose of disgust for a Monday morning. 🤢
Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)@axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 7d agoWith all the promises Hakeem Jeffries made to hold Trump and his lowlife acolytes accountable, why in the world would he meet with Jared Kushner-a guy who corruptly raked in billions for "managing" a private equity fund The only meeting should be to negotiate Trump's surrender to legal authorities
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Detective in Florida suggests police abuse of databases is widespread: “We’ve had deputies misuse databases, we’ve told them over and over again ‘that’s not what it’s for. You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database. That’s not what it’s for.’” www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...
'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
404media.co
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
Imagine we criticized corporations and universities and news outlets for their obsequious treatment of Trump instead of this
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3w agofinally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
The Trump regime is ending student loans for majors that don't lead to high-paying jobs. You know, useless stuff* like teaching or social work (*sarcasm) We're losing liberal education right when we need it most. Why won't Dems fight for college? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Should Democrats campaign for more English lit majors? | Will Bunch
A new Trump attack on student loans is part of a push to crush the liberal arts. How can the humanities fight back?
inquirer.com
📍 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀: ICE will pay notorious private prison profiteer CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention center. It will be the first detention camp of its kind in the state. #AbuseofPowerWatch
ICE, CoreCivic to open Appleton immigrant detention center this year • Minnesota Reformer
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pay private prison company CoreCivic more than half a billion dollars to reopen a defunct 1,600-bed prison in rural western Minnesota as an immigrant detention...
minnesotareformer.com
It is wild when you see how much the tax actually is. Apparently the wealthier you get the more each and every dollar makes you crazy.
JVG 骨@jasonv.bsky.social · 3w agoSurely there is some mistake! There's no way this tax applies to me, a retired diplomat who lives in Paris who spent millions of dollars renovating the 12 million dollar apartment I never intended to live in. There must be some mistake
From @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's book "Hiding in Plain Sight", tramp blurted out his plans to destroy America while praising bunker dwarf putin during a faux news interview in 2014
NEW @wired.com: With Trump restarting the Iran war, US intel officials estimate the total cost for the Pentagon could now exceed $100bn Officials were estimating the total cost to hit $50-$100bn at the end of May, but more hostilities means that figure has ballooned www.wired.com/story/pentag...
Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion
The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.
wired.com
1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’
Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
transiticsnews.com
The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.
James Talarico spent the Fourth of July in Texas with American icon Willie Nelson. Ken Paxton spent the Fourth of July with the British.
I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
You’ve stoned your last temple pilot
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2mo agoYou’ve beached your last boy
Just another reason to believe that the most powerful man in the world is bonkers.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2mo agoExtraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration
![After they wrapped up their research, the authors sat down with Trump to check their facts. He drifted on to why his "love affair" with Venezuela went back to his years of owning the Miss Universe pageant, which featured many beautiful Venezuelans. What he really wanted to relate was a conversation he had had with a historian whose verdict was that Trump was "without question, the most powerful man the planet [had] ever known - by a long way." The historian had sent Trump a two-page memo from which he read. "If President Trump is the American Eagle, then William the Conqueror was merely a sparrow." Curious about the identity of the historian, Swan tracked down a golf caddie in Florida, who confessed a passion for history.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oo3kppddak7qrhuyzgvozldb/bafkreibchgnag7b7tavmaa237lgtstno4hjjlnvw3kyh6lh6eewvnxbm3m)
Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old, was shot and killed in the Senatobia, Mississippi, Walmart on June 14 while in a vehicle with his mother and another woman. The Senatobia Police Department has placed the officer responsible for firing their weapon, name undisclosed, on leave.
Documents Identify One of the Officers Present at Police Shooting of 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley
Public records have identified Senatobia Police Sergeant Hunter Foster as present during the police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
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Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.