Rachel Dresbeck
@raddrrach.bsky.social
You people need to read more books.
The American insurance system is not set up to handle multiple (unnecessary!) visits for vaccines that are now given at the same time. The schedules of American pediatricians and public health clinics are not set up to handle this. The schedules of American parents are not set up to handle this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up."
Whenever I post about this kind of thing, often somebody will reply “they are trying to get you used to it” No we are all mad as hell all the time, they are trying to get YOU used to it
So the Times did a story on this, but not Capital One closing Trump accounts over suspicions of money laundering.
Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth (Gift Article)
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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so as usual, it's not transgender women causing problems in women's sports -- it's cis men.
Forbes@forbes.com · 4d agoWBNA eligibility rules don't use any external measures to say what defines a "woman."
Yes, notably he had to leave the country/was blackballed/lost his job.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoPeak Douthat, in his valedictory column today. Because if you say something with enough conviction and certainty, you can make it true.
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
How many blue stuffed bunnies does that buy?
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 6d agoHouse Republican Pumps $1 Million Into Re-Election Bid Despite Growing GOP Calls to Drop Out
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
defector.com
My Children's Safe Welcome Act would shut down Dilley and end family detention. I'm fighting to get it passed and end the Trump Administration's cruel and inhumane family detention policies.
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · last wk.Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
We can use a light to clean it.
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · last wk.we have moving cameras, right
Sentence length variation is basic good style. Settle down people.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last wk.I saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:
RFK tried a common COVID disinfo tactic, but messed up the delivery. The right loves to say ER visits fell in 2020. Stat is true, but it's due to people who use ERs for primary care delaying visits while social distancing. So, ER visits fell but ICUs were full due to an influx of COVID patients.
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 3w agoThe editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
the progressives are winning
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
