got my second last year (young, but I’ve got family history) and can confirm. Well worth it - it’s not just a diagnostic tool, they can actually remove little emergent polyps in the process

Jessica Luther@jessicawluther.com · 17h ago

Well, I am of colonoscopy age now and I got my first-ever one yesterday. The prep wasn't fun but not as awful as I'd imagined. My appt was at 6am on Monday, I was home just after 7am. There's no recovery except catching up on the sleep you missed. So, if you need a nudge to get yours, this is it!

Reminder: Most people are NOT thinking of you. We be self-cemtered fr. Even when they’re replying to you. It’s really a conversation between what they interpreted and what they think. You could literally be a bot, don’t take shit personally, ever!

If this were under a Dem admin you’d never hear the end of it.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

as with a lot of things the actual question is "what is the Democratic solution to a hostile media environment" and I don't know but boy do we need one

Today more than usual

Eren Brumley@erenbrumley.bsky.social · 4h ago

modern equivalent of social climber roman patrcians spending vast sums training gladiators to get the emperors attention

@dabxdee.bsky.social · 8h ago

UFC Parent Company Lost $30M on White House Fight ground.news/article/trum...

pure fan fiction for people who don’t live in DC and will never visit and only hear about it on Fox News

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 2h ago

This notion that they've done anything to improve DC in any way including re: crime is ludicrous. Ask anyone who lives in DC. They've done nothing, zero, bupkis.

"Deserve" and "loyalty" are words that you should not use about countries and politicians generally. Leads to bad thinking.

“Democratic candidate X is going to deservedly lose in November because (right wing talking point)” is a pretty bad thing to say pre-primary but it’s immensely dumb and toxic to say post-primary

Seth D. Michaels Plans Tuxedo Design for Wedding to Ana de Armas

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

one thing that RCV would help with is reducing the levels of intra-partisan conflict on the grounds that when it's FPTP there's no incentive to build bridges among partisans

EA Strom@profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 3h ago

It's almost always true that the Democratic candidates, both centrists and progressives, are ultimately more gracious and pragmatic than the dead-enders who post about them on social media.

the other guys really are that bad and there’s plenty of things you’ll like about whoever you spent the last couple weeks getting worked up about even if they weren’t your first choice. I promise.

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...

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the man can generate exactly three things: bullshit promises, enthusiastic credulity in his fellow dipshit rich people, and reposts of incredibly racist tweets with "hmmm, very true" appended

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3h ago

How *are* those projects going? Well, Musk has already blown past four separate robotaxi deadlines in just the past year. We were supposed to have half of all Americans getting around in fully self-driving Teslas by EOY 2025, but the Tesla robotaxi fleet has actually SHRUNK, down to just 17 vehicles

also like. It's "the right to healthcare" that he's actually offering. The actual mechanics of the policy are complicated and intricate and have to get hammered out with lawyers and accountants in committee meetings.

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 3h ago

Saw a bit on MSNow recently about how AES was winning in part because of Medicare for All, but the pundit talked to voters and "they don't understand the policy, they just hear it as having a right to health care." 1) great! 2) Has lack of "understanding" policy ever applied to Trump voters?

Also, importantly, most Democrats like most Democrats. Most Democrats particularly like most Democrats who like most Democrats.

thank you! the number of votes is the number of votes no matter in what order or how long it takes to count them

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 14h ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

"We love our troops don't we folks support the troops our brave men and women in uniform stand for them stand for the troops their sacrifice inspires us" it was all bullshit this entire time. A joke to all of them

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h ago

TRUMP IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN DETAINS 50+ FAMILY MEMBERS OF U.S. TROOPS: AP

feels worth noting that the blowout Dem gov primary in Michigan got about 60% more voter participation - 1.49 million votes - than the more competitive GOP gov primary - 930k votes. obviously contested D vs uncontested R Senate primaries affect this, but still. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Michigan Governor Primary 2026: Live Election Results, Benson vs. Swanson (Free Access)

Get live results and maps from the 2026 Michigan primary election.

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Are these people's brains so rotted that they genuinely do not remember four years ago?

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

“We’re so polarized, so you should just agree with me instead!” -every conservative ever

It is very very hard for a sitting president to mess with elections.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 24h ago

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.

“Callum Turner” is like me trying to remember the name of a British actor

Something telling: Blanche said the DOJ is working so the "Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state"—making clear they never saw Dobbs as giving abortion 'back to the states', but a tool to ban abortion nationwide

What color could a banana be, Michael?

onion person@junlper.beer · 20h ago

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

now that i write it out this is clearly the issue a lot of white people are having with race. any conversation makes them uncomfortable and feel like they are not allowed to exist when it’s like no dawg just listen for once in your fucking life

a mix of spite, overconfidence, and libertarian baby-brain that will cost lives

Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · 21h ago

NEW: The Trump administration cut FEMA's workforce without a plan for what this would mean, leaving it at risk of being unprepared and without staff to respond to future emergencies. More 👇

The Missouri SoS dragged out his office's examination of the veto referendum (of the GOP gerrymander) for most of 2026 to ensure he can run out the clock; and finally declared today, on the deadline by which he had to act, that he thinks the veto referendum is entirely unconstitutional.

The Redistrict Network (mirror 🤖)@redistrictnet.bluesky.bot · 20h ago

#BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Hoskins has deemed the Missouri Redistricting Referendum as insufficient due to it being unconstitutional.