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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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I'm gonna say this: that bailiff MIGHT have a framed painting of Marsha Winfield above an altar in her house.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I'm gonna say this: that bailiff MIGHT have a framed painting of Marsha Winfield above an altar in her house.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Hope she makes her coworkers call her Roz.
Time for Mod Hostess vs. the Volcano as I soon go to my 17 year thyroid cancer follow up. At the place that diagnosed me & fucked it all up. But not with the abusive, creeper Dr. Same office though. It has been a long, twisted road for a cancer dx that was sold to me as "so easy & curable!" #cansky
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Time for Mod Hostess vs. the Volcano as I soon go to my 17 year thyroid cancer follow up. At the place that diagnosed me & fucked it all up. But not with the abusive, creeper Dr. Same office though. It has been a long, twisted road for a cancer dx that was sold to me as "so easy & curable!" #cansky
I just had A Time seeing Robert Plant live. I believe I was the only sober person in that audience.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I just had A Time seeing Robert Plant live. I believe I was the only sober person in that audience.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
Two guys behind me nearly came to blows. Then a woman ran up to me, grabbed my hand & stroked it, told me how beautiful my hair is & how she could see it from far away & that I smelled really nice.
In the AYA cancer community, why don't we talk about medical errors, bad medical care, or creeper doctors? Instead it's career, babies & other crap. This is why I never went to a support group!! That & they are designed for people who had chemo. Fuck you, shitty survivorship support! #cansky
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
In the AYA cancer community, why don't we talk about medical errors, bad medical care, or creeper doctors? Instead it's career, babies & other crap. This is why I never went to a support group!! That & they are designed for people who had chemo. Fuck you, shitty survivorship support! #cansky
Trump looks like a creepy college professor in the vein of Roth. It's honestly an improvement over how he usually looks. Strange times.
This is the first time I’ve seen him wear something like this… I think it’s a knit scarf, but he probably didn’t have any turtleneck sweaters in his closet.
Gotta see if @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighed in.
Gotta see if @dieworkwear.bsky.social weighed in.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Trump looks like a creepy college professor in the vein of Roth. It's honestly an improvement over how he usually looks. Strange times.
Investigative reporting turns me on. Nice work!
Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Investigative reporting turns me on. Nice work!
Spectacularly written essay. Bravo to Tatiana for using her platform as a writer and her name to bring attention to RFK Jr & the Trump Admin's murderous bullshit and how it affects real people.
#cansky
#cansky
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Spectacularly written essay. Bravo to Tatiana for using her platform as a writer and her name to bring attention to RFK Jr & the Trump Admin's murderous bullshit and how it affects real people.
#cansky
#cansky
NINETY!!!!!! Even in my cynical and non-trusting headspace when it comes to physicians and health care, I find this utterly shocking.
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
NINETY!!!!!! Even in my cynical and non-trusting headspace when it comes to physicians and health care, I find this utterly shocking.
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Art school problems
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Art school problems
I research people for a living. I had a free trial recently with a certain prospect research tool. It allegedly searches for you with AI to compile a giving history. It can't extract info from articles about giving, only donor honor rolls (lists). So I still have to do searches on the big 3.
theconversation.com/learning-wit...
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I research people for a living. I had a free trial recently with a certain prospect research tool. It allegedly searches for you with AI to compile a giving history. It can't extract info from articles about giving, only donor honor rolls (lists). So I still have to do searches on the big 3.
Advice that’s also applicable when dealing with physicians and other healthcare professionals who talk down to women.
For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Advice that’s also applicable when dealing with physicians and other healthcare professionals who talk down to women.
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Reporter to MBS: "U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist..."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reporter to MBS: "U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist..."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
Trump: "Fake news...He's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning someone who was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about…things happen."
The context of this post, of course, pertains to rape and sexual assault.
Being a woman trying to get healthcare has a lot of similarities as does the trauma from being not believed and mistreated in a healthcare setting.
Being a woman trying to get healthcare has a lot of similarities as does the trauma from being not believed and mistreated in a healthcare setting.
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The context of this post, of course, pertains to rape and sexual assault.
Being a woman trying to get healthcare has a lot of similarities as does the trauma from being not believed and mistreated in a healthcare setting.
Being a woman trying to get healthcare has a lot of similarities as does the trauma from being not believed and mistreated in a healthcare setting.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
Hospitals. Do not let physicians and hospitals get off the hook here. They need to be lumped right in with churches and schools.
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hospitals. Do not let physicians and hospitals get off the hook here. They need to be lumped right in with churches and schools.
They always know. No matter who the “they” is in your story or my story, they know.
I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
They always know. No matter who the “they” is in your story or my story, they know.
Anybody who’s not in the cult knows that man is a sex offender and a pedophile. We’ve known that for years! Yet, here we are.
Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg with this personality disordered freak.
Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg with this personality disordered freak.
It's so bizarre that the breaking news today is yet more proof that Trump did exactly what everyone already knows he did
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Anybody who’s not in the cult knows that man is a sex offender and a pedophile. We’ve known that for years! Yet, here we are.
Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg with this personality disordered freak.
Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg with this personality disordered freak.
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Imperial Irrigation District’s camera on the Salton Sea near Niland, California, exploding with Aurora color.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Imperial Irrigation District’s camera on the Salton Sea near Niland, California, exploding with Aurora color.
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Aurora from the East Humboldts near Wells Nevada
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Aurora from the East Humboldts near Wells Nevada
This situation blew up while I was on a very foggy walk, so I didn’t have time to send one of many emails I’ve sent to Adam Schiff’s office in the last 10 months. Glad to see he’s on the right side for once.
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This situation blew up while I was on a very foggy walk, so I didn’t have time to send one of many emails I’ve sent to Adam Schiff’s office in the last 10 months. Glad to see he’s on the right side for once.
My physicians already do this. Figuring out why my arm still hurts 6 months after a poorly placed IV and propofol infiltration has proven too difficult. Not a single health care provider I've encountered has made an attempt at critical thinking or problem solving.
“AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.” 😮💨
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
My physicians already do this. Figuring out why my arm still hurts 6 months after a poorly placed IV and propofol infiltration has proven too difficult. Not a single health care provider I've encountered has made an attempt at critical thinking or problem solving.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
"If we had any balls or believed in the rule of law, we'd arrest him."
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"If we had any balls or believed in the rule of law, we'd arrest him."