Shadow Patton she/her/hers
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Wait, what IS going on here?
the nepo baby mayor-elect of Pittsburgh creating a new, taxpayer-funded job and putting the 23-year-old daughter of *the current governor of Pennsylvania* in it is extremely suspect and everyone should be asking what the hell is going on there
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wait, what IS going on here?
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December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Something is wrong with Nancy Mace.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) berated airport police and TSA officers with profanity and insults during an October encounter, leaving airport staff “visibly upset,” according to an internal police investigation.
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade
A report found Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” during a recent encounter at Charleston International Airport.
wapo.st
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Something is wrong with Nancy Mace.
GOOD
Pediatricians reject CDC advisers’ guidance, plan to continue vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B
Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Hospitals and health departments across the country say they're not planning to change their vaccination policy.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
GOOD
Look at these pretzels. The 15yo made them.
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Look at these pretzels. The 15yo made them.
This guy wants babies to die. If not vaccinating them doesn't work, he'll make sure they starve.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This guy wants babies to die. If not vaccinating them doesn't work, he'll make sure they starve.
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If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Ruin a Christmas song with proper grammar
Which* Child Is This?
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ruin a Christmas song with proper grammar
Amazing. File under The Kids are All Right
Good morning! I’m currently at Beaverton High School in OR where a mass student walk out has just started to demand a proactive ICE protocol for their school and district.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
Students say that similar walkouts were planned at multiple other high schools, including Aloha, Sunset, Southridge & more.
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Amazing. File under The Kids are All Right
I am starting to think I missed the opportunity to put up my outside Christmas lights. And now if I decide to do it, my fingers are going to freeze.
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I am starting to think I missed the opportunity to put up my outside Christmas lights. And now if I decide to do it, my fingers are going to freeze.
This all day
Every woman who lives long enough goes through this shit, and we are all surprised and dismayed at what is going on with our bodies.
And most of our docs (even female docs) shrug and tell us that's how it goes.
Every woman who lives long enough goes through this shit, and we are all surprised and dismayed at what is going on with our bodies.
And most of our docs (even female docs) shrug and tell us that's how it goes.
If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers*
*not all men**
**but most of them
*not all men**
**but most of them
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This all day
Every woman who lives long enough goes through this shit, and we are all surprised and dismayed at what is going on with our bodies.
And most of our docs (even female docs) shrug and tell us that's how it goes.
Every woman who lives long enough goes through this shit, and we are all surprised and dismayed at what is going on with our bodies.
And most of our docs (even female docs) shrug and tell us that's how it goes.
LFG
Jasmine Crockett has two cashier's checks made out to use on Monday: one to submit if she files for reelection for her US House seat, the other to jump into the already competitive Texas Democratic primary for US Senate. https://cnn.it/3KwOyfK
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
LFG
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why some people be mad at me sometimes
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
+ Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
+ Lucille Clifton
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
why some people be mad at me sometimes
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
+ Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
+ Lucille Clifton
How can he possibly be better looking IRL??
I bet he smells amazing. Jealous
I bet he smells amazing. Jealous
Just met Pedro Pascal. He's shooting a movie a block away from our house. They shoot movies here often so we see a lot of famous people but I never get star struck like I did today. He's like 10 times as good looking in person as he is in the movies and he took a picture with us. He smells amazing.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
How can he possibly be better looking IRL??
I bet he smells amazing. Jealous
I bet he smells amazing. Jealous
I feel seen
I don’t think night people get enough credit for adapting to a world run by day people
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I feel seen
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
You know who protects the most vulnerable in our society? Mothers.* So good luck with that.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You know who protects the most vulnerable in our society? Mothers.* So good luck with that.
I was thinking the same thing. Like, when we show up to watch, who do they think will swing?
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I was thinking the same thing. Like, when we show up to watch, who do they think will swing?
Does Pittsburgh know?
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Does Pittsburgh know?
The 15yo cleaned and vacuumed the front room, and put stuff that needs to go back to storage in my car. I am sitting on my butt in the kitchen, reading a book.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The 15yo cleaned and vacuumed the front room, and put stuff that needs to go back to storage in my car. I am sitting on my butt in the kitchen, reading a book.
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Another item added to the Change This Back When He's Gone list. PA is so proud of Adm. Rachel Levine.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Another item added to the Change This Back When He's Gone list. PA is so proud of Adm. Rachel Levine.
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
Raccoons trying to get in the headlines
Greenfield. Haldane Street. Caller is a mailman and says that there is a raccoon circling the area his truck is in. Raccoon appears unaware that interfering with mail operations is a felony.
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Raccoons trying to get in the headlines
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December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM