This is horrific and we know healthcare in the US is only getting worse. No one should go through this.

So, he's said everyone with a chronic, treatable illness (like diabetes) deserves to be cleansed from society.

Aktion T4 time.

Some news! Beyond delighted to be on a list with these names. Congratulations to all the finalists!

** Many congratulations to my fellow nominees! It is an incredible honour to be in your company. **

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Faithless in Death, by J.D. Robb Are you ever surprised by something past-you did? I ask because this week NetGalley ‘reminded’ me that I had been approved for this ARC back in late 2020–a good four years after I…

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Tough Guy, by Rachel Reid I first tore through this series back in early-December 2025; by the time I finally got to watch the first season of “Heated Rivalry”, my brain had already been wreaking havoc, for mont…

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A Cold Day for Murder, by Dana Stabenow Wendy’s review of the newly-released The Harvey Girl intrigued me and jogged my memory enough that dug up this old ARC from the digital shelves, and, because it has been in my digital TBR she…

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One and Done, by Frederick Smith March’s TBR Challenge theme was ‘tropestastic!’, and in genre romance, there’s a long and storied tradition for the one night stand. (Never mind that that’s not quite …

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Stolen in Death, by J.D. Robb Unlike what happened with the ARC for Faithless in Death, I actually remember grabbing this ARC, even though I am not sure why I did; most likely, I was thinking that I generally can get through th…

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::squeeeeee::

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

it's the NYT, so I'm not going to bother reading it, and I'm also still a public health policy economist when you get down to brass tacks, so it's not news to me, but generations of mass vaccination have made people forget how devastating the diseases we inoculate against really were

I mean, the number of Latine people who vote Republican ALL OVER this country is fucked up to hell and back.

Especially white passing Latines.

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Yes, but...true story I just heard today from a friend on FB:

She and her husband just moved from IN to Utah...either early this year or late last year. YESTERDAY, she was told her job was eliminated. Less than six months later. I am SICK for her. They will be fine, I'm sure, but still.

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How about just … NOT using AI? Be the lack of change you want to see in the world.

hot take

“I know they raped kids but i might get to talk to somebody important” is a hell of a rationalization.

Why even bother rationalizing?

Is the child even actually 'scared' or is the racist mother so one offended by the existence of people who speak a different language, that she must invent this fear.

Reasonable minds can differ, but nobody reasonable will say that a lawyer acting as a journalist is bound by the same duties as a law clerk to a judge.

That’s ridiculous.

Wanna bet what this Sara is complaining about is people speaking Spanish in a state that was part of Mexico (and before that, New Spain) far longer than it's been part of the U.S.A.--a country that famously does not have an official language?

holy SHIT

Tucker Carlson chatted amiably on his hateshow with Charles Murray about The Bell Curve and told people to go read his pseudoscientific drivel about Black people having inferior brains so you'll forgive me if I don't rush to rehabilitate the guy.

Severe Weather Outlook for Thursday, April 23, 2026, highlighting FEMA Region 7. A slight risk area (yellow) extends from south-central Nebraska through eastern Nebraska and much of Kansas, including cities such as Hastings, Lincoln, York, Salina, Hutchinson, Wichita, and Manhattan. Surrounding this, a marginal risk area (dark green) covers a broader region from western Nebraska and Kansas into western Iowa and much of Missouri, including Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines, Kansas City, Columbia, and Springfield. General thunderstorms (light green) extend farther outward across the central Plains and Midwest. NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center branding is shown.

Severe thunderstorms will be possible from northern Oklahoma into southern Minnesota on Thursday. Large hail to very large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes are possible. Visit weather.gov for updates over the next couple of days.

Sam grinning and holding up a copy of Rabbit Test and Other Stories

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

Please.

Anyone else find it fascinating that Harry Potter fell off of Top 10 Most Challenged Books list right around the time JKR went full-blown TERF?

The people who spent more than a decade challenging those books disappeared? Had a change of heart? Decided she was one of them?

oh oh oh, those first two, yes, please SO HARD, yes.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children” esp. those too young to be vaccinated “at risk….It’s one of the most contagious viruses that exists”
Dead from complications of measles at age ten (she contracted measles at 5 months).