BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them!

The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

A must, albeit enraging, read. Thank you @radleybalko.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼

In the comments Helen is blaming Lindy West for the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade

This Irish-American is choked up ☘️

<career military 4star general> - “Here is our carefully researched paper, vetted by every single branch and backed by decades of on the ground feedback on why we shouldn’t create the John Wick ayatollah”

<Trump Administration> “at long last, we have created the John Wick Ayatollah”

People love shaming the poors so much they forget rich people get surprised by poops too! I hope we get terlets. Trash cans too, if we’re feeling frisky!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The streets in front of City Hall are looking pretty packed full of blue & green and I can't wait to be part of the parade up 4th Avenue. Look out for me in the vintage metro bus! #gohawks #thisisyourcity

Shouted ideology and shunning is her brand but whatever. It’s not like people go to her expecting linear thinking and reading comprehension

If “investigating” means passing Spanish 101 I’m all for it

What in the blue wave are they talking about?
Step one: cave
Step two: celebrate and ask for more money

What if Cheney is Trump’s psychopomp?

I was listening to an audiobook in the tub, but when I’d turn the hot water on to soak longer I had trouble hearing. I actually picked up my phone to see if I could turn on subtitles. As in, like, a book.
Shoutout to everyone who has quietly suspected I’m a dumbass. You were right all along!

This error was somehow both the apex and nadir of my newspaper career. I learned a lot when I spotted the problem the next day

Indeed! His doctor was an AI, too, albeit a better one than the chatbot my insurer has

I can’t believe I’m going to actually type this but I think tumtum incompatibility was a plot point on an episode of Enterprise. I guess the food magic happens later? Also I read someone’s lil joke about how all replicator food is vegan. So beam me up already I’m down

I’ve been escaping into Star Trek a lot recently and every time people from various planets share a meal I wonder a lot about how that’s possible but I can’t give my chickens leftover avocado. I guess space communism solves tummy aches too? #trek #actuallytoomuchtrek #llap

libs of tiktok melting down that GWAR did a comic bit about killing trump, which they've done with every president for years, as well as a broad range of public figures

this is the funniest possible way to describe GWAR

The Reuters headline is journalistic malpractice of medical malpractice

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Stan is terrific. Help!
gofund.me/decadb369

Even conservatives push back after AG Pam Bondi wrongly claims ‘hate speech’ isn’t protected - Poynter After Bondi vowed to target ‘hate speech,’ legal scholars and conservatives alike reminded her that US law protects even offensive expression

Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to target “hate speech,” but had to clarify her remarks after receiving criticism from legal experts, media voices and conservatives who were quick to remind Bondi that “hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment.

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Sheriff Who Inspired ‘Walking Tall’ Movie Killed His Wife, Inquiry Says

This is kind of always the ultimate fate of copaganda, isn’t it

If my name was My Cuckabee I sure as shit would go by Michael

They also voted for final passage on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment.

If two of them kept their promise not to defund Medicaid, OBBB would have failed 216-216.

All hands on deck to send a loud message that Virginians are against this Nov. 4, 2025 and then unseat them Nov. 3, 2026.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.

This is Washington at its worst.

We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

1. I’m listening to legal fireworks in my tinder-dry neighborhood and thinking activists aren’t the only people burning things but
2. Please cover all your identifiable markings, leave your phone, and buy shoes at the thrift store.