Isn’t this how “The Handmaids Tale” started?

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Picture of the Libert Bell with caption “Mexico renames the Liberty Bell the TACO bell”

Hahahahahaha

Picture from “The Oregon Trail” with caption “you have listened to RFK JR.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Ok, but only if everyone who voted for this level of stupid is automatically enrolled on the placebo arm.

Trump executive order raises alarm over women's financial independence A new executive order from the White House targets the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which was written to prevent sex-based credit discrimination.

I’m not even sure I have anything to say about this. What can be said? More importantly, what can be DONE?

Pharmaceutical Tariffs: The What and the How

“The US had a fantastic system going for many years: people would send us cars, avocados, computer chips, limes, heavy machinery, all kinds of great goods, and in return we would essentially send them pieces of green paper with pictures of Benjamin Franklin on them…“

Pocan to Introduce ELON MUSK Act to Ban Federal Government Contracts for Special Government Employees, Similar To Bans For Members of Congress, Many Other Federal Employees WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) announced plans to introduce the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act. The legisla...

This is fantastic

It’s Equal Pay Day…which means today is the day I have to work to in 2025 in order to catch up to what a man earned in 2024 for doing the same job, with the same qualifications.
It’s worse if you have darker skin than me, or different sexual preferences.
WHY IS THIS STILL A THING?!?!?!

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authori...

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#severance

Beaker from the muppets with the caption “This is the only orange muppet I trust to tell me about science”

Warning sign that reads “rattlesnakes may be found in this area…give them distance and respect.” Caption reads “as a woman, I just want the same rights as a rattlesnake.”

Happy (?) International Women’s Day

Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans) Dear World,

Dear Leaders of the Free World,

Fight him at every turn.
Make his life miserable.
Expose his ignorance and sociopathy.
Oppose and condemn and marginalize him.
The decent people of this nation are not with him.

We stand with you.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...

Dogs playing in snow

Made me smile today, maybe it will make you smile too…

I saw this! See, we are doing something. Every little bit counts!

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Happy “gotcha day” to the very tolerant beautiful brindle under the very obnoxious (but also adorable) puppy

DAVID BROOKS: The six principles of stupidity Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 -- I define stupidity as ignoring the question: What would happen next? By that definition, the Trump administration has produced volleys of it.

Photo + Headline seems fitting

And so it begins…the federal abortion ban is here
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Any holiday not about straight white Christian men will be "paused."

First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm Discovery of H5N9 came alongside detection of the more common H5N1 on the farm, leading to 119,000 birds’ deaths

The current administration is keeping this information from you. They’ve been ordered to cease public communications. So no info from the CDC.

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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

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My desire to be well informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane

We’ve all seen this text, but for real, how do we do this? And not only the “I’m tired of reading bad news” part, but how do we know where to find the truth? What’s your best source of factual information - on anything?

Scientists at NIH can’t purchase supplies for their studies after Trump administration pauses outside communications | CNN Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have been told the communications pause announced by the Trump Administration earlier this week includes a pause on all purchasing, including supplies f...

Patients are being turned away - very very sick patients who are counting on trials to save their lives

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Here’s one place you can search for starter packs that interest you:

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