New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"
www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
lots of new followers today so I’m bumping this petition! 6,607 right now, would love to get to 7500 by Monday. it’s fuck Nancy Mace o’clock this weekend
NEW: What really happened in Mass? 2024 was more a return to normal than a rightward shift. 2020 was the outlier. Cities were the exception. From @richparr79.bsky.social and me. commonwealthbeacon.org/by-the-numbe...
stop immigration so we can take care of our own im starving. fuck off.
NEW: Three years ago, UnitedHealthcare was sanctioned for illegally denying mental health coverage.
We've found similar practices are still very much alive, after reviewing leaked documents that reveal the company’s playbook for limiting care.
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www.propublica.org/article/unit...
“Ladies, ladies. Calm down about this Kavanaugh appointment. They’re not going to overturn Roe. That’s ridiculous. Don’t be so hysterical.”
Journalists /editors need to frame better & we need to talk more about “if likely, then what’s our game plan”?
Joe Scarborough and Mika from Morning Joe, their ratings plummeting, made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago because they decided if you can't beat him, grovel for access and help normalize him AGAIN.
STOP 👏
WATCHING👏
MORNING👏
JOE👏
Allow my first post on @bsky.app to be about 🔒 protecting your privacy 🔒:
@themarkup.org's Guide to Abortion Privacy: themarkup.org/the-breakdow...
Elon is already getting a return on his investment in Trump. Easing AV regulations means more money for him and more dangerous roads for everyone else. fortune.com/2024/11/17/t...
Given the gradual abandonment of the international treaty system limiting nuclear weapons, @emmaclairefoley.bsky.social writes, "the creeping conviction that disarmament is a lost cause is completely understandable." But if nuclear disarmament is a lost cause, so is humanity.
You get what you name!
moral of the story is that capital has no problem adapting to, and enabling, fascism. but we already knew that.
The idea of labor camps for depression is wildly depressing. Also, withdrawing from psych meds is a process not to be taken lightly. Such a dangerous proposition.
As always, superb @hcrichardson.bsky.social time capsule/dot connector. Biden did so much to undo Reaganism, but now idiocracy is back. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...
NYT Breaking news alert: “Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.”
FFS “vaccine skeptic” is not a real thing and even if we are being extraordinarily generous and using us for people with genuine fear or lack of information, RFK jr doesn’t qualify. He is this country’s most prominent anti-vaccination activist, with a sizable death toll to his name.
Didn’t Invalid Handle compose the Shmallelujah Chorus?
Colorado people please call your fucking governor
genuinely, like
Dems with asshole GOP senators who never take your calls, there’s never been a better time to dust off your high school acting class chops and pretend to be a concerned Republican who has totally legit Republican reasons why they should reject these nominees
Congressional GOP leaders are increasingly open about targeting Medicaid for draconian cuts in 2025 as I have been warning about. But these cuts are not inevitable. House/Senate margins are very tight, Medicaid is more popular than ever & 2017 fight shows that such cuts can be stopped. #healthpolicy
Forced birth in a country with:
—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations
This isn't about "life." It's about control.
It's absurd that Republicans fill their cabinets with crooks and idiots, and Democrats, in the run-up to the election, get asked about whether they will bipartisan and nominate/appoint a Republican.
He said this as an unelected bureaucrat
“We want to go in and slash and burn the bureaucracy to help Americans, stimulate the economy and restore self-governance. The people we elect to run the government, they are not even the ones who run the government anymore, it's these unelected bureaucrats.”
NEWS: A divided Seventh Circuit panel ruled 2-1 on Wednesday that Indiana's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, as well as its "aiding or abetting" provider provision, are likely constitutional.
The court previously allowed Indiana to enforce the ban during the appeal.
“Where do you think I lost my legs? In a bar fight?” Tammy Duckworth on CNN is not having this “no women in combat” thing from Sec of Defense pick and war crimes enthusiast Pete Hegseth
Blue (grey colored) Great Dane, nose up in air, sniffing a row of tall yellow flowers with black centers
We could all stand to stop and smell the flowers right about now… #dogsofbluesky
So glad you’re here! ❤️
Black Great Dane lying on her back, head toward camera, pink of inner ears showing, big grin with shiny white teeth. Looks like Donkey from Shrek.
'Cuz I'm all alone/there's no one here beside me/my problems have all gone/there's no one to deride me!
But ya gotta have friends...
#dogsofbluesky (donkeys of bluesky?!)