Snitty

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Reader, voter, avid pedestrian.

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First Wordle Problems

I’m not talking about making age (or function) an issue. I’m talking about saying, for instance, that somebody’s “brain is pudding.” That’s just a horrible way to talk about a human being — and, by extension, lots of other human beings.

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I don’t like the current discourse for any number of reasons, but I sure wish it could be conducted with a little less brutally dehumanizing language about old people.

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One of the least nuanced assumptions in US political discourse is that folks who have served or are related to people who have served are patriotic or pro-military. The collective memory and personal experiences of Black, indigenous, and other vets of color makes that way more complicated.

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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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Veterans have been organizers and movers of every modern anti-war movement and the official discourse about “the troops” almost always erases them completely, it irks to no end

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optimist: the glass is half full pessimist: the glass is half empty excel: the glass is january 2nd

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the Munsters could start acting and dressing normal and people wouldn't notice they're draculas or franklinsteins or whatever. whereas with the Addams family, one of them is a hand

I know the people who follow law and SCOTUS closely have reasons for thinking of John Roberts as an institutionalist or whatever but to me he has always been one thing: a GOP appointee. And I feel like that has saved me a great deal of disillusionment.

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I am a pudgy middle-aged balding white dude who rides a bicycle, and yet even I can clear the Kid Rock bar.

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

Carrot Styx

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Along these same lines, I highly recommend, "A Village in the Third Reich," which zooms in on one town focusing on pre-war, the war, and post-war. www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Vill...

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

A Village in the Third Reichwww.simonandschuster.com An intimate portrait of German life during World War II, shining a light on ordinary people living in a picturesque Bavarian village under Nazi rul...

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Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

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CDC’s budget has been cut multiple times in the last two years primarily because of house republicans. these massive cuts are on top of those

the vast majority of CDC’s budget goes straight to local and state health departments. they want to guy the entire country’s public health infrastructure. they don’t give a shit if it kills us all

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taking a break from your regularly-scheduled cats in boxes programming to share some highlights of what republicans propose for FY2025: - gutting CDC’s budget - defunding the new pandemic forecasting center (they want us all to die, especially POC) - defunding all gun violence and climate work

Meanwhile. This is what the House GOP has in store for health. aspph.org/news/pressro...

ASPPH Opposes Public Health Cuts in House FY 2025 Spending Billaspph.org June 27, 2024 – The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) is deeply concerned by cuts and structural changes to public health agencies proposed in the House

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ive always favored the theory that the entwives became lesbian separatists

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Read this, share this widely

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I wonder if the Project 2025 plan to ban recreational sex could turn some normal Americans against Trump

I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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THE END OF NO FAULT DIVORCE

if you’re talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!

I can't see the original post, but I assume it's a reference to Anita Hill. A couple of years before that happened the Dean of Students at my college sent me anonymous mash notes then sent one that he signed asking me to date him. At the time, this was not viewed as sexual harassment.

The news coverage of the scandal was literally introducing the concept of “sexual harassment” to Americans and Biden and the rest of the Democrats were scrambling to get a grasp on it

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what the fuck kind of polling are they looking at that makes them think they need to worry about this, because honestly i could use a lift

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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It's humid AF out there and here's what my body has to say about it: My stomach: 🤮 My sinuses: 🥴 My fifty-something muscles: 😍💃

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter

Liberals be expounding the merits of polyamorous tantric anxiety

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OMG he’s Chat-DJT

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Biden is not owed good press by a long shot. But the amount of coverage his age is receiving relative to that of Trump's very real past and promised future actions strikes me as one of the greatest media mis-prioritizations since the run-up to the Iraq War.

There are days that I'm good at being proud of my fitness accomplishments (getting stronger, better stamina, better walking pace) and can ignore the number on the scale but today is not one of those days and I can't tell you how much I hate it.

Realized that the combination of seasonal mood issues related to summer plus election angst means I probably need to go dry (more or less) for a while if I want to actually sleep at night and I'm already surly about it.

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Lmao

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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Sagal going to bat for Nuzzi is 🤌🤌

thought i'd check my camera roll for "nuzzi"