UpsideDownWorld
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UpsideDownWorld
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Loving the 505
Crankypants Buddhist
Retired Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Lover of Australian Shepherds
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awfully rich of JD to call someone out for being inauthentic. a yalie whose law prof helped him write a memoir where he threw his family under the bus in order to craft his up-from-appalachia persona before he toddled off to be a venture capitalist
JD Vance: "Jasmine Crocket -- the record speaks for itself. She wants to be a senator, though her street girl persona is about as real as her nails."
December 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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as someone on tacrolimus goddamn this is terrifying
When Hannah’s pharmacy began filling her tacrolimus prescription with a generic version, the lung transplant patient didn't know something very important:

Months earlier, an FDA-commissioned study concluded that this generic was not equivalent to the brand drug -- and that her life was at risk.
Fighting for Breath: The FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk
Lung transplant patient Hannah Goetz’s life depended on the generic version of the critical drug tacrolimus. It was supposed to be equivalent to the brand-name medication — but the FDA doesn’t always ...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Nurses demand Congress act NOW to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits. If these expire, millions of families could see premiums double or triple — and one in four ACA enrollees may lose coverage. https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses-demand-congress-act-to-extend-aca-tax-credits
Nurses demand Congress act to extend ACA tax credits
National Nurses United has sent letters to members of the U.S. Congress demanding they vote no on pending legislation that fails to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expiring at the end of 2025, and instead support the House Discharge Petition ...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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A sociopathic narcissist exploits tragedy/suffering of others to satisfy his dysfunctionally competitive, vindictive need to "win"....and to Self Aggrandize.

In this one statement, Trump exhibits 7 of 9 symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and 6 of 7 for Anti-Social PD (sociopathy).

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The timing of this post and the reference to the murders being "due to the anger ... caused others through … TDS" suggests strongly that Trump believed that **one or more of his supporters** had committed the murders—and that they had committed the atrocity **justifiably**.
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Sad news, indeed.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Donny two dolls is back." @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Today I was awarded the Waffle House peace prize.

It was one of the greatest honors of my life.
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Nothing sums up America like a bunch of barely trained racist fuckboys given weapons and a mandate by a fascist kleptocracy, arresting a first nations woman by disregarding her ID on a day where the nation celebrates a 19th century nation-building myth about its first contact with indidgenous people
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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The nation is facing a nursing shortage, and Trump’s Department of Education now says nursing isn’t a “professional degree,” cutting students off from federal grants and loans. What?!

This decision carries more than a whiff of sexism, given that 88 percent of nurses are women.
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Excellent answer.
CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this?

Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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We can't give up now. ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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#Truthbomb

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Portland, you magnificent weirdos
Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.
September 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Yeah, no. I don't believe reporting from one person at Fox News sourced by Kash Patel's FBI about the shooter's roommate. Nor would I believe it if the BBC, the WSJ, or the Washington Post reported it because they have gotten so much wrong.
September 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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do I have this right? Donald Trump is just going to crash the world economy every three months — and then pretend to save it, over and over, while his cronies rake in untold billions on his shameless market manipulation, is that it? fucking hell
April 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the United States, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers." (1/3)
Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM