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Once again, Republicans just taking a shit over their constituents who seem to have no problem with this.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The abstract of a study stating: Our descriptive study examined current associations (2022–2024) between US state-level health outcomes and 4 US state-level political metrics: 2 rarely used in public health research (political ideology of elected representatives based on voting records; trifectas, where 1 party controls the executive and legislative branches) and 2 more commonly used (state policies enacted; voter political lean). The 8 health outcomes spanned the life course: infant mortality, premature mortality (death at age <65), health insurance (adults aged 35–64), vaccination for children and persons aged ≥65 (flu; COVID-19 booster), maternity care deserts, and food insecurity. For the first 3 outcomes, we also examined trends in associations (2012–2024). For all political metrics, higher state-level political conservatism was associated with worse health outcomes, especially for the metrics for political ideology and state trifectas. For example, in 2016, the premature mortality rate in states with Republican vs Democratic trifectas was higher by 55.4 deaths per 100 000 person-years (95% CI: 7.7, 103.1), and the slope of the rate of increase to 2021 was also higher, by 27.0 deaths per 100 000 person-years (95% CI: 24.4, 29.7). These results suggest elections, political ideology, and concentrations of political power matter for population health.
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
aaronotg.bsky.social
It doesn't strike me as the most politically unsavvy course of action to shut down the government to call attention to Rs lack of answers about healthcare, reopen the government so Rs can choose to inflict said pain (that everyone is more aware of), and then drop massive news about Epstein.
Norman Rockwell's painting Freedom of Speech, depicting a man standing up to voice his thoughts to a crowded room.
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We're all trying to find the guy who did this meme.
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I don't meme often, but when I do, I do it poorly.
The Drake "Hotline Bling" meme where the first image shows Drake in disgust at the idea of "Setting aside one's own personal beliefs regarding economic policy to support a member of the party win an important election" while the second image show's Drake in agreement with the idea "Setting aside one's own personal beliefs regarding Nazi tattoos to support a member of the party with an important election"
October 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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It's becoming evergreen at this point: these dudes are fucking losers.
A Politico article excerpt: William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.” And a picture of each of the men mentioned in the article showing just how fucking lame they all are.
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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What MIB wrote is being widely seen and I'd suggest that this excerpt from the NYT Cooking newsletter touches on the same ideas and I've really enjoyed reflecting on this: focus on friends, not food. (Which is pretty paradigm-shifting from a cooking newsletter!)
An excerpt from the New York Times Cooking Newsletter: It’s a funny thing for a cookbook writer to say, but according to Samin Nosrat, the most important thing when you have people over for dinner is not the dinner. Samin and a tight-knit group of her friends have been hosting Monday night dinners, which over the past four years have transformed from casual meals into a kind of ritual. Her takeaway? What stays with everyone is not the dishes served but the people who brought them, drawn together week after week to share food, conversation and comfort. She writes about this in her brilliant new cookbook, “Good Things,” which was recently excerpted in The New York Times. There’s something wonderfully radical about a cook as passionate and precise as Samin telling us to focus less on the dinner and more on the party.
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
aaronotg.bsky.social
As a better thinker put it, here's David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" speech where he says the same idea:
An excerpt from "This is Water" which says: "Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness."
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Who wore it best?
Patrick Bateman looking motherfucker.
July 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I mean, come on.
Goofy ass looking motherfucker.
July 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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The difference between "one in 10,000" and "one in 150" is the difference between Juneau, AK and Houston, TX.

Imagine mixing up those two places. And then imagine someone saying, "oh that's not a lie, that just needs context".

Come on, now.
A New York Times article snippet saying how Trump's statement of autism cases being one in 10,000 in the past was actually wrong and the statistic was one in 150.
March 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I'd be very curious to hear the ways in which Republican men think society has become too soft and feminine.

My gut tells me their complaints all stem from simple requests to be more empathetic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
A graph showing that 79% of republican men think society has become too soft and feminine. 67% of republican women agreed while only 20% of democratic men and 14% of democratic women did.
February 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
aaronotg.bsky.social
Also, Mark Alford is a career newscaster who lives in a neighborhood of Kansas City that has double the median home price than the rest of America.

So not really sure how familiar he actually is with "stuck pigs" or any sort of farm work, contrary to what he'd have you think.
Image showing that the Lake Winnebago median home price is 732K while the US median home price is 356K.
February 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“There’s a reason some dems are squealing like stuck pigs when it comes DOGE: @elonmusk is cutting out the pork ... and it hurts,” Mark Alford, a US representative from Missouri, wrote on X.

Perhaps a good place to start would be states that take more than they give?
Map showing how much conservative states leech off the government
February 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM