Kat
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Kat
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I was ShivaDiva999 on the bird site. Looking forward to finding my folks again.
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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"The picture on the front makes it look like they have contracted measles. The Junior Mints themselves also look like they’ve contracted measles. By the way, have you seen that measles are back?"

I wrote a review of Christmas candy. I'm aware it's March.

www.everywhereist.com/2025/03/its-...
It's March. Here's My Review of Some Christmas Candy I Found At the Goodwill.
It is March. I am standing in my kitchen in my PJs, eating Christmas candy that I purchased from the Goodwill. To be clear, it was not my intention to be eating yuletide-themed confections on the prec...
www.everywhereist.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular."

"You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
March 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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This fucking fuck
February 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Do this. Say this. 👇🏻
February 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I’m writing for Slate on advice for fired federal workers & would love to hear from fired feds struggling with
- how to job search in the private sector when it's so different from govt hiring
-how to translate your skills to non-govt work

I can keep you anonymous. Pls email alison@askamanager.org!
February 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.

How fucking dare they

Old vs. new
February 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Putting people with ADHD in a *concentration* camp is bitterly ironic
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Worth five minutes of your time to take a read, to say the least… 📽️ (Especially if you’re already seen the film).
I wrote a review of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the brand new Bob Dylan bio pic. And I guarantee you it is totally unlike any other critique of the film that you are ever going to run in to. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-complete...
'A Complete Unknown': The Ballad of TOSHI
And INTRODUCING 'THE TOSHI AWARDS!'
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:57 PM
@chuckwendig.bsky.social My husband got me the nicest Christmas present! Thank you for my very own evil apple.
December 27, 2023 at 2:39 AM
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A burn 170 years in the making. Masterpiece.
Incredible comment under this video - no notes.
October 28, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful!
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
July 3, 2023 at 2:16 PM