Perfidious P.
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"...he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something."
- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
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When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
Then she died of preeclampsia.
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Or Gerald Ford in Watergate . . .
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Or Gerald Ford in Watergate . . .
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Boy, if I were Donald Trump, I’d be pissed that my supposedly loyal Vice President has gone completely and totally silent on social media since these Epstein emails dropped. Vance always does this when it gets really bad—just disappears. Like Homer in the hedges.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Boy, if I were Donald Trump, I’d be pissed that my supposedly loyal Vice President has gone completely and totally silent on social media since these Epstein emails dropped. Vance always does this when it gets really bad—just disappears. Like Homer in the hedges.
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if more Americans had just taken up cool hobbies during COVID instead of storming school boards screaming about masks or demanding their local Chili’s reopen, imagine the utopia we’d live in
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
if more Americans had just taken up cool hobbies during COVID instead of storming school boards screaming about masks or demanding their local Chili’s reopen, imagine the utopia we’d live in
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September 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@scalzi.com Reading material while waiting on Dragon Con.
August 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@scalzi.com Reading material while waiting on Dragon Con.
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"This is the most dire moment in the history of the United States and no one should be on the sidelines, and no one should be undermining those who are showing up for justice, human rights, and environmental protection."
-- Rebecca Solnit
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
-- Rebecca Solnit
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"This is the most dire moment in the history of the United States and no one should be on the sidelines, and no one should be undermining those who are showing up for justice, human rights, and environmental protection."
-- Rebecca Solnit
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
-- Rebecca Solnit
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Heat health is the next critical area of climate resilience. This nomination matters
Trump’s OSHA Nominee Has a History With Heat and UPS Drivers
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Heat health is the next critical area of climate resilience. This nomination matters
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My colleague @sam-breidbart.bsky.social has more on why this is historically inaccurate: bsky.app/profile/sam-...
President Trump continues to get the history of the 14th Amendment wrong. He says birthright citizenship was only granted to newly freed slaves. But the 14th Amendment was clearly broader than that – and everyone at the time knew it.
Trump: "If you look at the end of the Civil War -- the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day -- was it 1869? Or whatever."
June 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague @sam-breidbart.bsky.social has more on why this is historically inaccurate: bsky.app/profile/sam-...
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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“killer of sheep" (1978) is out on blu-ray and 4K on 5/27 from @criterion.bsky.social. one way to support filmmakers you admire is to purchase the re/release of their works.
here's a photo i took of charles burnett as he oversaw the new 4K restoration. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...
here's a photo i took of charles burnett as he oversaw the new 4K restoration. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“killer of sheep" (1978) is out on blu-ray and 4K on 5/27 from @criterion.bsky.social. one way to support filmmakers you admire is to purchase the re/release of their works.
here's a photo i took of charles burnett as he oversaw the new 4K restoration. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...
here's a photo i took of charles burnett as he oversaw the new 4K restoration. www.criterion.com/films/34233-...
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
For your consideration
On April 10, 1925, a young writer published his 3rd novel – a commercial & critical disappointment about a man passing for white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
100 years later, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Lowery reveals the secret hidden inside a piece of America's literary canon...
And how "The Great Gatsby" became white
Gatsby’s Secret
Read as the story of a passing Black man, "The Great Gatsby" is the great American novel.
dlvr.it
April 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
For your consideration
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BUT the majority says Venezuelan migrants MUST be given notice that they're being deported under the Alien Enemies Act and an opportunity "to actually seek habeas relief" before they're removed. The majority affirms their right to due process—this is a big deal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
BUT the majority says Venezuelan migrants MUST be given notice that they're being deported under the Alien Enemies Act and an opportunity "to actually seek habeas relief" before they're removed. The majority affirms their right to due process—this is a big deal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Wonderful cities, all of them, including Milan!
Now that said, regarding the latter, before you apologize profusely, you might take just a moment to remember that, once upon a time, they were the ones who started this kind of crap.
Now that said, regarding the latter, before you apologize profusely, you might take just a moment to remember that, once upon a time, they were the ones who started this kind of crap.
Not gonna cancel a long-planned summer vacay to Europe. Not gonna lie and pretend to be Canadian. Gonna walk into one pub, bar or shabeen each in London, Barcelona, Zurich, Milan and Venice, drop a card, apologize profusely and buy drinks for every last soul there. Tell them we aren't all trash.
March 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wonderful cities, all of them, including Milan!
Now that said, regarding the latter, before you apologize profusely, you might take just a moment to remember that, once upon a time, they were the ones who started this kind of crap.
Now that said, regarding the latter, before you apologize profusely, you might take just a moment to remember that, once upon a time, they were the ones who started this kind of crap.
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"Without this guidance, the world risks losing one of the most effective tools for disease prevention, ultimately jeopardising decades of progress vaccines have contributed to global health."
New letter—'Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO' tinyurl.com/5n99dpsw #MedSky
New letter—'Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO' tinyurl.com/5n99dpsw #MedSky
Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO
Vaccination remains the most cost-effective public health intervention, preventing
millions of deaths and reducing disease burden worldwide.1 However, their impact is
rendered meaningless if vaccines ...
tinyurl.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"Without this guidance, the world risks losing one of the most effective tools for disease prevention, ultimately jeopardising decades of progress vaccines have contributed to global health."
New letter—'Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO' tinyurl.com/5n99dpsw #MedSky
New letter—'Safeguarding immunisation: a core function of WHO' tinyurl.com/5n99dpsw #MedSky
😱Oh those poor folks! If only more people watched The Wicker Man. (Am a bit partial to the 1973 version)
March 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
😱Oh those poor folks! If only more people watched The Wicker Man. (Am a bit partial to the 1973 version)
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Well, I guess if you want to dust off some ideas of an alternative: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Ali...
March 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Well, I guess if you want to dust off some ideas of an alternative: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Ali...
He has a point.
just a reminder to all the non-profit world people who follow me, who will deal with far more malicious asks than this, probably starting with things like pronouns: they will take your funding away even if you do it
NOAA is pressuring nonprofits to change materials to Gulf of America or lose funding heatmap.news/climate/natu...
February 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
He has a point.
Now do cool youth minister.
February 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Now do cool youth minister.