FYI, all y’all #hunters , #anglers , and other users of the American backcountry: when Trump’s campaign says he wants to “make Federal land available” to help solve the housing crisis, what they mean is they want to sell pristine public lands to developers.
The people whose time is most valuable are the people who can least use things like paid express lanes, priority lines at the oil change, and close parking. The well off may think their time is worth more, but the guy working two jobs who is on his way to get his kids from school while his partner is working the swing shift is the guy whose every minute is worth the most.
Hospitals in Lebanon have canceled elective surgeries today. That means kids with cancer won’t get their chemo ports placed. Someone with heart disease needing a bypass has to wait while the time bomb of their heart keeps ticking. People living in chronic pain from bad knees and hips have to wait for their relief.
Something peoppe need to understand is that community programs like SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner — who you need if you are a victim of rape), like mental health crisis response, like susbtance abuse counseling — these programs often operate on tiny grants. They are paid for by the equivalent of one or two Cybertrucks or Escalades. A guy in a Ferrari? Dude could have funded an entire SANE program in a medium sized county.
The pager attack by Israel today is terrorism. It was indiscriminate, it was designed to sow terror, it was done with full knowledge that civilians would be injured or killed. Blowing up a suicide bomb in a market is no different. This wasn’t some singularly targeted car bomb or assassination. Sure, the pagers were carried by Hezbollah personnel, many of whom may have engaged in attacks on Israel, but their kids, the people shopping near them, the people in offices and restaurants — they did not
Oh, and for the fucking record — the guy who torched the infamous police station in Minneapolis during the George Floyd fall out was a white supremacist trying to start a race war, not immigrants or protestors.
NBC running some trash about parents who lost kids to fentanyl overdoses supporting Trump. Y’all, border security hasn’t meaningfully affected drug availability in the 53 years of the “war on drugs”.
You know what saves lives? Free treatment programs for people who use fentanyl and other similar drugs. Free counseling. Safe use sites. Free suboxone, and free naloxone (Narcan).
Trump doesn’t support any of that. In fact, he and the GOP would defund all of it.
Republicans in Louisiana have made it hard to prescribe misoprostol to patients. Just so y’all are crystal fucking clear here, the people who get this medication are almost always otherwise pretty healthy 15-35 year old women who have the misfortune of suffering a miscarriage, hemorrhage after delivering a baby, or period so heavy they are at risk of needing a blood transfusion. That’s right. Your kids, friends, significant others. You know, women.
Two things: 1. Republicans in Texas raided the homes of Democrats, including 80 year old and 87 year old women, and confiscated electronics, photos, and papers. 2. Nobody does this to Republicans because raids like this against Republicans have a higher probability of violence.
Every single time you mention Joe Manchin, it is obligatory to include that his daughter drove the cost of epinephrine autoinjectors (Epi Pens) up by 600% for no reason other than profit, which left children to die from completely treatable anaphylaxis.
If you motherfuckers want Harris, get on the phone (yes phone) and get calling. Call every dem elected official in your area and give them an earful. Make it clear you won’t support anyone else. Put an end to the fuckery.
Over the next week we’re going to hear Republicans demand “unity” of the country behind Trump, which of course makes no sense since he isn’t president.
Good time for folks to remember a few facts: 1. Trump’s “spiritual advisor” raped a 12 year old girl. 2. Trump’s name appears in Epsteins flight logs 17 times. 3. Trump has repeatedly made sexually inappropriate comments about his daughter. 4. Trump has been found by a jury to have raped E. Jean Carroll.
NBC article about Biden “trying to salvage” his re-election effort.
No, you fuckwits, he is just responding to a concerted media effort to undermine our country.
How about we talk about the guy with 34 felonies, who needed SCOTUS to throw out 200 years of precedent to give him immunity, while he is likely still sitting on national defense secrets? No? Don’t want to talk about that? Huh. Wonder why.
NPR had a discussion of the Roberts court last night, and what amazed me was the lengths the reporters were going to to pretend that anything about his decisions is based on some actual concern for the wellbeing of the country. This guy oversaw Citizens United. He was there for Dobbs. He’s here time and again batting for team christofascism. Let’s stop pretending he’s just a misguided good guy.
Hunter, ER doc, believer in democracy. I’m here to rant, combat medical misinfo, shitpost, and get social therapy. Posts aren’t medical advice. This is the only platform I am currently on. If you find “me” elsewhere, it isn’t me. “You can’t love your country only when you win” — JB ‘24