Matt

Excellent analogy, includes the anti-vaxxer part, too.

How did LaCrosse miss out?

@craigschaeferbooks.com just finished Rats. Thoroughly enjoyed it and I can’t wait for the next one!

As a paramedic, this is tough situation to be in. We’re not able to do mental health holds and the police are. EMT and paramedic school has the bare minimum of mental health training.

Help protect Maine from ICE.

I'm donating to Food For All, and if you:
- repost this, I'll donate $1
- call your representative, tell them to ABOLISH ICE, and quote-post this with whether you got a machine or a staffer on the phone, I'll donate $10
- quote-post this with your donation, I'll match!

Was anyone bitten by a møøse?

Seems like that might change the vibe

Don’t forget to wrap it in lemon!

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.

Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

Just switched from gas to induction and it rocks! Regular electric is trash, though.

You had me worried for a minute!

You not doing flights anymore?

Two 5 month old gray/brown tabby kittens sitting in my lap.

New kitten day! Rangoon(L) and Kokkare(R).

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Training With 3 quick actions, you can be trained to save a life. The number 1 cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding. That’s why we want to train you how to stop the bleed.

www.stopthebleed.org/training/ teaches great skills to have!

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Also, comment from the state EMS association emsac.memberclicks.net/index.php?op...

You do not gotta hand it to him. I’m a paramedic in Colorado. This bill had support from everyone involved except insurance companies. It solved significant ambulance funding issues and it passed both houses unanimously!

An Interview With A Fired Contract Specialist At The Office Of Personnel Management | Defector Most years, Patricia Gibson decorates her home for Memorial Day—putting up a sign or placing some flags in her flower pots. But this year, when she saw decorations in the store, she paused in the aisl...

Defector has a series of articles like this defector.com/an-interview...

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Right? I had a total thyroidectomy due to cancer. I take 2 thyroid meds daily because that thing ain’t growing back.

Bonanza, then the Wendy’s Superbar

Hi

Or we all have brain worms, at least

Mediocre sounds like it’s aiming too high

Came within a day of running out of my thyroid medication waiting on an insurance approval. I had thyroid cancer and don’t have my thyroid anymore.

Get me Übermensch Chalmers!

Ralph wiggum “the baby looked at me” meme

and then I gazed into the abyss, the abyss gazed also into me