Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
JD Vance @JDVance And PSA for everyone saying this was "illegal":
Me, pantsless, to the employees of the Home Depot paint department
not to brag or anything but ive taken criticism from the online left before and it didnt make me gravitate towards fascism
If we DO have a 2028 election, the qualifying question for the primaries must be "How will you destroy the fascist movement for generations"
17 states are suing to overturn section 504.
www.bazelon.org/wp-content/u...
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
NYC Union Square
A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat
In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years
This is so good
"We do harm if we assume that unless a person has fluent language, they cannot know anything worth sharing, or that what they do share lacks meaning." On respecting and responding to autistic language and communication differences, from Louise:
joyofj.substack.com/p/on-truth-a... #neurodiversity
John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.
post inauguration i'm seeing a fresh wave of liberals blaming the election outcome on any marginalized community they can imagine and all i can say is that shit is evil, evil lives inside your heart
lots of problems with having a monoculture but in 1970 everyone knew what "sock it to me baby" was and thought it was hilarious. I am constantly like "hey did you see 20 specific seconds of a kind of racist adult swim show in 2004. because they haunt me"
My husband and I still say "they'll kill me!" in the Bizarro Quinn voice at least once a week
Transgender athletes’ rights was opposed by those who viewed female athletes as undeserving, study finds
The researchers also found that adherence to traditional standards of femininity—such as prioritizing thinness and attractiveness—was a strong predictor of opposition to transgender athlete inclusion. For instance, respondents who endorsed the idea that women should be thin or that women’s muscles were less attractive were less supportive of transgender athletes competing in alignment with their gender identity.
Negative attitudes toward homosexuality were another powerful predictor of opposition to transgender athletes’ rights. Participants who expressed homophobic views, such as agreeing with statements like “I would be disappointed if I found out my child was homosexual,” were significantly more likely to support sex testing and oppose transgender inclusion.
You don't say
www.psypost.org/transgender-...
My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
What has 10 legs and is coming soon? Give up? It's the cast of Series 19!
#Taskmaster returns with Fatiha El-Ghorri, Jason Mantzoukas, Mathew Baynton, Rosie Ramsey and Stevie Martin.
Louisiana is already adapting
My gentle advice for the next four years (or the last four, or the four before that, or…) is that you do not have any obligation to debate with anyone about what you see and hear happening with your own eyes and ears.
"I will not comply in advance", I holler as they announce beer will not be sold after the 7th inning
Fun fact: Hans Asperger exuberantly threw children(his patients) into the clutches of the Nazi child euthanasia program, where they were murdered. Which is the kind of thing that happens when fascism is normalized.
i don't think the people that are going "holy shit that was a nazi salute" are mostly all that surprised. i think they are saying: i am marking this because it will be denied
