The Obama administration's most consequential decision was to address the Great Financial Crisis by bailing out the finance sector, rather than borrowers. 1/ pic.twitter.com/1PQGZZtoUT
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) January 27, 2022
That’s what made Trump inevitable, right there. And worse. Obama fucked the whole country over more than any other president, including Trump. Trump is a petty criminal; Obama is the real deal.
Someone replied to my tweets about the anti-vaxxer being denied a heart, angrily saying "oh yeah, this won't be used as a precedent to deny people care for being fat or disabled." they do not seem to understand that is literally already the STATUS QUO in the donation game.
— anna phylaxis (@quatoria) January 26, 2022
Obese people have about a 50% lower one-year survival rate after organ transplant, and very obese people (when it’s even allowed), have about a 70% lower survival rate.
And that’s not because of discrimination. It’s because being obese makes you very fragile.
It’s very odd to me that those who believe you should only produce and consume media about those exactly like yourself don’t realize how profoundly, deeply conservative that sentiment is. And terrible, too, of course.
How can they not see that? I guess every ideology when taken to the extremes wraps around to the other side. That’s just another example.
And that’s exactly fucking why I do not live in NYC.
My doctor friend says last night:
“There has to be a goal attached to public health interventions. It can’t just be austerity for austerity’s sake.”
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) January 27, 2022
A lot of the libs do in fact have a goal: take things away from people, especially if they are items or experiences that provide joy or promote any sort of human flourishing.
But I agree. We never decided what we were attempting to achieve with pandemic mitigations so, shockingly, we never determined when we were done (and never did much that made sense).
I knew Taylor Momsen was talented as I’ve liked The Pretty Reckless for many years, but this vocal performance, good god:
Damn, her lower register is just insane.
It’s simple: throw the style book out. If you hear a pause in your head, the comma goes in (see what I did there?). If you don’t you don’t. https://t.co/J4yM9rIAjs
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 13, 2021
Exactly. When I was still a photojournalist, someone attempted to do this to me. I wrote “NOPE” in red on the their edits and submitted the story as it was.
📈RESURGENCE—Worrisome that #Omicron is somehow surging ⬆️ upwards again across Southern England 🏴. London’s case drop has also stalled —now flat. Likely due to dropping #COVID19 mitigations & throwing caution to the wind by @BorisJohnson & @sajidjavid.
Figure by @DrWilliamKu. pic.twitter.com/Nv9TTyjeOC
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 24, 2022
This cracksmoker is annoying. Much more likely to do with weather, especially after the initial surge — people are spending more time inside because the weather got crappier and cases went up again, because Covid mostly spreads within households, indoors:
