Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The willow is too close to the house.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (Domestic) – Wednesday/Thursday, April 1/2

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  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Coronavirus spread at Rikers is a ‘public health disaster’, says jail’s top doctor

    The top doctor at Rikers Island said the coronavirus-hit New York jail is a “public health disaster unfolding before our eyes” as he warned of the rapidly rising number of infections in the city’s jails. In just 12 days, Ross MacDonald, the jail’s chief physician, said confirmed cases at Rikers had soared from one to nearly 200.
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    He warned that it is “unlikely” they will be able to stop the growth, predicting that 20% of those infected will need hospital treatment and 5% ventilators. He also called for the release of “as many vulnerable people as possible”.

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    Jared Trujillo, president of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, said Rikers was effectively the centre of the entire pandemic.

    “Now, Rikers proportionately is the epicentre of the Covid-19 epidemic and our clients are terrified, my members of the union are horrified about it, they’re horrified for their clients, being in court is dangerous for them. We have about two dozen members, probably more, that have either tested positive or just showing signs of Covid-19.” For some vulnerable prisoners, he added, being in jail amid a coronavirus outbreak is “ultimately a death sentence for them”.

    He claimed a lot of inmates, many of whom he said are pre-trial, don’t have access to hand sanitiser or soap, are “caged” in large communal areas and that many clients have complained that they are not having symptoms of illness taken seriously. He said the current environment is also having an impact on their mental health. “Just psychologically it’s really horrifying for people because they’re hearing that these people that they’ve been in close contact with, that they have been caged with for some length of time, have an illness, have a contagion, and there’s just nothing they can do.”

    Unless more action is taken to release people from Rikers, he warned: “The conditions will only get worse.”

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    prufrock

    @WereBear: I’m thinking of one huge retirement condo community in Clearwater that will be utterly devastated.

    As far as the churches go, most of them have suspended services voluntarily. Only the most committed moron ministers are still trying to grift.

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    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly:  Except it will be given to a minion who will make it into a disaster because they want to skim some money off the top.

    Like our current PPE crisis caused by blatant profiteering. Organized by the White House.

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    WereBear

    @prufrock: Only the most committed moron ministers are still trying to grift.

     
    Yes, but Florida has more of them than most :(

    My SBC-drenched childhood there tips me off about that. It also sends a scofflaw message.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @OzarkHillbilly: I wonder who said letting them die would mean him losing Florida.

    Cynical?  No.  He’s a sack of shit who only does things if he can wet his beak.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @WereBear: I have no illusions about the motives behind the move, nor the efficacy of it’s execution, but death ships being denied berth in port after port, forever wandering the seas leaving a trail of corpses in their wake…

    We are better than that. At least I hope we are.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s pathetic that basic humanity is startling when his administration does it.

    Also, the federal government is clearly profiteering from everywhere they can. Blatantly. Free market!

  13. 13.

    BellyCat

    Gov. Wolf (PA), a generally heads-up and progressive leader, has also declared Religious institutions as “essential” in his new order yesterday for stay-at-home until April 30.

    WTF?!?!

    I am fine with that, as long as people who go to religious services are locked into their places of worship for two weeks.

    Fvcking ridiculous….

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