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Hi. I'm not all the way here from Twitter. Would love to find the epi, science, long covid communities. So far the few people I have followed are those who posted handles on FB. So msg if this Nick's unfamiliar.

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Anti nuke Ayatollah?

09.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A "Humanitarian Response" Firm With No Federal Contract History Is Staffing Planned Immigration Detention Center in Maryland Anovaeon LLC, which has never won a federal contract, is recruiting for a 1,500-bed facility outside Hagerstown amid unresolved infrastructure concerns.

The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online.

The β€œhumanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.

08.03.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 653 πŸ” 361 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 28

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill herβ€”and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

09.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 8408 πŸ” 3093 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 115

2/ I suppose it's almost funny that my first response to his comment was to yell FUCK.

Because... well, duh. Only certain people would have been cleared to look at such documents.

Holy hell.

09.03.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I commented to a friend that I still didn't get why the the same FBI guys who are our Iran counter intel were working the Mar a Lago case.

And he's like "well there's a good reason but you won't like it..."

And D'OH. Because that's the sort of documents that might have been in the bathroom.

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09.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Probably a good time for Democrats to point out Trump has never once pumped his own gas in his whole life. He has almost no idea how much gas costs or how it impacts normal people's budgets.

09.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 1156 πŸ” 287 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 7

hooboy

09.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so that was a US bomb and looking like aI targeting off old intel (the school had been military use in the past, and part of the base that it is now 100 yards outside)

And i'm pretty sure we've known that for days.

09.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

08.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 4468 πŸ” 986 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 54

Whose lapel is this?

06.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I wish every one of these folks would pick up Sen. Paul Wellstone’s β€œConscience of a Liberal.” He talks about making that transition. Learning that there are different skills necessary.

26.02.2026 04:18 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn’t notified, officials say

They dropped a blind guy off on the side of the road without telling his family, and he ended up dead.

The Border Patrol agents should be charged with manslaughter.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

26.02.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

His son lives in Rockville, MD.

26.02.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This one hits hard.

21.02.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 35629 πŸ” 10540 πŸ’¬ 778 πŸ“Œ 592

I noticed this one and then was looking for the beginning.

23.02.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

23.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 12930 πŸ” 3341 πŸ’¬ 188 πŸ“Œ 127

Current plans seems to be to open up the boundary Waters to mining by some big Chilean company. You know ruin the outdoor and nature stuff and all the small businesses around it in favor of throwing money at a big one.

There's still time to make a fuss.

23.02.2026 08:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah exactly, which is why I don't usually mention.

On some level I kind of figure given just how much a ridiculous amount of money bezos has there are going to be circumstances where it's justifiable to deal with them. Protest supplies on an AIEE short timeline is a past example.

21.02.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putting here to get back to later, now that I have finally gotten a phone working reasonably well again. The teaser text is simply boggling me.

Somewhat related, at this moment there is a meeting in Anacostia about the planned [frozen] expansion.

21.02.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

21.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 10477 πŸ” 2813 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 150
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I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre.

Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

21.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 4445 πŸ” 1106 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 35

So I understand Blue sky even less than I understand a bunch of other places. On discord, for example, if I block someone I can't see them but they can see me. On twitter, if someone blocks me I can see them just not interact with them. What happens if I block someone on blue sky?

21.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I wish I had better news about GoodRx and it's certainly helpful to the consumer just the downstream effect of putting even more independent pharmacies out of business is less good :-/

For what THAT'S worth, Amazon also has cheap generics.

21.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oof. yeah. In retrospect I made a costly mistake on which plan I chose, but DC's managed to keep their plans eyepopping but still lower than a lot of the country.

I haven't tried the card but I've used the online a couple times.

06.02.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.

:pops in to mention CostPlusDrugs.com which is on line, but also has Team Cuban Card that works in a whole lot of brick and mortar pharmacies (not CVS) - a lot of the time pharmacies can lose money on GoodRX coupons, but Team Cuban pays them fairly to fill the discounted drugs.

06.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They also have the Team Cuban Card which works with a whole lot of brick and mortar pharmacies and is FAR better for the independent pharmacies than is GoodRX.

It's $12 to the pharmacy instead of I think $6 online, but no shipping fee, and the ability to interact in person as well as support.

06.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/vval...

(It depends on how the negotiation is done, but pharmacies can lose money on GoodRX. What's usually making money off of everyone (including to some extent the manufacturers) is the Pharmacy Benefit Manager. Elon blocked better regulation on that.

06.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.

I suppose I'm unsurprised.
Hey everyone, there's a company that keeps a fixed markup on their mostly generics and is both on line and in a bunch of brick and mortar pharmacies: CostPlusDrugs.com, who do not buy advertising.
(Brick and Mortar is the Team Cuban Card, on which pharmacies don't lose $)

06.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Homepage of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug homepage. Provides safe, affordable medicine or medication with transparent low prices.

There's a lot of news articles about the company here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_Pl...

They're currently building a manufacturing facility.

06.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0