Sid MacLeod 👾

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

lol

House budget bill would kick 15 million people off health insurance and damage local economies House Republicans wanted to find a way to defray the cost of the tax cuts they passed for the richest households in the

The Medicaid cuts proposed by the GOP are awful on their own.

But they could also reduce economic activity — resulting in a loss of 850,000 jobs across the country in both the healthcare industry and beyond.

All for tax cuts that will mostly benefit the richest Americans.

The Holocaust Denier viewpoint is incredibly important to the GOP.

The new Pope, retweeting Senator Chris Murphy, in support of gun control

Parental pro tip: Tell your little ones when they lie, their eye color changes. And when you catch them closing their eyes to tell you something, you can come back here & thank me later. 😉

I hope he gets blessed with holy water.

Trump Judges Strike Down Alabama Congressional Map as Racially Discriminatory Read more here.

In a scathing ruling, a panel of three federal judges Thursday struck down Alabama’s 2023 congressional map as a violation of both the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison After pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, the founder of failed cryptocurrency platform Celsius will serve 12 years in federal prison.

JUST IN: After pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, Alex Mashinsky—the founder of the failed cryptocurrency platform Celsius, which collapsed in 2022 with billions of dollars of customer funds—will serve 12 years in federal prison.

DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, ac...

www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

CFPB employees can't own stocks in companies that the agency regulates. A DOGE employee was warned by ethics lawyers that he held nearly $700K in stock in such companies.

He then carried out mass firings at the agency – including those ethics lawyers.

The corruption couldn’t be any more blatant.

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Transcript of Cardinal Robert Prevost's first speech as Pope Leo XIV Cardinal Robert Prevost made his first speech as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, shortly after being elected pontiff. This is a transcript of the speech, translated from its origi...

Cardinal Robert Prevost made his first speech as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, shortly after being elected pontiff. This is a transcript of the speech, translated from its original Italian.

That was the only correct response.

But I heard only the ones with bone spurs.

The Obama Pope.

Let’s spend funds on infrastructure that actually keeps us moving forward.

SHE’S SUCH A FUCKIN’ JABRONI!

politizoom.com Linda McMahon Just Proved Herself Stupider Than Betsy DeVos

Linda McMahon Just Proved Herself Stupider Than Betsy DeVos https://twp.ai/4imTJ1

Pfft.

Siri tells me that all the time.

I want dibs on the Statue of Liberty!

Airlines, many of which recently downgraded their revenue forecasts, are going to love this promotion of their product
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...

Leave him alone, he’s such a simple man.

Just bc he makes fun of ppl with mental deficiencies doesn’t mean that we have to as well.

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

Trump Posted 14 Times About His Daytona 500 Trip, Nothing About Multi-State Flooding An indifferent Trump was chauffeured around the racetrack as Kentucky mourned 8 deaths including a mom and her 7 year old child

Trump posted 14 times about his Daytona 500 trip—but not once about the deadly flooding in multiple states.

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Weather Report👇🏼

But Greenland would make a nice Australia, but colder.

AJ Brown’s BookTok moment helped the Super Bowl-bound Eagles and an unknown author The Eagles’ star wideout was caught on camera reading a self-help tome on the sideline during a playoff game. Now the book is a No 1 bestseller and Philly are in the Super Bowl Sarah Jessica Parker is papped on the regular dashing around the West Village…

AJ Brown’s BookTok moment helped the Super Bowl-bound Eagles and an unknown author