Reposted by siliciferousSophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Apparently this is too much to ask for in this god forsaken country called the USA: I just want my doctor to prescribe a drug and for insurance to let me have it. I don’t want to go through appeals and denials. Just give me healthcare. 1933325 333
Reposted by siliciferousHagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him 138126602829 12.7K
Reposted by siliciferousAftermath @aftermath.site · 06/07/2026"These are delusional, careless, and tedious people who will never suffer consequences like these, attempting to massage a bad message so they can get patted on the back for it" aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...aftermath.siteYou Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned BloodbathPeople are being laid off in a horrendous job market. You do not have to praise the muddled prose of the rich and insulated. 7640185 640
Reposted by siliciferouscait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/05/2026in case you were wondering what stage of capitalism we're at, google search is now treating the word "crumble" as a misspelling of the cookie brand crumbl 6765751404 6.6K
Reposted by siliciferousDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time. 11962232017 6.2K
Reposted by siliciferousGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/02/2026My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comICE deportation flights are getting longer and cruelerA private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown. 403465767 3.5K
Reposted by siliciferousDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 05/09/2025It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens. 86139814860 14K
Reposted by siliciferousMiriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance 392357686 2.4K
Reposted by siliciferousemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 07/08/2025one of my most steadfast beliefs is that you can let a review talk you into something but you should never let a review talk you out of something. sometimes i’m sure they’re trying to do one or the other but genuinely *un*sure which. 1241 24
Reposted by siliciferousRebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away. 34392844473 9.3K
Reposted by siliciferousAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43709647937469 96.5K
Reposted by siliciferoussophia ♥️🎃 @sophamir.bsky.social · 22/06/2025hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again 2106212140 10.6K
Reposted by siliciferousJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US. 16272252698 7.2K
Reposted by siliciferousceej @ceej.online · 17/03/2025I am extremely lucky to live without any major physical or mental health issues and even my few small brushes with the cruelty of our health care system have been enough to radicalize me against any candidate who doesn't support universal health care 441900172 1.9K
Reposted by siliciferousthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire. 15973252158 7.3K
Reposted by siliciferousPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/02/2025So there’s lots of CRAZY stuff going on, which makes seemingly CRAZY reports seem more plausible. It would be great if we all still take a breath and double-check to make sure things are real, so everyone can focus on the real stuff. I will now go and immediately not follow my own suggestion. 573112257 3.1K
Reposted by siliciferousRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/01/2025honestly this would be one of the better case scenarios (the best case would be a solar flare that destroys every social media data center and also electrocutes the executives of each company to death) 29127179 1.3K
Reposted by siliciferousEric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 21/01/2025DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees. This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon. That review is "dead," person familiar says. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 501059595 1.1K
Reposted by siliciferousAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/01/2025New from me for @rollingstone.com this morning, an hour ahead of the planned start time for Trump’s second inauguration. I have nothing else polite to say. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comEveryone Who Was Supposed To Protect You From This Failed MiserablyDonald Trump will now be the president again. A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here. 682034463 2K
Reposted by siliciferouspriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish 4390353457 9K
Reposted by siliciferousFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 09/12/2024"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." –Ellen Perry Berkeley 1325984373 6K
Reposted by siliciferousJamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 27/11/2024EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS. 1070327249110 32.7K
Reposted by siliciferousAurich | 𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕿𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖍 @aurich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It's trite, but "be the change you want to see" is true Shut the fuck up about Twitter already, move on, and just share things you find interesting and/or important and interact with cool people The latter is the real secret, if you're not cool I'm not giving you any of my time, fuck off 0182 18
Reposted by siliciferousryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/11/2024"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...defector.comWhat The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? | DefectorAt darker moments, contesting this kind of stuff in the wake of the 2024 election—and all the shameless, shameful, unforgivable work the American media did to produce that election’s outcome—feels as ... 11571941666 7.2K