They’re on extended break because they didn’t want to be forced into publicly voting against extending health care credits.

No.

Right. The US law enforcement personnel who’s authority ends at the US border.

Q. Why can’t you get the cat anything special for it’s birthday? A. Because every day is the cat’s birthday!

Q. Why can’t you get the cat anything special for it’s birthday? A. Because the cat already owns everything anyway!

Congratulations to Alaric, thank you for making his day special, and I hope you have many more happy years together :)

What. The. Fuck?

Trolls. This is one of the conversations we had, this one on a deliberately twisted claim he posted to Progressive Politics.

Got into a repeated argument with a guy here on fediverse this morning who was promoting “Mamdani is antisemitic” stuff. He was extremely adamant, and was following the same type argument structure as I used to get into with the MAGAts on reddit. I regret to announce that the trolls have arrived :(

That person is just so pissed he wasn’t born in this country …

I think it means that sales tax just came to the UK? Where what’s quoted on the tin isn’t the price at the register? If true, it’s going to make a lot of people very angry.

Crimea is part of Ukraine, but not it’s entirety.

There’s a difference between annexing Crimea and annexing Ukraine.

In an age of AI, propaganda networks, paid influencers, and fake news, it behooves all of us to challenge information from potentially non-credible sources.

Media bias / fact check for The Grey Zone:

Overall, we rate The Grayzone Far-Left Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, and consistent one-sided reporting.

Do you have a less biased or more credible source for this story?

MPox: infection numbers in the US are generally low in the US - the weekly average is generally between 3 and 18 cases per week. I haven’t tracked transmission vectors in a couple years - I think the last time I checked was around 2022-23. From memory, at that time, the main vector was men who had sex with men, and then people who had sex with infected people. The CDC’s recommendation list for who should get vaccinated still seems to focus on those groups, as well as travelers to areas where MPox is endemic.

Measles: in the US, this mostly depends on when you were born/vaccinated. If you were born before 1957, you are presumed to be immune because measles is so contagious and it was so prevalent back then. If you were vaccinated before 1967, you should get a booster shot: the vaccine they used back then was less effective than the later vaccine. If you were vaccinated after 1967 and before 1989, you should consider getting another shot: up until 1989, they believed that a single dose gave lifetime immunity, but then they realized a second dose was needed. People who received two doses of vaccine after 1989 are presumed immune.

It depends on what type of treatment he’s getting and whether it requires an IV or an infusion. There’s speculation that he’s getting infusions for Alzheimer’s (either Leqembi or Kisunla); both treatments would explain the bruising on his hands, and also require periodic checks with an MRI.

Assuming he actually takes aspirin, he’s not lying, he’s misdirecting: the infusions cause bruising, the aspirin makes it more noticable.

Especially if that’s some kind of ventilation pipe with nice warm air coming out :)

Well, there was an article the other day about 13 government buildings he wanted to tear down and preservationists were fighting back, but I thought he wanted to build the arch on the Mall

Congratulations! I know how much you love her :)

Unfortunately, you know Schumer will fold, just like he did with the shutdown this fall, just like he does every time. We need to get rid of Schumer, get someone in there who’s not afraid of punching back.