Jen Doyle
@poisontart.bsky.social
She/her. Twitter/X refugee (@thepoisontart). GenX, antifa, ACAB
No TERFs, no bigots, no racists, no cults/MLMs - no exceptions.
Art as pain mgmt: draw, paint, fiber 🧶
Fibro, EDS, chronic pain, autoimmune
No TERFs, no bigots, no racists, no cults/MLMs - no exceptions.
Art as pain mgmt: draw, paint, fiber 🧶
Fibro, EDS, chronic pain, autoimmune
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Why is it in Larry Summers' interest to say untrue things about someone who just won a big popular victory in a Democratic primary? Why would he rather denounce an imaginary Mamdani than listen to the existing Mamdani who 432,000 Democrats voted for?
If you listen to what Mamdani ran on and what he says, none of his proposals are radical outliers—the big scares are about tightening up the existing rent control board, launching five (5) pilot grocery stores, and running free buses. Famous influential people are working hard NOT to listen to him.
Incredible that Very Serious People are decrying proposals that Zohran Mamdani didn’t run on.
His rent freeze pledge is only for NYC’s rent stabilized apartments—a tiny fraction of housing inventory. He never proposed rent control.
His rent freeze pledge is only for NYC’s rent stabilized apartments—a tiny fraction of housing inventory. He never proposed rent control.
June 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Why is it in Larry Summers' interest to say untrue things about someone who just won a big popular victory in a Democratic primary? Why would he rather denounce an imaginary Mamdani than listen to the existing Mamdani who 432,000 Democrats voted for?
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Your CPSC "Beat the Heat" safety starter pack.
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Your CPSC "Beat the Heat" safety starter pack.
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If you want to spend less on your healthcare system, try reducing both poverty and chronic mass insecurity with universal basic income instead of increasing poverty and insecurity with benefit cuts.
Poverty and chronic stress are expensive. It's cheaper to prevent illness than it is to treat it.
Poverty and chronic stress are expensive. It's cheaper to prevent illness than it is to treat it.
As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up.
Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The definition of madness
Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you want to spend less on your healthcare system, try reducing both poverty and chronic mass insecurity with universal basic income instead of increasing poverty and insecurity with benefit cuts.
Poverty and chronic stress are expensive. It's cheaper to prevent illness than it is to treat it.
Poverty and chronic stress are expensive. It's cheaper to prevent illness than it is to treat it.
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As someone who loathes using public facilities, I think it's VERY important to remember that all bathroom policies designed to make it difficult for any group of people to use a restroom safetly
is designed to prohibit them from public spaces, to push them out of visible society.
is designed to prohibit them from public spaces, to push them out of visible society.
June 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
As someone who loathes using public facilities, I think it's VERY important to remember that all bathroom policies designed to make it difficult for any group of people to use a restroom safetly
is designed to prohibit them from public spaces, to push them out of visible society.
is designed to prohibit them from public spaces, to push them out of visible society.
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They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades
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FEMA camps conspiracy theory
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versions, large numbers of United States citizens will be imprisoned for the purposes of extermination as a New World Order is established. The theory has existed since the late 1970s, but its circulation has increased with the advent of the internet and social media platforms. 12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dmht6n3frexsulkabk4vtrdm/bafkreib3lxmxbiovqymtftmsk5nu2lvdneqvusa3sjg6bomfy2dgltolq4@jpeg)
June 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They are literally doing the thing they have been supposedly terrified of for decades
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Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
June 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think
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PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
I, for one, welcome our new capybara overlords.
Caybaras near Tampa, per a fb Tampa page. They are not invasive and are spreading slowly.
June 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I, for one, welcome our new capybara overlords.
Now would be a great time to start wearing medical masks again if you stopped. If nothing else, at least in more crowded spaces. It's such a small ask. And you get a benefit too.
June 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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*Ebeneezer Baptist Church of God in Christ on the Mount Gospel Chorus*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
The idea that pools can be a “third place” for people to meet and chill has existed for decades, @olgakhazan.bsky.social writes. Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.
Why America Needs More Public Pools
Clean, swimmable water shouldn’t be something only the rich can access.
bit.ly
June 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
*Ebeneezer Baptist Church of God in Christ on the Mount Gospel Chorus*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
WE USED TO HAVE MORE PUBLIC POOLS BUT WHITE PEOPLE CLOSED THEM DOWN RATHER THAN SWIM WITH A NEGRO.
*tambourine*
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This obscenity should be a huge story in every media outlet right now
NEW: There have been 4 bomb threats targeting public libraries in the last week.
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One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats
Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...
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June 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This obscenity should be a huge story in every media outlet right now
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Well I am shocked this is happening.
Multiple ICE impersonation arrests made during nationwide immigration crackdown
ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN
Authorities in three states have made arrests in connection with individuals impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, as tensions rise amid a nationwide immigration crackdown.
www.cnn.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Well I am shocked this is happening.
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Toldya.
Wait until the food shortages start.
Wait until the food shortages start.
June 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Toldya.
Wait until the food shortages start.
Wait until the food shortages start.
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THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
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Fantastic article for your friends who still won't leave Twitter and insist Bluesky is doomed...
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the curious case of Bluesky, which, according to various pundits, is a failed "liberal echo chamber" that nobody uses anymore.
www.techdirt.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fantastic article for your friends who still won't leave Twitter and insist Bluesky is doomed...
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William Gaines (and Al Feldstein) literally yelled "FUCK YOU!" into the phone Charles Murphy, hung up on his ass, and ran this as-is.
The Comics Code Authority had no stated rules regarding this content, but tried to block it anyway, which is all you need to know about how the CCA was implemented.
The Comics Code Authority had no stated rules regarding this content, but tried to block it anyway, which is all you need to know about how the CCA was implemented.
JUDGEMENT DAY, originally published in 1953. Comic Code Administrator Judge Charles Murphy rejected this story because the astronaut was Black. William Gaines, EC’s publisher, ran the story anyway. Art by Joe Orlando. 👩🏿🚀✨
June 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
William Gaines (and Al Feldstein) literally yelled "FUCK YOU!" into the phone Charles Murphy, hung up on his ass, and ran this as-is.
The Comics Code Authority had no stated rules regarding this content, but tried to block it anyway, which is all you need to know about how the CCA was implemented.
The Comics Code Authority had no stated rules regarding this content, but tried to block it anyway, which is all you need to know about how the CCA was implemented.
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If you think attacking a nation will liberate it from extremists, just look what happens when the U.S. gets attacked. Our civil liberties go out the door while the government claims emergency powers.
June 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you think attacking a nation will liberate it from extremists, just look what happens when the U.S. gets attacked. Our civil liberties go out the door while the government claims emergency powers.
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Hi
Wear a respirator mask. If you haven’t gotten new masks since 2020 let me tell you there are better fitting ones now than whatever you had then
Wear a respirator mask. If you haven’t gotten new masks since 2020 let me tell you there are better fitting ones now than whatever you had then
A new COVID variant is causing people to experience such severe sore throats that they say it feels like swallowing razor blades.
Emerging Nimbus COVID variant causing 'razor blade throat' pain
A new COVID variant is causing people to experience such severe sore throats that they say it feels like swallowing razor blades.
www.scrippsnews.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hi
Wear a respirator mask. If you haven’t gotten new masks since 2020 let me tell you there are better fitting ones now than whatever you had then
Wear a respirator mask. If you haven’t gotten new masks since 2020 let me tell you there are better fitting ones now than whatever you had then
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reminding myself, mostly, but also anyone else who might find it useful—don’t let them trick you into thinking your intellectual rigor and seriousness depends on how available you are to people who want you dead.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
reminding myself, mostly, but also anyone else who might find it useful—don’t let them trick you into thinking your intellectual rigor and seriousness depends on how available you are to people who want you dead.
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3 big ugly things that the labor movement wants you to know about the Senate budget reconciliation bill:
1. Cutting Medicaid & the ACA will push health care costs up for all of us with insurance through work. We ran the numbers - it'll be up to $485/year more per person.
bsky.app/profile/aflc...
1. Cutting Medicaid & the ACA will push health care costs up for all of us with insurance through work. We ran the numbers - it'll be up to $485/year more per person.
bsky.app/profile/aflc...
A new AFL-CIO report shows that 179 million people with health insurance through work will pay up to $485 per person more in health care costs each year as a result of Medicaid and Affordable Care Act cuts in the budget reconciliation bill. aflcio.org/about/advoca...
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
3 big ugly things that the labor movement wants you to know about the Senate budget reconciliation bill:
1. Cutting Medicaid & the ACA will push health care costs up for all of us with insurance through work. We ran the numbers - it'll be up to $485/year more per person.
bsky.app/profile/aflc...
1. Cutting Medicaid & the ACA will push health care costs up for all of us with insurance through work. We ran the numbers - it'll be up to $485/year more per person.
bsky.app/profile/aflc...
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.