I’m sick and tired of hearing this lie peddled by the GOP and corporate media. Raising the debt ceiling does not increase spending or the federal debt. It simply allows the government to pay bills it has already taken on— and defaulting on the debt would be catastrophic.

Why I still use precautions against #COVID19:
1. People are still dying from acute infections.
2. People are still being disabled by #LongCovid, including #LongCovidKids.
3. We don't have effective treatments.
4. We still don't know the full extent of long term damages.
5. I don't want to spread the infection to anyone.
6. #SARSCoV2 keeps mutating - the more we allow spread, the more it will mutate. We don't know what future #variants will bring.
7. Death from infection can occur months later.

It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.

WOW. Elon Musk's Twitter straight-up banned the account for Mastodon. Just, wow.