THREAD: Since stepping back into the Oval Office Trump's been purposefully flooding the zone w/ a constant stream of outrage porn to distract. Here's the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week:
@ewyuckugh Reminds me of the saying that gets me to do most things: “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly”
(And when I’m already doing it, most of the time I can’t help but do it well)
Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵
One day my 7yo wanted to make a poetry journal. Wrote a note asking people to send their poems. Put that note in every mailbox on our street.Waited at the top of the driveway.
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I said, “Buddy, just be prepared. Most people don’t write poems. Most don’t even read them.” 1/2
Oh boy ADHD makes it so incredibly hard to get things done when you’re spending all of your energy trying to get your brain organized enough to actually do tasks instead of actually doing the tasks
Can we stop saying ‘Greta Gerwig scores biggest opening wkend ever for female director’ and start saying Greta Gerwig scores bigger opening weekend than any man this year - and most other years too. It’s the 24th highest opening in HISTORY. It’s bigger than TOP GUN MFING MAVERICK
Supreme Court ruling against the Navajo Nation, student loan forgiveness, LGBT protections, and affirmative action…
It’s almost as if the state resorts to fascism when capitalism is in decay. Who on earth could’ve predicted that?
As I pulled my resident aside after a tough day doing regional anesthesia, I asked the same first question I always ask when I have clinical competency concerns,
“How are things at home?”
Most of the time the answer is “fine.”
This time the answer was “I have cancer.”
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This Pride Month I will remember the LGBT+ holocaust victims.
Prisoners were given identification badges with one of them being a pink triangle to identify gay men and queer people.
After concentration camps were liberated, those with a pink triangle were sent to Germany prison