“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead… “All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

h/t @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social

I genuinely cannot get over him launching a war from his house in Palm Beach.

it'll take years to truly comprehend just how many norms Trump shattered during his gangster administration but man, if news got out that *any* other modern president turned their personal golf club's VIP suite into a "makeshift" Situation Room... i mean jesus fuck, man. c'mon.

h/t @tnflorvil.bsky.social

h/t @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

The “Nazi tattoos are fine” people are one hundred percent going to find a way to defend this.

“the population of Iran should rise up and seize power and then also be ruled by this former royal family we happen to have ready for just such an occasion” man, do you hear yourselves

h/t @1789jam.bsky.social

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me 🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time: • Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting • Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.

h/t @goldengateblond.bsky.social

h/t @mikkibrock.bsky.social

A decent chunk of my political philosophy is embodied by the phrase "It's never okay to kill children."

h/t @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

h/t @faineg.bsky.social

h/t @notalegalrecord.net

h/t @ladyhistorian.bsky.social

h/t @liotier.bsky.social

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

h/t @medievaliste.bsky.social

h/t @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social

h/t @oldenoughtosay.com (+3 for me, but same)

Appalling. One doctor “sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him”

h/t @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

Congress could stop all of this right now if it chose to act like a coequal branch instead of a little bitch

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

May everyone involved burn in hell

Once again: This is the stupidest and most dangerous timeline.

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

A lovely morning long run along the lake. Ice dunes are covered in sand, so they'll probably stick around until May. 🤣

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This is a serious crisis in the region. Really need msm to be covering this given that Pakistan has nuclear weapons.

The fucked up thing is that all the looms the Luddites smashed actually WORKED

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Pete Hegseth went to Princeton and Harvard. Let me go dig up my old thread about how they don’t actually hate universities they just hate ordinary people that aren’t themselves going to them

Article I wasn’t an accident. Congress holds the purse, writes the laws, and checks the executive. When it acts like a spectator—whether out of fear, partisanship, or careerism—it surrenders the very authority the Constitution entrusted to it. That abdication should alarm everyone.

Little scoop before publishing a full story on the situation later — I've obtained the email sent to all Kansas DMV employees by Kent Selk, Driver Services Manager for the Kansas Department of Revenue on how to handle the compulsory gender marker change for trans people. Full text of Selk's note:

When Barry Goldwater ran for president -- after voting against the Civil Rights Act, welcoming Strom Thurmond to the GOP, and being denounced as a "fascist" by MLK Jr. -- he still held on to six percent of the black vote.

We made it to another Friday (a sunny one on the North Coast). The Infant and I wish everyone health, safety, and peace.

h/t @emartineau.bsky.social

Was having a convo with @bachynski.bsky.social & we decided that it's of upmost importance to start gathering the oral histories of those who lived through the time before polio vaccines, measles vaccines, etc. They can provide important perspectives and they will not be with us for too much longer

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Every college and university in the US need to join together and say that ICE are not welcome on our campuses, and we will take proactive steps to block them from entering.

“…the Epstein files highlight issues that women in academe have mostly discussed in whisper networks: Who is unsafe to be alone with? Which advisers are to be avoided? Whose connections may come with a price?” www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

Day 2 (of 3) engaging Timothy Beal's biography of Revelation in Apocalypse to Zombie. Discussing how Hildegard, Joachim, Luther, and Cranach interact with the text (or didn't really, in Luther's case).