The slandering of education isn't being taken seriously enough. The knowledge and research that touch all of our lives are beyond what we can measure. In additional to all areas of knowledge having value, sometimes you need to master one thing to learn another.

This is really the meme about how men will try everything but therapy.

Clearly this push has nothing to do with protecting our nation. When a POTUS states "we will win every election for the next 100 years" if the SAVE Act passes, all Americans need to understand "we" isn't a party.

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

I can't relate to those who are willing to lie when they know that the lie will harm someone. There is something broken inside those willing to contribute to the arrest, imprisonment, deportation, and even death of another human to score points for their side. Terrible. Gross.

How about we stop connecting everything to fighting? Fighting rarely solves anything. Our budgets, slogans, news stories, public policy, etc., are overrun with fighting. Decency asks us to value one another and to work as a community to leave places and others better than we found them. ❤️

🎯 I don't understand how the rectangle in my hand is capable of sending texts and pictures of storm damage to my neighbor, who is traveling in India, instantaneously and receive her replies. More knowledgeable people understand. That used to matter.

There is only one brave human in this photo.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

So gross. Many asylum seekers land in the US as a direct result of the turmoil our global corporate, trade, and warfare policies cause. Many are/were allies to those efforts who needed to be removed from the harm their allyship put them in.

I will never understand the comfort some have committing troops and civilians to death and destruction because of their own inability to collaborate, solve problems, and be honest.

Trump, who tore down the East Wing without Congressional approval, is arresting citizens for touching the destroyed reflecting pool. The audacity with this one is unmatched.

I'm realizing Kalshi's founders are quite young, too.

Polymarket was founded by a 21 year old. I feel like there is a trend of very young people founding companies that should or may be illegal using money of the very rich who want a degree of separation from the business in the event things take a turn legally.

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

I can't imagine what's worth putting our citizens and global neighbors through the selfish and cruel inclinations of this man.

This is not ok. This is the stuff that makes societies unravel and devolve into chaos. Everyone partaking in this should be treated like a traitor. These are not Americans.

If you’re still calling them 'detention centers,' you’re ignoring the price tag. They are for-profit concentration camps, and their only growth metric is how many human beings they can cage for profit.

D-Day was a day of extensive partnership, sacrifice, and bravery. Reflection should not resemble talking points from a MAGA rally. The dishonorably in-charge are shameless. May those who risked and lost their lives that day rest honorably. May their sacrifice not be exploited by zealots.

It's sickening and sad. Imagine being THIS insecure while leading our nation's defense infrastructure.

This is a really dumb idea. The White House is not a target of military value, despite it being the residence of the Commander-in-Chief. Militarizing the White House WILL make it a target of military value. This transforms it from a civilian structure to a military structure. That's - just dumb!

It's overwhelming to consider how much those who aren't paying attention truly don't know and how impossible and insane it would be to attempt to get them caught up. I feel like a ranting lunatic regurgitating a day's developments.

A Venezuelan student athlete at Cleary University is in ICE custody while her family waits for answers.

With all of the problems we're facing, people in powerful leadership roles have an abundance of time and brain capacity to make up imaginary issues. The rest of us are exhausted.

When I lived outside of DC, it was clear that many of those living on the streets of DC were disabled vets. I often think of a friendly man missing the lower portion of both legs who "lived" near a downtown church. I wonder what's become of these people. I'm not optimistic that they're housed.

This still makes my stomach hurt to watch.

My last baby graduates from high school tonight. Next stop is Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. The house is going to feel really weird after August 25.

My soul hurts when I listen to this man transparently and proudly reveal his incompetence as members of his entourage smile in the background.

My weekly bouquet subscription from Okemos grower, @blooming-burbs.bsky.social, began today. I bought a new vase from the East Lansing Potter's Guild for the season. What a gorgeous combination. I think Stephanie included a bloom that will surprise me later this week.

An 8 p.m. game in Spartan Stadium at the end of November probably won't break attendance records. 🥶

Student athletes have control over their name, image, and likeness. Faculty do not.

It feels like the websites that I frequent have collectively decided to become unusable.

This house proposal is DOA. Neither the Senate nor the Governor will accept it. BUT it’s a big message about the November election. If the GOP gets a trifecta in MI then this becomes a real possibility.

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

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OH. MY. GOD. Not only a win, but a concession by Orban!!!!! WHAT A DAY FOR DEMOCRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These 3 are doing the same thing - using a war.

This shouldn't even be up for debate. The arrogance involved in projecting one's personal views into how another person should identify is unmatched. Who others love, who they feel an affinity with, how they would describe themselves, etc. have no bearing on my life or my identity.

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

I think about this a lot.

Rightwing dudes: "Women shouldn't be in leadership. Women shouldn't vote. They're not rational like men." Also, somehow, rightwing dudes: "The hand of God teleported me to a Waffle House."

How handy the markets are closed today.

Only in America: can the losers of a coup sue police for not letting them kill politicians.

The Villages retirement community in Florida have turned out in huge numbers for No Kings. William Steiner, our Villages correspondent, says that the turnout is twice as big as last year's.

The nation is experiencing acid-churning Big Ten basketball.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

It didn't have to be this way.

GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."