You know what, let's do this. KETAMINE. I am now trained as a facilitator and I have been talking about the benefits - and the risks - over on TT but haven't been putting the videos here because "ooh, SCIENCEFACTS" and and suddenly I'm over three minutes. SCIENCE IS FRIEND. Anyway.

Trump’s echo chamber: Very little U.S travel No rallies or contact with supporters Right-wing media Dinners with rich donors and billionaires Truth Social Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

A Christmas tradition like no other.

🎶 So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Yippee kiyay, motherfucker. Now I have a machine gun. 🎶

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

and if you can’t run on that then for fuck’s sake get out of the way and let someone run who can

Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.

I finished the big one:

Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience

I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?

The psychology of this website is so transparent. They're not attacking progressive media (who don't give a shit) so much as they're naming access bootlickers who already often cater to the WH anyway — because they’ll actually freak out and change their coverage *even more.* Just working the refs.

When we push back, we win.

It all looks so dry.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

@amalovessalem.bsky.social has swears! They've used 119 profanities in their last 947 posts. 🥇 "fuck" (32 times) 🥈 "bullshit" (14 times) 🥉 "shit" (12 times)

I wonder what @profanity.accountant will say about me.

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

I feel like the fractures we are seeing in the MAGA coalition have some people hoping the status quo will simply make a roaring comeback, and judicial consequences will simply engulf all of the bad guys. There's really no precedent that supports that expectation.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+6) Approve 36% (-5) news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.

Economic boycott now through Monday. Let's go. weaintbuyingit.com

HOW DOES NO ONE IN THE ROOM EVER SAY SOMETHING WHEN HE DOES THIS SHIT?

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

This is a really sick story. From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through. abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...

Wallets closed 🙏🏿

Anything short of this is an invitation for something even worse to occur.

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal. Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

Husband and I are feeling personally attacked by Ken Burns leaving out Leslie's Retreat. (Salem knows.)

To summarize. According to Lizza, Nuzzi, in addition to fucking multiple subjects without disclosure: 1) outed a confidential source 2) fed source information to RFK 3) damaged other people’s reputation through anonymous posts on Reddit 4) advised RFK and repeatedly acted on his behalf

A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

i read this years ago and every time i've repeated it people look at me like i just confessed to the jfk assassination

Remember when Trump’s sons announced a made-in-the-USA smartphone and a new wireless service, Trump Mobile? Three months later, the phone’s ship date keeps getting delayed with no explanation — although the company continues to collect $100 deposits. The grift never ends.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

Bolsonaro behind bars is a reminder: democracies survive when they stop letting criminals play government.

A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds: “These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.” s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...

This probably isn’t good.

Boston's zoning code is broken. You shouldn't need a slew of variances to build a triple-decker, particularly in a neighborhood where the street already has multiple triple-deckers with identical dimensions. 99% of Boston's residential lots do not comply with current zoning.

Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine. Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

GOP Fake-Moderate Susan Collins explicitly wants more trans kids to kill themselves by suicide. #MESen #mepolitics #SusanCollins #Maine @mainebeacon.bsky.social @suitupmaine.bsky.social @mainepeople.bsky.social @collinswatch.bsky.social @esqueer.net @aridrennen.bsky.social @erininthemorning.com