It’s weird how Trump keeps helping out sexual predators of children

this. I also use The Green List, which blocks racist accounts. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

As always the most astonishing thing about the Starmer government is how despite having almost all of the hallmarks of a government that would be expected to last for another 8 years including a majority that should insulate it from all trouble, it feels like it's going to collapse before Christmas.

We've got naked eye visible in Boston!

I’m convinced that they do these sporadic public displays just to signify that they finally have the meritocracy they have dreamt of which is one in which the most decorated and qualified woman can have her career derailed at the whims of the most mediocre and unqualified man.

This little baby, Mint Chip, is the last of our foster kittens to be adopted. If you know anyone in the LA who needs an absolute sweetie who adores laps, blankets, and other cats, they should get in touch with www.santedor.org

Folks, this is huge news. The old museum pushed a decidedly Lost Cause narrative. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association has been working on this new museum over the past couple years and a number of companies competed for the contract to create a new interpretive space. From what I've heard...

I’ve kept reading Timothy Egan’s a Fever in the Heartland, and it talks about the Klan’s ties to this mountain. I’m very glad a permanent spot is going to be up that won’t let people glass over reality.

These stories are brutal www.thecut.com/article/draf...

Called it

absolutely unhinged detail i only just caught up on; the new depreciation rules in #OBBBA begin on 01/20/25 - Trump's second inauguration. the period from 01/01/25 to 01/19/25 has totally different depreciation rules from the rest of the year. because Trump is that thin-skinned and petty. #TaxSky

They absolutely don’t . And the GOP does something that even progressives fail at They don’t start at the stars , they don’t focus on just age ( as excuse or as engagement) They look for who moves the people in even the smallest ways and resources them They get it’s a Republican

This is a great, simplified explanation of how the assessment process “works” in Cook County & how it’s skewed in favor of commercial real estate owners.

my work nemesis brought her 3 month old baby to the annual meeting (*reasons why this is a good workplace, and yes, she did have the option of not attending/not working, she just wanted to). she sat next to me all day. she has no idea she is my nemesis. the baby, however, clearly knows

The existence of trans people is not an "ideology", BBC. It is a reality and one which Parliament has recognized. (Entirely typical of the BBC that, confronted by a populist right attack, they will show willing by dumping on trans people. Weak with the strong, strong with the weak, as always.)

Primary author of that Democratic anti-trans "strategy" is Simon Bazelon, nepobaby son of anti-trans NYT reporter Emily Bazelon. The report quotes McBride, a nepobaby token whose purpose is to excuse transphobia and do private equity's bidding. The attack on trans lives is a gentry conspiracy.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

complete fucking losers. just fucking retire if you're this pathetic

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

whole company in one room arguing about how to pronounce "obbba" #TaxSky

The Tories admitted to parachuting people into institutional positions of power in order to work as insider ‘agents’ pushing political/ ideological agenda. They did it to attack trans people. What makes you think they weren’t also pushing other agendas???

Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base. This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.

This is why the anti-trans political project is a form of hyperpolitics: only rarely is there an explicit articulation of What Is To Be Done, Who Will Do It, and To Whom. The almost-always implicit conclusion is the long arm of the state must crush trans people in both body and spirit, completely

yeah I've worked for several "business owners" who were functionally unemployable

Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down. What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide... 🔥🧵

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So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

"what's the point of standards" is a hilarious thing to say out loud where people can hear you

I finally got confirmation that ICE agents have been getting paid this whole shutdown. Only people who’ve had guaranteed pay this whole time are the lawmakers responsible for the shutdown and kidnappers

i will do nothing in my working life as difficult as a barista manning the machine at 8am in midtown manhattan

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

This entire thread up and down but also, like, it is so rough living in a world that celebrates and encourages super disordered eating. The 16:8 fasting craze omg. How orthorexia is The Way Of Life.

“Any pronouns are okay!” No. Put aside the ranger. Become who you were born to be.

Censoring sex/gender/sexuality words out of our comics with representative emojis for Facebook/Instagram is just a routine part of the job, but sometimes you have a fresh moment of clarity about just how dumb it truly is. Today's latest linguistic innovation is substituting "foreskin" with 🧦.

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11. New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

It's me, generally healthy person who goes for my annual once a year and that's it. I AM HAPPY TO PAY INTO A SYSTEM THAT HELPS PEOPLE SICKER THAN ME BECAUSE IT INHERENTLY HELPS ME AS A MEMBER OF SOCIETY TOO AHHHHHHHHH

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable. You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.

#Boston area pet food pantry, via @mspca-angell.bsky.social . whdh.com/news/mspca-a...

I find this deeply weird and also 100% normative in any conversation about nutrition in this culture we talk about food symbolically while claiming it's about science, we come up with our ideas about "nutrition" largely on the basis of personal aesthetic beefs and social stereotypes, we're weird

still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition" people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic

every few months i am reminded that the Michigan Department of Treasury officially spells it "marihuana". i need to know who decided this

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

Amazing moment in time right now where people who yelled at us for sticking to genocide as a red line are now also disgusted with Democrats and threatening not to vote for them. So your health insurance becoming more expensive was your red line?