ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

redefining “free speech” to mean “there should be no social consequences for running my mouth” was the biggest mistake in this country’s history

AFN has a story today. This is the first that I heard someone died. So many villages devastated. It will take years to recover because it's so expensive to build in these rural villages. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

reposting with alt-text because yes, this needs to be shared as fully as possible

Can’t wait for Alito to explain why you have a right to pray at midfield on public school property but should be shot in the head with “less” lethal ammo when you do it in front of an immigration detention facility

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

This is amazing news I’m so glad

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

I don’t think any of them actually think there’s an autism link. they’re just weaponising a tool that’s worked for them before. they just want to hurt and control women any way they can

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

COVID and flu shots acquired ✌️

michael phelps still has those medals despite his unfair biological advantage of flipper feet

this is outstanding especially because I just watched Lord of the rings last week. Thanks for this

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

LET'S GOOOOOO

Me, a person who reads old newspapers as part of my research, screaming into the abyss: It has always been complicated!!!

Jemisin has managed to keep all the other cats out of the new cat hideout for an hour so far

We never thought the guy who gives leopards rabies, who we invited onto campus to give leopards rabies, would have his face eaten by a rapid leopard at our campus!

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

James Cameron: AI is gonna help us cut production costs James Gunn: Time to go teach John Cena and Frank Grillo how to do The Charleston and the Lindy Hop

doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now

“CONTINUE HIS WORK”?!?!?! holy shit dude, that’s fucking awful

Yeahhhhh these people are not interested in actually preventing school shootings

it really does make me feel like i'm talking to someone who has been body-snatched by an alien when i encounter these people

Have reached the point in our war on immigrants where their home nations are voluntarily chartering planes to get them home and out of horrific conditions in detention facilities.

I think people will be excited to find how much money there is for fun public infrastructure projects like everyone getting a nice house and a nice school and a nice hospital and a nice multipurpose public autospeedway etc when all our money is not being spent on shitty cops and fuckin militaries

Calming cat break

idk, man, of all the trump excuses you could conjure up out of thin air, i do not think "trump was actually an FBI informant" is really the best one you want to run with, because it opens up all kinds of questions you really don't want to try to make up answers to.

They literally would rather destroy the country than go to therapy

Literally had a surgeon who was struggling to get a surgery approved for me comment that he wished he’d pushed for all his trans clients’ procedures during the “Luigi window.”

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act—the landmark federal statute that protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people.

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City. Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

"Work from home is bad for everyone Only a few people retain productivity Intangible office connections are gone Young people r further isolated and lonely City centers decay" -Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who barely comes into the office.

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

ALSO SPEAKING OF NEWS There's dozens of articles about a little boy, 11, murdered in Texas. Jist is, the little boy was playing ding dong ditch (which may be annoying but it's a little kid thing, I did it as a kid) and someone came out, and as the little boy was running off, shot him in the back

I love in depth answers to questions by people who deeply know the answer, anyway Courtney answered "why are so many historical romances set during the Regency??"

If you are angry, as you should be, that restricting access to the vaccine will make covid worse and more dangerous, please start wearing a mask, which actually does a significantly better job of preventing transmission in the first place.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!