In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit

No, it's mostly the Nazis and the fact I don't need arguments in order to learn different things that I'm content here. But if you and others want to stay on Xitter, I love that journey for you all.

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

All of this is the truth. Want another example? Look at the Michigan State University Board of Trustees giving President Guskiewicz an unasked for $1 million annual raise, while he pushed through 9% cuts across university departments. It's disgusting.

I already have to check search results to see if they're trustworthy, why would I want to add another level of untrustworthiness to my searching, my time on this planet is short enough as it is. "Oh you just have to prompt correctly" - OR, I could just fuckin' do a search, I spent 30 years on that.

I'm so tired of the McCaskey family's pissing and moaning. They're like every other billionaire sports-team owner looking for handouts from the state. chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadiu...

State of the Democratic Party leadership

If you read them now, Killer Princesses, Clean Room and the Secret Six arc about a prison island all seem like they were specifically written about the Trump administration. But they weren’t, they were all warnings about political manipulation that destroys our moral center. 1/

And there was much rejoicing. www.wilx.com/2026/05/21/m...

The ONLY WAY is to fight for trans rights. We are the canary in the coal mine. Why the miners saved the canary is their safety depended on its too …

I’m sorry, but this made me laugh.

Don't listen to me, listen to the cult members:

1. Incredible breaking news and a landmark ruling out of Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals MUST not capitulate to Trump, and must continue offering trans youth care under state law. They found vague federal threats "speculative." Subscribe to support our journalism.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

Chicago baseball looking pretty good White Sox 9, Cubs 8 (10 innings) 📷 from 🎥

Mike Johnson: "This is not the time to buy Donald Trump a pair of adult diapers. He has the executive authority to crap in our collective beds and our new project is to clean the linens."

Gotta be one of the shortest comebacks on record in any sport.

The likes of Polis, Fetterman, Jeffries, and Schumer do not understand how angry we all are, or how justice needs to work against these fascists.

Where we are in a nutshell.

Did you see what Kneecap and the Strokes did at successive Coachellas? Have you heard Hayley Williams’ ‘True Believer’ or MUNA’s ‘Big Stick’? Check out Bob Vylan, Chloe Slater, Softcult, CMAT... if you want it, look for it; it’s there, but a machine is working hard to keep it out of your eyeline.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Justice Alito saying that medication abortion undermines their decision in Dobbs is nucking futts. Dobbs SAID it was returning the issue of abortion to the political process / electoral politics. The FDA is part of that - and the FDA decided to make mifepristone available by telemedicine.

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

This is fucking amazing

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

A16z partners Marc Andreessen & Kathryn Boyle are Limited Partners of New Founding’s VC Fund, which is advised by Charles Haywood who says that “racial discrimination…should be 100% legal…” & that “sex discrimination should be not only 100% legal; it should be aggressively expected & demanded…” 1/

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Oh would that INCONVENIENCE him? Might that cause him some ANXIETY, going forward? Another man who thought HE could just disregard other people’s boundaries, but nothing bad would ever be permitted to happen to HIM

In this week's Scratch, @maggiemertens.bsky.social asks why writers remain on Substack—as a user of Substack herself—and interviews three writers who've left the platform for Beehiiv and Ghost. We know how hard Substack makes it to leave; we also think writers should still try do so.

"The audience comes last. I'm not making it for them. I'm making it for me. When you make something truly for yourself, you're making the best thing for the audience." Spot on. In movies, in books, in comics.

The MSM shrugs at every nasty, vile thing Trump says.

Because people were asking, this is what I was referring to

The character of MAGA. Misogyny, evil, violence and cowardice

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha (Analysts at JP Morgan get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this bullshit.)

Happy publication day to the great @sarahgailey.bsky.social ! Excellent person, amazing writer, just the best on all counts. More on their new book Make Me Better here🔥💚 stone-soup.ghost.io/make-me-bett...

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

Trump and his conservative followers hate this country and its ideals.

His obsession with Obama is motivated by his racism, but also his jealousy. Obama is both widely respected by elites and cool—two things that Trump has never been able to attain

OK, this is kind of amazing?

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

I’m a millennial who works in software. I’ve seen the quiet AI backlash and disdain from younger coworkers. It’s quiet because their leadership is wildly zealous about AI and openly objecting to AI would put those young people’s jobs at risk.

Incidentally, much of the HHS focus on gutting “DEI” grants in science was in part a reaction to the success of social epidemiology research by women who demonstrated unequivocally that social determinants are far and away the biggest drivers of health. It really was capitalism and racism all along.