Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of nicknames I have for my dog, my favorite has got to be Bilbo Beggins.

The series on cancer comes from contributors with deeply personal connections to the disease. Some are living with cancer, others have lost friends, and a few have survived it themselves. During our reporting, we lost two contributors. One to cancer and another to complications after surviving it.

holy lord

Ah yes. My delicatessen chicken. $4.99 from Costco. Gives a 2-person household at least 4 meals worth, plus bones for stock/soups for another 3 meals. Much luxury. Très extravagant.

It's Sex Ed Week of Action! Comprehensive, inclusive, and medically-accurate sex ed builds so much more than knowledge. It builds a safer world with happier and healthier humans! Plug in by following @siecus.bsky.social for some stellar legislation trackers to take action #sexedsaveslives

Being a professor in 2026 is authentically responding to a student's curiosity and attempts to connect what we're learning in class to the complexities of their own life, while always assuming that anything you say or write is being recorded and could be sent to politicians and/or other groups.

I'm obvs not a New Yorker but I do think accessibility is an important thing the NYC Mayor's Office should be leading on, so I told them so. They probably weigh Ideas and Suggestions from NYC residents more, if you're so inclined. Scroll down here for the form: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Evergreen.

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

i wrote about the pup-opticon

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

I mean, am I a curmudgeon, or is this not clearly about viewership and revenue? Whether you're hate-watching, but love 🏈, or tuning in to the TBI show for the first time in a long time to see Billie say "fuck 🧊" live, they at least think they're going to have a huge return on ad investment. No?

ok time to be done with the Scott Horton account

Big news from Virginia last night: Dems unveiled their 10-1 congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states. It targets 4 Republicans & has 10 Harris seats. It would be used in 2026 if a referendum passes on April 21. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/20e0049...

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

Bad Bunny and Sir Ian McKellen and Anoushka Shankar all reminding us this week, in very different ways, just how important art is for a progressive future.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Some other wonderful Hadith along the same lines; the pairing of both neighbor and guest has the sense of encompassing everyone you might meet- every other person is either a neighbor or guest, and God brings all of them to you to see if you will treat them as God commands

This is so good to see!! Especially since there's a recent history of athletes getting COVID at events such as these and... you know... not doing so great afterward.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

My new response for anytime someone answers with any chatbot garbage.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

Gil Scott-Heron said/sang it best.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

#A2Council as folks at Michigan Medicine get some dire guidance from the institution on dealing with ICE... I'm reminding folks that @interruptcrim.bsky.social has compiled the Beyond Do No Harm toolkit, a number of tools and resources for keeping your patients and communities safe.

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What a list from @mayascade.bsky.social for the @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social! blackfilmarchive.substack.com/p/28-films-f...

At some point we will just deal with the fact that part of this is post separation abuse . They are punishing the victims for trying to “leave” the circle of silence . They know the way the victims were treated is shameful and they want to transfer that shame

A data-driven mosaic of our warming planet - now updated through 2025 🥵 Download graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18 reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011 all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful

On the job, and potentially off, as well. Spillover violence--particularly "officer-involved domestic violence"--is a widely known problem in many circles, but terribly difficult to study/address. There have been a few recent murder cases in the headlines, but who knows how many swept under...

Tonight is the priority deadline! We welcome submissions that are research-oriented (basic, applied, clinical, translational, humanistic, theoretical, etc.), real-world/community-oriented, and/or based in lived experience. No limits to disciplinary or topical focus area! tinyurl.com/HSKSymposium

Wear a mask (many benefits when you might be gassed, sprayed, or surrounded by COVID) and sunglasses. Park far away if you can. Buy a cheap un-smart phone off ebay, and leave the other at home. If it's filming you want to do, and you have the means, attach an (e.g.) go-pro to your body, no wifi.

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

From me: Chuck Schumer's legislative demands for DHS funding are so narrow they almost mirror what ICE/CBP have just announced in Minneapolis. Just as Republicans were conceding the need to negotiate, Democrats pre-negotiated themselves into mush. prospect.org/2026/01/29/c...

Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

Wonder if Batya Ungar-Sargon know what slanderous names the Nazis called Jews, but for those of you that don’t know, it often mirrored ‘illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers’. There was even a name for it: the lust libel fathomjournal.org/the-lust-lib...

In support of the student unions and campus organizations in Minneapolis, I will be withholding all labor and spending on Friday. Will you? popularresistance.org/minneapolis-...

If a non-citizen neighbor gets kidnapped by ICE, you supposedly have about 4-5 hours to file a habeas petition in Minnesota to prevent ICE from shipping people to Texas. They are moving people that quickly regardless of whether or not they have legal status.

If you admire Minnesotans and are worried about this kind of violence coming to your community, the best way to prepare is to start building networks. Get to know your neighbours. abolitionschool.org

"What MAHA produces is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project. The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem. It’s a power problem." Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social