Also points to a culture that doesn’t prepare people for rejection or failure and no framework for handling it in a healthy way. Which also explains a lot.

In these visible and prestigious fields, a plurality...majority(?) of white people are walking around convinced they’ve been cheated by a Black person somewhere.

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

In a stunning blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, four GOP lawmakers have agreed to back a Democratic push to extend pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies. https://cnn.it/48HCNwa

Secular AZ will fight this every step of the way. Make sure you get our Action Alerts; we make it easy for you to speak up and speak out about bills that privilege religion. secularaz.org/about-secula...

An Arizona Republican just introduced a bill forcing Creationism in science class. (Seriously.) He says it's not based on evidence, just "what I know in my heart is true." That’s not how science works. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/an-arizona...

they know people are going to die, but more importantly they know people are (hopefully) going to finally hold them accountable for being corrupt zealots next year self-preservation for these soulless little shits is kicking in

We’re going sicko mode (trying not to get sick but hopefully not going bankrupt if something happens even though we live in the richest country)

Let’s gooooooo (hopefully not go bankrupt to buy health insurance even though we live in the richest country in the history of the world and are spending a billion dollars on a ballroom)

That guy who wrote that thing that got pubbed today really can't stop taking L's It's like Reuters and the Guardian are conspiring to tell him, "it's not that you're white - it's that you're mid"

NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Not good.

Reminder that, as the current federal administration has shown, vast-majority-white spaces are artificial, and defended/enforced. Stats like this don't Just Happen.

While the media chums it up with Greene, reminder that she has a bill going before the House today to make it a *federal crime* to provide or advocate for healthcare for trans youth.

“Rekeya Frazier is the sister of Darnella Frazier, who as a teenager in 2020 recorded the bystander video of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police.” www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I wrote about Benny Johnson, a documented plagiarist who’s become something like MAGA’s content creator in chief: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New Data shows at least 3,800 children, including infants, have been put in detention since Trump took office. Many were held for long stretches. “There is no other way to describe it; it’s a jail for children," one parent said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

$1000 goal for Dec. (higher if no SNAP payout) We're a family of 5: 2 adults, 3 kids, w/2 cats in need of financial assistance. My husband got laid off in June & unemployment benefits ran out. No luck finding a new job. I am disabled & can't work. $/Venmo: $SickBayCaitlin PayPal thru Ko-fi link:

I guess the city of Page, AZ, is selling some land for a data center to be built. Right next to the famous Horseshoe Bend! The townspeople are trying to fight it, but not succeeding. Can we draw more attention to this? www.reddit.com/r/arizona/s/...

Opinion from Mark McCormick: Family of Kansas man shot by police refiles lawsuit against Topeka, criticizes lack of reform #ksleg

I am BEGGING you all to stop sharing that bullshit Compact Mag piece on the white dude who didn’t get hired by Brown because he was too RETVRN about the Roman military. The writer is a full time ticket scalper who has one beat: white-man grievance. $20 says the whole article is a work of fiction.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

I'm sure a coddling profile in Politico or Vanity Fair about how Bari Weiss is a misunderstood genius will come along any day now to keep her brunchlord balloon afloat

I can't believe efforts by a right wing contrarian engagement troll to create a fake university that coddles right wing ideology isn't going well I'm sure her efforts to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda mill will go great though Keep your chin up, champ

The richest man in the world bragging about starving people to death sounds like a plot from an over-the-top dystopian movie but that's what happened

The student they're targeting is a queer Palestinian student. It's all over X and they are spreading baseless lies he committed the shooting and conspiracy theories that Brown and Providence police are in on it to cover it up.

so like, i’m aware that it’s not a done deal that all dems vote no on this bill flooding folks’ offices with calls tomorrow is probably a good idea if you care about the trans folks in your life

Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers

Frankly, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, it’s complete bullshit that you’re hitting me up for money when you just voted to advance a bill that dehumanizes trans kids like mine.

This isn’t even all of the AIDS quilt. It was so long they didn’t have room to display it all. Reagan flat out fucking murdered queer people

Just asking for the class, was that *before* or *after* he condemned an entire generation to die horribly from AIDS while he obliterated all the union protections that kept the rich from exploiting everyone? I’ll hang up and listen.

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

very interesting that the guy who wrote the “i can’t find a job because i’m white” piece zeroed in on me as responsible for the negative response on bluesky, despite the fact that i wrote a single post about the piece well after the discourse had started.

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

if your rep voted yes on this, they’re a nazi pedophile & that shouldn’t be a partisan concern — it should be everyone’s fucking concern & the world would be a better place if these sort of weird creeps ceased existing

fwiw, we can absolutely primary house members a lot sooner & this *should* be career ruining for anyone who voted in favor of this twisted shit they’re creating these bills with immigrant and/or trans minors first to develop a permission structure to violate everyone’s children

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

Dropping this the same day as the sad white guy essay is diabolical work from Reuters and I salute it.

listen i know there's a lot going on but the weird right-wing libertarian couple that works with the AZ-GOP got married and i've been laughing at the 3-foot tall "fire tyrants" gold top hat and "taxation is theft" train with accompanying cake and thought maybe y'all could enjoy a chuckle too

At least chlamydia won't expose teens to white nationalist propaganda?

I hate these people with all my heart , but the fact that they don’t look that different in make up from the people of the orgs. who claim to fight them … should give us pause

Counterpoint: this piece by @andreagrimes.com about being scolded over the so-called 'family estrangement crisis':

they keep emphasizing that these are on "known narcotrafficking routes" and like, those are just route-routes. there are not special ocean highways for drugs.

Chemophobia is such a problem and it keeps getting worse. Most of the time it’s also this obviously unjustified and incorrect. We really need to teach the basic sciences in this country.