you can cheer when the rats flee the ship, but you do not need to invite the rats over to your ship. the rats are icky. let those fuckers swim

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

WHY DOESN’T *EVERYBODY* SEE HOW FUCKING WEIRD THIS IS?!?

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

RUTHERFORD COUNTY: “Her whole focus is regaining custody of her daughter.” Woman gives birth in custody, ICE separates from her baby for 35 days even after all charges dropped - locked up in Louisiana while her newborn is in state custody in Tennessee.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

I frew up

Thinking of this photo of Carl & Rob Reiner at dinner that went viral a few years ago. May their memory be a blessing. ❤️❤️❤️

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

WATCH — CBS News(max) host Marg Brennan asks a clearly planted question to sew doubt about the abortion drug Mifepristone, sounding every bit like a right-wing anti-abortion mouthpiece under the new Bari Weiss regime

Stonington Lobster Trap Tree!

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

BREAKING: John Cena has retired from professional wrestling after learning, to his disgust, that the sport was rigged

The RFK, jr effect.

DOJ announces that they just need Kilmar Abrego Garcia to come into an ICE facility to fill out some paperwork for a gift card

"Hi, we're the Jedi. We kidnap children as young as three to train them for combat based on an unappealable blood test we alone administer and interpret. The children are raised not only without love but taught that love is a bad thing and sometimes they become super-Hitler haha. We're the heroes!"

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed. A pox on all of their houses.

Vanity Fair to part ways with journalist Olivia Nuzzi

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Knight First Amendment Institute's Carrie DeCell: "This policy is incoherent and unconstitutional."

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

It's Small Business Saturday, so it's time to hype my stuff 😎 I’m Daniel, a product designer and jewelry artist inspired by space exploration and science ✨ My products range from socks to ornaments to jewelry. High quality because science deserves to be celebrated! 🔗 sciencesocks.com 🐡🧪🎨

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

Just my yearly reminder friends. Be kind to us retail workers. Sh**ts about to get real and we’re already VERY tired.

The original Zork I-III are now open source. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Jimmy Kimmel to Trump tonight: "I'll go when you go, okay? We'll be a team. Let's ride off into the sunset together like butch Cassidy and the suntan kid. [ Laughter ] And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you: 'quiet, piggy.'"

If you have any information about Roxanne Leadbeater, or the circumstances surrounding her death, contact Cold Case Detective Byron Kastilahn at (970) 400-2827 or [email protected]

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Here’s the best I could do at summarizing the indictment debacle. It’s complicated! bsky.app/profile/anna...

Today’s badass award goes to Mary Bruce 🏆 THIS is how journalism is done right!! ✊🏻✊🏿✊✊🏾✊🏼

MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Happy Cloudflare Outage-mas! It’s one of our favorite holidays over here on Bluesky. On this day, we should remind you that almost 20% of the internet uses Cloudflare, despite years of reporting covering their platforming of white supremacists. Maybe it shouldn’t have such a large market share?

CONFIRMED sabotage on Poland's strategic Warsaw-Lublin-Ukraine railway line. An explosive device destroyed approximately one meter of rail. Local residents reported hearing an explosion around 10 PM the previous evening.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

The photos are a delight; the captions, delicious.