It's so fucking sad how universal and constant this experience is for us. It took me decades to understand why everyone was always getting angry at me for asking clarifying questions. It's such a frustrating and confusing experience to constantly have.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

I'm A Fucking Moron Who Did An Incredibly Stupid Thing

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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I've been trying to find more poems by Renee Good, the woman murdered by ICE. This seems to be the only one floating around, and it's quite good www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

Patriotism is not always good. But there is some shit about Americans that I think will eventually make the occupation impossible. I think these nazi fucks got it all wrong if they think a country of stubborn, loud, proud individualists are gonna bend the knee to the King's Royal Fuckheads

humiliating, evil, insane, and stupid. you can only pick four

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

they should invent a sleep that's Easy

I pay money for Ground News, but sometimes it serves me up something that's completely indecipherable. What kind of local news is this. How do any of these words possibly make sense to be strung together like this. I don't believe that this is news. I don't believe that this is anything.

8000 verbal assaults. And due to training issues, ICE recruits are not being given time to watch Bojack Horseman, so they have no idea how to handle trauma. We must increase funding

They had to combine millennials and Gen Z so it wouldn't look as distressing. We basically don't have any money.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen

99% chance this is what they mean

Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made

If you are a good person, it is good that you are alive. Your life fills this world with air worth breathing. You are like the sound of wind through trees whose noise is more peaceful than quiet. Your life is kind, in a cruel world. It is good you are alive.

There is no mutual understanding to be attained. What, we're going to DEBATE over whether nazis can shoot you in your car? What is this horseshit? I'm supposed to agree to disagree about the evidence of my eyes and ears?

once again we are all tapping the sign

"what do you expect democrats to do" idk start throwing punches? figure it out

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

Hard not to feel a creeping gnawing terror at the headlines of every news station video being so deeply pro-war. Every single outlet framing this as a victory somehow. Triumphant. What planet are we on? Are we supposed to stomach this? Where is reality?

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

I'm getting mixed messages about what is okay to do to presidents

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

To sum up, a US president is going to war without congressional authorization against a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened it, and is doing so like a thief in the night, with no explanation for the American people or the world. It is all so unimaginable that it strains credulity.

"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words." - Sartre

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

You gotta wonder what an opposition party would say in a situation like this

Me: admitted to the ER with a heart rate of 39 Me, very seriously: "What if I'm faking it for attention?"

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it

Beautifully stated, and it reminds me of a silly quote I love. "Anything you could ever want is just on the other side of cringe mountain"

Dorian Gray putting this in his attic so it meows instead of him

An extremely mild virus sent me to the ER in an ambulance last week. Some of us actually need to avoid getting sick in order to survive. I guess he thinks that's, what, kind of annoying? Annoying for him to be visually reminded of? I'll personally apologize to him for looking annoying if he wants.

What's the big horrible consequence of the extremely vague advice of "you should put yourself first" if it's given in a presumably valid context by a professional? What are we saying would be so bad for everyone if someone you don't like hears this advice in therapy?

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the MOST dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with OVER 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed STRONG antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.