I also love how this theory is presented as perfectly normal, rather than as clear evidence of mental imbalance. It's like publishing a profile about me that reads, "Stephen Robinson isn't too worried about death because of his longheld theory that he's a Time Lord on his first incarnation."

this is mesmerizing

8) Hearing about all these 13, 14, and 15 year old boys being given muskets and shoved out onto the front lines of battle breaks my heart. I work with teenagers, and I can't even imagine sending them off to battle.

2) "The United States came out of violence." Make this our national motto.

Going to try and get E3 of the Ken Burns American Revolution done tonight. Follow along for my thoughts. 1) I like that we're bearing from women, but so far it's been mostly white affluent or financially secure women.

1b) What's missing so far for me is what life was like for everyone other than white men. Particularly those not directly involved in fighting, supporting the war, or loyalists. How did free Black women feel about the revolution? Do we know? If not, that should be stated.

I would really appreciate it if people didn’t talk about childrens’ body sizes this holiday season! Also spoiler alert children, teens and young adults should be gaining weight!

Last month, the Tule River Indian Tribe purchased 17,000 acres of their ancestral lands where they are reintroducing tule elk. The purchase was partly funded by California’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions Grant, which funds tribal land return projects. www.latimes.com/california/s....

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.

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We did a thing!

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

This man, and all his privilege, gets fast-tracked through the occasional public terminal, and this is the main issue he sees with American air travel. Screw you, bud.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food. The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals. The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.

This is what happened to me. Employers across the board need to be aware of how harassment campaigns work and do better to protect their employees from them. These people should not have a platform to profit off of harassment.

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Here is @katz.theracket.news, sanely explaining why the Epstein case matters a lot (pace David #$*&@#)(*$ Brooks) The chaos and noise all around makes it real hard to focus on the obvious, which is why everyone needs real journalists like @katz.theracket.news theracket.news/p/why-the-ep...

“Once, after the group bought out a tamale vendor’s cart, that man found them days later to say immigration agents were spotted on his block just hours after. ‘You saved my life,’ Rosales said the man told them.” apnews.com/article/chic...

A movie that takes place where you’re from ✨

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

Genius

IT'S BEEN

We are experiencing the Jared Kushner-JD Vance-Peter Thiel Foreign Policy. Good times.

Baby, ah baby, ah baby Why do ya do that to me, I got to know… Gonna be the kinda lover that you never had Hey you’re just too funky…

The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Anyone want some good news? The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is nearly done and it’s pretty awesome apple.news/A7yad9o6US72...

Something extremely strange is going on. US officials appear to be both confirming and denying that the 28 point Peace (Ukraine capitulation) Plan is a US plan. I smell back-pedalling from a monumental fuck-up, or just a monumental fuck-up.

If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

The whirr as Mary's shiv starts to vibrate with her fury is audible across all space and time. PINHEAD is hiding. That's how bad it is.

After a cascade of bird flu cases drove egg prices to record highs, ProPublica reporter @natlash.bsky.social unraveled the outbreak and revealed major flaws in how we combat the disease:

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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked

You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

Women have always been able to falsely accuse men of rape, just as we have always been able to truthfully accuse men of rape. The difference is that we were so unequal that our accusations didn't matter unless men chose to treat them as if they mattered.

Buckle up because I'm going to say more shit that you don't like. The whole "has MeToo gone too far?" and the hysteria/moral panic over the potential for false rape allegations all boils down to terror of women being able to speak freely. It is absolute terror at the specter of equality.

Yeah, that’s literally how they work

Regardless of contrary propaganda, I see lots of American patriots out there.

it makes a lot of sense that my employer and i pay anthem over $30k a year for my family's shitty health insurance instead of me paying a 10% payroll tax for a single payer system

They're only doing this because they don't respect female dominated professions as an FYI.

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If anyone works at CDC and wants to talk about the CDC now promoting the idea that vaccines might cause autism, my signal is emgarcia.85. I will protect your identity.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

oh man.

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You don't have to remain silent to maintain your journalistic professionalism. Any decent human could jump in with "Hey, that's uncalled for" etc. and still be considered a professional in my book.