the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

Republicans Have completely lost the ability To tell right from wrong. Assuming of course, That they ever did.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Well this is fucking horrifying.

London out here preaching the Light's own Truth.

Salt for the Salt God. 🌈

There is no right way to be a boy or a girl (or whatever in between), and the more you terrify these absolute fascist freak losers, the better. Do not disappear. Be insanely visible. Even if you have to do it from a Finsta. I love you, be good

This site needs a break and so do I. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1) that moment when you unexpectedly run into a friend and their face lights up to see you 2) getting utterly lost in a good story and losing all track of time on a day when time doesn't matter

I've always been vaguely "people deserve rights and safety," but the thing that made me realize trans people come under a special degree of bullshit and needed defending was having a trans coworker crash on my couch after getting kicked out of her housing. And being denied rental, anywhere.

If you play Eve Online imagine taking a hauler (or even a battleship) and pulling up next to a freighter. Imagine trying to fly the freighter manually through an astroid belt without bumping any of them.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Defund billionaires. Seriously. We have a choice. Democracy or billionaires. Take their money.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

My hot writing take about tense and POV is stop blaming YA for why some adult romance readers are demanding first person POV. Deal with your own readers. Stop using YA as a cudgel for everything you think is wrong with adult books.

10/10 take. no notes

Not all the angelic powers are in Heaven, y'know? There are days when God says ro one or another of them, "Hey, it's *your* day to walk with the one who flies the Bat."

If you don’t use alt text, please know you’d be so much cooler and looks smarter if you did

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

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It's not actually #SelfieSunday and this arguably isn't a selfie but I don't care.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

i feel strongly that anyone that thinks that there is a nefarious cabal of surgeons and doctors Transing people should be forced to try and schedule one (1) transsexual procedure

"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"

Ugh, this is so stupid. If we’re going to stop charging the clocks, we should switch to standard time. All of the evidence I have seen says standard time is better for your health. #BC #YVR @davidebybc.bsky.social @bcgovernment.bsky.social news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Fun* fact: Earthsong finished ten years ago! *the fun part is that you get to feel OLD

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

Again, I will be strongly engaged in the primary process for the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2028. But I will support whoever wins, even if it's not my preferred candidate. The stakes are too high to be selfish.

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Once again.

We live in a time where HIV isn’t a death sentence. For some this is an emergency they need rectified, because they think it’ll result in fewer queers

If Scouting America wants to be respected, they need to make amends for the decades of harm they have done to young people of all genders and identities. Resisting Hegseth's fascistic and cynical appropriation of "Reverent" (12th point of the Scout Law) would be a good start. #NoGOP #NoMAGA

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

I dunno about you but I personally don’t want a conservative to ever touch a lever of power again and I *know* that -to them- that means I wish them harm, because they view no longer having power as the worst possible thing that could happen to them.

Question I will ask again, has ANYONE even announced they are running in the Democratic primaries for president? We don’t owe anyone undying support before we even know who all the options are. Grow the fuck up, people.

Just curious how you keep a job as a law prof at a top school after a report concluded that you committed “intentional professional misconduct” by “knowingly fail[ing] to provide a thorough, objective, and candid interpretation of the law,” directly causing torture as a result.

Isn't a judge supposed to know the law? I mean, isn't that the point of having judges in the first place?

a lot of Logistics Guys just don't think a handful of cranky book nerd ladies can be kicking their ass this hard at logistics and like, sorry, but we are. 🤣

Joke answer because I have too many serious answers: The Hills of Tanchico

If our current corrupt Supreme Court Justices had been around in 1776 writing America's constitution, they would have established a hereditary monarchy and today we'd think it normal to be ruled by a king with absolute immunity who'd routinely deploy armed troops in our streets to oppress us.

So many quiet parts out loud these days.

the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Solar, wind power generation, batteries, high speed rail, electric cars and buses, vaccines and other public health technologies, recycling, renewable plastic substitutes, green building technologies, agricultural carbon capture… Honestly, this is a silly question. The list is endless.

Over at Lawfare, I examine the peculiar constitutional theory undergirding OPM's final rule on Schedule Policy/Career

Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.