My latest on how the Obamacare subsidies at the center of the government shutdown also impact hospitals' resilience to climate change. www.eenews.net/articles/hos...

best ending of all time, let's be real

human-level intelligence is already here! it's called humans

this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!

the legacy of Elon Musk and Russell Vought and the deranged, sadistic edgelord tweens to whom they handed over critical institutions

I spit on the reputation of the U.S. Supreme Court, not that it can get much more degraded than it has already become by the repulsive actions of its disgusting GOP members. You can hear the transphobic sneer in these words.

the only thing Elon Musk should have exactly a trillion of is oxygen atoms

They really hate mass transit. Even if driverless cars lived up to everything they promised... they're still fucking expensive.

has anyone considered introducing the President to one of those weird little phone games where you get to redecorate a house?

it's weird that the government requires gender identification on passports at all, and wilder for them to claim to know what it should be better than the passport-holder! this is so purely punitive

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

even now antifa is emboldened and arming themselves

excellent, infuriating reporting

Man, unions of journalists are important, especially in hypothetical circumstances in which a large ownership groups owns a large number of publications across similar topical terrain and therefore has a disproportionate amount of control over a key piece of the journalistic workforce.

Do I believe those at the top at ICE/DHS/BP are going to willingly & consistently change how their foot soldiers operate in Chi (& elsewhere) after this ruling? Not really. But it may help lay the groundwork for LESS violence, MORE consequences. I v much hope blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/06/h...

if only Silicon Valley and its financiers could put half the thought and resources into *anything* that they put into “come up with new ways to be racist while pretending not to be”

there it is!

there's definitely an essay in this, about how this entire generation of right wingers have spent their entire career smashing the drywall and kicking the legs out from under polite society, seemingly so sheltered that they honestly never considered that it might end up affecting them too

Would be nice is some journalists out there who are covering this ask the politicians such as Ted Cruz and others who are so outraged why they are only pushing back against anti-Semitism while we see the largest attack on civil rights in a century.

KLOMP is a great onomatopoeia as well

I'm continually surprised how many smart people will just casually drop a reference to evolutionary psychology in their work somewhere, or in a lecture, and they just immediately drop several points of credibility for me

meme template potential

all thanks to the innovations and build-out that Trump is cancelling and undermining at every opportunity

Network media and big papers caping for and capitulating to this administration has so much to do with their deep-held belief that all Americans are fucking stupid. They're siding with the guy who says "Gas is $2 and groceries are cheap" as if we're not paying for gas and groceries

this administration is lying constantly to justify the indefensible and the unconstitutional and it's good when federal judges feel able to say so

cat break!

say what you will about the tenets of normative masculinity, I don’t have much time for em myself, but really, anything these people say about it can be hurled straight into the trash

nope! which is entirely my point! you actually need a form of countervailing power in order to get to the world she wants! but that would entail women engaging in both an economic/political struggle

We *know* shockingly little about prehistory—we *speculate* about it, in ways that tend to reaffirm our own assumptions and biases, and then these speculations become sage wisdom about human nature, but only to the exact extent that they assert that women evolved to make sandwiches.

i try not to be smug about this...it takes un-learning because we're all swimming in the norms we grow up in, but also, whether it's in a workplace or dating or whatever, but not being able to get along with or relate to women as a cishet man is a skill issue

Volunteer to take notes, do a bit of office cleaning, and like don’t speak over people and you’re practically getting adopted.

It’s such a tell too that what they mean by “dependency” is really submission to authority. I’m a cis man and I’m absolutely dependent on others; it’s inescapable. I can’t grow my own food or build a house on my own or whatever. But that’s just being human.

"Fighting is a better, more constructive, and more actionable impulse than agonizing over how every deed and utterance affects public perception of the national party." - @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/the-scourg...

the initial point here - that we’re forced to work around the edges of data and look at partial sources and make inferences, because we’re not getting as much from the government - is a really important dynamic

Conservative media is just a huge project of making it more thinkable for more classes of people to be demeaned, exploited, and disempowered by the actual elites in society.

“Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.🚨🚨🚨

i’m old enough to remember when the threat of this ENDED the long trump shutdown (2018-2019)

Incredible how we have not learned fucking shit

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

the absolute carnival of these times we live in!!

building housing near where people work and hang out is climate action. helping people fix up their houses is climate action. deploying public transit is climate action. making downtowns more useful and accessible and fun is climate action. etc.

the gall of these people

Yeah in 2009 all the big banks made a bad bet on sub prime mortgages and nearly collapsed the US economy, but a government bailout saved them. This wasn't that long ago, Axios.

This, I think, holds up pretty well! www.findinggravity.net/you-would-no...

i really can't come up with an alternative explanation for this that isn't "the president is old and easily confused about where he is"

people get so attached to their idea of how things are supposed to work

No one will believe us when we tell this story in 20 years

and his open corruption, don't forget the open corruption!

Whoever I read or hear about a conservative politician campaigning on “family values”, I just know their personal life is an as-yet unwritten Netflix series.