If you need a little pick-me-up, here’s your friendly reminder that tomorrow is Ice Cream For Breakfast Day 🍦 🍨 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cre...

Documented measles cases in the US 2024: 285 2025: 2,276 2026: 730+ (through Feb 6) while new documents obtained by @rcfp.org contradict RFK Jr's testimony to Congress about the purpose of his trip to Samoa amidst a deadly measles outbreak. bsky.app/profile/rcfp...

PLRC member Dr. Copeland has launched a research study on rest, energy, & #MECFS — open to people with ME/CFS & healthcare providers who are currently practicing or conducting research & have had at least 1 patient or participant with ME/CFS. More info: restandmecfs.com

It is February, and I had to open the windows in our house because it is TOO HOT. “Unseasonably warm and sunny” for the next 4 days. 🤬

Cecilia Bartoli and Lang Lang 😍

someone just once please try putting handcuffs on these guys & cooling them in the tank for contempt, just 1 plain Consequence i beg you judges

That Olympics commercial with “Love Will Keep Us Together” reminds me that The Captain & Tennille were judged as being corny and cringey even in the 70s, but… 1) Toni Tennille has an amazing voice, and 2) that song is still great.

Tina and Milo remind me that stoats are deceivingly adorable.

Crazy that the breaking news wasn’t that Trump posted a blatantly racist video but that he actually took it down.

Impulse control comes from the prefrontal cortex. If your frontal lobe is deteriorating, you’re more likely to say aloud (or post) all the things you’ve been advised to keep quiet.

This regime's allergy to competence is both depressing and dangerous

So how about every question from the press is "When will the president apologize for his disgusting racism and also resign?" and they just keep asking that, and only that, till he does both (though I'll be fine with just the latter)?

quote is from Delia Ramirez, just to be clear!

“It is our duty to become the welcoming & tolerant society that our own relatives would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders…Not many governments agree w/regularizing migrants today. But more people do than we often assume” -Spain’s prime minister making the rare pro-immigration case:

Tremors

Everything I Own- Bread

The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.

New life goals: 1. Become bazillionaire 2. Buy whatever displeases me 3. Intentionally tank the things I buy 4. Repeat steps 2-3 in perpetuity… because I can. Do I have this right?

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

They'll scream about how drag queens in libraries reading to little kids is going to collapse civilization while their strings are actively and provably pulled by the literal worst people on Earth. They are worthless, tear-it-down, misery profiteers and scumbag liars.

This thread… 👍 👍 When I was teaching, I taught my students about the process of making amends— that “being sorry” isn’t enough. Owning up to your actions and making things right, whether you’re forgiven or not (!), is where the growth starts. Watching this play out with kids was life-giving!

A comment on this: It's worth letting your MoC whether you think they're useless, whether they are Dems (in which case you may alert them to a resource they were unaware of), or MAGAts (in which case this makes clear they're supporting crime). This is authoritative and timely.

Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit

Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me

A TV show you love with 3 seasons or fewer 📺

ICE stalked an elderly woman who works in homecare for her grandchildren on her way to pay her rent. They stopped her, broke her car window, and roughed her up enough to cause a concussion, bruised ribs, and a torn rotator cuff. Then found her passport in her purse and fled. gofund.me/b7afaa65e

In addition to rent freezes, there should be mental health services provided for all the people who have been targeted, assaulted, abused, and every other atrocity committed by ICE and the DHS.

bring every baby home now

We are killing children all around the world because a handful of rich people who don’t understand the science think it is worse to be neurodivergent than it is to be dead.

I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training. — @andreapitzer.bsky.social

Love to go through footnotes from research I did a year ago and note that fully half of the .gov urls are 404s and often I can't find the material archived elsewhere (other than my own .pdf). The wipeout of knowledge courtesy of the Trump admin is going to reverberate for decades.

The National Association of Black Journalists chapter in Minnesota is calling the arrest of their VP Georgia Fort by the Trump administration a violation of the First Amendment. WATCH: https://loom.ly/ccuWyoc

Time to watch A Mighty Wind and cry.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The entire impetus behind people wanting to ban the HPV vaccine is literally they want people punished for extramarital sex that's it, that's literally it, they want people punished for having sex...with fatal cancers.

Why are there so many dudebros who don’t understand that regular people, you know, just know how to organize and coordinate events? (I mean, I already know why, but…) Book clubs, PTA events, etc. Back in the day, the ladies I knew organized huge chains of Tupperware parties. So many examples.

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

Yes. They also “lost” in Los Angeles last summer and just yesterday they carried out a record number of kidnappings here in the city.

This is so sad. Miss Shirley was such a generous soul and gave so much compassion and kindness to the unhoused community in NV. abc7.com/post/ms-shir...

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party of "no gun control, ever" asserts its public safety priorities

This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D. Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate." I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

how many journalists and editors are being fired to pay salaries the big time health grifters

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

r/AskReddit usually has a pretty even mix of responses across multiple political viewpoints, and often skews somewhat to the right. Not today. Someone asked LEOs and military/veterans their thoughts about what’s happening in Minnesota, and every single post was filled with disgust toward 🧊.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945