Someone please go get auntie off X. They do not deserve her.

Cancun Ted over here argued that “partisanship is inherent and permissible in the districting process” in an amicus brief he filed with the Supreme Court in the Texas redistricting case last September. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.

lmao NBC is doing takedown requests for videos of JD Vance Getting boo'd at the Olympics

but can’t get financial aid if parents refuse to cooperate; who can be raped by that same parent who will likely never go to trial, but will be charged as an adult if the child uses violence to defend themself from their familial abuser. No, these people don’t believe children are people.

these awful people believe a child can be groomed & married at her parents’ will, but cannot initiate a divorce; a child is mature enough to be forced to carry a pregnancy but not mature enough to know they’re not ready; a child can be signed up by their parents for lifelong, non-dischargeable debt—

What did possess him. This is such a good question.

It would be pretty cool if a monarchy or two were made defunct over the Epstein files. Not my lane, obviously. But Norway, UK, etc.? You have the opportunity to do the coolest fucking thing right now.

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

4: They were blocking erotica from distribution LONG before they bought out Smashwords to shut down the last big indie storefront selling it, and LONG before payment processors started kicking off once Trump returned to power. 5: Of course I bear receipts, what do you take me for?! ⬇️

A'ight kids, it's time for a thread giving you the lowdown on Draft2Digital. 1: They were founded by right-wing Xtians. 2: They donate masses of cash to their church and missions. 3: They view ROMANCE and EROTICA as the same thing, *and* as "dangerous". ⬇️

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Getting the shit beat out of you by a prostitute in a Miami Beach hotel room certainly has "Republican values" written all over it.

“[I] am in the newly formed board of advisors of scientific american,” wrote Nowak, a mathematician at Harvard University and a now former member of Scientific American’s board, in an e-mail to Epstein on September 23, 2009. “It seems almost everyone there is a friend of yours.” Bro what

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

Thank goodness national flags are never political symbols.

Can’t wait for @schumer.senate.gov to bungle this opportunity to free Americans of the tyranny of Trump and Miller’s DHS. Instead of letting it shut down he will announce some deal full of concessions to MAGA that saves DHS funding as a win, & we’ll all hate him even more than we did the day before

States including Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma are considering joining the handful of others that ban nondisclosure agreements from being used in civil settlements that involve child sexual abuse cases.

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Just remember everyone. He has to have it not happen every day, we only have to have it happen once.

Masks off: GOP FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor, who is now running for Congress, admits he “protected” Donald Trump from campaign finance investigations out of “loyalty” x.com/baylisswagne...

Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

Legislators have tried since 2011 to change Massachusetts’ 15-year statute of limitations for rape — one of the shortest windows in the nation. The governor’s proposal would eliminate the deadline to prosecute rape when there’s a DNA match. With @wbur.org

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Remember in November, when Mark Wolf announced his retirement from the federal bench in The Atlantic saying he needed to speak out about Trump's assault on the rule of law? That may not *quite* be the sole reason why he resigned. He was facing a misconduct inquiry for creating a hostile workplace.

I mean!!!!

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

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This doesn't say disemboweled and I don't know why

When they lose public sentiment they go to racism . Every single time

Also same media components - rise of mythology and Orientalism - mass realignement of comms networks - sexual disregulation obscured by purity - adjustments of racial orders

but he is is a cockwomble, we should say it

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

This is why higher ed complied in advance with getting rid of DEI. They didn’t want the Black people or the programs. They didn’t want to talk or hear about white supremacy. They didn’t want students protesting against genocide. They had the money but didn’t want the ideas.

We're taught at an early age that vulnerability is a weakness. So we push everyone away when we're going through it. Then we get mean because we internalize the struggle instead of doing the healthy thing and properly processing it. It's a lot to unlearn. But we can do it. And we'll be better off.

I encourage people to read through the transcript with this context in mind. A further thought. Even if (IF) she sincerely believed that she was resisting evil from within, the transcript makes clear why she was naive. The judge‘s responses to her efforts to blame the system are worth studying.

When POC rely on oral traditions they're backwards When white people do it they're enlightened

There's two main reasons there's a segment of society against UBI 1. THOSE people, CERTAIN people will get FREE THINGS!!!! THAT I AM PAYING FOR!!!! This thinking is wrong and bad. If one truly believes that...more money is being spent on all the other bullshit that doesn't help. 2. Divorce.

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

Minnesota has now been turned into a war zone by a federal government that has lost sight of the values that make America great. We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.

Name them shame them

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

These are the types of letters Hank Aaron used to receive along with death threats, as he closed in on Babe Ruth’s home run record. How he was able to still focus & play is amazing to me. Remembering Hank Aaron on his birthday (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)💙🕊⚾️

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, @khoureld.bsky.social's most recent bylined article (she is now listed as a correspondent) was about how young Kenyans were tricked to fight for Russia in their ongoing invasion of Ukraine. But the Post's Ukraine Bureau Chief and Correspondent also got laid off yesterday:

When you kick a pirate in the crotch