Boy if I were a fly on the wall & saw what went on at this thing. Rand Paul gave a talk titled “Why Isn’t Tony Fauci in Prison?” A pediatrician spoke about controlling inflammation in kids by preventing their exposure to vaccines, tap water & bad vibes. 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...

“If you were that sick you would be dead.” “If it were that bad you would get help.” “If you can post on social media you’re fine”. Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

1/8 Tonight’s Right Wing outrage cycle was not about listing enemies. It was about teaching followers that democracy itself cannot keep the country safe. When every branch is framed as compromised, emergency power becomes the “only answer.” 11/24/25 PM #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #DV1 #USDemocracy

Something to keep in mind. Have a wonderful week! 💞💖💞 #Pinks

I’m not sure I’ll bring myself to watch this new documentary Thoughts and Prayers on HBO about the active shooter preparedness industry. But just this clip shows how twisted we’ve let our society get. What we’ve done to our kids. It’s absolutely unacceptable. Gun reform, NOW!

Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

actually it's worse than i thought. that ehrc guidance means that any woman in the country, cis or trans, can be discriminated against and the proprietor or employer can deflect any legal woes by saying 'well, i mean, i thought she was a tranny' @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is legalising sexism

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

the deaths Musk has caused have had no bearing on his personal standing. It is ghastly to contemplate that no one in the press interrupts his latest announcement about some new waifu robot to ask “what about the children you took food and medicine away from?”

It is sad, but not surprising, that the president of Mexico is wasting her time on frivolous matters like suing the man who groped her. by Andrew Cuomo

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

How to answer a loaded question. (This is Joe Neguse, Congressman for Colorado's 2nd District.)

A regular reminder that congressional Republicans can put country over party anytime they want but choose not to.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

an unusually vivid illustration of the fact that anti porn laws are fascist and authoritarian.

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SHE HAS A NAME

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

A single @votersoftomorrow.org college chapter registered 450 voters last week, but hey, congrats to TurningPoint for their impressive 3 new voters!

Imagine your stalker, or your daughter's abusive ex, or basically anyone who can buy a list of passwords on the dark web, being able to use one app to get all this information, beautifully joined up for them. We live in a digital age and need to adapt. By using a password manager. For fuck's sake.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Not at all surprised about Harris, just disappointed.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

In London, hate will never win.

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None of those victims had family members; not in the way that we're told to understand Charlie Kirk had family members. Nobody was admonished that political violence is never appropriate. No, proclamations of their deaths were opened with thoughts and prayers and closed with nothing else.

We live in a world where gun massacres are easy, plentiful, and inevitable. We live in that world against our will because of Charlie Kirk and people like him, who demand it as a core tenet of their personal freedom. Don't take my word for it, though. For proof we can go directly to Charlie Kirk.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

so something absolutely wild happened here in April: we were visited by Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. (short thread)

‘I thought, I can’t keep living with this shame’: five life models on the power of posing nude

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One month apart.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

A bundle of joy named Iris, located in Franklinville, NJ. Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/iris-77757082/nj/franklinville/the-oasis-animal-sanctuary-inc-nj289/

As always, I think the discussion gets much clearer if we drop the term "AI" and talk instead in terms of clear descriptions of what's being automated. The tech in question here is synthetic text extruding machines.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

And you'll note that they never spend time going after Republicans for all of the weird conceptual language Republicans use. E.g., "helpmeet" is just fucking weird. It shouldn't be solely the job of the left to do this.

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