The United Nations believes it has solved the mystery of why an escalator abruptly stopped shortly after Trump stepped onto it on Tuesday - his videographer may have accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

Would have been fascinating to see the Secret Service shoot a WH staffer on live TV. (And by fascinating, I mean grim and gruesome. But also since this is just a fever dream by Cerno, utterly unlikely).

Health Canada put out an alert regarding acetaminophen in pregnancy… reassuring pregnant people that it’s safe and that untreated fever can harm a developing fetus. Feel free to save the link to send to anyone who’s scared after Trump’s ridiculous autism announcement:

its interesting how everyone who harassed & denounced others for defending free expression of sexuality via fiction in 2018/19 is now like “actually freaks are good uwu” yet none seem brave/self-aware enough to say “holy shit i was promoting fascist ideology & i helped create a very serious problem”

As someone who was "cancelled" in 2019 for defending free expression of sexuality via fiction, this has been incredibly exhausting. I feel no joy in having been right, just tired that it took so long for others to catch up, and tireder still that people still have "except that" as a caveat even now.

#OtD 24 Sep 1883 during his Address to the National Convention of Colored Men in Kentucky, Frederick Douglass criticised trade unions that refused to organise Black workers. But most unions continued to be whites-only, with exceptions like the @IWW. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9696...

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imagine being one of the losers at these networks who keeps caving to his demands and then he's literally like "lol last time I shook 'em down they licked my boots for a week, let's see what else I can get them to do" like aren't you. embarrassed. at all

Another case of “techno-optimist offsets”: i.e. it’s fine for AI to drive up emissions today cause it’ll fix everything in the future.

all the people i've followed for years are all getting jobs nowadays

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Perhaps controversial, but I don't think you get to come for someone's job like this and then smol bean your way into anonymity because you're scared. You play big kid games, you get big kid consequences.

He launched a more powerful defense of journalism than the vast majority of mainstream journalists have and that's an indictment of them.

The thing Kimmel did best is emphasize this wasn't just the principle of the matter in his one case, as if it was an isolated incident. It's part of Trump's broader system-wide attack on free speech. He noted both Colbert and Fallon, but also the attacks on journalists, the extortion lawsuits, etc.

During the 2012 rapture, I was speaking at a skeptic conference in Oakland A minor earthquake happened during one of the talks Let me tell you, I have never seen a room full of atheists so nervous 🤣

Today I heard the words that no chronically ill person should ever have to hear… “You’re not getting better fast enough” Please don’t say this to the disabled person in your life Many of us aren’t going to get better Help isn’t coming Our conditions are chronic Don’t guilt us for being sick

I don't like him but it's good he is speaking about this on national television.

pre-tired of any piece that's like "hey guys, finally figured out the specific moral route to correct fiction consumption! yes... it looks like just shitting on romance novelists again for the thousandth time... but trust me, these are Bad romance novelists"

Once a journalist could reasonably print "the president wants to do X" because someone in the white house said so. That's not true anymore. The president isn't frustrated with autism. He's a key figure in an anti-science death cult that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

New from me in @thetriibe.com. We need to see the terrorism label for what it is: a highly effective rhetorical weapon that serves to delegitimize criticism, persecute political opponents and consolidate power.

When press pool acquired for more info on tonight's reception hosted by DJT at a hotel.. White House official shared this about the reception: "145 world leaders and spouses are lined up - some for hours - to get a picture with POTUS and FLOTUS."

Well. This was important back in March and it is important again this week and next. There is likely going to be a shutdown. What will Schumer ask for?!!?! What are his demands? Because he is going to have to stand up for them.

The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

“The history and tradition of monarchy and imperialism that gave birth to our once great nation…”

This got taken down from Tik Tok seconds after I posted. 🤔

I definitely think Sinclair and Nexstar made this return an even bigger deal by trying to limit access. They make Trump look even weaker — and their decision more brazenly political.

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

As I was saying…

Follow-up: Please also share with friends & family. 📞 State Dept Emergency: +1 (202) 647-4000 ✉️ [email protected] 📢 Call your Senators & Representative: tell them Americans are under attack on the Global SUMUD flotilla. #GlobalSUMUD #FreePalestine

Smarter people than me can write an essay or dissertation on the fact that fascism bans & burns the very media/books that women like this think somehow cause fascism but to put it simply, the movie that romanticized kylo ren the most was the movie that fascists had a gamergate-esk meltdown over

'Socialism' for the elites, capitalism and authoritarianism for everyone else.

In response to ICE targeting Chicago, locals are targeting bottlenecks in ICE operations, leading to clashes at the Broadview ICE facility last Friday. In this report, participants in the blockades recount their experiences and share their preliminary conclusions. crimethinc.com/ChicagoBroad...

It would be great if all those states that just recognized Palestine sent an armed escort to protect the Freedom Flotilla that's being targeted by Israeli drones.

As the psychiatric units of nonprofit hospitals close (likely increasingly given hospitals’ worsened financial strains under OBBBA), we’ll see the growing dominance of these deeply problematic for-profit behavioral health centers. (See, e.g., Universal Health Services, rife with DOJ investigations)

In the wake of last night's Maddow back-and-forth with Harris, I'm seeing some folks asking why why someone like Harris is being pressured to take positions on Mamdani, a candidate for local office. The answer is pretty simple.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

Update: Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked starting around midnight as it sailed south of Crete early Wednesday morning, with initial reports of 15 drones above Alma. At least 8 attacks and 6 explosions have been reported. An unidentified chemical device was poured onto Yulara via a capsule that...

A ninth explosion reported near Huga.

Release the files and impeach him.

Trump’s family has doubled its worth, with Trump experiencing “the most lucrative year of his life” thanks mostly to crypto. The American people are sick and tired of fighting to survive while billionaires get richer. Join us for the next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

People be so off base whenever they assume that all of blue states are bastions of liberalism and open mindedness. Like Stephen miller, Nixon, and Reagan are/were all from California. Go 50 miles outside of most major cities you might as well be in Mississippi.

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

btw: THIS is where your "ethically sourced sage" comes from at your local "spiritual" shop, people! You should not be buying white sage. *Ever*. It should be gifted or self-grown. It is one of the most ILLEGALLY POACHED AND SOLD medicines. And when poached, it becomes sick too. Don't buy it.

Full local news coverage from Telemundo New England—with English subtitles. 👇 In the recording, the family's anguished screams can be heard as they try to recover their 5-year-old autistic daughter.

Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I Must Die” has echoed across the world since his killing—translated by volunteers into dozens of languages. We share it here in English & Arabic. inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

It’s kinda funny how Ukraine has ran over every single Russian red line and they don’t even have nukes lmfao