Technically, it's an aggravated felony sexual assault of a child, with harsher penalties put in place for perpetrators with younger victims. Also, ACTUAL MEDIEVAL HISTORIAN HERE: For non-nobles, the average age of brides from the Black Death onwards was...22.2 years old.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

When I first got here alt text was a huge part of the art culture here. I've gotten very sad to see it fading and I'd like it to resurge.

Lot knew his wife.

Tremane Wood is alive in spite of the Supreme Court, which, this morning, rejected his request to block Oklahoma from executing him at 10am as punishment for a murder he did not commit Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted the sentence to life in prison at 9:59 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trema...

Baby pigeon mystery. My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Write-up on the latest happenings in the Democratic primary race to take on Mike Lawler in #NY17, including a quote from my friend @paul-franz.com. substack.com/home/post/p-...

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Pure, uncut leopards eating faces party stuff here (and awful)

one of the funnier bits about moving from a blue state to a red state is that red states still need money to run things and will often just collect it via fees instead so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better

Extremely wealthy people aren’t going to move to a place they don’t like because somebody raised their taxes. The entire point of being rich, as far as I understand it, is that you get to do whatever the hell you want.

Our Treasury secretary just discovered where coffee and bananas come from. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I want to meet the others. We may have a shared destiny.

the nyt frames this so it's the teenager who damages Gaetz, rather than the other way around. that's a disgusting way to present this story.

Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

it's not exculpatory of America, but I need other folks to realize how deeply eugenics is embedded in immigration policies pretty much everywhere.

I’m over autism as a literary device in fiction. We can stop that now. If you can’t write autistic characters who are fully developed human beings, rather than strung-together Rain Man stereotypes, or, possibly worse, a lazy metaphor or symbol, you can simply stop writing autistic characters.

I know SCOTUS literally already said that it was open season on any kind of Brown folk but this is another in "the irony of the error proves the stupidity of the whole entire concept".

This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing. Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!" Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"

So now, the public is (predictably) herding *away* from Trump, toward a more sympathetic view of immigration and ... here are Dems, stuck with the panicked reactionary stances they took on the advice of the Moderate to Win bros, unable to properly ride & harness this shift.

The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"

Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

so basically what happened was: ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release. the injustice of everything these people will never get back.

The Dept of Edu just proposed a rule that will limit loan eligibility for nursing graduate & professional degrees starting July 2026. DNP-level nurses make up less than 2% of the workforce & our field really needs more advanced nurses to further the field. This administration is bat shit crazy.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Do not hire Boston University's Zac Segal. Not for an internship. Not when he graduates. Not ever.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

“What the fuck are you TALKING about?” should be the official Democratic response to every Republican talking point.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

#Library World--where is the scrappy, start-up, open source, vaguely anarchist alternative for academic library eBook purchasing and hosting, the David challenging the ProQuest Goliath? ProQuest's new subscription model is dangerous to academic freedom and bad for libraries.

republicans have a pedo problem. but neither the msm nor democrats want to bring it up on a regular basis.

All the ink spilled on the crisis of young men and meanwhile young women are like 'yeah, I'd love to ditch this popsicle stand' and it's crickets.

Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵

It was New Signage Day in the library today! First up, Book Menus! Took me 2 years, but FINALLY getting book menus together! (Huge thanks to @melissacorey.bsky.social for sharing so many great templates!) #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians 1/

PBS is going to air it this Friday!

this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

A lot of privileged men of that generation never learned to type. Typing was secretarial, and therefore, women’s work. They’d give “their girl” a scrawled draft or a shouted dictation, and she would render it into neat, professional communication. They’re on their own in these emails.

Even more so because we never had cancel culture. We had the beginnings of a suggestion of cancel culture and most privileged people and every vector of institutional power treated it like the biggest moral hazard the world has ever seen and spent an astonishing amount of effort to shut it down.