"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

'Oh Rascal Children of Gaza' By Palestinian poet and playwright Khaled Juma - Al-Shaboura. Written during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge August 2014, that killed 547 Palestinian children, wounded 3,374 children and permanently disabled 1,000 children. #Palestine

i responded to one of the biggest streamers in the world. featuring @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Sermon, National Prayer Service 21 January 2025 Bishop Mariann Budde: In the name of our G-d, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives.

It is such a pleasure to see Trump and his gang be forced to listen to a sermon asking for mercy for queer children and the many people working in hard jobs in America. What courage Bishop Budde has to speak this directly to him. (A transcript is in the following post.)

#ICYMI - Have you ever wondered what it's like to age with autoimmune diseases? Dr. Amanda Piquet, the Céline Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology at Uni of Colorado, discusses how aging manifests for patients living with autoimmune diseases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGkc...

Transgender Law Center and @reprolegalfund.bsky.social’s Trans Health Legal Fund offers financial support for trans people facing investigation, arrest, or prosecution for seeking gender-affirming care. Share with your community, and apply here: reprolegaldefensefund.org/trans-health...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

New: Change Healthcare's breach last year affects over 100 million Americans whose health data was stolen. But for months, Change has hidden its official data breach notice from search engines, making it far more difficult for anyone searching the web to find it. techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/u...

On January 20, let’s all be Michelle. Don’t watch the inauguration. Instead, tune into MLK Day programming.

A great write-up on the incarcerated firefighter program in California & the folks in prison helping out with the fires in LA. Appreciate The Marshall Project for reaching out to me. All too often, folks write about fire camps without talking to people who’ve been to fire camps. Not the case here.

A reminder for people evacuating Hollywood that Metro is fare free. If you’re taking transit to get to safety I’d love to hear from you

When the Grenfell Tower blaze led to revelations that high-rise public housing across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed those responsible would pay. Seven years on, the companies have largely escaped financial liability reut.rs/3BY7wYa

Hey All, please share and learn about this great summer program, conceived, led and taught by Indigenous scholars to Indigenous students! It's a groundbreaking concept, Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSov and protecting resources for Indigenous people's own and exclusive benefit. What an idea?!

These awards are meant to recognize and honor outstanding health-related comic projects published in 2024. They are made possible by your donations and a generous matching gift in Honor of Nancy and Herbert Wolf. www.graphicmedicine.org/the-inaugura...

Important thread

Read his remarkable Law Day address from 1974... www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/la...

Anyone on #Classics Bluesky want to chat about Euripides and Greek drama? I graduated in 2007 so I'm not up to date with current scholarship, but I'm in the Nancy Sorlin Rabinowitz,Anxiety Veiled school of thought.

2024 was extraordinarily busy, so we’ll forgive you if you missed some of our articles at @bolts.bsky.social. Our team chose our 12 favorite pieces of the year. These are articles I'd love for you to not miss—& give them new life if you did. And: thank you for reading us! ↓

I’ve been wondering when I’d get to use this again.

So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

#unboxing -- The Black Fantastic! IT'S HERE! My first-ever edited fiction anthology! Y'all these authors are THE ENTIRE FUTURE. #BlackSky #SFF #QueerCommons #afrofuturism youtu.be/oQObHBoatXQ

“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I've ever seen in my career. What was the mayor doing at this press conference.. the mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence that he, too, is afforded when he is dealing with his own issues.”

Ya'll FNX has just released a free streaming app for Native content! Just downloaded it and they have some great content up...if you haven't seen The Lesser Blessed or read the book by Richard Van Camp, highly recommend! www.foxla.com/news/local-i...

"The genetic results encourage reflection on the dangers of making up stories about gender and family relationships in past societies based on present-day expectations,” one of the study’s authors said. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

An excellent new review of David Mattingly’s Jerome Lectures on North Africa, part of the University of Michigan Press’s publications program in Classical Studies.

Tinu and other black disabled women taught me how to advocate for myself in ways that saved my life this year #ForTinu www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...

NEW: The type of conspiracy-thinking that used to brew in small corners of the internet is now a second language for all of us. Here’s what drone panic says about this moment — when paranoia jumps across political lines and online bubbles. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It's not that we become impervious to triggers. It's that we come to trust our commitment to responding to them w/ skill & commitment to not turn on ourselves like our bullies & abusers conditioned us to. And both parts of that equation, skill & commitment, very much matter.

the legacy of the black rodeo in Oklahoma - (shared as a gift) the history of the black cowboy runs deep starting in the early 1800s and on through to today - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

Okay so I have **actual evidence** that he knows what he's saying is wrong. Here he is literally agreeing with my analysis of the minimal area we'd need to provide the whole US with solar, back in the day (2020)

56% percent in his honeymoon phase is historically low approval for any incoming president. What are you talking about.

AI art is scabbing. AI art is a LABOR issue. youtu.be/4kSjbkM5mnU?...

A lot of men are gonna be mad that their US history classes were too busy to cover The Hatpin Panic. The Hatpin Panic was a period in the early 1900's where we had to pass laws limiting women's hatpins to <9" because men started to get too fucking free with touching and were getting shanked for it.

Similar ideas here, I reckon

Ever since Reagan, increasing the debt by giving tax breaks to the rich has been a premeditated policy to justify cutting welfare & public services. Neoliberal playbook 101.

It is as Brett Christophers foretold: in Sweden, they've got so much clean energy installed that energy has become incredibly cheap ... which is discouraging investment in the remaining clean energy needed to decarbonize the economy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Civility is for Civilized Societies www.splinter.com/civility-is-...

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Dolly Parton is the perfect example @lizzobeeating.bsky.social - she has earned billions but is not a billionaire because she donates so much money. You can’t hoard wealth to that infinite scale without it being inately evil. Elon Musk could solve the housing crisis. He actively chooses not to.

The non-profit shutdown bill is getting another run from the House this week. Scheduled to go before the House Rules Committee today, likely for a floor vote on Wednesday. Make sure your reps know exactly how dangerous this is.