these little things are not more important than anyone's safety, but they matter. everyone wants a life, everyone deserves a life, where they can get let their children be excited about these little things, when they can celebrate their tiny lives in safety

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

By the way: Please CALL AHEAD to your local food banks, ask them what they need most, ask what they have too much of, ask what they can’t take right now, and ask what’s the best time/place/way to give your donations. Food banks lose an IMMENSE amount of time and money to people treating them as…

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know

Yes I did just order I, Claudius on DVD, why?

It was one thing when the water wasting wrongness machine was just butchering the English language, but they cannot come for my spreadsheets.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

Final warning! If you are shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair AFTER MIDNIGHT you will be fined (fines will fund the MTA)

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

I think about this comic at least once a week

Also, they can't use the example of "boys with video games" because incel gamers are a massive part of their cult following. Gamers are allowed to have as many headphones, speciality controllers and modified computer gaming chairs as they want.

"do you have food safety tips" yes as a matter of fact I do I think the people should elect representatives who appoint experts to keep food safe theres a tip for you

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

DAVID BROOKS SAYS GENERAL STRIKE NOW AND BILL KRISTOL SAYS ABOLISH ICE

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.

Yes and: I would like a consult with whoever dressed Cate Blanchett But a movie, for grown ups, that didn't drag!

there isn’t a big list of “likely criminals who are also here without proper visa/docs/whatever” with pics and addresses. there is however a big list of people who have tried to navigate our kafka-esque immigration system in good faith, and sometimes some of them have slipped up.

It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes. That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted. A business would send taxes through the roof.

this interview is incredible www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

my latest newsletter piece: on how the Democrats' posture toward trans rights signals a fundamental misunderstanding of how politics work

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm not that old but I can tell you what smoggy air looked and smelled and even *tasted* like, if it was a bad day. Lakes and rivers were often toxic, and occasionally *caught fire.* We solved all of that.

This is what REAL, ACTUAL infringement of free speech looks like.

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

we are in this position because too many Americans refuse to believe things can get worse and accordingly view politics entirely as a source of entertainment/memes rather than the very backbone of civilized society

When people older than me say “there weren’t all these autistic people when I was a kid,” it’s because before the mid 70s disabled kids had no right to attend public school. This is a relatively recent protection. They want to take it away.

Serena just showed us all that sometimes you do, in fact, need a little hateration in this dancery

"Lenny are you watching this? Yeah they really hurt that guy's feelings"

Grimace but pronounced like Versace.

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

This is good advice at any age. I miss Adam Schlesinger.

if you can’t explain why this stuff matters to people, that’s a communications and education problem, not a values problem. we can see from polls that this stuff is really unpopular. does it require a frame? sure. that’s why it requires thoughtful storytelling, not condescension or bluster.

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

As someone who exclusively reads on my Kindle (going strong since 2018! No idea what I'll do when it dies!) and mainly checks out books from the library via Libby, this is fantastic news for when I want to buy a book.

I could list 50 times where living my life like this — “A.I. thinks this isn’t the kind of thing that usually works out for you” — would have made my life emptier, bleaker, duller. A.I. has its applications, but fixing the “problem” of uncertainty isn’t one of them, because that’s not a problem.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike