The hijab debate reminds us that some nations force women to wear hijab. Other nations force women to remove hijab. In every single case the issue isn’t the hijab or women—but insecure men who force their views upon women. There’s no hijab debate. There’s just weak men who won’t stay in their lane.

taking this opportunity to reiterate: DO NOT SEEK REFUGE IN CANADA it will not work, and at best you will be turned away, the worst case scenario looks like this Canada's border policy is stringent, eugenicist, and tightening with time source: I live there

The high court has been captured & weaponized by the far-right for quite a number of years now. In any high-stakes decision, we can expect they'll simply rubber stamp the Trump administration's lawlessness. It’s why we must unrig the Supreme Court by expanding it to 13 justices. (1/2)

This is your regular reminder to await more reporting before drawing any conclusions from early shooting reports. Shootings entirely disconnected from national politics — including near the WH — are hardly unprecedented in DC. So are instances that are, you know, *very much* connected to politics.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Anaheim area friends: I know waiting for something bad to happen while evacuated is very, very upsetting, and I know it’s hard when it feels communication is unclear. Do not remain or return to evacuation zones. It doesn’t make it a false alarm. Please stay safe. www.latimes.com/california/l...

I am very glad that Watch Duty exists, and is holding the line on providing accurate, freely available disaster information to the public, outside of the locked down and intentionally confusing confines of X and Meta. app.watchduty.org

Is this bad? 🤔 “At that point, we know the tank is going into thermal runaway,” Orange County Fire Authority Division Chief Craig Covey said during a news conference Friday

Watch Duty is also sharing updates about the Garden Grove chemical incident now: share.watchduty.org/i/99643?ts=1...

Another win for vaccines.

Have we not learned our lesson with billionaires after putting the big orange turd in the White House? Stop fking supporting billionaires. They're not like us! They don't give a 💩 about us. They cheat. They lie. They don't think the rules apply to them. How do you think they made their fking money?

1. Casts intended audience (voters) as agents? Check. 2. Says what he is for? Check. 3. Tell us what he will do with reason to believe (past examples) he will do it? Check. 4. Calls out the opposition clearly? Check. Bravo @bradlander.bsky.social

Why I voted for Xavier Becerra: He’s the most qualified person on the ballot. Son of farmworkers. Stanford Law. Former California Attorney General, where he sued the Trump administration more than just about anyone else. 🧵

BREAKING: VA Gov Abigail Spanberger just vetoed a bill that would ban ICE from making warrantless arrests inside of courthouses. VA Dems have the House, the Senate, and the Governorship. They have all the power and still under a Corporate Centrist Democrat, align with fascist ideology.

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

Just last night, someone told me that Democrats believe in defunding the police. And when I calmly explained that that was actually Republicans lying about Democrats’ idea to reform police by using trained mental health professionals instead of police in some cases, he didn’t believe me.

There's a close family resemblance between "We'd be much less productive if we actually had to check every paper we cited" and "We'd not be able to deport nearly as many people if we had to give all of them due process."

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us Had Enough? #VoteThemOut

Human decency AND self preservation: If this administration will murder innocent people in broad daylight on camera and hide & protect the executioners, what makes you think they won’t mow YOU down, too? Of course they will. Don’t BLINK.

They bombed a school, Katherine. Boiling everything down to the cost of eggs is making you sound like a sociopath. If the war was making everything cheaper it'd still be evil.

Reminders for election season: 1. Don't lead with their lie. Even to rebut it, putting their attack first sets the frame. 2. Stop giving "broken clocks" shine. Validating Rogan or community notes when they’re right 1% of the time just helps them sell the other 99%.

Hassett, translated: Now that we have fewer immigrants, we have fewer jobs. When we said that immigrants were taking your jobs, it's because we were lying that there's a fixed pool of jobs. You rubes fell for the lump of labor fallacy.

I am seeing a fair bit of Covid trauma resurfacing, and some acknowledgment that we have indeed gone backwards on pandemic response, but it should be noted that the credible people who would be warning you if the hantavirus was another pandemic in the making are emphatically not doing that

People broke up with Target and realized they didn’t miss it. Customer trust is a hell if a thing to regain once lost.

If you talk to people who work in public health, you will pick up a clear level of concern. It’s not simply because the spread of any lethal virus is, quite rightly, a reason for them to be vigilant. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

I didn't choose to be trans. I just am. But here's the thing: whether or not being trans is innate is *completely irrelevant* because bodily autonomy is a human right. Abortion is a human right because everyone has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Same with gender affirming care.

We have not yet begun to fight. It is on us to take up the torch, it is on us to not just protect what once was but much more: to push toward the never realized dream of liberty and justice for all.

Please remember that the ultimate aim of any authoritarian force is to erode our will to resist. They want us to conclude we're fucked so we stop fighting. Fuck that and fuck them. We have not yet begun to fight.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

Decades of "the left" refusing to make clear argument, counseled not to turn off "the middle" got us here. Every time I do a presentation I get asked: polling found that moderates like it better when we (insert milquetoast skirting of argument and truth) so for which audience is your guidance?

Among the many ways that people die for lack of appropriate care for depression is alcoholism. My mom self-medicated for years; it's *nothing* but luck that she lived long enough to go to rehab & AA when we were 10, 12, & 14. And it's not always the alcoholic who dies.

I don't give a damn what any possible 2028 presidential candidate thinks about 2028. Show me the work you're doing *now* for the Midterms. What are you--aspiring leader of the party--doing to win back Congress? Show me that work, and I'll give a damn re: your thoughts on 2028 after the Midterms.

So I would really love it if people could get out of their "Oh I understand, haha farmers are just racist!" comfort zones and see this as the PERSONAL problem it is. No matter who you are, the farm lobby thinks of YOU as their own personal livestock. To fleece, milk, & carve up.

Today, a $920 MILLION bet was placed just 70 minutes before news broke of the US and Iran nearing a deal. We’ve now seen a pattern of perfectly timed bets right before the Trump administration makes news about the war. Someone is raking it in big — this reeks of corruption.

Don’t talk to me about cheap until you can talk to me about fair and full compensation. Because without fair and full compensation, it’s just enslaving women to save a government money. We are the defacto social safety net because this nation racist & greedy. Do not make us the de jure one.

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Millions of Americans work full time—sometimes juggling multiple jobs—and still can’t secure stable housing. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on this crisis in his book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/938-book-clu...

THIS Like. People can be stupid. But very few people are really, truly *that* stupid. "We were lied to" is an excuse folks are making now- after their decision's blown up in their face. When you hear "We were lied to," you are, in fact, actively BEING lied to.

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Trying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!

Mask aversion needs to be studied like a clinical phobia.

Love it when friends send me photos of their ballots! Election Day is June 2 and ballots are on their way to Californians’ mailboxes. Let’s go win this thing!

This seems to be very well-reported and a great example of the value of local journalism. If you’ve watched any Camp Mystic testimony this is a must read. kerrcountylead.com/the-monster-...

Complaints can (and should) be sent to Fidelity Investments PO Box 770001 Cincinnati OH 45277-0045 I just spent half an hour on the phone with Fidelity and this was the best I could get from them. Please join me in flooding their mailbox with our outrage. Thank you.