"Tear the party apart" is editorializing. It's also a tenor that suggests it's bad to primary a sitting senator. Remember how i say the media is biased to the status quo?

Considering how many horror stories I’ve read about relatives posting real pictures of babies and kids on public social media platforms against the parents’ wishes, I can only fathom how widely accessible AI tools will escalate these violations

The average person is not informed that Covid is not confined to the respiratory system and infects blood vessels, immune cells, and the brain. We rolled the dice and have exposed everyone to SARS2 repeatedly, and the idea that this has been determined safe through rigorous study is patently false.

... People once again felt lied to and declared the vaccine as useless. But it is not useless. It stops the vast majority of people from being hospitalized or dying. This is an amazing thing. But to tell people that it stops infection in the first place, or that the protection is lasting, or that..

...masking is not necessary anymore, this is simply not true. And this lie has resulted in mass death, disability, and a level of vaccine distrust not seen since the science was first invented. Truth matters.

I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

If you're really lucky it make a pass at your kid, or talk them into killing themself!

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions.

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

Every medium has too many people who are like "well AI is mediocre, at best, at _my_ thing but it's amazing at everything else" and it's crazy making

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population. Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient. Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe And so much more important work. But they’re destroying it all.

I saw the article and he was also held that entire time without ever being charged. Palestinian "prisoners" are hostages, their abuse is legitimized by lies.

The good news is that the Supreme Court still refused to hear this case. The bad news is that three justices seem eager to force every public school in the country to out trans kids to their parents, and it only takes one more vote to put a future case on the docket that lets the court do so.

No new PFAS restrictions in CA cookware, food packaging, dental floss, children's playpens and strollers, and other everyday products. 1/3 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

One problem with FIFA being utterly corrupt is that instead of taking this bullshit seriously and moving the World Cup as they should, they’re massaging Trump’s ego and bestowing him with gifts.

i'm a bit mixed on this because i appreciate that consumer reports makes an effort towards testing but i don't really appreciate that it's always in a continually alarmist fear mongering way that exaggerates heavy metal food risk to make sweeping statements based on a small cross section of products

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually. The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

I don't eat animal protein but I'll never call my diet 'cruelty free' because the people growing and harvesting the fruits and vegetables I eat work in conditions like this. Cruelty to humans matters, too.

This was completely predictable as it has happened with every previous ceasefire w/Hamas, as well as what happened in southern Lebanon. Once Bibi get's his immediate ask, or what the US has pushed on him as his immediate ask, in phase, stage, or part 1, nothing ever proceeds past it. 1/

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan: Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

I also want to highlight that my Israeli family are allowed to celebrate today, but many Palestinian families are not. Not because they are not overjoyed to have family members back in the prisoner exchange, but because the Israeli government has decided that doing so is “supporting terror.”

Yes, he was. They just weren't televising and bragging about it. Every year of Biden's administration, ICE dragged away more people than in the previous year, including the year he took over from Trump. This is part of a steady escalation, not a sudden change.

The thing is: if you study what I study, this makes complete sense. Many eugenicists of the early 20th C. wanted the “right” people to have more babies! Limit or prohibit contraception to ensure more of the “right” babies, and use targeted sterilizations to ensure fewer of the “wrong” babies.

"We've not had any progress to move supplies into Gaza ... and this is absolutely critical in controlling the spread of famine," our Juliette Touma tells @reuters.com UNRWA is still waiting for the green light from the Israeli authorities to bring aid into #Gaza. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you? www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Meanwhile, in the West Bank/not in Gaza:

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels. Great work everyone.

isn’t writing a haiku about your cat supposed to be one of the most pure pleasures of being a human? what is the point of having a haiku about your cat if you don’t write it yourself?

because I see this blowing up, I want to be clear: Newsom "declin[ing] to sign" the other bills DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE VETOED. the pocket veto _does not exist in CA_, so if Newsom does not sign nor veto them within the allotted period, they become laws without his signature.

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma. Wow.

Today marks 2 years since Israel's genocide of Palestinians turned hot. The genocide did not begin as a result of Hamas' attack on the festival and the people of Palestine were already being slowly starved to death at a pace that Israel hoped would be slow enough to prevent genocide charges.

missing a goal because of a full screen ad is inexcusable and nasty work. you have to have a lot more care about the product you're airing; and for the nwsl, the product you're selling.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Summary of comments: (1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults (2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc. (3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes It’s a labor issue.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Lincoln's preference for entrenching slavery over civil war reflects our modern times, where liberal elites came together behind the fascist rewriting of Kirk's legacy. They were terrified we are on a path towards the end of the Union, and they prefered to satiate the fascists over civil strife.

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

Crucially: a majority of Jewish-Americans aged 18-34 are not “emotionally attached” to Israel. 50% of them say Israel has committed genocide.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked