The fascists also want to close childcare centers because they don’t want women free to hold professional jobs, as keeping women locked into raising kids at home is central to their shitty project.

I explained that cohort studies cannot have a biased sample, because of you study all babies born in Alaska in a year they aren’t a sample, they are a population

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

2025 Unitarians out here going “we said we follow nonviolent principles but it was more of a guideline”

If your ex wife told you she was leaving you due to menopause, just go with it

It is so embarrassing that this man has a license to practice medicine let alone being Director of the US FDA www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

when people ask my mom why she's wearing a mask, she says, "it helps me mind my own business"

2025 Year in Review! -falcon hearing worse than ever -center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity -blood-dimmed tide containment failure -the Worst with record high passionate intensity

When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers. The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet

It IS scandalous that immigrants are still coming to this country to do jobs native born Americans don’t want, at wages no one wants their child to work for. There is still no path to citizenship for these unsung heroes who make independent living possible for our growing elderly population.

Fifteen years ago I felt pretty embarrassed pronouncing a word wrong, but now I’m just boasting like “oh yeah I guess I only know that one from READING it in a BOOK”

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

By the same principle that ants cause picnics, because two things that happen at the same time are always caused by each other. What if the rising costs of housing caused more (broke) people to come to America to take jobs building homes, though?

Day 3 of Kwanzaa: Ujima — collective work and responsibility.

It's really bad politics, and no way to run a society, to tell people over a certain income line that they pay too much in taxes to get any benefit from the government. This is one of the reasons universal basic income and healthcare are both so important and why they must be universal.

Can someone ask ChatGPT what “tech debt” is

we don't have the first amendment to protect the state from the church or the church from the state or whatever you think. we have the first amendment because "not having the first amendment" killed a third of all Germans in the 1600s

Smoked Rivalry (2026)

This is thus the story recieved: that a couple commanded by the state needed to travel, despite pregnancy, and that they sought shelter, as have so many others in so many times and places have when uprooted by the whims of kings and emperors. They found it, of sorts, and were generously recieved.

"Do you ever look at your hands & think 'I have too many fingers'?"

The best thing about being Jewish and married to someone who grew up Christian is getting to celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, *and* Chinese and Movies Day.

‘Tis the season to remember this classic tweet

we have this exotic thing here that maybe hasn’t made it ‘across the pond’ yet it’s called jewish people

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

TCW is sort of the paradigmatic example of why you should pursue excellence in your craft over wealth and acclaim, because if you get the latter without the former, odds are you’ll still be miserable.

I dare you to tell Ben Franklin's ghost this public service necessary to democracy 'lost money in 2025'. The post office is in the Constitution. It was one of Ben's best ideas. If we get to offload just 1 let's trash Daylight Saving Time (just state law).

But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]

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So we have a responsibility that I wish we didn’t - to keep the country from tipping over at a very perilous moment. To call it like we see it, to fight relentlessly in word & deed, all while we focus on getting to the next democratic election. This has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

someone wants to rewrite his obituary but Kavanaugh Stop is already in there, it's too late to footnote your way out of it

"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. Juice.

The what now? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

This is an absurdly good analysis. It counts as one of the best things I have seen all year. It is actually thrilling to watch something and feel my mind being whispered into expanding.

Key insight: Impeaching the president is not a criminal trial, it’s sending him to human resources to determine whether his employment is being terminated for cause. In stating it this way, we reinforce that the executive *executes* laws passed by Congress & signed by previous POTUSes (rule of law).

CBS justifies killing 60 Minutes story on CECOT is 'you have to get the principals on camera' is a layer cake of incompetence & censorship. The "principals" are the prisoners who told you what the government is doing, not the White House staffers who sent them to an illegal prison to be tortured!

Nothing Bari Weiss censors is going to reverse this.

Here's a thing that's happened far too often lately: one of my colleagues gets a request to find a book (or sometimes a few books). After careful search, this book does not appear to exist. When the faculty member (who, may I add, may be making 2x my colleague's salary) is told this,

Where do I sign [up to knock 950 doors in October]

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

At long last in retirement she graduated from college. Mills women never stop doing. She was inspiring.

Are…are they running Swan Lake instead or

This is unfair. When I got a rare cancer at 39, the GOP solution was to let my self employed “insurance plan” max out in 36 hrs. I then begged oncologists to save my life, which I expected to spend living in my mom’s basement because of the debt. It’s so much more than letting unlucky suckers die!

Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.

This simple post may have already gotten more attention in 5 hours than almost anything else I’ve written about healthcare policy in the past 12 years.

if you are apologizing for being white that’s a skill issue, friend

I bet that's what the pillars of salt in the bible looked like.

It oughta be the law