it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

True - this is lazy framing. A more accurate take would say something about the persistence of anti-Latino sentiment and how Puerto Ricans have always been viewed as criminals & treated as less than full citizens.

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

Yep. Mistaking cynicism for wisdom. Sigh.

Turns out, producing milk is hard work. Hell, even producing dangerous milk ain’t easy! (Seriously, though, just drink normal pasteurized milk. You can get it anywhere & it won’t kill you.)

Stanley Richards is someone I admire greatly. The right man for a tough job.

"You don’t need ideological unity. You need a coalition so broad the regime can’t function without somebody’s cooperation, and enough of those somebodies refuse." -- Scot Nakagawa

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

I can’t resist a good dunk on David Brooks. It makes my heart melt.

I’ve been worried about this. Heads up, mi gente. Let’s look out for each other.

In other news, schoolchildren & billionaires form alliance to depose the mayor.

"My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers"

If you’re not following @solomonmissouri.bsky.social after reading this thread, I feel sorry for you.

You know, I didn’t expect this type of energy from Ken but I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

This. “Say bad things are bad.”

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love to drag David Brooks.

Oh, this is going great.

The real lesson of Christmas is that if God had wanted to win over working-class Judeans, he should have sent down a less divisive Messiah.

Such a compassionate response to the ugliness to which so many young men are exposed & succumb to.

If you’re looking for an SAT word to describe this, I think “feckless” fits the bill. See also: Columbia. It’s hard for me to think of anyone in public health with more integrity & decency than Dr. Bassett.

Yep. And, also, you can give away a shit ton of $$ and STILL be very, very rich.

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

This World AIDS Day, I’m remembering all of the people w/HIV who transformed the field of public health & taught me through words, deeds, & actions that we make progress together or not at all.

Can relate. I did manage to finish this article, though. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o...

📱 Using your #RightToRecord! In the U.S.– no matter what your immigration status is– you have the right to record immigration enforcement agents. This is a powerful tool for exposing their tactics, combatting abuse, and fighting detention.

Alex Padilla lays it plain.

Imagine these wockaflockas blowing up random boats off the coast of Ireland. You can't, can you?

I called Senator Schumer to thank him for holding the line. Please call your Democratic reps & do the same. They need to know that they have constituents’ support.

there are two schools of thought on protecting Jewish safety in America: we either fight for a pluralistic democracy where we are safe because minority rights are protected or we seek junior partner status in the MAGA white nationalist alliance the ADL has chosen a side forward.com/fast-forward...

An easy flow chart for you. Do you have a deal with Donald Trump? l l Yes No l l V V No you don’t Correct

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

Jonathan Cole knows what’s up. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

that last line

I am sure New Yorkers are going to respond really well to blackmail. The city’s people are notorious for loving to be told what to do.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

Happy Labor Day especially to all those @firedbutfighting.bsky.social This @dc37nyc.bsky.social member salutes you. #breadandroses

On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage. He died today at 89.

This is why I love the MMWR. If you’re not reading it, you’re seriously missing out. If there were MMWR merch, I wouldn’t be able to click “buy” fast enough.

Raccoons have it all, don't they? They're cute, scrappy, versatile, and highly intelligent. In this week's #altComms report, we highlight something else that up to 80% of their population has -- a roundworm called Baylisascaris procyonis that's shed in their poop and can infect people. 🧵

Happy 60th birthday to Medicare and Medicaid! Someone said that the national parks were our country’s best idea. If so, these programs are a close second. They’ve saved countless lives, enabled millions to live w/safety & dignity, & made all of us immeasurably better off. 1/2

Please support the Kickstarter to shoot me into space so I can punch this shit in the face I know the risks I have lived a good life SEND MY ASS TO SPACE TO PUNCH THIS SHIT IN THE DAMN FACE!

Astute as always: “Elite capture is a way for those with power to accommodate social progress through the performance of diversity while keeping their hold on political hegemony.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

When dioceses across the country were paying settlements for abuse, I renamed the cardinal’s annual appeal the cardinal’s legal defense fund. Something similar comes to mind now when I get donation requests from Columbia.

Reminder. There ain't no law against admitting you got played.