Merry Christmas, everyone!

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

34 heated patios and rooftops in Chicago where you can eat, drink and be merry this winter: blockclubchi.co/44zSjYn

I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.

LOL THE SEARCH FUNCTION WORKS GREAT!

“Just refuse” 💯 But I will joyfully accept wearing a kick ass chambray shirt @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and I have been looking for one without a front gap so BRAVO on the bigger and the smaller things.

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.

THE PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED

My sense is most people vastly underestimate the barriers to both citizenship and legal status.

I use this for odd people in public, especially men in camo.

Every time I do the incorrect push/pull. Every one.

Brunchlord holy shit

The harder it is for people with criminal records to get jobs, the easier it is to recruit them for jobs like this.

Holy shit. Santa drippings.

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Drag him.

And added Trump’s birthday. In the lingo of the adolescent, that part is “so cringe-ahhhh.” Removing MLK’s birthday and Juneteenth is just, as the kids on here say, gutter racism. Gutters seem too benign. Sewage pipe racism.

For years we thought racist appeals had to have a veneer of deniability so their intended targets could convince themselves they aren't racist. Not anymore. This is what a nakedly white supremacist administration looks like. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-remi...

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit. And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it. It's vice signaling as a way of life.

Absurd student complaints 1000% predate banging rocks together to create a knife edge. I have a new one every quarter to chortle malevolently over. It’s the *other* bullshit as listed below.

What I want is to sleep / inside a strange language, Jim Carroll

I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.

I’ve had pertussis (whooping cough) twice as an adult and it was awful, but videos of infants with whooping cough are brutal to watch.

Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums. @reuters.com $XLV www.reuters.com/world/americ...

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.

the screams were actually us from the future

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

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…21 people in the vaccine group and 17 in the placebo group died. … Kennedy uses [this] to claim …that your risk of death increases by 23 percent if you take the vaccine. … Kennedy refused to relent. “… Twenty-three percent all-cause mortality! … I don’t know what universe you’re living in.”

*Stephen Miller in the corner angrily tearing into one of the live chickens he is fed each day.*

This is...sort of brilliant.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

explained that police have no duty to protect people because their only job is to protect property rights, and an order of protection was "not the sort of 'entitlement' out of which a property interest is created." The right to be protected from harm by police, wrote Scalia,

Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.

“The report argues that future Democratic administrations must “flip the risk profile and prioritize fights worth having,” including “leaning into controversy” to facilitate “breaking through” and demonstrating that government is “on the side of regular people.””

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up To Peer Review

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Is that…Alice Cooper? No thank you, I shall decline to google. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUo...

Woof. Rough one. archive.ph/2025.10.28-1...

All muppets except for ONE human actor.