Hope is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's the only thing. Our numbers are few. Our spirit is undiminished. Aidtya Sahil. Never commissioned. The Federation has gone dark and vanished for decades. What does he do? He shows up every morning and does the work, for as long as it takes. Happy New Year!

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

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Wishing everyone a Merry Solstice! This is your seasonal reminder that Covid is still dangerous, airborne, & spread by people with no symptoms, and that masks work. Stay safe out there!

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill. It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

In Los Angeles, California, a man’s father was abducted and kidnapped by ICE. While attempting to locate him using a GPS tracker in his car, they discovered that his stolen truck was being driven around by an ICE Bounty Hunter during his off-duty period from December 2nd to December 3rd.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

where did the last 5 hours go?? #mathart #mathsky #iteachmath

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

In a very real sense, this public airing of a longstanding beef between the Born family and Einstein, might be regarded as the first physics diss track. (6/6)

I guess the point here, if there is one, is that Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical,” which admonished the listener to “get physical,” was a forceful restatement of her grandfather’s objection to Einstein’s reticence over the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. (5/n)

It’d be cool if people acknowledged the vast number of peer reviewed research papers that show Covid kills neurons and causes brain damage.

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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

Researchers are learning more about how early acute infections can increase the risk of neurodegeneration - sometimes a decade or more later stanmed.stanford.edu/infections-l...

Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave. She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime. A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

Long Covid is common - ~1 in 5 people have it, and it's on the rise. Reinfections add to the burden. It's the most common chronic condition in children. Actual coverage on this at last from CBC

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

Nice! “Allentown’s annual New Year’s Eve celebration will look — and sound — a lot different this year… the city will ring in 2026 with its first-ever drone light show, a custom-designed aerial performance that will illuminate the sky above Seventh and Hamilton streets, according to a news release.”

TPM's @allegrak.bsky.social worked at Teen Vogue for several years before returning to TPM earlier this year. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”

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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

Before the measles vaccine, humans did not have permanent immunity to *anything* A measles outbreak would come along and wipe out previous immunities, whether from previous infections or vaccinations. A fresh, periodic reset on every other disease.

A feature I've been working on since 2004. Anyone here remember ARB_fragment_programs from the days before GLSL?

One would think it would give journalists at the NYT, CBS, and CNN pause that Teen Vogue & People Magazine offer better coverage of political news these days, but 🤷‍♂️

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?" Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!

I don’t care how “annoying” “virtue-signaling” and “anxious” people with long covid sound, as far as the data shows us, the only thing standing between you and us is the right number of infections, and we are trying desperately to stop you from hitting it.

Something I think is key to highlight is that, despite me having this disease for almost three years, my doctors have absolutely 0% of an idea of what mechanism is causing it. We don’t know if there’s viral fragments in my blood or microbiome damage. And if you don’t know, you can’t treat it.

IMO this is why a lot of ICE agents wear gaiters and masks. It’s not just to avoid social consequences for their actions. It’s because so many of them would almost instantly be identified as known members of white supremacist hate groups. Their bosses probably insisted they mask for this reason.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

Complex function domain-colouring of roots of unity, in @desmos.com Here's the graph: www.desmos.com/3d/hadt9rebbe They recently enabled colouring a surface using functions, so far only in 3D grapher. Side-effect: allows complex domain colouring, using 3D tool as a 2D one! #iTeachMath #MathSky

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously. Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity. (And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.) Does that mean the US was fascist? Wrong question.

A U.S. citizen detained by federal agents during anti-immigrant raids of construction sites has filed a class action suit against the Trump administration on behalf of “all those who stand in his shoes.” “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction.”

Seriously. Fuck these fascists. Join a No Kings protest on October 18 and stand up for our rights and our democracy.