A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports.

❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

Combine this post with this article for added hilarity: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

huge W for the continent

One of the most important ways that fascism accelerated in the mid 2010s was through liberals/academics/etc thinking it was cringe and low-status to know anything about actually-existing fascist movements or the ideas coursing through their rank-and-file.

Amazon’s Alexa can now produce full AI podcasts, complete with fake hosts. The company said it partnered with major news outlets to keep the podcasts accurate.

But they’re definitely not racist

Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied"

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

🔥 HAYES: “You get the pattern here, right? One after another… so there’s no Black members of Congress left in the states of the old Confederacy. They want a New Jim Crow, now they have a blessing from the Supreme Court.” #Tennessee #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

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In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

Israel feared Amal Khalil, just as it did Shireen Abu Akleh Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed because she refused to be intimidated into silence @yarahawari.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Tried my best to push NSPM-7 into the public discourse. Not sure how much success I had lol

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Hello friends and also enemies, Behind the Bastards has been nominated for a Webby! This is the first award I've ever been nominated for, so if you'd like to vote for my show I'd appreciate it: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

if the U.S. does try to launch a seaborne invasion of Iranian territory we could be just days away from what military analysts are already calling "Gallipoli: The Squeakquel".

I’m grateful for this review because it saves me from having to engage with the odious premise of this book.

Pete is actually on TV with a straight face complaining that Iran has been spending its money on weapons/war instead of helping its people 💀💀💀💀💀 That’s enough irony for me for one day.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

What stupid fucking consultant came up with this idea? @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, my brother in law comes up with truly stupid ideas all the time and he would cost y'all a fraction of what you are paying in fees. End the illegal war and vote No More War Money!

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

“Track AIPAC” is a GOP OP and you dumb mf’s are donating to and pushing their content. @indivisible.org et al

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

South Korea’s ex-President Yoon gets life in prison for insurrection https://aje.news/fsp2i5

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, BBC News reported reut.rs/4s0NSPL

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He is accused of sharing confidential government documents with Jeffrey Epstein. Unprecedented. Side note: it is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday today.

“She’s not from here.”

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters. Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Everyday is another piece of evidence that the Republicans do not intend on relinquishing control. When will they be treated like the existential crisis that they truly are? migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

fun fact the military didn't look into this at all when they were studying tear gas back in the 1960s but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage more than enough data to suggest caution share.google/SoozTodiv791...

Full Bad Bunny speech