Judging colleges by how they teach vocational skills misses the point, argues an engineering professor. The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll

"It is urgent and important to reject nativism and ethnonationalism. It is right and proper, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, to be thankful that we live in an exceptional nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." www.thebulwark.com/p/amateur-ho...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

WATCH — @tonolatino.bsky.social : “Remember how it felt on November 5th? We have a chance to do that again in Tennessee’s 7th District. @aftynbehn.bsky.social has Republicans scared sh*tless, spending millions on a seat Trump won by over 20 points.”

Great idea!!

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We all deserve the right to marry.

No Kings!

Guess who didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize? 🤣🤣😂🤣😊🤣😂🤣😂🤣😊😂🤣😊🤣

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey. I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

So if you're concerned about the dwindling independence of mainstream journalism, remember that the Associated Press is a nonprofit org that can never be bought by a corporation and is full of people genuinely passionate about doing good reporting: apnews.com I set up a small recurring donation

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Instead of mourning Charlie Kirk today, I'll just leave this here...

“Thank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.” Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “Somebody Somewhere.” Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.

Jeff Hiller won the #Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy series for "Somebody Somewhere." Follow live updates: bit.ly/46CbqCz

A new poll finds that just 1 in 4 Americans believe the Trump administration's policies to restrict vaccine access are based on science.

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

This might slow them down a bit.

RFK Jr says America is the sickest country on Earth but fails to mention that we’re also the only country with privatized healthcare in the civilized world. 🤷 Universal Healthcare saves lives. 🙏 🇺🇸

I’ve seen enough. Impeach Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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I did not have “Thomas Massie, welcome to the resistance” on my bingo card but I’ll take it.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Make no mistake — RFK Jr. and Trump’s endless attacks on the CDC, public health experts, and established science threaten lives and undermine our global research leadership. Vaccines save lives. We will never stop speaking up to protect that indisputable scientific consensus.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

I again am struck by the fact that Americans voted on purpose in a free and fair election for a guy who we all knew would try to become a dictator and who we all knew would make life worse for Americans and for the whole world and then he did it.

If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.

I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.

Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃

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If everyone could vote everyone would have healthcare

But anyway the point of having a functional government is supposed to be that we can accomplish some things directly and not by cajoling and flattering rich dipshits into deigning to provide some ancillary benefit while they rob us blind at public expense.

Friends Fans, Lisa Kidrow is so funny. She impersonated the Taco Cult to a T! #arresttrump

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What's the best thing you can do for families? Elect. Women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exactly. Once they admit he’s done one bad thing, there can be no stopping point, as he’s a bottomless pit of moral depravity. And once they step on that slippery slope, they can’t escape their own culpability. So instead they look away, and lie to others—and to themselves.

Good on Matt Drudge for posting these links to articles (one academic, the other from a political blog) about the correlation between Trumpism and malevolent and psychopathic personality traits.

Dear House Oversight Committee: Hire Maurene Comey and Julie K. Brown. Now. They know more than anyone re Ghislaine Maxwell's and Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.

Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.

Just as an aside, it’s so so funny he was auctioning off the same shitty drawing for charity for years.