Reminds me of the series of CdVs of enslaved children who could pass for white - and the way that even today those photos rock white audiences to the core. White empathy requires white victims. Systemic and cultural racism is a hell of a drug… still potent 160 years later.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Hello, how are you, my brothers? I send you greetings from Gaza, from the Mawasi camp. My friends, the conditions here are unbearable. Please share and donate if you can. I am not well. I feel suffocated. I do not know why. bit.ly/help-mohamed

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Now, she is using her platform to bring attention to the plight of women in detention, like 32-year-old Palestinian Leqaa Kordia, the second Columbia University protester arrested this spring, who has since been dubbed “the forgotten prisoner” while sitting in ICE detention for nearly six months.

Gross. This is a gross ad.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

I know everything seems awful right now, but this is an INCREDIBLE breakthrough and such good news.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

This is the perfect encapsulation of Trumpism -- because of its obsession with imagery, the White House crew caused a problem but blamed it on other people, leading to MAGA making threats against the United Nations for their own screw up

Really? Right in front of my word salad.

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

Trump, Kennedy et al claimed yesterday that Tylenol causes autism, which the evidence does not show. (There was a LOT of eliding of correlation vs. causation.) Here is what the evidence actually shows. Experts say Tylenol is the safest option to treat pain and fever during pregnancy.

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that a Mexican national and former DACA recipient had died in their custody after being transferred to a local hospital in Victorville.”

W/alt, though I apologize that it is very disjointed alt.

People basically want the most common-sense form of public safety you can possibly imagine: They want cops and social workers who are polite and professional, who show up quickly when called and who resolve problems peacefully. That's it.

1830’s style constitutional monarchists?

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also since I was riffing on this post, I should say that Osita's book is marvelous and you all should really check it out. www.amazon.com/Right-People...

Well, this is going in my personal Al Chet this year.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

I did a story for the beginning of Navratri yesterday. Today is day 2, in honor of Ma Brahmacharini, she who has become an ascetic. As we noted yesterday, the Goddess as Sati was insulted because of her marriage to Shiva and ended her life, to be reborn as Shailaputri.

The way he was handled in Saturday Night is kind of amazing. Particularly against JK Simmons as Milton Burle. Which is… exactly as Much as you think.

The 4th Crusade is a wild ass ride. Spoiler: no non-Christians were harmed in the execution of this Crusade, unless they just happened to be in like, a neighborhood of Constantinople that burned down, or that one city the Venetians wanted that the Pope freaking told them not to seize.

'Judith Butler is an eminent queer theorist, literary theorist and philosopher, and one of the most famous public intellectuals in the United States. Butler’s name is also notable for another reason: Butler is proudly and publicly Jewish. Butler likened their public targeting to the McCarthy era.'

My shul, Congregation Bet Haverim, says this prayer every service. I thought it might be nice to share with y’all today. L’Shana Tova.

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

L’Shana Tova!

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Somebody got the memo that every single rural hospital was going to have to shut down

Was it at the sleepy lagoon?

Yay translations!

I am 100% sure that linking the armed services with evangelical Christianity decreases readiness and threatens unit cohesion. This is America. People of many different religions serve

Sep 22nd 1975 - Howard Beale, a long-time newscaster for UBS, learned he was being fired due to his ratings declining. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

You're going to hear a lot of stories about #Helene this week. I humbly ask that if you have time, to hear mine. The Buncombe County Special Collections interviewed me a month ago to talk about my experiences covering weather disasters while living one. helenehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1...

When I published this story after the first of now 4 incidents of Trump using the US military to kill boatloads of people, I didn't want to use video of the attack for the image, stills from a snuff film. Instead, I went with a Coast Guard interdiction from summer, what this normally looks like.

to restate for the audience in the back: the difference between binary and nonbinary is the difference between soup and stew. either way you call it, it's still not a fucking sandwich.

If I am ever brutally murdered, please make sure that my memorial service barely mentions me, most of my family isn’t there, and there’s a gift shop.

Ahead of the Trump administration's "historic" announcement on autism today, remember, RFK Jr. knows startingly little about autism. In fact, his views amount to a "rabbit hole filled with pseudoscience about the condition, near complete ignorance about current research and basic facts."

i feel like we're learning why this is a mistake

Garbage:

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."