Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Maybe it's providing childcare they can't afford. Maybe it's money. Maybe it's protesting. We all have our things we can do, and it starts in our communities.

Maybe it's picking up prescriptions for your disabled or trans neighbors. Maybe it's being a buddy so a marginalized person doesn't have to go somewhere alone. Maybe it's being an escort at an abortion or gender affirming care clinic. Maybe it's making food for neighbors who can't make their own.

"So what do you suggest we do to fight Trump?" Find people in your community who need help, and help them. We all have skills. Maybe it's giving rides to people who don't have cars. Maybe it's going to the grocery store so your immigrant or racialized neighbors don't have to when ICE is around.

Remember, for every person doing frontline work(anything involving active confrontation be it frog protests or anything spicier and more kinetic in nature), there is a critical need for something like seventeen people doing rear echelon work of every skill type.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

a real water is wet scenario here

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

...y'don't say.

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

lastly, a common rebuttal to contaminant reporting is that there are unavoidable levels of lead in lots of foods. some context: taking just one serving of one of the powders we tested would expose you to 45% more lead than the average american gets from everything they eat/drink in a day combined

not only that, but research suggests there's little to no benefit to over-consuming protein unless you're actively restricting calories AND doing intense resistance training (in which case it helps you lose less muscle) but even the experts can't get folks to believe this! the myth is too strong!

i feel like this story is particularly important right now, because protein-maxxing is *so* in vogue. before working on this, i believed i was woefully protein deficient it turns out that's just a myth that has been floating around for decades—the average american gets more than enough protein!!

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

nearly all the plant-based products we tested had elevated lead levels: vegan powders had 9x as much lead as dairy and 2x as much as beef though dairy-based powders had the lowest levels, half were still too contaminated for safe daily use you may be asking: how could this be? well...

two of the products we tested — Huel's Black Edition meal replacement powder and Naked Nutrition's vegan mass gainer — had enough lead that our experts caution against using them at all a single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600% of CR’s level of concern for lead

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

I'm clearly not cut out to be a reporter bc I would have lost my shit immediately

Ah, so that "Future of AI in Canada" survey was just a fig leaf after all

One half of the government won't acknowledge this man is permanently out to lunch because they directly profit from the malfeasance he enables, and the other half refuses because it would be impolite and unfair.

seriously for fucks sake cancel your spotify subscription

here's what you do: -make a list of all your saved albums etc on spotify -delete spotify -go find that shit elsewhere. buy what you can. for non-indie stuff, pirating them nearly gets them the same amount of money as streaming does -have a nice time

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Do you notice how the state basically cannot function any longer without using constant screaming all-channels terror and moral panics to force through deeply unpopular and immoral policies

The government continuing to incite fear and hatred against members of the public here, hand in hand with our horrible, poisonous media outlets, both to evade responsibility for their own conduct and to fill space that might otherwise be stories about how unpopular they are and how much they suck.

Meantime I don't watch 99% of Thai GLs because they're tedious boring fluffslop with questionable acting lol. No amount of rep, on its own, can make me praise and respect a work. It kind of has to have other things going for it.

It fails to function as a metaphor for corrective rape btw because, hey guess what, men who threaten to do that don't actually dress up in drag. 'Drag queens want to SA little girls' also goes down a really bad path for very obvious reasons.

I guess in some kind of fantasy vacuum you could write 'a man in DRAG and HEAVY makeup wants to tear the uterus out of a lesbian and usurp her symbol of femininity and lesbianism' and have it carry no implications. I don't think any of us lives in that fantasyland though.

all my flowers gone

Additional news… apnews.com/article/alas...

Anytime there is a flood in the continental US, it is the biggest story across all social media. Apparently, the same as not true for a catastrophe in Alaska. There was a typhoon yesterday morning and much of western Alaska is now underwater with homes with people in them just floating away. 1/

This is, in all seriousness, probably a fatal blow to American democracy, even if it ends up taking a long time for the consequences to finish playing out. But once you get into the pattern of ruling by decree, it's very hard to get out.

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery. She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting” She had to return to the hospital. These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill. They must be held accountable.

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

For all the students at the social work uni intensive who told me they now use AI at work to write up case reports: NDIS participant’s bid for more support failed in part because two physiotherapists used AI to write letters used to back her claim to top up her package www.afr.com/politics/bid...

So not only do NDIS participants have to navigate the NDIS bureaucracy - they also have to navigate the competence of third party contractors accountable to no one. Oh and managing THEIR DISABILITIES.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

It's honestly terrifying how many people think Corbyn is relevant in this discussion at all. He's not in the Green Party. He's dramatically failed to start his own new party, siding with transphobic landlords over the left.

What I love about all these celebs who are trying to save their reputation by playing ignorant is that this only works the quieter that lunatic JK is. You know, the person who just started dropping Hitler quotes to millions of people around the time their tired ass audiobook cast got announced.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...