Today is one month to the day

I can’t describe how big of a deal this is. For years, #ActuallyAutistic women got ignored because of this stigma and #ActuallyAutistic men were seen as not having empathy.

Wow!! Simon Baron-Cohen, the Cambridge Professor who coined the term “extreme male brain theory” now says the term is “unhelpful.” “There’s a kind of myth that autistic people lack empathy.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I get canceled like once every 16 days on this site on account of my Elite Posting Status, and I'd say about 29% of the time people have a point. On the 71% of the time they don't, I don't reorient my entire personality around being a baby bitch about it, but I guess I'm just not British enough.

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mamdani and Trump giving speeches on the same day where Zohran will be like “the philosopher George Santayana once said that To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career” and Trump will be like “Keebler Elves…they live in a tree and they make food, yes they do”

Man’s been thinking about this stuff for *years* and somehow still has to do Public Service Announcement

How about literally an entire podcast where I go through every single reform and how it would work? www.thenation.com/content/cont...

🎵Whatsoever I've feared has come to life And whatsoever I've fought off became my life🎵 Spotify random decided to hit me in the face this morning.

I spoke with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about yesterday’s decision in the birthright citizenship case. That this was not a unanimous decision by the Court should mute any inclination to celebrate unreservedly.

"As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift away from physical discs to digital, physical game disc production for all new games releasing on PlayStation consoles will be discontinued starting January 2028."

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

I remember around this time maybe a little bit afterwards I was having a conversation with a writer and their entire pitch broke down along the fact people felt uncomfortable with trans people and I pointed out people are uncomfortable with Black people too so how far is that supposed to go and yeah

I remember North Carolina having to back off its bathroom bill after a concerted pushback and its been wild to witness the wholesale abandonment since.

Texas ICE arrests increasingly targeted non-criminal immigrants bit.ly/4wdIUB9 bit.ly/4wdIUB9

America turning 250 ... and spiritually everything is telling us... "Dont celebrate that"

3 weeks exactly today

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

“It’s not unusual for freestanding emergency departments and microhospitals to blur their insurance status. In fact, some experts say these operators want to be mistaken for urgent care clinics so they can attract people with minor ailments and charge hospital-level prices for their treatment.”

“In this way, Nutex is able to have the best of both worlds: It charges emergency department prices while avoiding the responsibilities that usually come with being an ER; namely, taking all comers. It’s just one way Nutex has enriched itself and its investors through exploiting loopholes in laws”

“For the past 40 years, it’s been illegal in the U.S. for emergency departments to turn away patients because of an inability to pay. But that only applies to hospitals that contract with Medicare. Houston-based Nutex Health… has opted not to at most of its hospitals, so it’s not bound by that law.”

You can tell by the tone and decline in volume when a male announcer says “ohhh he got hittt“ whenever it’s a direct shot to the nuts

Centrist and institutional Dems apparently had no capacity whatsoever to mobilize against this corrupt administration over the course of years, but they somehow have the vigor and wherewithal to try to beat down progressives instantaneously.

40 years ago today (1986), Wham’s farewell concert, officially titled "The Final," took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The eight-hour stadium spectacular was attended by 72,000 fans and featured appearances by Elton John and Simon Le Bon. #80smusic #Wham

That Belghali goal was outstanding

just used my extremely bad spanish to help a mother and daughter visiting from chile to get on the right subway for reaching the brooklyn bridge so they could walk across it. joy and wonder in little moments.

"From our 'first openly g-y character' to our thirteenth 'first openly g-y character,' we’ve been honored to provide the kind of representation you’d expect from a sprawling entertainment conglomerate led by two aggressively gendered mice."

I just put the search term ‘neo’ in to Best Buy’s website’s search box. It returned 2 Neos, 1 MacBook, and 3 Acers. Google has been ignoring search terms entered and adding search terms not entered for months. Is this just how it’s going to be from now on? Genuinely asking

What a brave, inspirational woman Lynn Callaway is. Incredible story here

Paigelynne Gonyea, the Syracuse poll worker who federal immigration agents recently confronted at her voting site as she worked an election, said in an interview with Democracy Docket that she’s exploring her legal options, including free speech violations. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

When I watch TV shows from the 90s one thing that jumps out is how everyone drives normal-sized cars, not a Gratuitously Giant Truck anywhere in sight

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

I got SO MUCH SHIT in 2021 when I posted repeatedly on Twitter that the GOP would send armed agents of the state to anywhere people voted and now its happening and it doesn‘t even trend on Bluesky

Bringing different voices onto The Handbasket is so cool. Especially someone as cool as Kim 🤩

Consolidation of church and state.

I know the shrimp thing is funny but it is such a clear cut case of how poor people, simply BECAUSE they are poor, are never supposed to have anything but food that tastes bad, clothes with holes, an unsafe car, and an unsafe place to live, if they’re lucky

Anyway, if you want an *actual* distillation of my political and social views, I actually published one this week. I know, I know, it's not a "quiz." But it's actually the best thing I've written this year. :) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The farmer Einar Guðmundsson poses with his four cats - Iceland, 1944-45. Photo: G. Ásgeirsson’s Amateur Studio.

In Colorado, jails are the default holding places for people in mental health crises. Jail officials often frame solitary confinement as a necessity for keeping people safe behind bars, but research shows isolation can worsen mental health.

They're called ternlings and you will respect their space.

Dominant Curve by Vasily Kandinsky, 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137241

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

Consolidation of church and state

Houston ISD’s state-appointed board of managers voted unanimously Thursday to adopt the state-developed Bluebonnet curriculum, which has drawn controversy for its inclusion of Bible teachings. bit.ly/4xKPUY5

From Josie Stratman (NY Daily News): “Mayor Mamdani on his "Talk with the Mayor" twitch stream reveals an old username: airnova2112 (after Mars 2112) Apparently a 15-year-old Mamdani used the username to come to the defense of his director mom, Mira Nair, from haters on online film chat boards”

Oh no Alexi Lalas. Oh no. No. No. Just no