I saw her documentary Unrest in 2019. It was how i discovered about this absolutely devastating ting that viruses, any given virus, can do to people in their wake. I remember the early days of 2020 feeling like I was standing on a shore, watching a tsunami so big it blotted out the sky roll in

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

This is not the first time we've seen federal agents direct chemical agents indiscriminately at members of the public in Chicago. Not at people attacking them or even protestors, just people going on with their day. bsky.app/profile/roya...

Before this gets out of hand, I watched Pluribus earlier tonight and, yes, that's inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. I had a quick chat with Big T and we'll have a conference call ASAP. The Bald One, the Scotsman, and the One Who Counts Cards will also be there. 🧪🍩😷

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

It is a massive mistake to strip tens of millions of people of their health insurance. It’s an outright betrayal of what families need.

primary every democrat, i don’t give a shit, but the cause of your suffering is the republican party and there are a lot of you who need to learn to hate them more — and i do mean hate — than you hate your allies

this is designed in a lab to be maximally enraging *because* it is true. this die was cast in 2024 when dems lost all control and everything from then to now that immiserates you is the fault of republicans, who won’t listen and don’t care, which is lightning level enraging.

general vibe:

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

If the opposition party hadnt already been useless to address the threat before this mess we wouldnt be in this mess hope that clears things up

Radicalizing shit, really

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The meeting was much more likely airlines offering them a lot of money.

so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.

*double sigh*

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

“.. When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas.” $NVDA @cwarzel.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Hi, are any Romanians following me? I need to talk to you about something.

The WAY legacy media will platform a discussion blaming women for men’s problems, but not one about how blaming women for men’s problems is one of men’s problems

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

The concept of safety being a "feeling" vs. the ability to discern you are in an objectively harmful environment has truly bug zapped people's brain cells.

To be fair, I think any scene in a TV show where a woman unapologetically says to a room full of people, "I'm smart enough to know--" is 'That's ME!' but also, not coincidentally, I don't think I've ever see a woman do that on a TV show before.

who is doing careful & robust work studying the economic impacts to the US from this administration’s immigration policy changes, and immigration enforcement operations…?

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people. Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.

I told myself I would watch the first five minutes of Pluribus Literally had muscle cramps the rest of the night after being frozen in place for an hour

Listening to @erictopol.bsky.social interview w/former CDC director Susan Monarez abt the shooting at the CDC and its so clear how primary the communicable disease rn is this anti-social reactionary violence. You cant even have a public health w/this pathology as it undermines its very foundation.

i think this weighing of monstrosities thing kind of sucks, but i also think it's depressing as hell how many monstrosities are out there stalking the earth today

you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos bsky.app/profile/sjsh...

What has happened to Lavrov? A ☕ B 🍣 C 🪟 D 🌂

Not only do they not value hotness in women, but furthermore it is actually preferable if women arent hot. As this reactionary chart of “female attractiveness“ culminating in a face that looks like a man in a wig shows.

i hate repeating myself but it's worth noting that the reactionary right doesn't actually value hotness in women. what they value is submission to male power, regardless of how it looks. this is why they are all-in on grotesque plastic surgeries

Russian famine even

"Conservative feminism" is not a thing. The patriarchy has learned to speak the language of empowerment. It borrows feminist words—“choice,” “agency,” “strength”—but drains them of their meaning, using them to defend inequality. msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Chinese naval analysts trying to make sense of it all staring at a map of American ships doing doughnuts between Venezuela and Nigeria.

As the saying goes, Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.

When January 6th happened, it was crystal clear that MAGA had rejected democracy. It was a full masks off authoritarian move. Yet, we collectively chose to whitewash it 1/x

Read every word. This is what the US government is doing to terrorize a major American city. Authoritarianism is here. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

“In ‘Purge, Merge, and Surge,’ Moynihan details how the administration is creating a federal ‘omniforce’ accountable to Trump that he can use to ‘impose control over Democratic cities, instigate enough unrest to justify escalation, and tamp down any dissent.’” www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...

Reagan-appointed federal judge: "justice is supposed to be administered...equally for everyone, without fear or favor. This is the opposite of what is happening now....Day after day, I observed in silence as President Trump, his aides, & his allies dismantled so much of what I dedicated my life to."

I am only one ep in but it is absolutely hilarious to me, a person still masking five years in to a pandemic no one is allowed to talk about.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Class warfare is never a $1 trillion compensation package or starving 42 million people who could easily be fed

5- When combined and looking at the correlation between all of these and past waves, it looks like COVID is still quite active in the US in spite of what we are led to believe. www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling...

4- This is some of the data available until the shutdown. A strong correlation is very obvious.