adding this to my folder of ludicrous supposed "trans sports" bans that also includes: chess, pool, darts, sailing, Irish dancing & more. as Molly says, it's simply about removing trans ppl from the public sphere...

This is a plaque at West Point.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Criticize the mayor, get a police visit.

We also need to understand that being a drop in the ocean is meaningful, because the ocean is made entirely of drops, and more is more. Also, to ruin the metaphor, in this case drops can affect other nearby non-drops by example or compassionate conversation, turning them into more drops.

In the service? Nonpartisan advice available if an order seems wrong. www.ordersproject.com

Don't look away. Believe your eyes and ears.

My college tuition, in the 1970's, was never more than $250/semester. All the families I knew growing up were single income households, with 2 cars, nice homes, & 2 weeks paid vacation. As a teenager, a summer job would be enough to buy one's 1st car. Used, but good enough. Then - Reagan happened.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Rabbi Tarfon would say: You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now.

“Constitutional rules, Constant contended, must be maintained, sustained, and strengthened by a passion for civic virtue. This view of the role of both the vigilant citizen and public servant is intended to bolster, not negate, institutional restraints.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-spirit-o...

um, maybe the news should be covering this?

@ypsilibrary.org @multcolib.bsky.social Your attention to this matter is kindly requested.

Today in linguists are not kidding when we say your capacity for language includes the ability to understand sentences that have never been produced before in human history

Balanced look at Minnesota day care. www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

I hope Congress acts asap to make this guidance ultimately unnecessary, but until then, offering some guidance and tips if you or a loved one’s care access is being impacted due to federal inaction.

I just wanted to call attention to this: fewer than 10 of Washington State's student athletes are out as trans. The state has 250k student athletes. If there were 250, trans kids would be underrepresented by more than 1,000. Our schools bully trans kids to keep them out of society. And they win.

I hate this phrasing and how it buys into what is essentially a falsehood about the autonomy of chatbots that is RIGHT NOW deforming our entire law and society. Grok doesn't say anything. That's like saying 'Microsoft Word apologized for losing everyone's files' www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

“The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.” @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the year in politics. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7co9Uv

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Factcheck: Mostly true.

The world can't force me to feel one way or the other. Only I have the reins of that particular horse. And I prefer serenity. I can act appropriately in a crisis without ever feeling panic, rage, or despair. My actions, not my feelings, are what matter. Action, not anger, makes things better.

billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something

Whaddaya mean, you didn't know the British were making computers with uranium instead of silicon? You've never heard of fission chips?

Didja hear about the breatharian who bought an air fryer?

Interesting article about the nature of the « I told you so » people and those who dismissed them. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Weirdness is a green flag. Be weird. 🥲

False advertising is everywhere. The store display promised "2026 calendars" but there were barely a few dozen.

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.

What power tool is so dangerous that it was made illegal? The banned saw.

Thoughtful piece about Christianity by David French. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

Like…it’s so easy! "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783

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There was a FOR LEASE sign, which attracted a clever vandal. Someone spray painted underneath NAVIDAD

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

If you're a booknerd, librarian or library who follows me, get ready. The ALA is about to GO OFF.

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

all the "what would you do if your kid was XYZ" arguments all have the same goddamn answer: love them. hold them. cherish them. guide them as best you can. let them make their decisions, be their own person, live their lives. just be there for them every step of the way. so simple, yet...

If a stone knife is made of stone, and a bronze knife is made of bronze, and a steel knife is made of steel, and a ceramic knife is made of ceramic, they must be truly foolish people who buy butter knives.