This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

Per photographer Matthew Kaplan this morning, ICE has now fenced off the street in front of the Broadview processing facility.

Happy Bisexual Visibility Day to my fellows and the friends and family of all of the fellows. Below is a gif of all of us becoming visible for a day.

Attorney General Todd Rokita issues legal guidance supporting firing educators or teachers making statements about Charlie Kirk. via @indianacapitalchronicle.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/roki...

The Administration is playing a game of "heads I win, tails you lose." Heads: I get to be a racist prick and arrest an immigant. Tails: You do anything about it, and we call in the National Guard and claim an insurrect. Federal agents are fragle. Touch them and it's a felony.

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...

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Blame-the-mother theses first appeared around the diagnosis of autism in the decades following World War II. And though they eventually became a black mark on the history of psychology and child development, society's willingness to blame moms has never really gone away.

As @bylinetimes.bsky.social documented: bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Link without paywall: archive.is/SRTY5#select...

That won't work, unfortunately. In 2022, Visa was successfully sued as a criminal conspirator for the distribution of CSAM in a case against MindGeek. Once that precedent was established, every payment provider asked "How do we get merchants to block CSAM while still allowing smut?"

Yup!!! I fuckin *love* cooking, but a Stouffer’s lasagna on a night when I’ve worked all day is the only way we get fed. Is my homemade lasagna better? Absolutely. But as the saying goes “fed is best”. Don’t let them make you think you have to do it all by hand with no recompense.

20 programs.

Indefensible betrayal of the Charter

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

The Heritage Foundation is urging the FBI to see speech in favor of trans rights as an incitement to violence. Perfectly normal day in our great country. Plus, schools are finding out how cruel anti-trans laws impact their students, and an inspiring effort to help poor trans people afford hormones.

The question I have is - why was this study done. What was the prompt to think there might be a correlation?

It's the old right-wing playbook of demonizing the homeless, gutting programs and essential services that eradicate homelessness, then further demonizing them as a drain on resources and a threat to social cohesion. You can always judge a society on how they treat their most vulnerable citizens.

Christianity is an inclusive faith. To become a Christian, the first (and only) requirement is to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior. Many Christians take this as the only step. It gives a seat in the post-mortem country club.

I wrote about how Facebook (née Meta) destroys everything a while back - based in part on my experiences in the early 2010s as a reporter in Southeast Asia - and each month, each day, they somehow manage to find new ways to become more evil. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

Folks saying "why did it take Kimmel for folks to get upset?!?" Like are y'all new here? 😭 😭 I thought we all understood why well trained activists tell folks to put the white folks upfront and in the frontline of most protest actions?? They ain't moving until they see themselves in the victim

While there's risk (to you and others) for signing up for their mailing list, there is no risk to using their website and just showing up at the protest march. See my prior posts on basic security options to take.

bloody hell get a load of this

god told Harrison Butker to miss the kick and even though Harrison Butker did not understand god’s mysterious ways Harrison Butker missed it because of his great faith; unfortunately for Harrison Butker god is a bit of a scamp and was doing it for the lulz

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

"On Sept. 15, a vigil at Arizona State University’s (ASU) Desert Financial Arena took place. This was the same campus where two TPUSA employees, Kalen D’Almeida and Braden Ellis, followed and assaulted a queer professor who had been smeared by the organization’s Professor Watchlist."

Start brainstorming: It is apparently 100% OK to sell merchandise at funerals of right wingers. Trump isn't long for this world. Start building your catalog of designs for merch, and remember, most T-shirt vendors need four days of lead time before pickup.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Probably gonna be a lot of autism misinformation tomorrow, so please, if you need anyone to talk to about it, it’s not me, because you’re a grown adult willing listening to that man who sounds like a garbage disposal with a Lego in it.

What I'm seeing is they leave a bigger a mess than Swifties, are slightly better than the average college football fan, and far far worse than a typical protest march. Did their mothers ever make them clean their room? Isn't "Clean Your Own Room" one of JorPen's Mantras of Manliness?

They did their best with this Kirk martyrdom stuff and there's just not much left to do, now. They will keep overreaching, because it is their only move, and we will keep slapping them back.

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

I’m not a mathematician, economist or anything close to that, but it’s interesting that 32/87 roughly = 10/25….

Young people are already the most tolerant folks in the country. No one ever proposes making people 50+ do national service or some such because no one believes you can make them do anything, while it's generally accepted that young people exist to be commanded and pay for everyone else's bullshit.

With all the talk about freedom of speech and what is allowed speech and not allowed speech, I thought I would share my general guidelines as to what is not allowed as a professor, as we're people who are traditionally allowed a lot of latitude in what we can talk about. Three main things:

What people who say H1Bs are abused seem to mean is that brown people get visas and they don't like that. And they should have to say that with their whole chest and not hide behind weasel words.

Volunteers baking fresh bread for frontline communities hfu.org #hfu #hopeforukraine

FIVE HOURS of Charlie Kirk Memorial in the midst of an NFL FOOTBALL SUNDAY??? lmfao this seals it, conservatives gave up football in the national divorce. the gridiron is left-coded now

The FBI says there was insufficient evidence to charge Tom Homan with bribery because in the video of undercover agents handing him a bag of cash he did not say “Thank you for this bribe.”

Col. Lee forbade anyone from using his likeness in Confederate uniform. His daughters continued refusing this after his death in 1870. It was his grandchildren who gave permission to the DoC in the latter 1910s. Tearing down those statues is what he'd want done.

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

Walt Disney was a fan of Fascist movements of the early '30s, was casually racist and anti-Semitic, and got image rehab for making WWII propaganda films for the US government. He loathed FDR's New Deal. He's also an archetypal case of "If your boss refers to workers as family, organize a union."

Compared to what right wing grifters want their sexless followers to believe, Tiptree's "The Screwfly Solution" is positively heartwarming and bucolic.

This administration’s staggering corruption is dangerous beyond belief. And it’s a complete slap in the face to every single family working hard to put food on the table.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

And, no, I'm not being hyperbolic.

Might have the basis for a government interference with religious freedom case, because this arrest and detainment was clearly based on his religious beliefs. However, the second question a judge will ask of the plaintiff is: "If you win, how do we make this just?" And that one's hard.