One puzzle we’re going to have to solve after Trump is how to rebuild trust in institutions. You can and should say “don’t listen to the CDC here”, but that’s also undermine trust in institutions, which is also part of their agenda. It’s a nasty little trap and I don’t know how to get out of it.

This is not a euphemism. I really like researching plants' native environments, putting together potting mixes based on that, and then physically moving plants to the new pot

Let Me Re Pot Your Plants

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

the research is clear: get yourself exposed to female peers nber semigated version: www.nber.org/papers/w34269

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Let's talk about how "ammonia" (NH₃) gets its name 🧪. Along the way, we'll talk about Alexander the Great, ancient Egyptian gods & a Roman misunderstanding. Let's start with these giant CASTLES made for PIGEONS in Siwa, Egypt, a tiny desert town built around an oasis, with 2 dry salt lakes nearby.

The mayor of Providence signed an executive order banning the police from working with ICE. You love to see it

I feel like it is in fact incumbent on us to talk about what it signifies when a large group of people are deliberately imprisoned by a government en masse despite being known to have committed no crime on the basis of their demographics.

A troubling video circulating on X has put a California dentist under fire after she openly bragged about giving inferior care to patients who aren’t Trump supporters.

i think a lot of 🧪 folks will be interested in this analysis…

Wow, they’re closing a *ton* of Starbucks locations in Greater Boston/Camberville. Like 15 or so? At least 2 union locations, including the Davis Square location, which *just* voted to unionize, and the one on Comm Ave near Amory St

geoguessr find of the day: this Belgian cyclist and her bag

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Israel: We are not starving Palestinians, Hamas are Flotilla: Ok, we will sail to Palestine and directly feed Palestinians Israel: That makes you Hamas Flotilla: But you just said Hamas are starving Palestinians? Israel: 💥 💥 💥

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Remember when Bill Clinton used to walk across the street to use a private telephone just to make a fundraising call? They thought it was too unseemly to use the White House for partisan or personal gain. Now it’s “anything goes”! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

keeping it in the group chat

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SCOOP: The Onion has made a Jeffrey Epstein movie and @manishakrishnan.bsky.social a) has seen it and b) presents you with the trailer

RFK Jr fired everyone on ACIP, out of concern for conflicts of interest, but he’s made an embarrassment out of this whole country by saying Tylenol causes autism based on a study by a guy who made $150k testifying against Tylenol…and whose testimony was so unreliable it was thrown out by the judge.

My neighbor and I TNR feral cats and sometimes we name them after jazz musicians. I named one cat Coltrane, but unfortunately the clinic employee in charge of writing that down must have been unfamiliar with jazz. There’s now a feral cat out there whose government name is Coal Train.

This is Parking Lot. The vets always love her name

Heard the vet nurse ask for "Oedipuss" once and my eyebrows went up so fast.

Took my cat to the vet today and asked the people at the front desk what the weirdest pet name they’d ever encountered was One of them said, immediately, “Well, nothing’s going to beat ‘Cocaine’”

This list really puts in perspective just how silly it is to delay this show over this one guy.

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Also—as ever—it enables them to pose as the victim of evil attackers. A handy way to try to justify threats and extremism. “We’re defending ourselves.”

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

science is so amazing look, when I was a teenager hiv/aids was basically a death sentence

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

An apparent sniper shot two detainees at an ice office in Dallas this morning. No Gestapo members were injured only the detainees were killed.

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

The most basic tenet of conservatism is that the past was better than the present & all change is bad. Which by definition pits parents against children. Which is how they see the world. They're the parents, & we're being bad & must be taught respect, no matter what. "How dare you question me?"

Once a streamer got paid more than twice what i was paid in a year just to play the game I was working on and I'll never forget it.

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Happy Hobbit Day to all who celebrate! Have a second breakfast, lembas bread and potatoes but also, love your friends and be there for your community. And remember that there's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for.

Someone said “what does this mean” So I’ll try this My mom once told me “Sometimes the only way to be a good Christian you gotta stop going to a bad church” If you believe in love and peace , and they CHOOSE otherwise It becomes your duty to leave

This large Swedish study found no association between acetaminophen & autism using matched sibling controls. Also no dose-response effect. Ppl who use acetaminophen while pregnant differ in many ways from those who do not, & using sibling controls was a great way to reduce unmeasured confounding

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Kneeling quietly for racial justice is “too political,” but building a shrine to Charlie Kirk at the 50-yard line is totally fine? Hypocrisy doing backflips in cleats. 🏈🙃 - @jpe1974.bsky.social #DoubleStandards #SportsArePolitical

I can't believe we spent 3+ years failing to convince people that yes a Harvard epidemiologist and a Hopkins medic and a Stanford economist can be totally full of shit. Such is the dangerous power of institutional prestige.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.