I think that some people, particularly powerful men, are under the impression that we underwent a seismic cultural shift in the past 20 years whereby holding 15 year old girls hostage on a private rape tourism island suddenly became beyond the pale and that simply did not happen.

“Monroe ultimately called over 40 religious establishments, but only nine offered any [baby formula] assistance, including a Buddhist temple, an Islamic center, several Catholic churches, and a historically Black church. “Among those who failed to come through were Joel Osteen’s Houston […]

OMFG "Her critics are plainly ignorant, and their gripe is...with the American Academy of Pediatrics. It defines puberty as beginning at age ten for whites & Hispanics & nine for African Americans. A pedophile is a person who has sex w/a prepubescent male or female, meaning someone 10 or younger."

16 Nov 2025 -- As US Bishops overwhelmingly vote to cut off all affirming care for trans patients getting medical treated in Catholic hospitals Pope Leo XIV meets and dines with trans Catholic activists during annual Church Jubilee of the Poor. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Randos are sharing random decontextualized email snippets to imply all manner of things, and it's hard to blame them because there was never any proper accounting or accountability. The press could have supplied that 10-15 years ago. It can't now, partly because it didn't then.

Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.

Load in onto a hard drive and hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

How Ron Dreher has been afforded the luxury of pretending HE are not the bad guy they warn you about.

labour just completely collapsing, leading to a complete realignment. what a disaster.

Labour just going all in on bigotry of every sort is absolutely gutting.

A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender. All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.” And I’ve thought about that every day since.

Public Transport Odin is on his way to see Sinterklaas #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #publictransport #sinterklaas

Sinterklaas will be here any minute y’all #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #sinterklaas

Two years ago, I wrote at very great length about how this played out in Myanmar. It is so upsetting to see how many of the same dynamics are at work here now. https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Attn: he has awakened! And did a circle! And went back to sleep! Stay tuned for more #caturday updates :neocat_bongo_up: #catsofmastodon #cats

The United States imports about $142 billion in goods from Vietnam every year. This year American businesses and consumers were paying an extra 40% for all of those goods so Trump and his family could enrich themselves. In what is becoming a clear pattern for Trump he is illegally using his […]

The Epstein Network — https://epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com/ (nerds are amazing)

TN-7 Candidate @aftynbehn.bsky.social : "If you’re not OK with the chaos at our federal government, are upset with the cost of living & inflation, then I'm your candidate… I’ve never taken corporate PAC money, which is important- because are you fighting for the people or your donors?"

Wow.

trump has been credibly accused of raping an 13 year old in Epstein's home, as Kate Manne discusses. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

deplatforming people can be quite effective. even in our era of fragmented media, denying people access to major platforms tends to reduce their footprint, denies them resources, reduces their influence.

Brett Kavanaugh should need to buy Mr. Aceituno a new pickup.

"New disclosures posted Saturday...show that Trump’s purchases of at least $82 million include bonds from Netflix Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., Boeing Co., Meta Platforms Inc., Home Depot Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Intel Corp., of which the US government acquired a stake under his administration."

This is rich from MTG. God knows how many trans people have had to deal with hate and abuse because of her. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And Chris Meloni for the epic shade of the week award! #Funny Threads

Luna in Jay Cooke State Park #dogsofmastodon

I am grateful every day that so many of the worst people in politics are stupid. Things are horrible but they could be a lot worse with an ounce of intelligence.

FUCKING -GMAIL-???

Even as a digital forensic investigator who’s seen people dragged to prison for their darkest evil impulses, I’m still stunned by so many powerful people letting their vices draw them into an incompetent circle of depravity and susceptibility to blackmail. Billionaires are truly maladjusted idiots.

Gosh.

Finally got to see One Battle After Another, in a big Imax theater. My take [drum roll] ... the critical consensus is correct, it's really good! Shambolic Leo is my favorite Leo.

On UFC running ICE ads

Just watched an ICE recruitment ad during UFC 332 🤮

Jensen Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, is now loudly cozying up to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, even though Wright is fully on board with the Trump administration’s climate denial policies. A so-called “climate science” report Wright’s Department of Energy released in […]

Apparently the lesson Brendan Carr learned from the Kimmel debacle is that he didn't actually have any consequences for abusing his power to violate the 1st Amendment, so he's just going to keep at it.

one of the worst decisions by obama was giving summers a role in his admin; one of the best decisions by biden was not doing that.

damn, i like pbs news weekend and donated to keep it alive, i guess it wasnt enough

Happy Caturday to all our Fediverse cat loving friends (which must surely be most of you). Badger and Ping Pong (formerly - and still occasionally - known as Pangolin) know where the warmest place in the house is, during the winter wood stove season. They (and […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

‘I’m gonna need a note from your doctor saying you’re dead otherwise you’re gonna have to feed me’ #Caturday

being able to play sports at a professional level is based on objective talent in a way that almost nothing else is. as a result it's more open to marginalized ppl.

(arts and esp athletics are much less white and male than most high earning professions specifically because they are more meritocratic)

Federal immigration enforcement agents descend on North Carolina’s largest city, making arrests in multiple locations. https://www.wbtv.com/2025/11/15/federal-officials-confirm-officers-have-begun-charlotte-immigration-enforcement/

so often "elites" really include everyone *except* white male billionaires.

certain people (while male cishet capitalists) are seen as entitled to wealth. other people (including workers!) are seen as entitled to nothing.

in contrast, people who actually do have incredible skills and have made their money through work (actors and athletes) are smeared as entitled and ungrateful and undeserving (ie elitists)

actors and athletes are often perceived as being especially entitled *because* they are labor (and because they are often Black/women/LGBT) 1

"A dramatic step in public rehabilitation"? THAT'S what this is?

Trying to, anyway. But we need to start talking about how invalid these pardons likely are.

An awful lot of these stories...

I want a ticket to anywhere