i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

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Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Two things: (1) “Candidates should be authentic communicators driven by their values & rooted in community” is in direct tension with “candidates should hold [insert ideology here]” (2) Unless you’re proactively getting people to run, you don’t really get a say in any of this!

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Blaming mothers for autism has a history. A terrible, false, cruel history that helped no one and hurt many.

Gonna go outside and work on the boat, as is only proper.

Packers lose! America* celebrate. *Minnesota edition

Blocked kick in Cleveland!

Nerdy historical question of the day; please repost if you can: Has there been any comparative study of the career of Modu, Chanyu of the Xiongnu empire, and that of Chinggis Khan’s rise to power?

This was before the last fumble force

ISAIAH ROGERS (is not a name I really knew before today but I know him now)

Wentzing plus penalties letting bengals stay in the game

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

the combo of "2020 was terrible for dems bc of lockdowns and the george floyd riots" a- who was president in 2020? b- who won the 2020 election?

“Was Joe Biden president when the thing happened that Republicans are blaming on Joe Biden?” Difficulty level for political reporters … impossible.

Anyway browning is no penix

Carson Wentz …

I love Narnia but Santa as an arms dealer will never not make me laugh.

Presbyterian Pastor David Black in the trenches protesting ICE. Read liberation theologians like Gutierrez, Boff, and so many more. The time is already now. www.chicagofirstchurch.org/pastor-black/

This is the Sinclair station in the Twin Cities: thecwtc.com

My sort of crank, not thought through theory is that as MBA brain has proliferated, management of businesses has gotten more and more divorced from the particulars of the businesses they’re managing, and CEOs’ jobs are “business” in the same way Ken’s job is “beach.”

It’s good thing the US has no enemies given the opsec levels.

There is a tight self-reinforcing relationship between my mental health and cooking good protein. I cook well when I’m in good shape. But if I cook well, it can get me back in a good shape. But if I cook badly, it can knock me down. If I’m already down, I cook badly. I made good chicken today.

Weird way to talk about Josh Allen but I believe it’s likely

I think one additional reason that time feels so full right now is that people not paying attention have not fully grasped how bad things could get *and* at the same time the people paying attention are often forgetting how many "good" paths remain open -- both depending on choices still to be made.

you live in a place with an ABC network affiliate owed by Nextstar or Sinclair, the Republican megaconglomerates that put the regime up to this decision, watch it for a few hours and write down the advertisers. (In Chicago, that means ABC-7, WGN.) 2/x

History often turns on unexpected pivots. The aspiring dictator has probed the limits of his power by getting a comedian fired. This has been met with significant pushback by both ordinary and powerful people. Tipping points like these can make a difference. 1/x

i wish I were going to farm aid only with, like, only 40-50 people so I wouldn't have a panic attack from the crowds. I mean 40-50 people total. in the whole stadium.

goals.

A little justice, as a treat

someday I hope we prosecute at least the crimes we know about

Maybe we could not have them in every browser and desktop by default ….

This should be pointed out more often. To the extent that Bsky is an ideological outpost, it’s not the first. Why are they so obsessed with us.

I long for the day when this podcast is no longer relevant. But if you're still trying to understand sex testing and gender in sports, I made this for you. There are transcripts on the site if you don't like listening to stuff.

Acquire The Bright Ages and global medieval reads not only for the informative content but also for the delicate paw rest. @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Hemingway’s heir

This is why, if your goal is to stoke moral panic about right wingers feeling they can’t express bigotry without social scorn, FIRE is very useful. But if your goal is to actually track freedom of speech on campuses, they are useless … or worse, an agent of speech repression.

Me: trying to gently push back on the University President's 'cancel culture' example on an Academic Freedom. University President who asked me to be on the panel with him: 'You're very outspoken for an untenured junior female'

Let’s have a party* *you know what I mean

That’s never bothered Americans before.

In my one fox business appearance, Kennedy tried to “gotcha” me by saying cars kill people and we don’t ban them … I responded as you might expect (license, liability, etc) and she changed the subject.

I’m also beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting both students and faculty make bigoted remarks in college classrooms wasn’t about protecting academic freedom or promoting intellectual diversity.

the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does

Just cancelled Disney+. I've seen arguments that this could hurt good creators, and we should focus instead on taking down Iger and those fully responsible for bowing to fascist censorship. But currently, as an overwhelmed individual in another country, what else can I do to send a message?

800 years of scholarly tradition chucked down the drain in favour of the literal stupidest bullshit in the world cos a couple billionaires opened their wallets.

Please understand who contributed to getting us here. If those people are not explaining how they helped get to this moment, then you should act accordingly.