dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

Got my steam controller. Much better than the first one, which has interesting ideas, but this one works great. Give traditional controls and the track pads.

This decision aims to revive a 1996 law, enacted by former President Bill Clinton, which cut welfare massively and put it in state rather than federal hands. Among other measures, the bill set in place the ability for the State Department to revoke passports of parents owing child support.

Most fascinating part (for me) of last night’s #MondayGR: Kevin Cunningham, pollster at Ireland Thinks, on how Micheál Martin is now so popular with Fine Gael voters that he’s lost Fianna Fáil’s historic support of the working class.

Disgusting racism. I’m sick and tired of Republicans getting away with blatant racism. This rhetoric should be unequivocally condemned, not ignored by GOP leadership that’s too afraid to condemn bigotry.  Rep. Kiggans must resign.

Spain's health ministry says a Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus.

My theory is that Americans struggle to see history outside our self centered understanding of the New World myth; these massive continents that lay “undiscovered” for millennia. That was absolutely not the case with the rest of the world. As soon as people could move around, they did.

It’s also a failure of geography education. Ancient Greece was as advanced as it was in no small part to its location, which was accessible to virtually the entire eastern hemisphere, making it a center of world culture. But people talk like there weren’t Africans in Greece until the 20th century!

The discourse around The Odyssey casting has made plain how badly US education has failed. People think it’s farcical that someone who looks like Zendaya or Lupita could live in Ancient Greece. We don’t understand how old the world is. How long we’ve been here. Humanity was always a race of expats.

U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public. The numbers don’t lie. Get the full story from @ahjohnson.bsky.social's collaboration with The Intercept: interc.pt/4tNXXQJ

What the hell is this? “One of the reasons the public health ‘experts’ shredded their credibility was because they shut down CHURCHES [mournful nod from cohost]. And then when George Floyd happened, they said that you HAD to go protest in the streets because that was good for public health.”

Bye 👋🏽

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:

Ida B. Wells-Barnett showed how good work and commitment can coexist with wanting to be known. Wrote her autobiography––posthumously brought to publication by her daughter––cuz of marginalization by colleagues and youth didn’t know her. Like Wemby said, “Being too humble is going to hold you back.”

Can confirm

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So Jess Phillips's big idea for combating violence against women and girls was to use technology to restrict the actions of the girls, rather than target the men exploiting the girls Convenient how Starmer not having acted on it is a resigning matter after the local elections but wasn't before them

Please help Alaa! She's a woman of immeasurable courage raising a family including a sick new baby alone with almost no support other than ours while her husband's in prison facing execution. They have rodents in their tent & need care for the baby. Boost & donate to support!

This is wonderful news, but it's also important to remember that for every individual story like this there are many thousands of immigrants living in fear and unsure if they'll be abducted at a routine check-in

This is also why the ‘ungovernable’ line is self-serving swill. We had multiple chances over the past decade to take a different path. Instead, the vipers and entitled slobs the ‘natural’ centrist leader class destroyed any alternative, fucked it themselves, and now conclude it simply can’t be done.

They are using the same thoroughly debunked witness who lied about this for the NYT.

From Gaza to Iran to our own streets, the U.S.-Israel AI partnership is fueling surveillance, militarism, and genocide. All with our tax dollars. We disrupted the AI convention to say: No AI for genocide. Fund healthcare, housing, climate justice, and communities. not endless war.

The U.S. has committed another war crime in Iran. On Monday, the U.S. military reportedly attacked two passenger boats in the Strait of Hormuz, killing 5 civilians.

NY Times: "Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel's prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators." Don't turn away from the civilians in Gaza. Every donation helps, no matter how small. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem. And help others. 🙏❤️

When I ran my mouth on Twitter about my frustrations re: the Left(s) not taking library governance seriously a few years ago & said that it was time to address this, I should have kept my big mouth shut, LMAO. On a serious note, I'll always be thankful to @dylanflesch.bsky.social for following up.

Ian Dury's birthday. I saw this little gimpy guy on TV when I was 13, clearly singing about sex, not handsome, kinda like a stray dog, wearing glitter eye make-up & amazing clothes. It was only a brief clip but I never forgot the promise it held that life outside rural Ireland could be weird & fun.

Disgusting that CNN publish these long-debunked lies as facts. The NYT reporter who "broke the original story" wanted to write a follow-up, interviewing Israeli women who'd been raped. ALL of the local hospitals she contacted told her that NO women had been treated for rape nor reported being raped

Funny timing after the NYT finally covering the IDF raping hostages with dogs. Looks like CNN has become full blown Israeli propaganda.

Yes Raz Cohen, who coincidentally has the same name as a guy who was just arrested for selling Israeli secrets to Iran for $1,000 in crypto. To be clear I highly doubt that they're the same person. www.timesofisrael.com/iron-dome-re...

That is the same guy they used as the main witness in the NYT piece too, he was found to be completely uncredible. They’re literally rerunning “screams without words” because of the NYT piece yesterday about systemic rape of Palestinians

Weird how despite the title and provacative first sentence CNN still spends half the article poking holes in the report. Also, I'm looking at the report now and it relies heavily on one guy's testimony, which seems to be accurately describing the aftermath of IDF missile strikes on civilian vehicles

publishing this the day after the nyt report that sexual violence is a key of Israels oppression of Palestinians. yall aren’t subtle.

La práctica terrorista y criminal israelí de camuflar explosivos como juguetes para asesinar niñ@s palestin@s ya la utilizaba Israel en 1974

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BONE Temple 2: Sex Criminals

As I've been saying in the comments, all roads lead back to the decision to unban the anti-trans journalist Jesse Singal, despite his inviting all his followers to join Bluesky to antagonize "the worst people on the internet" (wink) and make Bluesky safe for "normal people" (wink wink).

I'm going to update this - it clearly is deniable, as many people who seem completely in good faith are denying it. So, here's a more nuanced thread, from someone who runs moderation on a news site, about what I think happened with moderation and the trans community on Bluesky. 🧵

This sucks.

The absolute best thing about RTE's two fingers to the Eurovision and broadcasting the Song for Europe episode of Father Ted is that Graham is fuming about it, and not getting a penny for it

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The scene in the southern Lebanese town of Jebchit following an Israeli airstrike earlier this morning.

Well, the left hate him because he's the figurehead of a multi-year effort to excise them from democratic representation, the right hate him because they think he's a Muslim communist and everyone else was pretty disengaged already and he ran on change then didn't change much. That about cover it?