Huh--it's like Project 2025 is actually a thing. Who would thunk that Trump and his minions were lying about that? So out of character!

She is a hero, & we ALL need to hear this message and to see how to speak truth to power. It will almost certainly have no effect on its target audience, who has a blackened mass of dead worms where his heart should be, and it sickens me we have to plead for decency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...

Yes, we should point to the outrage of pardoning rioters who did grievous harm to police officers. But let's please not lose sight of the fact that even if no police officers had been injured, Trump just pardoned more than a thousand people seeking to overturn a fair democratic election.

And that's just for starters. . .

Our democratic republic is in grave danger. We need to figure out how to preserve it and to protect the most vulnerable among this. My hate for this woeful failure of a human being is just one smidgen less than my love for my country--I hate him in part BECAUSE I love my country.

Not listening to The Great Bloviator. Saving my energy for the fight ahead.

Sen. Reed is doing a fine job laying out why it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as SecDef. If only I were more confident that the truth of his awful record on so many fronts were sufficient to lead to his rejection by the Senate.

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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

We can't get bogged down in every little thing he does and says. He's trying to burn us out and make us give up.

I am NOT apologizing to the rest of the world for this grasping, corrupt, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, and otherwise-bigoted lunatic. ALONG WITH SO MANY OF YOU, I WORKED MY BUTT OFF TO STOP HIM FROM GETTING BACK IN POWER. But those who voted for him should. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

The French version of the Cass review. Make yourself aware of it and tell everyone. It even goes as far as to say that Cass is wrong. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

Well, at least there's ONE piece of good news on this dreadful day. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/n...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

If you voted for Trump, you not only betrayed this brave veteran and police officer, you betrayed the American ideals he put his life on the line for. No policy difference, no philosophical position could justify this undermining of our most fundamental beliefs or processes. tinyurl.com/muxm6y58

If you haven't read Elspeth Barker's _O Caledonia_ (1991), I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a brilliant, brief novel that combines the Gothic and bildungsroman in a particularly compelling way--luminous natural history writing combined with razor sharp social observation. #Bookthreads

I just got into a very unedifying 'debate' on Threads with a male TERF from the UK. When I asked him why he was so hostile to transwomen and not transmen, this was the response. Embarrassing and damaging incoherence and characteristic of the exchange on the whole.

Utter, imperialist lunacy being normalized by a network watched by millions. Try not coddling the wannabe dictator so enthusiastically @cnn.com.

Right wing voters' capacity to believe that none of the horrors GOPers *promise to do* will happen to them is nearly limitless. Psst, y'all: you are "those people" to 45 and his minions. They hate you just like they hate everyone.

That face-eating leopard is gonna needed Ozempic. P

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

Recipe for a public health disaster: 1) Elect a destructive, narcissistic ignoramus openly contemptuous of anybody's expertise but his own "stable genius."

Trump is promising to create "a second-class tier of children who could be expelled with their parents as part of Trump’s promised mass deportations." Horrendous man, political malpractice by everyone involved to let Stephen Miller get a second shot at this. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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And also as my wife says, under my new button.

Brave and crucial work from @texasobserver.org. Particular thanks to the investigators Steven Monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social and Tristan Lee @trislee.bsky.social for their expert work! www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Still time to book your tickets for what promises to be a splendid lecture by Professor Michael Gamer. Friday 13th December, Mappin Hall, Sheffield Uni @6pm.

My faculty union, TAUP, is hiring a part-time organizer to work alongside our amazing full- and part-time staff. Please share to anyone looking for a higher ed labor job in the Philadelphia region. unionjobs.com/listing.php?...

Mike DeWine and everybody supporting this bill are reprehensible bigots punching downward to make life harder for a vulnerable group of people just trying to live their lives. Trans people I know are super-tough--they have to be to survive such poisonous stupidity. But they shouldn't have to be.

I am sure I am not the first person to say this, but "me, too" means the fucking opposite of "Yes, I also sexually harassed or raped a woman or am so.ehow complicit in such actions and am thus an excellent candidate for The Filth's cabinet." #Trump'sCabinetofHorrors

This is one of the security lines for the Philly Half Marathon, 10 mins after start time. Luckily, we picked another fate for Sasha and he got in on time. But real logistical fail here.

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Leak the report. Pass it on.

The McMahon nom is just more evidence that he is out to wreck any system that opposes his willfully ignorant, cruel view of the universe by putting people in charge contemptuous of the missions of the agencies they are leading. _Idiocracy_ an optimistic forecast.

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This was an odd movie to be taken to as a seven-year-old. But I decided to make it theme of my life. I mean, it was either that or _Star Wars_. I think I made the right choice.

www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n... There is no bottom to the greed and cruelty of these oligarchs. But they are mitigating this in the arch-conservative 5th Circuit. So this outrageous suit stands a chance.

Happy to be here! English prof at Temple specializing in 18th c. British, esp. Scottish, former President and active member of my local (TAUP/AFT #4531), proud father of a son and queer daughter, fortunate husband, unapologetically Jewish and anti-Occupation, novice birder, Duke alum (T'92).

The NYT just called the House for the GOP, and the difference in one of those seats (CO-8) was attributable to one candidate running to dismantle the two-party system and another as a pro-Peace/pro-Palestinian advocate. Excellent work! 🙄