The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

My team and I joined Rep. Guzzardi and his team to help out at the Chopin Park Grocery Giveaway last week! It was great to make sure so many families had access to food before the holiday. Thanks to all the partners who helped make this happen and keep our neighbors fed!

A note of caution about the new GOP vow of oversight on the murder of the two men clinging to the boat. It's good to see, but it could become a backdoor way for Rs to defuse pressure for broader scrutiny. The entire operation is illegal. It all needs oversight. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2037...

I was off for a week and it took me about a half hour to be sick of being back.

I asked the machine if you had joy 💀

😍

Dear department chairs: 👇

one hour apart

sick fucks, truly

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

This is junior high me. In the 80's we moved next door to a family who had every book from doctors one through five. They were nice enough to lend them to me. Needless to say I was in my element.

This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit. And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it. It's vice signaling as a way of life.

Don’t use uber for pet murder imo

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

Everything about this situation makes sense once you realize her Mom failed at running for Mayor, and resigned from her city council, and pivoted to conservative talk radio/podcasting, converted to evangelical Christianity in 2022 and can be seen here posing with Michael Flynn lol

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

🚨 Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to effectively eliminate shareholder democracy, after shareholders of 30 out of 30 companies rejected anti-DEI proposals, most by 98-99%. A Bill Framed as an ESG Crackdown but Written to Remove Voting Power Entirely esgnews.com/sen-cruz-see...

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Finally a good reaction to this type of idiocy (let nature take its course and nothing more)

the problem is that the TA appears to have been the target of a deliberate campaign to silence trans people and force them out of public life. so, it seems like that should be a factor when discussing the first amendment? 1

When you, the average consumer, are not the intended audience.

The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.

Agreed. I’d rather be resigned to tromping through snow than not knowing which step will break my ankle.

I don’t really have a lot to say about the OU thing except 1) it’s obviously about the trans instructor and 2) red state publics are all so, so vulnerable to this

i get the joke but think people underestimate the number of Christians who want to have sex with Jesus like, this is a venerable tradition! all the way back through the Middle Ages!

A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change. This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

Hegseth is going to be in an orange jumpsuit. Double Tap Orders.....

Day #170: Robotech (1985)

The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.

Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"

I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all

Going to go walk into the lake

my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.

presented without comment

This isn't fucking speech and debate club, you fucking breadless breadstick. I don't want to talk to a piece of shit. Good luck getting the high score in this game no one is fucking playing with you, you consent deficient marshmallow

Walking through portage park and all the paths are dry and clear of snow, thinking I would pay a few extra bucks per month (or whatever) to have all the sidewalks like this.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

To the guy who honked his horn as he slid through the four-way stop while I stood there watching on the corner, thanks I guess. Slowing down and stopping probably would've been even better.

She was first in her family to go to college. She’d been in the U.S. since she was seven. They grabbed at the airport on her way to surprise her family for thanksgiving. They put her in shackles. Her ankles, her arms, and her waist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Please stop and enjoy a few moments of our happy sheep munching a mountain of pumpkins. 🐑 🐏

As someone accustomed to making deals with murderers to personally profit himself and his father in law, they figured it was right up his alley

There's an important lesson to be learned.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it. I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.

The vikings are so fucked at quarterback.

TPUSA brands itself as “guiding citizens through development of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation so they can meaningfully engage in their communities to restore traditional American values like patriotism” but what it really does is it finds the biggest crybabies and snitches in your area

He should be happy to only be taxed more.

It's not great that a student can turn in a bad essay but vaguely point to the Bible and religious beliefs as an excuse for not following the actual assignment and terrible writing. That's not what college is supposed to be. The professor did nothing wrong but she was pulled off the course anyways.

meet the new Secretary of Henhouses, Mr. Reynard Fox