Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

"Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."

GO SPIRIT! ⚽️ #washingtonspirit #nwsl

There's Terry Pratchett quote for everything

COULD BE BUGS

Justice Kagan writes a dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson. The majority has “enabled the presidential usurpation of Congress‘s power of the purse”.

US Supreme Court Reform Now.

STOP THE GENOCIDE

get in losers we're being kinder to ourselves. wait shit

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"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

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“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

Perfect smol squibling #sqrlpix

Yesterday's presser is perhaps the most glaring example of the discrepancy between the Trump admin's words (gold standard science! rigor! reproducibility!) and their actions (citing a couple correlative studies to make massive policy changes). Placebo RCTs for thee, observational study for me.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

RFK’s MO has *always* been going after ‘big pharma’ just like the anti-vaxxers have *always* been about going after big pharma. And they replace the knowledge of science and research etc with ‘mother’s intuition.’

> @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

Tylenol is also linked here because they claim vaccines cause fever and seizures, Tylenol is given for these, Tylenol then "depletes glutathione" leaving child vulnerable to more vaccine damage, -> autism. Bonkers? Yep but it's incredibly common to hear this cited by Kennedy's "MAHA moms".

Do you understand that a huge portion of the wellness podcaster and influencer community is now going to be paid to push folic acid as a treatment for autism despite no actual evidence for it. This is a windfall for the supplements industry. It's all a grift.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

If you read one story about the autism announcement, make it @amymaxmen.bsky.social's. One detail that others miss: "Fevers can harm the mother and the developing fetus, she said, adding that fevers are more strongly associated with autism than Tylenol." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used, as it also has been, to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers." —Elena Kagan

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Trying not to lose my mind having a conversation about the excesses of parts of the games industry and at the same time getting an email on a university account asking for people to chip in so we can have milk in the department for staff tea and coffee.

1. Vaccines do not cause autism 2. Tylenol does not cause autism 3. Autistic people are actually pretty swell So many more thoughts but too angry/frustrated by this bullshit to pull it together. Sending a hug to all my neurodivergent friends and family. Love those freaky wonderful brains of yours.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

like i was saying

The idea that having made lots of money = intelligence and unlimited knowledge about everything all of the time is…going to kill is all, including him

Also I appreciate Max directly saying "civilian vessels" I noticed article headlines say "suspected drug boat" and thought, you can just say boat. You know that to be true, and you know the administration lies constantly, so your headline doesn't need to even suggest there's a reasonable suspicion

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

When I published this story after the first of now 4 incidents of Trump using the US military to kill boatloads of people, I didn't want to use video of the attack for the image, stills from a snuff film. Instead, I went with a Coast Guard interdiction from summer, what this normally looks like.

I just want to note that the link between Tylenol and autism is... not there. You shouldn't take tylenol willy nilly whether you're pregnant or not , it's not great for your liver but that's a separate convo.

Knowing what we now know (and, *cough*, should have known) about what ICE wants and is willing to do? We need to call out that fucked-up border security bill for what it was: funding for fascism at our borders because we thought it would appease the fascists. And we need to stop doing that shit.

One of the huge mistakes of the last cycle was the Democrats saying, “you know what? We’re gonna fund the biggest Border security bill that anyone has ever seen.” We ceded the entire issue of immigration to the GOP. What a disaster.

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

Tomorrow!

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2/? At the time, Arsenio had the highest ratings for late night talk shows. But the industry said that these powerful white men could interview Farrakhan but a powerful Black man could not. Arsenio's show was cancelled not long after the interview. This has always been the U.S. for Black people.

This thread is a delight.

Sunset in the Blue Ridge Mountains last night

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”