📅Oct 16, 1916: Margaret Sanger & her sister Ethel Byrne opened the first family planning clinic in the U.S. Sanger was arrested for her role in opening the clinic served 30 days in jail after refusing a deal that would have required her to not reopen it. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomensRights

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not. Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

In case anyone was wondering, “Give us your land or we will bomb you and take it” is not a peace deal; it’s extortion by artillery. A peace deal requires consent.

These two things are true at the same time: 1. Republicans don't care about health care 2. They may still try to destroy Obamacare once and for all Remember, they've got a reconciliation bill next year, with no filibuster. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...

Things to do in the future: 1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague 2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again 3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

Elected Republicans are getting desperate. Their lies are getting more ridiculous. They’re now trying to discourage protest by claiming No Kings will be a hate rally with terrorists. Millions of Americans have the chance to demonstrate how wrong they are. www.americaamerica.news/p/will-you-s...

Autistic truth makes people uncomfortable because it’s not performative. We name what’s broken without decorating it. It’s not rudeness. It’s clarity. And clarity is sacred.

Epidemiologists of Bluesky: do you know of any papers that developed statistical models to infer Covid (or something else) incidence or mortality at scale based on survey data about contacts (i.e., “has someone you know died?”)

They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?

THIS!! 👇👇

Just one more.

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

it’s all just a grift

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

Fascism doesn’t just come out and announce itself by killing people… It starts with subtle dehumanising, subtle rhetoric, bits of propaganda… Then it latches on to a crisis moment to double down on the rhetoric to get people on-side. The killing is the last part.

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

the best answer i got for this:

If you drive a 2025/2026 Tesla or still use X, there really isn't an excuse. You really are just an asshole that looks the other way.

If Congress doesn’t act quickly to permanently extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, health insurance premiums will more than DOUBLE for 22 million people. Fund the government. Fix the health care crisis. Put working people first.

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Every newspaper in the country should be blanketing Portland with reporters and videographers to document that it is not a war zone. And every front page should be blaring about the president lying as a pretext to send troops to an American city.

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

“Hello. You have reached the voicemail for the FBI. All our agents are currently busy redacting names from the Epstein files, doctoring evidence to politicize mass shootings and investigating anyone the President does not like. Please leave your contact info and someone will call you back soon.”

I went to an AI training the other day. This expert explained how LLMs work. My layperson’s take: They basically feed the Internet into their engines. Like 8 million Reddit threads. This explains so sooo much.

It’s disturbing to me, when I say to otherwise kind, intelligent, aware people, “wow, bad shit is happening”, and they reply to me, “Oh you have to not watch the news. Don’t read the papers! Just don’t think about it.” And NO that is a TERRIBLE answer. That’s exactly how we got here to begin with.

We have allowed sociopaths and psychopaths to create a society in which only they can thrive.

He's not just unfit to be president, he's unfit to be a human being. He’s unfit to be a carbon based life form. He’s a waste of cytoplasm.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

the "who will the public blame for the shutdown?" handwringing is asinine. the vast majority of voters have no idea how government shutdowns work, and by the time midterms roll around they won't remember anything that didn't impact them directly

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

It's cool how many news reports I'm seeing about impending federal layoffs and safety net cuts that fail to note that all of this is very obviously illegal.

Freedom.

Probably just a coincidence.

This is very, very bad.

I know I'm not the first to say this, and at this rate I'll be far from being the last; but this current season of America has seriously jumped the shark

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

America’s favorite game show: “Wheel of Regret.”