Tip from therapy: If you're reeling, understand that this is psychological warfare by potus. It's meant to make us feel dysregulated, fearful & outraged. Those feelings are justified, and he will do it again in 2 weeks. There is no ceasefire. Israel continues to bomb Iran. Community is critical.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction. It’s abuser behaviour.

Unsurprisingly, CIA Slotkin’s solution to this madness is to put the onus on troops to push back(?!). It would be silly of us to expect her to forcefully demand impeachment, likely because if this were a “legal” aggression, she would support it.

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

*stares directly at the camera*

All of these people who have offered bullshit analysis about Iran for the past 10-20 years, should just stay quite. Don’t add more harm to what you have done. Media has to hold these “Iran experts” accountable for ripping up the JCPOA, predicting revolution at every turn, and so much more

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

Less radicalized? My god. I don't know how you can read this and not feel sick. We must center Iranians in this targeted, genocidal declaration. If he's planning to use nukes, I can only hope some brave soul will thwart that plan. Folks, this isn't about oil. It's about the destruction of humanity.

This is, unquestionably, an open declaration of genocidal intent. Why is the reaction to this so fucking mild??

This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

why did Swartz die by suicide, TNY

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It’s free preschool for everyone, or we pay billions to maintain the means-testing infrastructure we have now that excludes the people who need free preschool 🫠 When can we stop shooting ourselves in the societal foot?

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I just read a really great book about the problem with the phrase “invasive species” clarefollmann.com/books/

People, I beg of you: Grocery shopping, especially before a holiday, is not a date!! Leave your dopey S/O in the car, and if there are two or more adults in this relationship, please someone stay home with the kids. Come with purpose and strategy so we can all get out unscathed.😭

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As with many things in our modern society, this was foretold in Simpsons lore.

This shit right here is why I get so fucking angry about AI. The people who use it won’t process they didn’t make or own a single fucking thing and now every artist that isn’t tied to a major label with the free lawyers to protect IP that entails is going to be sued off the Internet by morons.

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Not just me, apparently

This is pure gibberish and his voice makes my skin crawl.

Not being a killjoy. Even as I’m amazed by this launch, the backdrop is a looming global fuel shortage, climate change, privatized science amidst starvation and genocide.

We watched the live feed. I remembered how excited I was in 1st grade for the Challenger take off. This time, I held my breath and teared up, hardly blinking. Humans can do incredible things when we’re not destroying each other.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

This was incredibly moving and infuriating testimony. Luanne defended our right to information, and our right to read. She also defended the rights of LGBTQ+ people to exist, and to see ourselves represented in literature. She certainly deserves better, and this board should be voted back to hell.

It’s delightful if this gets some kids excited about science but the space program is not about cosmic dreams right now. They’re in their “The Expanse” era and do not believe in the concept of space as a shared human heritage. It is a property race for the people in charge. 🔭

Again, U.S. workplaces should be doing their part, but are oblivious or in denial. WFH is low hanging fruit to reduce fuel usage for many workers. We should be reducing and re-prioritizing travel. And, it's 2026 - professional conferences should be offering virtual attendance options.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

As @chefreactions.bsky.social would say: 2/10 would probably eat.

Adventures in the AI hellscape: We're exploring financing for a very needed home repair. I started an application with our mortgage company, but paused it to consider other options (note: we didn't choose this company. Our mortgage has been sold several times since we closed, which is very common.).

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This geographic nationalism that centrist democrats have about “middle America” is just straight up racist, in addition to being unserious and stupid.

The stuff about needing to listen to the middle of the country and not coastal elites or w/e is just really condescending. It shows disdain for people on the left, it fetishizes "real Americans" from the heartland while making it seem like you think they're too backward to support certain polices.

Now I’m wondering how low the percentage of glazing would have to be for people to turn against these apps

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Our entire economy is just war. It's our main export. If you are a worker in these plants, you are complicit.

The world has to be safe for people to express suicidality & I know you're not gonna like it, but the answer's not for people to fear getting locked up if they express their pain, or to have to keep it hidden because no one can tolerate it. Let people express the depths of their sadness freely.

Plumbers are problem solvers. Mullin holds a fascist worldview, which actually makes him an ideal DHS Sec. The DHS is a Bush-era creation, and should not exist. Take a guess why a "vote blue" resistance account would uphold its relevance, and take digs at people lacking "traditional" education.

We are not talking enough about how unmasking these mercenaries in roles of “helping” at airports (as is being branded by every local newscast I’ve seen) is likely a PR drive to manufacture white comfort with and assimilation of ICE fascism. That may or may not involve their street violence.

So it has begun

Related to the thread I just made:

I think it sucks that the media and markets are so relieved that we can preserve energy infrastructure in Iran while we continue to vaporize civilians and reduce everything else to rubble.

🧵With ICE at airports, it's imperative that our places of employment reconsider mandating work-related travel. ICE isn't there to check bags. They're there to harass/detain (especially marginalized) people on a whim. They will profile people. They don't care about legality or documents. 🧵

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

abolish ICE, abolish DHS, abolish TSA

I am glad that he’s owning it, finally. More atheists need to excavate the assumptions that underpin their worldview instead of just posturing. He could have concluded that he needs to address his biases, but he’s decided to double down which is completely on brand for this fool.

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