@rosemarymosco.com a jeopardy contestant today is wearing a pigeon sweater!

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Oh. I hope this starts a real discussion about the specificity of American hate and how it will apply to tech

Awesome news, EMS are severely underpaid, and also lol

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Also it doesn’t matter if this is fake. A fake letter between pedos does nothing to discount accounts in the files from survivors describing the sitting president as involved in rape and murder

The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake the childhood vaccine schedule. I wrote this for CIDRAP News as an explainer for the general public and public health folks, who may not be familiar with the legal issues involved. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

Pseudoarchaeology is a grift and a scam, stuffed full of conspiracy bs. Check out this new video at Professor Dave Explains ... Jimmy Corsetti is Human Garbage www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z49A...

BREAKING: by an apparent vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court has *denied* President Trump‘s plea to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

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The staff at this kid's school helped wreck at least a year of her education and emotional development. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

Hyper specific but does anyone have a small, 20-ish pound dog named Riley who needs a coat? Will ship anywhere in the US. I got a lands end embroidered coat for my sister’s dog but it’s the wrong size.

This is just as much a quest for mass death as all the healthcare and antivax shenanigans

The Knight First Amendment Institute is appealing Cannon's order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just so we’re super clear: so far this morning in the Epstein files I’ve seen Trump tied to rape, sexual abuse and rape of underage girls, murder of a woman of unknown age he raped, and murder if an infant.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The Soviet gulag is one important comparison. I also keep thinking of the classic question of World War II history: "Did people know?" Did Germans know about concentration camps? Did people living next to the camps and death facilities know? How could they go about their lives if they knew? We know.

Ooof. I’ve just seen something else out of the Epstein files that’s even worse than the Nasser thing. Like… if this shit is triggering you, Id rush to mute every relevant word you can think of right now.

also interesting that the administration thinks it has a say in CBS News personnel matters. perhaps they've been given an indication that they do.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sitting here in full body shock. Not because I feel surprise, but it’s here, it’s real, and this is the world every member of the current admin wants and supports. Too many people in this country have to keep asking themselves “when will I be a person” and the answer keeps coming back “never.”

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Last month, @outsidemag.bsky.social sent me to spend 14 hours in a suburban ice rink, learning the stories of everyone I met. Why do they skate? I asked. To feel free, they told me. To feel God. To forget, for a minute, what they've done.

I really wish there was more discussion of physical aspects of autism because adults pursuing physical fitness, anyone playing sports, and kids struggling to survive gym class need to know they are working w a different instrument than neurotypical peers.

NEW — Based on the aired ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT segment, several of Bari Weiss’s stated reasons to stop the story are inaccurate. She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does. She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.

It’s either a confession or a chaotic hacker having a weird time. But it’s probably a confession.

I was soooo hoping that the person doing the redacting would be pdf illiterate enough that this would happen. Small mercies.

Of historic proportions:

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Threads really is full of incurious people asking endless questions.

This is profoundly is a profoundly dishonest headling. Vance has taken the side of explicit white supremacy and a decade into a white supremacist revival the “paper of record,” still can’t say it plainly.

Hey friends, I'm here to outsource some youtubing. My 2yo has decided she only wants to watch videos of cats on trains. This is a very limited number of videos we can find. Do you know of any videos that have these that are not AI? Please send them my way! Also she says to tell your cats "hi yow"

Kennedy Center union regarding illegal changes happening at Kennedy Center now

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

Ugh the piece of tattoo art I’m obsessed with that still doesn’t suit me is still available and my brain can’t figure it out.

The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

The incompetence is funny right up until you remember they're covering up for pedophiles and sex traffickers

The conversation about who Heated Rivalry is for … M/M romance is not exclusively written by and for cis het women and to say so eliminates a lot of real complexity…. BUT (do not yell until you read the next tweet)

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of