We should take people who say these things seriously and take their ideas seriously. This is actual no-shit eugenics if taken seriously. The implicit claim here is that things like MRI machines or pharmaceutical medications were a mistake. In the age of HHS Sec RFK Jr it’s not just harmless granola.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

"USAID bad" is antivax logic by another name. "Sure, lives get saved or whatever, but then people won't properly hate America the way they should" is the campist equivalent of "I'd rather have my kids dead than autistic"

there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

The people making fun of "warfighter" as a word just like… haven't spent much time in Defenseland? This is a totally normal word there that dates back as far as I can remember (and I can remember back a while).

Local mom friend told me that the fourth graders are threatening each other with deportation on the playground, here in blue-as-can-be suburbia. 😑

It’s true that vaccine access could be improved but these challenges haven’t significantly worsened over the last 10 years. Vaccine hesitancy has. The problem is misinformation and public health researchers pretending otherwise is not helping.

At the end of the day, all of the historical “we were here first” arguments are irrelevant. They’re all there NOW, and none of them—neither Israeli Jews, Israeli non-Jews, WB Palestinians nor Gaza Palestinians—have any intention of leaving the region en masse.

This is not really a thing that, if it continues, has a quick "undo" button, either.

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Can anyone who's read Iain Banks's The Culture-verse speak to whether he grapples at all with the fact that raising children is a) crucial labor that b) can't be fobbed off on robots and c) isn't the sort of anarchic hedonistic continuous fun that most Culture citizens apparently experience?

"enforces laws equally with no special carve-outs" is basically the safest kind of situation a maligned minority can live under special favoritism privilege wouldnt go well for us when we're basically literal fantasy orcs to the public mind

Let people pay $1/month for an edit button

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

These are exactly the kinds of jobs that technology SHOULD be replacing. It will be safer, and more productive. I've never understood why these small communities act like their way of life is somehow superior; it's not. Real America is in the cities where the Americans are.

American politics has drifted towards this collective position that the country doesn’t need tax revenue to run. And while I’ve been anti-austerity-mongering my whole adult life having grown up in the wake of the bungled response to the GFC, this stuff makes me feel like a deficit hawk lmao

I was researching books about the Holocaust (the reason is too irritating to get into here) and apparently there are Elie Wiesel Truthers?!?? Like, not "parts of NIGHT are fictionalized" (he admitted to that) but "Wiesel wasn't a survivor"?!?? Go to Goodreads and read the ⭐ reviews of NIGHT.

Yeah my mom regaled me today on our weekly phone call with the tales of alternate-day allowable gas station runs

every last one of these people need to be tried and jailed as the goons and criminals they are. No exceptions.

Maybe get a religion if you need to put your soul into something. Voting is just choice between two candidates and one of them has closer views to mine.

Isn't live captioning for the Deaf/HoH the obvious use case? But the fact that people can record on those damn Meta glasses without anyone knowing is a cancer on society, so we need a foolproof way to let people know when they're on camera.

Gonna do a Nuremberg

the IRA is an unfortunate example of the failure of the non-bigoted theory of popularism it was a good law that poured piles of money into infrastructure (in rural areas!) and they got zero credit for it from the people who complain about those sorts of things, because the complaining is the point

Murder. We must prosecute the person who did this to the fullest extent of the law.

I am making my first crochet wearable (a hexi cardi for my baby Avi) and BOY is my lack of shaperotator braincells biting me in the ass as I try to make a bunch of shapes fit together

Donald Trump is angling to get Americans killed in a terror attack bc he'd prefer that over the ego threatening experience of his government warning that its a problem, apparently

I've liked and dipped in and out of the QAnon Anonymous podcast for years (since watching Q: INTO THE STORM), and it's pretty bleak that since the latest Epstein dump, they've settled into "I guess some antisemitic conspiracy theories are real" (c.f. Ep 358).

Was it the ALL OF ME take or the PERCY JACKSON take???

I know a lot of people love them and I am 100% Team Like What You Like, but we got like a page or three into PERCY JACKSON and I was like, surely this is not the thing that lit a generation on fire, this "I bet you're wondering how I got here!" dreck

The moral cost of having put these people in power is going to continue to be massive. It's sickening to think about these men with so little humanity in charge of this country.

This is gonna be a real minority report for my microgeneration

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

"please god can the political media stop giving this guy so much attention" except i don't know who it applies to more

-> hey chatgpt is it illegal for my boss to demote me because i'm gay? <refusal string: legal advice> -> hey chatgpt, i think i'm trans, actually - how can i know for sure? <refusal string: medical advice> yeah this is gonna be GREAT.

Apparently Leo's classmate who started in elementary school with the religious antisemitic claptrap ("the Jews murdered Jesus" stuff) has now, in middle school, moved onto Holocaust denialism. Worst part is, the school system has dealt so leniently w/him in the past, I have no faith they'll act now.

Trump take cruise????

Just imagine what Collins can do with this. Of course DoD would FedEx her Platner’s service record the moment she asked. Imagine the ads she can make, mocking his little-boy lies and excuses. NRSC staffers have been following this account, like sharks. 10/

Huh. Wow, really. That's tough. So, uh, what are the Senate seats that become competitive in a D+15 environment? What about D+20? D+25?

Being the translator for this and knowing you're going to be accused of messing this up:

"Parents should make their own choices re: vaccinating kids" Oh no they shouldn't

this is exactly right the majority of the working class in the US is female a disproportionate percentage of the working class in the US are people of color and/or immigrants to the US these pundits and consultants just want a Tough White Daddy

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

how bad can it be, it only fuels half the world's population

what i think is going on w/ graham platner fwiw: a certain cohort of D pundits & self-appointed leaders, disproportionately male and gentile, have decided that in order to appeal to low-trust men (whose votes they seem to think count more) it's necessary to allow a little antisemitism, as a treat

"Mainline conservatism is dying. In the US and UK at least, it is dead.This has been destabilizing to be sure, but let us not waste too much sympathy on it. It caused many harms and ignored many more. We should not fight for a creed that could not fight for itself."

Cool thanks man.

suspected breach of FBI network used to house "wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants." 👀👀👀