if they didn't want their lives upended by violence they probably should not have worked so hard to make violence a part of everyday life in the country where they live

unrelenting

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What’s not well known is that before 1970 treatment for ADHD was starting to get quite decent. And the press suddenly had a moral panic about Ritalin and it pretty much ended. The mostly women of Gen X and early millennials who got missed are called the lost generation for ADHD diagnosis.

Well this is fucking adorable.

This is excellent. “It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

oh i see, HRT is good but only when cis people can use it to be sex perverts

Those who say they're against segregation but also anti-DEI just mean that they like segregation but feel having signs saying "whites only" is being tacky about it.

If you see a doctor with an accent and think getting rid of that doctor will somehow bring you one without an accent, you are mistaken. The real choice is often a doctor with an accent or no doctor at all. Choose.

From @jamellebouie.net youtube.com/shorts/T7T9a...

Hate will not win. apnews.com/article/ston...

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

THIS. This is our path forward too.

we’ve talked a lot about how AI might con people into believing bad things, but it is sad to think of how it will also make us stop believing in wondrous things too

"no nazis" and "no sexual predators" is not purity testing, it is the minimal standard for humane conduct.

There’s a pretty good American Experience on disco sucks if memory serves. May not be an AE but it’s on PBS bsky.app/profile/utic...

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Those four #Artemis astronauts went from weightlessness to a 3+G re-entry to splashdown and now they’ve been at 1G bobbing in the ocean for half an hour while they wait to get pulled out of their little tin can. I do not envy how their stomachs must be feeling right now. 😬

I'm moonscrolling

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

By the way, the woman with the ectopic pregnancy told me that during this saga, couple spent about $1200 on gas, food, and one night in a hotel. Plus her husband missed five days’ pay. And that’s not including any of the medical bills

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

I feel this in my bones. You cannot look at what Minneapolis and the rest of the metro has been through this year and claim everyday Americans aren't fighting back. We may not have won yet, but we are not going quietly into authoritarianism. Not while we've still got our whistles.

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

So, about that… www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Big crowd in front of the White House right now. Protesting against Trump’s threats to Iran

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

Iran has accepted terms of ceasefire, per NYT www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Excommunicate Vance

We're all being held hostage by this administration.

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

An account you're going to want to immediately block if you've ever spoken about kids' right to read No idea who the actual person behind the account is, but they love targeting librarians over on X and they'll likely just be looking to screenshot your posts here for clout (such that it is) there

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

I know today is A LOT, so friendly reminder.

Forced forgiveness is an an additional harm against the victim / survivor and a convenient way for the harmdoer to maintain the status quo

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

I don't know if we can stop the terrible things that are happening. But I do know that we can commit ourselves as individuals and communities and societies to seek justice for as long as it takes.

This all reminds me so much of Cold War era anticommunism. Communism in America is not real. It can’t hurt you. “Opposition” to it is just signaling among elites whose firmest belief is that you can’t hand out so many rights to subalterns that they get comfortable.