My favorite movie of the year is Sinners. I'm calling this set Pearline.

We are having an issue with Asmaa’s link so if you wanted to donate and had issues try to remember to check later and see if it’s resolved ❤️

Also on the tail of the news of how a lot of SNAP/ EBT recipients will likely not have funds for November, unless the gov shutdown ends before then. So we may be literally starving while he builds a ballroom

A few food banks/food pantries/etc you can donate to in the Boston area: www.gbfb.org

uh, AI *is* the enshittification trap?

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

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Remember this?

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

Massachusetts: Are you feeling frustrated about the state of affairs in this country? Well, you can do something at the state and local level. Learn about how cops are sharing our data with out of state cops and feds, and then take action to stop it: data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Greta Thunberg annoys the right because she's a reminder that it's possible to stay true to your moral principles even when it's inconvenient, and they fucking hate that

Social media sites where people in the US get their news from: Facebook 38% YouTube 35% Instagram 20% TikTok 20% X 12% Reddit 9% Nextdoor 6% WhatsApp 5% Threads 3% Rumble 2% Truth Social 2% Bluesky 2% Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

It’s Black Speculative Fiction month, so it’s only right that I have [finally] made issue #1 of my comic, UNDEAD DUO, available to read online for FREE. Please, give it a read! globalcomix.com/read/d501429...

If you haven't checked out this tight four-parter yet, now is the time...

NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

No you cannot have just one more and function tomorrow

Just gonna leave this here, in case you wanted longer length turning videos. youtube.com/@abigailmarkov

It’s good that we are all learning that Bad Bunny is a US citizen but we should also talk about voting rights of Puerto Rican US citizens.

Cancer misinformation kills. Literally. Cancer patients who refuse conventional treatments and rely on unsupported therapies die more often and faster. Colorectal cancer patients: A 4.57-fold increased risk of death Five-year survival plummets from 79.4% to 32.7%. 1/

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The administration is shifting tens of thousands of personnel from other federal agencies to help ICE, raising concerns that other law enforcement priorities are being neglected. “It’s a good time to be an American-born criminal,” said one expert.

Hey comics friends: I might be crowdfunding a graphic novella next year. Do any of you who Kickstarter things more regularly than I do have advice on US printers *that you have personally used and liked*?

What good are negotiations over budgets when Trump just ignores the agreements? Vought saying he will cancel another $8 billion in federal spending in blue states.

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

To be clear, federal research / education funding is supposed to be allocated by government in accordance to specific laws & allocation methods. It's taxpayer-derived funding intended to further national priorities. It's not intended as discretionary funds for executive branch culture-war leverage.

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

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Homeopathy is dangerous pseudoscience. Avoid anyone promoting it. Read more in this piece I wrote LONG ago: news.immunologic.org/p/homeopathy... 🧵

Influencers are selling homeopathy as Tylenol “alternatives” — it’s NOT. ⚠️Homeopathy is a scam created in 1796 by a German guy with NO plausibility or evidence. Premise: 1️⃣ what causes a symptom will cure an illness w/the symptom 2️⃣ it’s more potent the more it’s diluted 1/

today!!

Taking care of dad with snuggles and purrs.

People who say this don't understand how much worse it will get Bytedance was at least trying to behave in order to stay in business in the U.S. Ellison/Rupert will see zero restrictions on their worst impulses because the supreme court lobotomized all our media/privacy/fraud regulators

men are weak not every man, not all the time, not inherently, but on a species level and it's killing us I am not talking about not being masculine, I am not talking about not being stoic, I am not talking about talking about their feeling I am talking about extreme fragility

Further explanation. And, yes, a themed collection will follow. 💋

Meanwhile, Trump has largely stayed the same when it comes to autism. Anyway, I wrote about Obama, Hillary Clinton and Trump's views on autism in my book We're Not Broken. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

The Alt National Park Service has spent months stealing from journalists, directly plagiarizing the work of others more than a hundred times. With more than 4.3 million followers on Facebook and nearly 900k here on Bluesky, they've built a massive following on theft.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress. www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art

these restrictions are gonna make it hard for people to visit sick or dying family members, go on business travel and do other types of travel while racist ass americans take a trip to cancun for the winter with no issues

NEW: Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

and the other half are competing to be the best doormat possible

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

My shocked face. You're seeing it. Because this result has been proven about LLMs by computer scientists since 2008. Look up "The Chinese Room" to see the beginning of this line of inquiry.