Come on, this was 2015. What should NYT have cut to make room for that? A Hillary's Email article? Preposterous.

Great to hear Boston City Councilors explicitly condemning dangerous censorship legislation like #KOSA and the SCREEN ACT. The Massachusetts Congressional delegation, especially @warren.senate.gov who cosponsored KOSA, and @markey.senate.gov who voted to advance it, need to start listening.

trust us bro #myart #nudity #censorship

it's not really possible anymore to "get out democracy back" or whatever, absent painful and foundational reforms. we can't govern a nation or participate in the world when every 4 years every institution and every practice can be completely upended. swinging crazily from pole to pole is not viable

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

As a kid, I visited my dad in the hospital before he died of pancreatic cancer. Three years ago, I held my husband’s hand as he died of pancreatic cancer. People are doing the same right now all over the country. F#ck RFK jr and the ignoramus running the NIH.

I really don't give a shit how honest somebody is or what they care about, if their ridiculous beliefs require everyone else not to offend them. Suppose a number of Christian men are offended by nude livestock on the roadside -- should they be able to mandate boxer shorts on horses or bras on cows?

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic,” Pritzker said.

What do you mean deportations of American citizens

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

this dumbass government is about to ban capitalism because banking transactions contains the word “trans.”

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

Trauma does not tell its own story. Yes, people will get angry, they'll be unhappy, but they will not just automatically know who's to blame or why it happened or how to fix it. They won't magically "wake up" to that knowledge unless *someone tells them*. Events will not do dems' comms for them.

People want to think that trauma -- being fired from their job, losing medicaid, whatever -- will "force people to face reality," but that's not how people work. When people face trauma they turn to voices they trust to tell them who's doing it, and why, and what it means.

let people change 👏👏👏

a knock at the door. i set down my copy of the New York Times and greet the young man on my doorstep. he's a courier and he has brought me a treasure. i unwrap the package, then walk into the garage and carefully affix my new "We Bought It Before We Knew He Was Evil" sticker to my orphan strangler

A 2020 study found that NIH-research contributed to every single one of the 356 new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019. Examples AZT (zidovudine) – HIV/AIDS. Taxol chemotherapy Imatinib - myeloid leukemia. Ipilimumab - cancer immunotherapy.

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

In April 1933, the German government enacted a law to "restore" the civil service. Seems like something worth reading about, something maybe possibly relevant to current events.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

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Trolls are deliberately spinning up accounts, copying legit lists of scum and adding liberal and marginalised users, either as harassment or as attempts to make their account look organic. Best to report list and/or user if there are say warning signs about said user

no shit?

"It is not the government of reasonable people with a handful of concerns that the trans rights movement maybe went a little too far. It’s arguably genocidal, according to the official definition of genocide."

As always: The rate of diagnosis is not the rate of a condition The rate of conviction is not the rate of a crime The rate of refunds is not the rate of dissatisfaction The rate of pay is not the rate of performance ...

cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Food rots in the fields of Trump's America

A Hungarian equivalent to “a bad workman blames his tools” is ha egy kacsa nem tud úszni nem a víz a hülye. It means “if the duck can't swim, it's not the water that's stupid” * And if you want more international duck phrases and facts, the following thread should fit the bill…

The antidote for despair is action ❤️ * Dial (202) 224-3121 * Enter zip code * Leave voicemail * Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so) “The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.” Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

@stuck-in-the.vore.bar why have you just added me to a list that apparently consists of right-wing fucks? like earnestly where the hell are people getting this impression from?

@genevieve.foodsky.social why am i being added to a maga list????

per listifications i appear to have been added to some sort of list of right-wingers and like. no? this is why i don’t really trust the whole bluesky lean into lists. it doesn’t matter in the scheme of things, but it does kind of bug me that ppl i probably broadly align with are blocking me

The ACA preventative care case now at SCOTUS implicates a broad range of health care but don't miss its origin story: an employer, represented by Stephen Miller's group, claiming the religious right to deny coverage for PreP because it saves queer lives

1. NEW: Legal filings reveal how trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons, well beyond what has been previously widely known. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i... #trans #lgbt

Seems like this isn't just about "free speech," huh

In response to our letter, Meta have removed our post on Facebook citing breaches of Cybersecurity. Changes to Hatful Conduct policies that they say are to foster free speech, but silence those who try to discuss the harmful impacts of such policies. Meta’s objectives are blatantly clear.

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

this is good www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...

"You don’t always turn into Nazi Germany. You turn into Russia, or Hungary, or other creaky and corrupt strongman states where everything is kind of a scam and everyone is hustling to please the gangster in charge." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

if 90% of the population still got its news from 3 tv stations "the president elect got congress to cut child cancer research" would lead his political party into at least 8 years of darkness but unfortunately the internet has a few downsides

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

For those turning in to the events in WI, where the identity of the deceased shooter has still not been released by police: www.them.us/story/vast-m...