I joke..but also not really!

In case you were wondering what one of the major lines of attack on AOC will be in 2028, it won't be about Taiwan or populism but about her belief that Israel isn't entitled to free and unlimited military assistance from the US

I appreciate that the internet has made everyone into an amateur investigative journalist. But actual investigative work requires aggressively checking, double-checking, and trying to poke holes in your own work — not just rushing to publish because you want to believe it's true.

I'm seeing this get shared around in lots of places. (So apologies for picking on Judy) But it is sloppy research. This wire transfer is to "Harper & Associates Inc," which is the name of multiple firms across the U.S. The former prime minister's company is "Harper & Associates Consulting Inc."

Not satisfied with being unpleasant at home, Vice President J.D. Vance is now being unpleasant in Europe. Luke Gordon Field, Ian, @nileseguin.bsky.social and @mmmegan.bsky.social refuse to believe what Peter Thiel's pet VP insisted on bringing to Italy.

Millions of us signed into platforms decades ago for the novelty. We stayed for the community. Right before the pandemic, I met a friend I met on the Kindred Spirits listserv in 1997! 29 years! We've lost the plot! It used to be that you'd log into chat for escapist fun, not to be traumatized.

Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

I had the opportunity to rise during Senate Question Period this week, to ask about the Canadian government's continued commitment to using X for official communications - and about their failure to use sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. What do you think? #cdnpoli #Canada #Grok #X #Bluesky

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Happy Captain Cooked day everyone!

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Happy Valentines Day

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Can a LetterBoxd review win a Pulitzer?

Neale Barnholden’s “From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics” was nominated for an Eisner for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. Defying the common compulsion to “elevate” comics by transforming them into high art, Barnholden celebrates comics’ supposedly trashy materiality. 1/9

Since I gained a bunch of new followers today, I'll drop a little pop culture tidbit that didn't quite make the cut in my book! I always tell people that even if you don't like the rest of the book, there's a pretty concise history of bubblegum and chewing gum in there that brings together 1/?

Apparently the secretary was so upset that people who spoke to him this way were NOT ejected from the restaurant, much less arrested or anything, that he stalked out of the restaurant himself in a HUFF, which I think is just the perfect ending to this. Yes, we all hate you! Get out of here!

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

More of this. They should not be able to be in public without being spoken to like this.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

Grabbing every pre-HRT trans girl who says she won't start unless it turns her into an elven anime character by the shoulders and saying this until a vein pops out of my forehead.

Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit

Our government is crumbling and facilities are doing things they weren't designed to do in order to keep up. Community centers become homeless shelters. Libraries become daycares. It's unfair. We should have all four of those facilities in place.

I miss cheap third spaces so much. They are completely gone unless you are old. Like, really old. There are so many cheap third spaces for old people. I'm honestly jealous.

This thread is great. I love it. It demonstrates how, these objections to a wheelchair using in Starfleet are merely speaking from their prejudice not their imagination.

A) Every military on earth admits disabled people. There are even standard issue assistive devices, issued to those people, in order to allow them to do their job.

For whatever reason, that cadet is using an assistive device. Neat! Here are some perfectly lore-friendly reasons why they might be doing so. 1) They're from a low-gravity home. Nothing is *wrong* with them, there's nothing to cure. They're from one of Saturn's moons, and are adapted to life /

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

Roses are red Rainbows are queer fascist white supremacy has always been here

I'm going to start a history podcast aimed at kids in a few months - I've heard from SO MANY parents whose children are into history but haven't found age-appropriate material, and I've had a lot of practice with my kids, so we're going to give it a shot

Why? Because the professors who teach gender studies courses are often more willing than others to speak up when people within academia are doing or benefiting from harm to girls and women. And because those classes prepare students to see and call out similar problems in other institutions too.

people are honestly still so scared of feminism including just the word "feminism" and it would be funny if it weren't so sad. some men will go to their graves defending actively hilariously offensive portrayals of men in games/tv/movies bc they're so scared of engaging with feminism at all

I always come back to bell hooks: "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males [is] that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."

I just finished participating in a WONDERFUL panel with Claire Battershill and Alice Staveley. They gave a fabulous presentation on their investigation of Virginia Woolf as an editor (SO interesting and thought-provoking), and I yammered on about junior novel editors and the making of American YA!

Being antisemitic about Epstein doesn’t hurt him, he’s already dead. But it does hurt me.

It's especially important to make sure this shit doesn't pass without comment in cases where the assumption is that it's safe to talk like this because there are no Jewish people in the room. It should never be safe to talk like this. I am not a safe space for hate.

Saying the Epstein files are proof of a secret Jewish cabal controlling the world, instead of simply proof Epstein and his cohort were horrible, is antisemetic and shitty. Also don't engage with the larger truths those files are revealing about society and power. Leave Jewish people out of this.

Imagine being in jail for possession of cocaine and seeing this shit

I strongly suspect the plan for a Cop City in the downtown eastside was in place well before the London Drugs closed down. Nice of them to finally pull back the curtain. London Drugs COO Clint Mahlman has been pushing pro-cop policy via “Save Our Streets” business coalition for years.

It is amazing how much I get done when I don't have to hop on the metro and into an office

This isn't about choice. It's about their desire to eliminate the "weak" in society (based on their inhumane view that the "weak" take more than they contribute and thus don't deserve life) and to profit by selling snake oil to people who reject mainstream meds. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

"But Wikipedia’s volunteer community of editors reverted changes within minutes..."

Thread: the shooter in Tumbler Ridge's identity is *not* yet firmly known. Lets all take a breath and wait for facts.