I had feared archaeologists would someday have to explain a scattered set of odd platforms off the New England coast www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...

Primary care providers in my (blue) state are refusing to give COVID shots unless you pay up front and deal with insurance reimbursement yourself. Fucking ENOUGH of this shit already. Keep an eye on childhood “flu” deaths this winter. It’s gonna be a rough one.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Great book about the charming city that will always hold a piece of my heart. Also a pepper that decided to poke a hole in a leaf and then keep going. 🧐

1. The Trump admin has demanded New York City to ban trans kids from bathrooms. Mayor Adams has come out in support of Trump's proposal. NY Law protects trans youth, and Adams has no power to implement it. Meanwhile, Mamdani has slammed Adam's comments. Subscribe to support our journalism.

my latest for @atmosmag.bsky.social is a collaboration with @emorwee.bsky.social's HEATED newsletter — all about the fossil fuel billionaire assholes funding groups on the right pushing anti-trans rhetoric atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-...

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Let’s be the courageous people that our descendants will boast about someday.

NEW WRITING: "We are living through the worst time of my lifetime, and astrophotography has helped me remember that, as my mom Margaret Prescod once reminded me, the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us." 🔭 As promised, with a prettier image of Andromeda! 🎉

I don't know how historically accurate it is, but a lot of "neo-Pagan" traditions involve a woman wearing antlers. It's a clear symbol of the Sacred Hermaphrodite, a perfect being that embodies both male and female energies, and further syncretized with animal traits.

i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue.

Just gonna pretend the flags at half mast are for Robert Redford

Today marks six months until Election Day! I don't ask often, so when I do I try to make it count: Can you chip in $5, $10, or our average donation of $32 to help my campaign cover the costs of paying our staff and reaching voters? secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...

We're just gonna have to try for peace on earth and goodwill towards men....and someday, maybe, a Washington Post again deserving of Redford's hagiography of it. RIP #RobertRedford.

Trump should resign now. His behavior is a disgrace to everything that America supposedly stands for, and it reflects poorly on every single one of us.

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“[in Neoliberalism since Reagan] economic freedom…was reduced to the right to buy a small piece of one’s own permanent subordination. To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is see ourselves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference…” -David Graeber

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

"The country we knew isn’t here anymore except to the extent that we knew it, and if anyone is going to remember what it meant or what it could have been, it will only be because people like you and me find a way to tell them." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

During President Trump's first term, transgender troops were told they needed to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria to keep their jobs. Now, the military is using that to put them on administrative leave.

The Trump admin has a new propaganda video claiming that DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values." Micah Bock, the Trump appointee in the video, was accused in college of rubbing his erection against a sleeping woman and claiming she was "asking for it." h/t @jasonpaladino.bsky.social.

We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.

Okay it should be a much bigger deal that they reduced their projections for selling agents by $26bn, and no, the reason isn't "they'll build them into ChatGPT," it's because they don't god damn work. Sam Altman said this was the year that agents would change the workforce! Nasty!

Let's do a live thread reading of this article. I normally don't do this, but it's important to unpack antitransmasculinity in depth and give it name. This isn't a rare occurrence, for stuff like what this article is saying to go around, and we need to stop minimizing the damage it does

Every time someone calls the Epstein case a hoax or tries to downplay it, remember that the women you see today were CHILDREN AND TEENS. and they’ve been trying to hold people accountable SINCE THE MID NINETIES. Look at your own kids and think about that.

For the second time today: this is the technology that seemingly every university leader wants their employees and students to uncritically adopt

she said that “black” with a hard r

Guards went on a rampage at Alligator Alcatraz last night, beating and tear gassing detainees/hostages. Several migrants began shouting for “freedom” Guards rushed in & beat everyone with batons, fired teargas at them. Many of them bleeding. #Nazis

The saga of the most deadly brain worm in human history continues...

So @mediaite.com put this 2024 interview with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social , author of "Autocracy, Inc" & staff writer for @theatlantic.com on youtube last week: youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?... In it, she talks about contents of her piece from October 2024: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

So, here's why I have what is essentially a zero-tolerance reaction to gen"AI" (on top of all the moral and ethical objections). It really is just burning the world for tulip stocks. It's garbage, and even if it were suddenly, magically not garbage, IT STILL WOULDN'T BE OK TO BURN THE WORLD FOR IT.

I'm not sure why, but publications keep mistakenly claiming that the "learning gap" refers to "people and organizations not learning how to use these things," when it refers to thte models THEMSELVES being incapable of learning. The report is VERY CLEAR about this. web.archive.org/web/20250818...

James Dobson was a disgusting child abuser who personally and directly contributed to the physical and emotional trauma of millions of children.

Prager U is racist propaganda and anyone who tries to push it on your kids is a villain.

trump = higher prices

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Hey, cisgender queers who don't support transgender rights? You know how your cishet Centrist pals like to assert that transgender people need to quietly accept second-class citizenship because equality is too divisive? Watch what they start saying next. You, only you, will be shocked. Good job 👍

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Wow, wonder if there is a connection between the Secretary of Defense purging women for senior military positions, and not believing they have any sort of political or personal autonomy

I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good. Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil! “Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!

(1/3) I find it very telling that the "just asking questions" "reasonable caution" "trans 'debate'" people don't seem to start from a place of ACTUAL CAUTION and respect for human life and safety. What would it be like to instead hear: "I personally have some questions about how we deliver care..."