in general i feel like if you're trying to argue guns should be regulated like cars you're saying "people should have access to financial assistance to purchase firearms far deadlier and harder to use than anything that existed twenty years ago"

man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

It's the weekend, baby

I know the competition is tight but RFK Jr really is the most evil and utterly fucking despicable

Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Winter Sale! Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York. It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer. store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...

Article 22 is a jewelry company that repurposes Vietnam War shrapnel and battlefield debris. A portion of their profits goes to the Mine Advisory Group, which works to remove landmines still left in Laos (they've removed more than 300k mines!). I like the company's "Shard" necklace collection.

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Rare free (safe) stream of Peter Watkins' THE WAR GAME, one of the most disturbing & unique films I've ever seen - made for the BBC in 1966, banned until 1985 - real political & artistic daring, only 45 mins. m.ok.ru/video/475689...

Who is college for? And what does college do? are two questions of increasing urgency because if those of us involved in these institutions don’t provide compelling answers then the tendency towards reducing it to glorified job training will destroy every meaningful part of the endeavor.

Please read and share this piece. This study is an ethical nightmare, run by a Danish couple who’ve built their careers on decades of exploitative, shoddy research in this community. It will have permanent consequences for many children enrolled, & for broader trust in foreign biomedical research.

You’ll never guess who else experienced ‘racism’ on the job market despite their unimpeachable academic credentials.

It may be easy to dismiss Justin Olson's comments that people with disabilities shouldn't get married as right-wing claptrap. But the American government discourages it because if people with disabilities get married, they risk losing their SSI benefits. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through

Posting a free archive link to Stephen King's Rob Reiner eulogy in the Times because everybody should read it: archive.ph/keKfp It's a gorgeous piece of writing for its restraint. It says more by inference than words ever could. King obviously wrote it quickly & under pressure. He's a genius.

If you make a speech to say, "You don't know how good you have it," you're in trouble. Biden did it a lot. People don't like being told down is up, either.

A Naval officer on the "warrior dividend" - "When there's bad news coming, the mess decks always serve steak and lobster. Without fail."

They are sweating.

All the stuff you love about Reiner as a director - all the stuff you notice, & more importantly don't notice - is because he was a really good actor.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.

the good that you do persists in this world

I got a goddamn one-way ticket to the goddamn history books

my dad took me to INTERSTELLAR (it was on an IMAX screen and we were 3 rows from the front so we were fucking *immersed*). first 45 minutes was all "this is why you listen to engineers" jokes (he's a NASA guy). the next hour and a half we spent just openly weeping

Photograph of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair (1995).

why does changing my listed pronouns on social media from "she/they/any" to "they/she/any" to "they/any" have the same feeling as defusing a live bomb and trying not to cut the wrong wire

The thing that always gets me about these stories is that the parents seem to honestly believe they *own* their children. Then when their children grow up, they're absolutely baffled as to why those kids want nothing to do with them anymore.

This will happen to people more and more and lead to terrible things

spot the Expedition 33 team

unironically the median American voter position

Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,

nothing else I've seen comes close to the stomach-churning, nihilistic dread I felt watching THREADS

A secret but universal decay was felt in every part of the public administration, and the emperor himself, though he still retained the obedience, gradually lost the esteem, of his subjects.

this was easier than I expected

Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

The 14th Amendment is as clearly and unambiguously written as any law on the books. Politically it was intended to suppress former Confederates and prevent the conditions that led to the Civil War. To attack it is to give comfort to their heirs and cut into the seams of our society.

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm not saying life is a vicious circle. But it may be a cruel rhombus. Or a callous trapezoid. At the very least, life is a bloodthirsty parallelogram

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk? Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

4. Most states still require 3 doses of hepatitis B to attend public school. The ACIP has no standing to change state laws related to school attendance.

The effects of the ACIP poisoned recommendations may not be seen clearly at scale for years. But every child that unnecessarily develops HepB-associated chronic liver disease and cancer is the fault of those on that committee, the HHS Secretary, and those that capitulated to put him in power.

One of the things that is circular about how we got here: HepB cases are low, so why do we need to give this vaccine to babies? Cause we vaccinated to lower the incidence. Cut to: increased incidence, more opportunistic infections of mothers who don't know they are HepB+. bsky.app/profile/aeti...

Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives