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“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”

It's easy to be concerned about vaccines when you stop being concerned about viruses. You can only stop being concerned about viruses in a world with vaccines.

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Monitor Lizard Hissing #nature #wildlife #srilanka #monitor #lizard #hiss #reptile #lush HA11351

had occasion to observe earlier today that "i think we should prosecute everyone in the government who has committed a crime to the fullest extent of the law" is, in literal fact, very close to just proposing The Terror at this point

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

On the other hand this is the prosecutor's outfit so probably they know what they're doing.

This image of an Amazon van abandoned in the Thames Estuary faintly evokes an impressionist painting. I am so moved.

This is like a Hitman level

Glad you brought this up - this Mexican is the first and only in this sport, and everyone was impressed by her determination - the USA gold medalists were so sweet, she removed her skis and hugged her dearly. The MSNBC cut out all of it. Why? That's the best of the #Olympics! empathy and love.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

this message from the lake of the isles pencil on 2/6 is so sweet “Minneapolis, I have been watching over you this difficult month, while ICE agents occupy us and kill us… I have never been prouder to stand among you and to belong to this community.“

Personally, I think that this is an excellent title of a US History book for high school students, although this may present a barrier to getting said textbook approved in many Southern states

I am, by all accounts, a coward, an overthinker, and a waffler, and I don’t think I’ve ever had greater moral clarity about anything ever in my life. ICE is so absolutely morally repugnant that there is no way to live wirh yourself if you do nothing.

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

More of this energy in 2026, please. www.baltimoresun.com/2007/04/15/w...

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Whether it's needing Moderna to restart vaccine research or needing foreign governments to resign treaties there are many reasons we can't just go back to normal after Trump. We will need leadership that will put in place structures to ensure the US won't backslide again or there will never be trust

Courtesy of people who would rather have this than bear the thought that Black lives matter, welcome to the No Lives Matter presidency.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

The Olympics remain cool as hell. I know there's a ton of corruption in how they're run, but also i hung out with my buddies last night and we just watched snowboarders do jaw-dropping things for hours. It's neat that we all watch folks at the top of their game do ridiculous physical feats.

First Amendment argument is: you can't prosecute Don Lemon for doing journalism Commerce Clause Argument is: Congress only gets to make criminal laws based on its enumerated powers. They say the commerce clause is the enumerated power that allows this. It does not.

these words! in this order!? the olympics are a gift

Trump’s criminal administration is actively at war with the American people

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

Some good news for anyone depressed about the world right now: the kakapo are getting it onnnnn thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-0...

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Some Swedish hockey players demonstrate various winter Olympic sports. 😁 (sound on) #Olympics

Just a reminder that the Dino Store exists at the grand army plaza 2/3 stop. [Ernie Hudson voice] I love this town

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France). More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.

This is Dorian. He refuses to come inside from this rainstorm. Just really wants his mom to watch him jump in puddles. 13/10 good job buddy (TT: kirstengarrison)

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Rabbi Tzvia Jasper, at the Jews against ICE demo in DC today, via @joellenovey.bsky.social

WHAT

We live in this weird interregnum where top government officials can lie without consequence and yet the press is still free enough to report that they’re lying. It feels like one of those things has to give eventually.