Alright then. 1st: it grows more apparent, by the day, that these ppl fear women. Forcing women to stay home, & have babies, in this economy? After disassembling social welfare? A 1 income family? HA! Men are already selling sperms to get cash for food & fuel. www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...

Remember to take time to stretch please.

Read these poems!

the catholic church finds itself with the incredibly rare opportunity to return to 13th century levels of popularity

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

Guys, this is Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. You need to read it all. He's CONFIRMING what many of us already suspected about this war. I can tell you Trump is 100% lying trying to make out like the US is wrapping it up.

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them. "How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

OHSU released new nationwide data that found low physician participation in #Medicaid. These “ghost” providers are physicians who are enrolled in Medicaid, but don’t care for even a single patient covered by the federal health insurance program.

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Please take a break and go outside if you can. 🌿

“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free. Because they want you to forget that.”

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

FML. There appears to be an issue with scam calls to the families of people kidnapped by ICE. The callers claim to be immigration lawyers, say that they’re going to help, and demand an up-front payment over WhatsApp or similar. Real lawyers don’t do that!

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

This is how democracy ends.

I think everyone who was ever in the St Olaf choir is part of this protest www.tiktok.com/t/ZThfjBe87/

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.

#justiceforgonzo #amazingcatte

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

I just think it's wild that the armed professionals who wander our streets are allowed to act in fear, but the untrained normal citizens are supposed to know exactly what to do under terrifying circumstances or die

a thing to remember about books being removed from Utah schools is that they also passed a bill that if a book is banned from public schools, they must not only be removed from the shelves, but you're NOT ALLOWED TO REDISTRIBUTE THEM the books have to be DESTROYED. if it's giving Nazism, well.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

When we say that the War on Drugs has always been a pretext for political suppression, this is exactly the kind of thing we mean. Legalizing all drugs is not a frivolous goal, it's necessary for pulling the rug out from under US imperialism (and its domestic slavery factories aka prisons)

Us in 2025 vs how we're gonna be in 2026. Watered, perked up, ready to GO

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

i asked this of my canadian followers yesterday, and i’ll ask again today. can you please sign this petition? it is a petition through the house of commons, not a third party, and the more eyes (and signatures) they have on it, the better.

maybe the moon is cheese because it improves every poem it's added to

NOPE

Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.

the good that you do persists in this world

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

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

I was right he did need a top hat.

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

my gift guide is you should buy cool stuff created by cool people on bluesky. buy their books, their art, their old-school zines, their music, their nut mixes, a membership to their patreon, their off-kilter tote bags, etc. (and if you have a thing people should buy, post it! right now!)

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

This is the best example of --if you have to explain it-- that I've ever seen.