An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Cops have unlimited ability to ruin our lives and as soon as they get a little pushback they turn into the biggest babies in the world part 100,000

NEW: Federal judge rules Trump Admin must provide to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) “the administrative record underlying Secretary Hegseth's Censure Letter no later than April 15”

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

"The vision Kat was offering wasn’t about carving the electorate into pieces and deciding which ones to fight for. It was the radical (apparently) idea that a better world is possible for everyone, and that a political party should be in the business of trying to build one." Bingo. And great essay.

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...

They called Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist" and only backtracked because witnesses had NFL-like coverage of the incident. This is repression carried out by the state for electoral purposes. It's about stamping out your objections to their autocratic aims.

This problem -- the RW takeover of media -- is like fucking Voldemort or something. He Who Cannot Be Named. People seem to think they'll burst into flame if they discuss it. It's baffling. I've accepted that I'm going to live & die without ever understanding why this is.

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

This shit is why I have to keep updating the piece: every day they are coming up with newer and even more obviously insane justifications to see what sticks. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason... bsky.app/profile/pear...

Some Dems are getting this right. But Schumer and others are saying Trump must merely divulge more details about the Iran threat. This implies there might be a legitimate case for war that Trump just has to be more open about. There's zero reason to grant that. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2072...

"Baby Olivia," a computer-generated video produced by an anti-abortion organization, may become a required watch in Utah school under a bill advancing this year.

Wrote about this: www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Important piece on Rogan. He's just Rush Limbaugh on different pharmaceuticals at this point. And citing him is like citing Grok and the one or two good X Community Notes a month. It just legitimates the ruse that he's not a partisan actor.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

i would immediately dismiss as “too stupid to even consider” a fictional universe with betting markets on war that are being gamed by those actually running the war

Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed 2 supreme court justices to "cement" court's conservative majority. Arkansas' constitution banned them from seeking a full term for their own seat. They decided to circumvent that by... running for each other. This Tuesday, one of them faces challenger John Adams:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

I bet Betsy is for it.

over half the iranian death toll is little girls who were at school. We are the evil ones.

It’s tough being Trump!

Reason 2: Iran interfered with US elections. True. But the admin and its allies punished the academic researchers and govt units who identified this interference, so its hard to believe its justification to attack Iran. From @katestarbird.bsky.social: katestarbird.substack.com/p/the-electi...

god help me, the details of this story

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Gotta love Anthropic, the "good" Ai company, getting a nice fat defense contract for the Pentagon to use Claude, and then acting all surprised like "Hold on, you're going to do evil stuff with this? Wait a second"

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻: “Her 4 children are all U.S. citizens, but cannot afford to travel to El Salvador to visit her. She said her only wish now is to return to Utah in time for her children’s graduations in May.”

Trump is promising a long SOTU. I won't watch. He's going to lie relentlessly, except for the things he did to destroy my life, my career, and my community. He is going to pound the table with all the ways he made life for trans people in the US hell, like Hitler bragging he rid Germany of the Jews.

There is something more than a little skin-crawling about the way the notoriously racist and homophobic National Hockey League has been cashing in on Heated Rivalry

Maybe, Roger, men are able to achieve "real focus" because they've dumped all the work of care downstream onto women to manage, and leveraged their own privilege to keep those women from demanding more support from men.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

So if you don't get the abortion, you die, if you do get the abortion, you die. Men should not be deciding women's health and they had better think twice before killing them. Their own family line is at risk.

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

same with "crackdown"

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

You want to defend this jabroni? YOU go back to twitter.

y'all gotta stop placing all your hopes and dreams in the hands of bitchass white men—which is what Gavin Newsom is.

What folks have to understand is that for the generation of black men, like Flav & I, who grew up (during 70's & 80's) poor & in constant physical & emotional threat, from the State & negative forces in our community, we never imagined surviving to 40, much less 60, so every moment is a blessing.

Yup. & ppl tend to view it as an abstract, hypothetical debate & it's not. The state creates & upholds the conditions of suffering, abuse & homicide of disabled ppl by depriving us of basic needs & robust services, including dignified caregiver support. In canada, lethal injection fills the gaps.

Like I'm going to listen to actual advocates here instead of just going on vibes and how he makes my pussy feel when I see his smile.

If you have a problem with Newsom doing this, you should have a problem with Mamdani doing this. I don't give a fuck how cute or charming or adorable he is. This is unconscionable.

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

Remember when Neal Katyal argued it was constitutional for a county that foreclosed on a 94 year old woman's house because she owed back taxes to keep 100% of the proceeds of the sale? She owed 15K. The sale was 40K. The county kept the full 40K. Neal lost. That was too much even for SCOTUS.

You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to Neal "American companies shouldn't be held liable for child slavery" Katyal. He's pro-corporation. He's not pro-human rights or pro-consumer by any stretch.

I'm just sayin

Oh and Trump and his cronies made billions playing the stock market. But some corporate lawyer is a hero for making sure corporations can get their money back? Stop it

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut