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In a bizarre twist of circumstances, nobody wanted anything from me today.

The COVID "revisionists" claim that all policies aimed at curbing the spread of the virus—stay-at-home orders, school closures, mask mandates, etc.—were not only useless but harmful. That view is prevalent in right-wing and “heterodox” circles. The evidence does not support it.

Finally, a post we don't have to fact check.

Fuck Elon Musk ! 🖕🏼

Hearing "DOGE" said out loud always cracks me up because it sounds exactly like what it is: a bunch of DudeBro™ d-baggy tech nerds trying to make things sound cooler than they actually are while everyone else recognizes it as the weak male power fantasy it is.

The announcement further unsettled department employees who have spent the past several weeks anticipating sweeping staff cuts.

Fuck

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

The only kind of right response. Call the spade a spade!

U IS FOR UNION BUSTING APPARENTLY

I've collated some ideas for the @standupforscience.bsky.social signs! Your favorites? 1. Science does not give a fuck what you believe 2. Got Polio? Me Neither, Thanks Science 3. Science: It's like Magic, but REAL 4. This is my EVIDENCE BASED OUTRAGE 5. Fund Science, Not Billionaires

Trump & Co. are gonna retcon last night's wan demonstration from Democrats into something more effective than it ever had any reason to be by letting everyone know just how badly it got under their skin

😂 Got to love it

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

"To control the country’s education system is, in no uncertain terms, to control the country’s future," Clay Risen writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Q: “Lindsey Graham & Speaker Johnson called on you to resign.” 🔥 ZELENSKYY: “When Lindsey Graham becomes a citizen of Ukraine, then his voice will gain weight.”

There's been so much publicity about the now-Oscar-winning doc No Other Land being unable to find a U.S. distributor (which is appalling) that some people may not realize it's currently on 100 screens here. In Manhattan you can see it at Film Forum; in Brooklyn it's at Alamo Drafthouse.

And just like that, break is over. Six weeks until the end of the semester. Halp.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Thread. Important.

Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is leveraging approval for Verizon's $9.6 billion merger with Frontier to bully the company into buckling on it's already pretty thin civil rights support

Thread. Important.

Ok but for real now - how do we overthrow this shit?

Registration is open for "Lucille Ball: Queen of Comedy," hosted by the Newberry Library. More information here: www.newberry.org/calendar/luc...

even with fucked up Roku compression, this looks so much better than after Lucas fucked around with it for decades

Investigate. Imprison. Confiscate. No tyrants. No kings. No immunity. The only slogans I want from democrats going forward.

No one says they can't be rich. We're just saying they don't need to be THAT rich when there are others who have absolutely nothing. Seriously. At what point does one have enough? If it were cats instead of money we'd call it hoarding.

@bmeiselas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com all the times Zelensky has thanked the US in a ten minute search of X. Mainstream won’t broadcast this maybe you will.

Every single politician in America, especially Republican could learn a lesson about not cravenly debasing yourself like a pathetic meek coward. (There are other terms that come to mind.)

Trump is not a Republican. At this point, I am not sure he is even an American! 🤔💙🌎🕊

Spotted in the wild today at Book Soup 📚☀️🎉 Congratulations, @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social!

kitties!! mask chain and skulls.. unless I posted the skulls already but I swear I didn’t (if i did look away). posting the kitty one later today and the skulls have been up!! there’s one left

Gentle reminder that many disabled people can’t always shop local, especially if housebound. We’re dependent on delivery & sometimes left with big chains as only option. If you can, help someone get what they need from a great local minority owned business! Community will save us in the end.

Had a great day with a few of my students at the Ypsilanti water treatment plant today. They did a good job shooting the tour and getting B-roll. Got so many steps in I get to skip the gym tonight.

The March 16, 1990 release of Lambada and The Forbidden Dance is the Gen-X Barbenheimer. The 35th anniversary is weeks away. Exhibitors/programmers: don’t blow it!

confirmed by deadline and all major pubs now:

Follow @strangenewpod.bsky.social & check out the full podcast episode celebrating #StarTrekVoyager 30th anniversary. #StarTrek #AgathaAllAlong #Trekademia #CaptianJaneway #AgathaHarkness

They canceled Katie Phang as well mass firing Black hosts...I will be boycotting MSNBC and all cable news from now on. www.thedailybeast.com/ex-host-tiff...

Always deeply relevant

Good morning beautiful souls, I'm late today but wanted to share some love. I hope Tuesday is good to you. ☀️☕🏃‍♀️💜☮️

This came up so often in the interviews I did that I had to create a code for understaffing. Everyone is doing too many jobs, and that takes a toll on people, too.

Saddened to learn that #FanStudies scholar Mark Duffet passed away about a week ago. I will always remember how kind he was to me at @fanstudies.bsky.social conferences, and getting rained on with him in Cardiff before I realized that's who he was. He was my first scholarly brush with fame.

Disposable is out today! I owe everything to my sources and to my family, friends and colleagues, who have supported me and who believed in this project as much as I did. bookshop.org/p/books/disp...