This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Your voice has been heard! The two All-Star Ball Crew members headed to Atlanta next week are Frankie Boyd (@Tigers) and Adam Crognale (@Phillies)! #AllStarGame

You'd like to think so, but most of them will do as they're ordered as always.

I heard they took the markets upstate to live on a farm and play all day with other markets

The government's detention of Mahmoud Khalil for his advocacy in support of Palestinian rights should raise alarm bells for anyone who cares about the First Amendment. Two of Mahmoud's lawyers break down the free speech implications of the case on the newest episode of At Liberty.

I’m old enough to remember being told giving water away charitably in Georgia was a grave threat to election integrity.

The apprentice is now the master.

High school students - "How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement":

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

The Third Reich moved swiftly in the 1930s to close or geld any newspapers critical of the regime, and the rest simply became eager mouthpieces.

A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

A debt of gratitude is owed to the data archivists who collected all of the CDC data before it could be deleted.

Robert Eggers

Monarchy speedrun is already at “meddlesome priest,” pretty good time

This bit in Laura Dern's letter to Lynch gave me joy www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Respectfully (and I genuinely mean this), I’ve never heard a single regular person ask for “bipartisanship.” That’s inside nonsense. They want things to work. If the other party refuses to work for people, be the ones who will. Fight for people. Make it plain who isn’t, and who THEY’RE for.

Stalin biographer and world historian Stephen Kotkin (Stanford, ex-Princeton) has an A+ take on the notion that Trump is “not who we are.” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A sampling of his EOs on day 1: - Withdraw from the Paris climate accord & WHO - End constitutional birthright citizenship - Reclassify federal employees, making them easier to fire - fed policy recognizing only two genders - pause the TikTok ban ...

this is the whole thing, they will denigrate you, they will demean you, they will insult you, they will demand you bend, and then they will mock you for bending. do not comply in advance and do not comply at fucking all if you are not forced to.

TRUMP: I have issued an executive order for all Democrats serving in congress to be executed by firing squad DEMOCRATS: can we compromise on only killing the House Democrats?

GUYS! FELLAS! DUDES! This is on us. To acknowledge the inauguration of a rapist & his rapist filled cabinet, I will once again point out to all my fellow men that this applies to your mother, wife, sister & daughter more times over than you will ever know.

Well that was rough, Lions fans. Back to baseball. www.blessyouboys.com/2025/1/19/24...

An important anniversary

What a paragraph.

Arizona man who led a polygamous sect is sentenced to 50 years for his role in conspiracy to transport children for sex. "...claimed more than 20 spiritual 'wives' including 10 underage girls..." www.cbsnews.com/news/samuel-...

Seriously if you are nondisabled CALL YOUR REPS. We need you to help speak up with us right now. So badly. I rely on telehealth for my care now. I can’t use stairs anymore, so leaving home is dangerous and painful. I also lack the spoons to be as active as I want & need to be: I need your help.

OW!! thehardtimes.net/news/news-me...

That some normies in an Altoona McDonald's found the guy and not the NYPD and it $11 billion budget (ranks between Iran and Sweden's military spending) checks out.

For Detroit Metro Times, as Joe Lapointe's understudy, I wrote about my batshit 30 years in journalism, interviewing Caitlyn Jenner unexpectedly while stoned at midnight, my political shift Leftward, and "Christmas Vacation" originally being a Detroit story. www.metrotimes.com/news/nationa...

I gotta say that being able to play YouTube links in-app is amazing and it doesn't make me want to leave Bluesky, it makes me want to use it more. I cannot believe what we've been forced to tolerate by tech behemoths for so long in their desperation to prevent access to the rest of the internet.

Rapid descent of suspected getaway aircraft carrying Assad after passing over Opposition held-territory near Homs. Analyst: 3D @flightradar24 data of jet. If this isn't an entirely spoofed route, it looks VERY bad (for him), sudden rapid descent. tweeted 9:55 PM ET/NYC x.com/Nrg8000/stat...

@fiskadoro.bsky.social rocked the hell out of this www.blessyouboys.com/2024/12/7/24...

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT #ACTUALNEWS Romanian Constitutional Court decided to annule the Romanian Presidential Elections which will be repeated from Round 1 without the pro-Russian (RFK Jr’s BFF) who will be arrested for treason.

A massive, coordinated expensive Tik-Tok promotion campaign helped a pro- Russian candidate in Romanian presidential elections. He declared he spent no money on the campaign... www.bbc.com/news/article...

⚡️ Romanian constitutional court annuls results of presidential election's first round. The Romanian Constitutional Court annulled the results of the first round of the presidential election, which had been led by Calin Georgescu, Digi24 reported.

It's going to be funny if Trump still throws Joe and Mika in jail despite debasing themselves on TV each day to protect his honor.

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

This piece is like "some people say that RFK will destroy the public health system because he holds anti-science positions, but others find him a breath of fresh air" except it doesn't include the first part

🇺🇦⚔️ "There is no alternative to NATO. Look at the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Agreements. We were guaranteed security. It did not work and will not work," - Zelensky 🇺🇸❗️"There will be no surrender from Ukraine and Trump knows it," he said.

We're heading to a very bad place.

"Twitter isn’t real life" turned into "leaving Twitter is ignoring reality” very quickly!

Map of where everything is currently at in Syria today. It’s a complex picture.

Beginners guide to what’s going on in Syria:

Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, Syria all out against Russia right now.

Aleppo, Syria www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

🇸🇾Syria, Day 5

Syria: Syrian intelligence chief General Hussam Luka reportedly leading the coup against Assad right now. Rumors that those close to Assad are getting arrested by Luka's team in Damascus.

Oddly enough Jurassic Park covers this perfectly. It’s a mentality of getting rich quick with no desire to understand what is happening or potential consequences. And a deep resentment that someone else might know more than they do.

Always wary of books I love getting adapted, but happy to say the Three-Body Problem was actually good. Should have trusted the showrunners. Glad to know season 2 and 3 are coming.

Wonder how Republicans are going to spin this statement from Pete Hegseth’s OWN MOTHER. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...