I've been waiting for a good voice to pick up the Argentina/Soybean scandal. Dan Osborn now has. www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/d...

I wrote about covering the aftermath of the immigration raids in Venture County this week. Most of what’s on my mind in this piece is dark and angry—none of this should be normal. A man shouldn’t have died running for his life Thru all this, the community care in the county was a sight to behold.

The Twitter platform is built to keep people on it. It does not drive traffic virtually at all, even in its hayday, and it's even worse now. There's no reason to stay on it.

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

1. On Tuesday, Congresswoman Sarah McBride gave a interview with Ezra Klein at the New York Times. It has been used to seed the ground for a rightward shift in the Democratic Party on trans rights. Some allies have failed to grasp the problems with her approach. Here's what McBride gets wrong.

The Bethesda Declaration people spoke out, despite the prohibition.

Stop asking marginalized populations to politely ask for basic human rights! Supreme Court just upheld the care ban for transgender youth today? A polite email ain't gonna cut it, Sarah.

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Many of the LA Sheriffs didn't have their gas masks on yet so the Sheriffs got gassed by LAPD LAPD was on the radio crying about getting shot by rubber bullets by the sheriffs, so I'd say fair trade Typical level of professional policing for Los Angeles. Waiting for CHP to join the fun.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Magic The Gathering event vs. Trump's Birthday Party

Ocean Beach San Francisco today. #NoKings We were there

When you spent $25 million on your birthday party but the tanks were old and the clown wasn’t funny and the taco bowls didn’t have enough cheese and all the cool kids went to a different party.

being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.

Preach, Professor Snyder

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

I got to be an external reviewer for NEH summer stipends. 2 things I noticed: 1) There is an overwhelming surplus of groundbreaking research being conducted in the humanities by scholars at all employment levels. It was a nearly impossible task to say which projects were more "deserving" of support

“In this article, I argue that we are totally fucked. In so doing, I fill a scholarly gap in the discourse around how fucked we are. My novel insight is that the fuckedness is largely behind comprehension.”

Reverse Cassandraing, whispering, “Everybody predicted all of this.”

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

wild how he immediately raises his weapon as soon as she turns and he sees the microphone they're shooting to maim the press on purpose y'all

Whimsy and play in the face of oppression! 💕

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

We really lost the Mandate of Heaven when this stopped being the guiding principle for fantasy movies

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

I wrote about Sinners. Watching so many Black folk call the film "demonic", I explain how its central horror -- and triumph is that the film casts Black/African spirituality as an effective challenge to Western Christianity. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Listen to our full conversation with writer and organizer @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social on death, witching, and the alchemy that happens when we turn toward each other in relationship: atmos.earth/staying-root...

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A classic mix of this regime's cruelty and incompetence: HHS *accidentally* emailed a spreadsheet showing plans to kill 150+ research grants on child welfare—Head Start, child abuse prevention, help for low-income kids. No notice, no process.

this fuckwit believes in the "miasma theory," as in "bad air" spontaneously causes infections. as in… from roman times but is he then for limiting air pollution? also no

The GOP budget bill could gut the FTC by moving its antitrust authority to the DOJ, limiting the government's ability to bring unfair competition cases.  It would also let Pam Bondi, an ex-Amazon lobbyist, call the shots on antitrust.  Big Business must be thrilled.

The ten top fossil fuel companies, including entities like Chevron, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco, are responsible for half of those losses, the study finds.

And the jobs of the future somehow bear a striking resemblance to the jobs of the past. They want our children and grandchildren on assembly lines, in mines, and in the fields. Generation after generation. This is the plan to create a world in which we are all piece-workers in service to oligarchs.

omg how do we defeat Trumpism *explains how* omg ur a dirty socialist, that's unrealistic

We're at the Jo-Ann's liquidation sale We're at the rising tariffs We're at the combination Jo-Ann's liquidation sale/rising tariffs (And everyone here is gay)

A Trump-appointed judge ordered a hearing in the case of a 2-year-old girl based on his "strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process." By @brettwilkins.bsky.social

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! It’s also my first book’s birthday—‘FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor’ came out on April 26, 2022, and it’s been an absolute wild ride ever since. Buy it here on Bookshop to support the ILWU Local 5 strike fund! bookshop.org/p/books/figh...

Because it was a fake job 👍 hope that helps www.wsj.com/articles/the...

My phone just served me this picture, from a March 2021 CNBC hit, and I want to put it in a museum of pandemic times.

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

I got busy with semester things & didn’t finish our edition of the 14th Amendment, but as @rezekjoe.bsky.social told me “The 14th amendment will be as urgent as ever over the next long long while” A print from @transbookhistory.bsky.social inspired me to try a basic cardstock & I dig it