Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

This is totally incoherent. It isn’t the Dem establishment rejecting Platner for the racism and sexism, it is *some* fellow leftists. There absolutely is a pathway to genuinely grow and change away from racism and sexism, and it brings me no joy to say Platner does not appear to be on it.

You’ve gotta hand it to Trader Joe’s it’s quite an accomplishment to sustain a wildly successful nationwide business based almost solely on the premise “we have really good snacks.”

Wish we had video of what happened after he punched that woman

where is Tree Law when we really need it

Trump: I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead.

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

It has already been named The Epstein Ballroom

we are witnessing a genuine decline in the taste of american elites

I’m tried of this grandpa [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

when I report people like this now, I always include a note pointing out that they're allowed but Łink and Palestinian accounts are banned

This feels like it’s going to be a massive disaster on so many levels it’s going to be wild to watch and I’m going to probably hate every second of the discourse on it.

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

Sales of non-chocolate candy are growing faster than those of chocolate. With cocoa in shortage, manufacturers are changing pack sizes, adding fillers and dipping candy in "white creme." n.pr/4hpRSVP

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

Backed by a stellar band, the Nigerian artist effortlessly blends the sounds of Afrobeats, amapiano and Fuji in an intimate setting. n.pr/3WRykjB

Lot of people in Gaza are struggling to raise money since the ceasefire but they have lost everything and need to rebuild- there are still few other ways for them to make money in Gaza

I may just be an American bumpkin but how did the violent murder of a 15 year old trans girl get turned into a national campaign about how phones got her to self harm?

I think it’s an insult to the memory of Brianna that the focus on her mental health has now led her entire legacy to be “aren’t phones bad”, rather than the utter destruction of the institutionalised transphobia in our media and political institutions that it should’ve been. Quite sickening, really.

There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.

This feels like an important time to remind people that Amazon’s Ring camera has recently partnered with “Flock”, an AI tool used by ICE to help find immigrants. If it’s hallucinating guns…. Imagine the damage it could do in ICE’s control.

AI hallucinates a gun that turned out to be a bag of Doritos chips. Taki Allen was sitting outside of Kenwood High School when police with guns approached him, handcuffed him and searched him. The AI “weapon detection” system alerted them to a bag of chips. This poor kid will be traumatized.

President Trump is plowing ahead with plans to build a grand ballroom where the East Wing of the White House currently stands. The plans have not gone through the committee tasked with overseeing such projects. n.pr/48FiK1R

Faculty have more in common with students than administrators but they think they have more in common with administrators than students

If you are looking to support federal employees, one good place to donate to is the Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund. They are providing shutdown grants for federal employees that would be making less than $60k. feea.org/support/

You can also look at the shutdown assistance map here to find local places to donate to myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-ass...

Thinking of my many, many neighbors not getting their pay today

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

AI can pry Oxford commas and em dashes from my cold, lifeless, and dead hands—and I dare someone to say something to me about it

Alt text: Canadians joking about Trump tearing down the White House before they could set it on fire

Shit, man, Canadians are supposed to be the POLITE ones

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. n.pr/4ngKyx3

"American law exists to create a condition of constant titillation for people whose material needs are never unmet, but whose appetites have been teased into a state of ungovernable sadism by sloganeering and advertising that promises a return to a world that never existed and never will."

"It’s not a coup like I’ve known them. It’s the KKK rampaging through the street in disguise. It’s the SS hauling people out of their homes in the middle of the night. It is fascism, certainly. They are awful, cursed souls." [email protected] www.welcometohellworld.com/our-survival...

"Mr. O’Hara decided to encourage the public to view the deployment as a waste of tax dollars, a needless display of force, and a surreal danger.... In response to Mr. O’Hara’s statements that he was engaged in protest, Officer Campbell said, “That’s not a protest. You better define protest.”

Guy who played Imperial March sues: "The law might have tolerated government conduct of this sort a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But in the here and now, the First Amendment bars government officials from shutting down peaceful protests." www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

They tortured him to death.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.94 (lookback time 7.70 billion years) with coordinates (150.30019, 2.73534). 57 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

🇧🇷Tiriba-do-paranã 🌎Pyrrhura pfrimeri Conservação:Em Perigo A tiriba-do-paranã é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae. 📷 Ester Ramirez

These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.

🌅 on Friday, October 24, 2025 at 07:18 in New York City. Current conditions (via NOAA): 🌃 Fair/clear Temperature: 7.8° Relative Humidity: 70.66% Wind Chill: 5.81°

Today is the 100th birthday of writer, artist, and editor Al Feldstein (Oct. 24, 1925-April 29, 2014), who is most remembered for his work at EC Comics and for the several decades he served as editor of Mad magazine.

This is far from the most important issue here, but the Ontario govt was under no obligation to "seek...permission to use and edit" any recording of Ronald Reagan that is in the U.S. National Archives/Reagan Library, as is the case here. And the Reagan Foundation has *no* relevant role here.

you do not, in fact, have to hand it to ronald reagan

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

kinda weird how the United States embodies the Seven Deadly Sins perfectly: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Wrath, Greed, and Sloth huh.

This explains a lot