The fact that private prisons even exist is just grotesque.

I wonder how many social issues could have been solved or at least made a dent in with the money that these billionaires were willing to pay out, all so that they could maintain a stranglehold on their wealth and ensure that the working class is forced to get by on scraps.

There were a little more than 80,000 overdose deaths in 2024, per the CDC. Four extra judicial boat attacks would have satisfied that number. We're now on number 16.

The New York Post: Ever the beacon for rational and level-headed discourse.

I'm not interested in dancing on the grave of the recently departed Dick Cheney, but I will say that may history judge him as he deserves.

One million seconds = Roughly 11 days One billion seconds = 32 years What's the difference between one million and one billion? It's about one billion. More people would be outraged if they realized how big a billion is. Millionaires are not the problem. Greedy billionaires are.

They said the quiet part out loud!

If you levy an accusation of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" unironically, I cannot possibly take you seriously.

This is correct. Example: Mike Johnson can go fuck himself.

Denials by those who set out to rule and denial that it's even happening by those to be subjugated.

If I had read this in a non-fiction book, I would have thought that the metaphor was too hackneyed and on-the-nose...

Dissent isn't hatred of your country. Dissent is the manifested desire to make your country better. We should always strive to better than who we are. If we never improve, we never grow...and we stagnate.

Dissent is at the very core of our nation's existence. America was born out of dissent. An attempt to silence our dissent is their admission that we are stronger than they are.

Why can't we have a President who can just ONCE be the adult in the room?

I'm seeing great photos today from all of the No Kings protests throughout the country. They are a powerful reminder that the Trump administration attempts to silence us because we are so strong together. They fear us.

Rest in Peace Diane Keaton. Such a fantastic actress.

Poor wittle Donny. Time for him to call a televised Cabinet meeting where everyone talks about how great he is for two hours.

As a life-long Red Sox fan, I am saddened by the passing of former outfielder Mike Greenwell. 62 is too damn young. May he rest in peace, and may his friends and family be comforted in this difficult time for them.

"When walking through hell, keep going."

Stay in school, kids.

RIP to Jane Goodall. A trailblazing scientist who opened our eyes to a world we would have never otherwise known about. She will be sorely missed.

This is alarming to most, but it shouldn't be. It's much more soothing to the ear when it is spoken in the original German.

With the assault on our constitutional rights by the Trump White House, it's easy to be scared in these scary times. But we can't let it stop us. Bravery isn't never being scared. Bravery is being scared but doing it anyway.

History is like science and free speech. It doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree with it, it exists for you to listen to it.

And you know that they all voted for Trump, too... Regardless of that, I don't want them to lose their union protections. Our prison system is horribly broken, but this is not the path to fixing it.

It's the pro-life party at it again. Or rather, pro-life-as-long-as-we-deem-you-worthy.

Just as a reminder: Trump really isn't the problem. He is not the future. It's the Vances and the Boeberts and the MTGs that are cause for concern. Even if "MAGA" dies with Trump, the xenophobia and anti-intellectualism aren't going anywhere.

Trump’s farm plan: break their legs, then sell them the crutches.

Honestly, why fake it as "Anti-ICE" when "Fuck ICE" would have been more believable? These people suck at lying.

Stunning new #jwst images reveal new insights into what's going on in the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy. Read the article for more, and a fun slider that shows 2 different versions of this image ➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Whoever invented the word “queue” and made four silent letters wait their turn deserves a medal.

Reports of a mass shooting at an ICE field office in Dallas this morning with multiple injuries. I hope it remains as "injuries." Violence only begets more violence, and we've seen enough of it recent weeks.

I would settle for our President being as articulate as an 11 year old at this point.

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”— Wilhoit’s Law

Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh

Which is funny, because there are more convicted felons per capita in The White House than there are riding the T.

And it is going to stay that way for eternity because he is dead. Whether or not you feel that Charlie Kirk's shooting was a national tragedy or something else, cracking down on the First Amendment rights of the living will not bring him back.

It's not going to be easy for me, being the sports fan that I am, but I deleted ESPN from my browser history on both my phone and laptop. Not watching it won't be a problem since we're cord cutters, anyway. I know it's a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things, but it's what I -can- do.

Remember the Malice in the Palace, when RASHEED WALLACE of all people was trying to calm everyone down and take the temperature down a few notches? This is why this is reminding me of, and it is surreal.

Something that being a scientist, a skeptic, or hell even a progressive, teaches you is to embrace subtlety. Context. Not everything is black/white, left/right, binary. But media has hammered "it's either this or that" for so long I'm not sure they can even understand nuance any more.

Am I happy that Charlie Kirk got shot and killed? No. Am I celebrating? Also no. Do I want to see the killer face justice? Yes. Am I expecting the justice that will be doled out to be a shooting by law enforcement? Also yes.

I don't condone the political violence. But I shed no tears for Charlie Kirk the human being, who decided some time ago that violence was an acceptable consequence for his narrative. I do feel awful for his kids, though.

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

Charlie Kirk was shot. I'm not going to celebrate it, because we've seen more than enough blood shed during political violence over the years. But is this not the America that Kirk advocated for? For the gun, by the gun, and above all, the gun? He didn't ask to be shot, but he made it much easier.

The CEO of OceanGate was known to say something similar, and he ended up at the bottom of the ocean in the form of human puree. Take that for what you will.

Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”

The most accurate description ever.