What a little hero, and wow his mom taught him well! Disarmament in general is just a great skill to learn, esp. for this exact type of situation. "maintaining a secure environment where learning can take place without fear" - if so then why is Sakir being punished? Not logical at all.

[at your friend's funeral who just lost her husband] I got mines!

He was doing the work of a hero and got punished for it.

it actually makes me feel a lot better knowing that it's 1 in 10 teens who only find out later on what their gender is. the "born this way" argument really made me feel like a faker for a while.

it's such a shame people are twisting this cause it's really interesting data! it seems a takeaway from this is that around 90% of kids know what they're about from a young age, whereas 10% make that discovery later on... hope they poll the cohort at like 20-22 for more data

Apologies, correct data appended here, but the point is still correct: Implying a 20% detransistion rate by including people switching between "trans" and "nonbinary" and cis kids who later became trans is wildly dishonest.

I am genuinely shocked at this, this is such blatant manipulation of the data for ideological purposes, and I would have thought that the @economist.com would be above that, or at least competent at doing it.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free.

It’s so important to understand that if they can control one part of your pregnancy they can control another. How they treat people who have abortions is how they will eventually treat all pregnant people.

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

The funniest thing about Charlie Kirk was that his entire shtick as a teenager was “watch this college dropout DESTROY these undergrads.” And he then went through the entirety of his 20s and into his 30s … still debating undergrads.

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Damn, Doug Fordism has spread across the border.

I really enjoy the last several episodes of Magic Tavern, it almost feels like they're heading to an end. If they are, incredibly satisfying episodes so far. (if not tho, that's rad too! Would solve my curiosity on a writer's front (esp. cuz it's improv.) on what a story could look like after)

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

it’s called winning not won

Vaccinate your kids. Vaccinate yourself.

ICE = Trump's Gestapo

In my late twenties when I realized I could text my family as much as I talked to them, I was delighted to encounter their ability to use so many emoticons. It took me a bit to fully realize, it was them adding tone of sincereness, but also! they think emoticons are fun and funny, which is awesome.

Starting to take trumps attacks on autists, leftists, antifascists, and lgbtq very personally guys.

This would mean fascist is the default for Americans. If you're against fascism, you're a terrorist. Cool. Totally normal.

i’m like popeye if instead of spinach it was tylenol but instead of stronger it made me even more neurodivergent

My friend, who rightfully holds realism to the route of cynicism (her life has been hard in the way that makes hope hurt) gave a blasé “victory?” on Kimmel, and I agreed with her, but with hope: “Not victory, but can be part of victory if it helps folks continue to realize our collective power.”

It's actually the only answer.

Shana Tova, friends who Shana Tova.

Valid point.

Kenvue, which owns Tylenol, is issuing mildly worded statements when they need to say “we are going to sue you into the middle of next year.” There is no scientific basis whatsoever for people with zero medical expertise telling anybody to not take Tylenol, cut and dried interference-with-commerce

hey there’s a little life left in the 4th estate after all

Post sources, not AI aummaries

I refuse to be lectured about vaccines by people that didn't get the message of Weird Al's Amish Paradise

BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Note: this call is for artists who specifically have COMIC SAMPLES. Styles I'm particularly interested in seeing: • middle grade cartooning that leans more American cartoon than anime • Marvel/DC inspired style on non-superhero subject matter • fantasy and fight scenes But I'm open!

💖 Hi~ I've recently been hired as Illustration & Creative Lead at The Story Division, helping publishers with graphic novel projects. I'm currently updating our artist database & looking for a wider range of art styles. Cartoonists: post sequentials, website, availability below. No DMs/emails plz!

I know they’re lying, but if someone told me hurting someone was a sign of caring, that’d scare the shit out of me because they think my death is good for me, because that’s what he said- and if you don’t know how bizarre that is, that means you either know or don’t, and both mean you’re dangerous

Stumbled upon an artist's studio today while trying to find a yard sale and their work is so incredible. www.instagram.com/campagnabron...

sex terms that sounds like transformer names: -roadhead -edgeplay -motorboat -bareback -stuntcock

Trump has already been rambling in and out of script for 37 minutes.

Bsky marked these as sexually suggestive.

Told you this was never about Charlie. There's exactly 0% chance this took place.

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So many people are leaving the stadium right now, it's hilarious.

This is not up for debate. We have all met discipline-free, fancy-free rich white suburban kids. The rate of people like that who aren’t violent is a rounding error.

There are actually not that many possible responses to violent misdeeds and I’m really so tired of people arguing every single one of them is a deadly sin, like there are sleeper Catholics waiting to possess them Not forcing people to experience the consequences of their actions leads to atrocities

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...no he did not.

#art #oc she is...the cutest....

www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org www.pbs.org/newshour/amp... The opposite of diversity is segregation, as it happens.