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Calling all freelance fact-checkers! We're in need of some fact-checking assistance during the first week of October—hit us up if you're interested in fact-checking a very fun project. Email Chris ([email protected]) for more details.

wtf is happening with bluestockings now

cackling

When you have enough Amtrak points for a free ride.

Don't forget that Fat Bear Week voting starts tomorrow at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern. You can see the bracket and read about the bears here: explore.org/fat-bear-week

Did you eat? Take your meds? Drink water?

Shana Tova to all my Jewish beloveds I see you and I cherish you and I am grateful you exist here in this world, and I am holding you in my heart with so many blessings and good wishes for a sweet new year

in all seriousness do people remember 2012. why are they doing this again

if you have a Christian family you’ve been wanting to wordlessly abandon tomorrow would be a great day to do it

Now, more than ever, is the time to support your local media. For real—subscribe to your local newspapers. They’re one of the few bastions of free speech and 1A. I support @51st.news in DC. What do your recommend for your city?

I can't believe I invested everything in futures

The Rapture gets earlier and earlier every year. Costco has had its Rapture stuff out since July.

Never noticed how beautiful Woodland Lettuce (Lactuca floridana) flowers are, mostly cause the buds close up before my afternoon nature walk time. Made especially pretty by lots of small metallic blue carpenter bees doing #bee things. #inverts #insects #nativeplants #bugsex #macrophotography

I’ve been saying for years that it should be illegal to email me

if only ezra klein were a disney adult

Rage Against the Machine Learning

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

me, trying to understand naked venality: its like if everything at the bookstore is free if youre fast enough

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

The world is a lot. Did you eat today? Take your meds? Drink water?

Look I expected the Right and the center to spend all of its time focusing on Charlie Kirk instead of the fucking ethnic cleansing ICE and Border Patrol are carrying out in Chicago but I didn't expect that shit from the left Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

me, when I'm normalizing stuff

Free drag name: Dua Labia

I'm not blaming anyone for being young but I am begging media reporters to Google Sinclair and Swift Boats.

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice I would like to file several complaints

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

...what did he even say

As was posted earlier, how to delete your account without agreeing to the ToS: Opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Unions are great, BTW, get yourself a union. I had one in my corner when a boss targeted me at the Baltimore Sun and it made a huge difference.

Just a reminder that I'm a good writer and editor who hits deadlines, if you have any freelance or part-time work you wanna throw at me.

I’m a healthcare worker, and I support this message.

The D.C. Council has started on its first big debate of the day: the RENTAL Act, which largely speeds evictions (in some cases) and exempts newer buildings from TOPA, the four-decade-old law that gives tenants the first shot at buying their building when it goes up for sale.

Yes, the war in Gaza is a genocide. I hope you’ll take a moment to read my op-ed here:

Obama gonna get fired from Columbia now

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Okay hi do I have any social worker mutuals who might be willing to answer some very basic questions about something? I'm working on a fiction thing but I want to make sure that the basic plot makes sense and isn't completely unbelievable/very much Not How It Works. DM's are open. Thanks!

why is no one making me pancakes rn

Did you drink water? Take your meds? Eat a whole meal?

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

I wish I knew someone who was an expert on Parkinson’s

He is free to argue that because he is not a stakeholder in ANY of it. If the GOP has its way, what will be taken from Ezra Klein personally is nothing more serious than a good night's sleep. I sincerely await the essay in which he acknowledges that, and the limitation of vision it causes him. x

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

to recap, the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, is about to control the following: -Paramount Skydance (CBS, Nickleodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET + Paramount and Skydance studios) -Warner Discovery (HBO, CNN, TBS and TNT, WB studios + various other TV networks) -TikTok

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

It seems that the only trans person known to be in the orbit of this horrific Kirk assassination saga expressed shock and horror, and immediately cooperated fully with law enforcement.