Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

There is a 30 rock reference for EVERYTHING

'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

That’s 397 pounds lost on average for every person in the United States.

What is your favorite book to tv/movie adaptation? Not necessarily the one that adapts most closely to the original work, but the one that best captures the essence of the original work while mastering the new medium? Thinking about this while rewatching HBO’s His Dark Materials…

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Left on read by bowdoin 🥲lmao

Obsessed with Bowdoin being roasted by Bowdoin alums for their terrible, embarrassing post about Zohran winning.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Holy smokes! Mamdani quotes Eugene Debs from the jump! This is the speech of a lifetime. "My friends we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andew Cuomo the best in private life, but let tonight be the last night I utter his name." All of this. "New York tonight you have delivered a mandate."

Dear god please run Ayanna save us from Seth Moulton (And ed please retire if Ayanna runs 🙏😭)

going to be a weird news week

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

Does anyone have a ~simple~ podcast/article I can share with a relative that goes over how the NYT, Emily bazelon, etc. contributed to the panic around trans kids healthcare through their “journalism”? I know the deep cuts analyses but need something concise for said relative

I learned that dick Cheney died from the American girl account

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Introduced by Bernhard Riemann in the mid-19th century, manifolds are crucial to our understanding of the universe. Here’s how they work: www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-ma...

Just learned Curtis Sliwa has/had (?) 17 cats at the same time. Who is this man?

Even though my fam wasn’t evangelical, I still have weird (light) religious trauma growing up in a 90% very evangelical Christian town and it’s unexpectedly healing to see one of my favorite childhood authors leave the Mormon church and become very supportive of trans kids

I’m pretty sure Elon musk only watched the movies because the scouring of the Shire was Tolkein’s heavy handed way to message that isolationism and appeasing fascism is bad actually. The hobbits were not protected in the end by the “hard men of gondor.” the movies took the scouring out!

Happy Halloween from kiriko and the warawara. The best ghibli masc

I love gay Halloween what do you mean I just saw Jenna and Paul as Jenna from 30 rock

*taps earpiece* I’m getting word that my thoughts on this do not matter because I did not deliver them while wearing a flannel shirt and wiping my hands with a rag next to a pickup truck.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

The intellectual critique in this thread is great but on a bit more of a personal note, as an alum, it is LAUGHABLE to paint Bowdoin as a hotbed of leftist ideology. I don't have the numbers, but consulting and finance were some of the top job placements for grads in my year (2015)

Happy National cat day😻

I’m still laughing at this because two of my con law sequence classmates from bowdoin work for temu alliance defending freedom and the Cato institute. The leftist dogma say what?

Shockingly they did not interview the Republican professor of the course I took with Zohran

We live in an episode of Veep

I genuinely don’t know how I’m related to many of my extended family members on my dad’s side lmao. This is Cousin Frank bc he is someone’s cousin and the name stuck. Tante Adele was not my aunt. We called my great aunt Oma out of respect/bc we hung with her grandkids (my second cousins?)

Just noticed my mom follows Glen Powell’s dog on Instagram but not Glen Powell. I love that.

🚨🚨🚨KATE MCKINNON ON GOOD HANG TOMORROW 🚨🚨🚨

Lia Smith was a transgender rights advocate and athlete who spoke out forcefully against this administration's policies. Rest in peace. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...

On a personal level, this is the best news I've heard all day.

“People can change, we have to allow for growth” defenses of Graham Platner coming from the same group of people who held the fact the Elizabeth Warren was a Republican in the 1970s against her in 2020…

People with generalized anxiety disorder should not subscribe to USPS daily digest. (Me)

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

I need a version of Jeopardy! without sports questions.

20 years apart, my fifth grade drawing and today. Thank you for inspiring me to be a scientist 💚

Obsessed with this photo my mom took of my parents’ cat Finn 🥹🩷

Absolutely shocked by the number of lib pundits sticking with Platner.

I found two academic journal articles about masc representation through Kiriko in Miyazaki’s Boy and the Heron and so excited people actually agree with my queer ghibli friend group’s analysis of her

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

It's clear from today's AP photos that Trump has entirely demolished the East Colonnade—added to the White House by Thomas Jefferson in 1805—and restored by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. The East Colonnade didn't occupy the footprint of the Trump "ballroom"—its demolition was completely unnecessary.