My latest for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social concerns these li’l cuties that live in our homes and ride around on other bugs.

@danielobrien.bsky.social I meant to make this updated GIF ages ago. Congrats on all the congratulatable stuff!

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.

I learned so much about these weird little dudes editing the script for this video, written by the excellent @witheelabs.bsky.social! 🧪 #scicomm

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

The thing about Senators, and Representatives, and Justices, and many, many politicians, and pundits, too, is that they never have to live in the worlds their actions create. They don't even know anyone who does.

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

It does not seem like a super tenable state of affairs that people are disguising themselves as cops to commit political assassinations and simultaneously if you ask "real" law enforcement agent for identification/authority they wrestle you to the ground and arrest you. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

so far this week: DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps Opposition leaders detained illegally Opposition leaders indicted Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state military parade with tanks through US capital Red line here yet?

Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

Madleen update: Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila arrived at Ashdod port, after being kidnapped by Israel along with 10 activists including MEP Rima Hassan.

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

there are only two things that make us cities unsafe and difficult to live in: 1) cars; and 2) cops both of which are structural pathologies forced upon cosmopolitan civilization by encircling enclaves of suburban barbarians

The fact is that liberals don't want protests that work; they want protests that look nice. And the aestheticization of politics is the crucible of fascism

Please please please keep talking about Greta and the Madleen Israel is threatening to bomb their aid ship if they don’t turn around

MPD isn't supposed to be helping. This is in direct contradiction to what O'Hara pledged in January: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...

chants of “get the fuck out”

The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

Amy Klobuchar demanding to speak at the massive Hands Off Rally in Saint Paul and then spending the next week confirming Trump appointees is amazing. Just tremendous contempt for her constituents.

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

theyre sending people to slave labour camps overseas for having tattoos, Chuck, you need to stop your schumering right now and resign

democratic leaderships see our ongoing constitutional crisis not as a emergency which they have to fix but as a PR problem that has to be managed

The Ides of March 44 BC is notorious as the day that Roman senators wore pink to protest the actions of Julius Caesar

If your rep won't do a town hall, set one up yourself, invite the community, and call in your local news to cover their absence.

Amazing that “personal liberties” is never code for trans rights, a right to be free from pollution, or a right to join a union.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Every union should be echoing this statement.

just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism

The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing people they had more in common with politicians who show up twice a decade to ask for votes than their own neighbours who live with them every day

“My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won. It solely marks the end of our association. You are not the land of the free.” zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...

Hakeem Jeffries is saying Democrats have no power while he attends fundraisers in which he promises Silicon Valley that Democrats will move to the right and be nicer to them. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer says Democrats shouldn’t holdup government funding even as Elon Musk makes appropriations useless.

There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’

the only thing that would make a United States Senator do something like this would be a ban on them trading in the stock market

The Democrats' inability to learn from history is even more infuriating when you consider that most of their leadership is old enough to have lived through every major world event since Reconstruction

The first Bizzare Beasts episode of 2025 just dropped! Had a fun time writing this one – it’s about birds being brainy: youtu.be/3OdB6Zbd2XQ?...

Zero reward for the white supremacist killer who murdered a teen in Manhattan the same day. Yeremi Colino does not matter to these people.

The sixth episode I wrote for this season of Bizarre Beasts is out! It features a very weird little guy indeed: the sea spider. It also includes maybe the dumbest and most specific joke I’ve ever written. youtu.be/S5dls9xtNlk?...

I’m once again writing science stuff for the tubes! Specifically, weird animal facts, if you’re into those: youtu.be/WUqZeyMCacY?...

Got a good picture of the blue supermoon tonight