And please stop telling women to just do more & just try harder & just go longer, women got the mf memo and a majority have healthy breastfeeding goals, but don't reach them because SOCIETY IS FAILING THEM.

AND THEN THERE'S #2 Folks who are anti-industry but seemingly leave the costs of women's time, resources, & energy out of their economic models. #3 Folks who really like telling vessels, I mean WOMEN, what to do with their bodies.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

#ArtAdventCalendar Pitcher plants!

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations. When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

I'll continue editing this one. Love how fast this kid moves all the time. Going back to a real camera rather than just my phone means i have some pictures of middle kid. #ArtAdventCalendar

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

This is fucking anti-american.

#ArtAdventCalendar One of my favorite walks we did in Cape Breton, the bog path. Someday I may not get excited at every sundew and pitcher plant, but that day hasn't come yet.

#ArtAdventCalendar Experimenting with digital ND for long exposures this summer in Cape Breton.

I have never seen a clearer demonstration of white women's tears.

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 morning Breakup 30x36 76x91 Oil on Canvas 2021 #art #painting

Trump has issued 1500+ pardons and counting…a who’s who of drug kingpins, crypto scammers, violent insurrectionists, terrorism financiers & corrupt politicians. In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.

Ever mindful of the visuals, he gathers a giant group of old white people to surround him and support him while he spews his vile racist rants.

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social thanks for introducing me to the Jerry Cans

And remember, there's almost no rules for #ArtAdventCalendar Post your own work, old or new, themed or not on whatever schedule works for you. All skill levels are welcome Use AltText. No AI. Keep it SFW-ish. And have fun.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.

I forgot to tag! #MicroSky 🦠 🧪 I know times are tight but we keep our expenses very low. Almost everything we get from supporters goes to participants in the form of shirts, swag, mixers, the website, etc.

Universal healthcare would save Americans $450B ANNUALLY but requires dismantling systemic racism & that scares too many unmelinated folks so we continue to suffer as is.

Hey UConn, protect academic freedom! Faculty labor is union labor. GA labor is union labor. @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Are You Ready??? #ArtAdventCalendar

FTA: "It failed to identify the key signs [of mental illness], mentioned mental health concerns only briefly, and stopped doing so when instructed by the patient. Instead, it engaged with the delusional beliefs and inadvertently reinforced the individual’s behaviours."

So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.

The littles would happily just ride the train all day

Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

Over cooked my pie crusts but at least the cranberry custard was delicious.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Kid1 is taking a college level blueprints class. They've been working on this assignment all day and doing such a good job figuring out how to 2d render a complex 3d mockup.

Vicente has been missing for seven weeks after being taken into DHS’ custody and experiencing a medical emergency. His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe. The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.

I forgot to buy frozen pie crust so made some. I know it's not hard but my homemade crust usually slumps during blind baking (this is a custard pie). Baking pros-what am i doing wrong?

I imported my former spouse. The interview was both terrifying and no big deal. The backlog was so long we'd been married 4 years by the time we got our interview (applied the week after we we married). The system sucks and is designed to suck and now people are being torn apart because of backlogs.

Oil is nice, water is life. We've made a very bad trade.

5/ Over and over, all over the country, that's all it took: a traffic stop. We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Let's go!

Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.

Tried to figure out a way to get my teen to a ct town about an hour away. There is no public transit option that less than 5hrs for a 1 hr drive.

People who work with Hela, does this look realistic? 🧪🔬

There are many people in the ND community that either can't or don't feel comfortable speaking out about Kennedy, so i think it's incumbent on those of us who can to do so to help protect those of us who cannot. Our neurodiversity isn't our problem, our problem is this quack has so much power. 6/x

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

The corruption is staggering. As you pay more for health care, groceries, and utilities, Donald Trump and his administration gets kickbacks with your taxpayer dollars.

NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...