Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

The problem of inequality has become so pressing that it needs coordinated global action to address it, a group of over 500 economists and scientists said today.

Wow, it looks like we have our first death related to alpha-gal syndrome

There is mass slaughter going on in Darfur – right now. Hundreds killed by the RSF in al-Fashir. 460 executed in one hospital alone. Across Sudan more than 150,000 are dead and 12 million displaced. Killing, rape, and starvation abound. The U.S. must use all leverage to stop the killing. Right now.

Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.” For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Says the man who is useless and neither necessary, safe, nor effective.

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"She tells of a student who kept trying to save her meal to carry home, because she didn’t have anything to eat there. Seiber-Garland and her staff found a way to provide her with a second meal for the evening."

An AI-generated video showing a capybara, a South American rodent, in a bathtub, "could boost people’s interest in keeping such animals as pets and fuel the illegal trade of such species." Fab piece by Katarina Zimmer on the perils of AI-generated animals: atmos.earth/science-and-...

Flu season is already beginning. Pediatricians are worried after one of the deadliest flu seasons on record last year -- and the CDC ended a vaccination campaign in the middle of it. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

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I have been visiting all sorts of artisan markets, buying a variety of items to sporadically gift as a “just because“. Granola, watercolor postcards, candles, mini paintings, crochet creatures, soaps, you name it 🧶 It doesn’t take much to brighten someone’s day AND support your local handmade crew.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

An awful lot of the discourse about AI in medicine amounts to "[valid criticism] but they're working that out." The people who say they're working that out are selling you something. If a pharmaceutical company told you survival is worse "but we're working it out," would you advocate for that drug?

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Too many news outlets & pols framing Tuesday as affordability *Instead Of* "woke"/"DEI"/whatever the fuck when Mamdani & Sherrill both *explicitly* embraced trans & other LGBTQ+ rights, VA solidly rejected Republicans' virulent anti-trans attack adz, & a PA elected their 1st trans mayor. Be serious.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Not pictured: the guy with the controller crouched in the corner For 200 bucks a month, you too can rent a robot and a guy on an H1B1 visa to come to your house and do chores

Gender markers on passports only became a thing in the US in the 1970s. What good have they done us? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jim Watson was a peevish bigot. He sold off his Nobel Prize medallion in 2014 (but got it back) because he was so mad that people objected to his bigotry. Please do speak ill of the dead. slate.com/technology/2...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

A massive JAMA Internal Medicine study of 1.8M Americans found last season’s COVID booster still packs a punch—especially against severe illness and death. The data are clear: 📉 Infection risk ↓ 45% at 4 weeks, 36% at 10 weeks, #BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #IDSky #NurseSky #EMSky

I put this link in a comment, but figured y'all need to know that the folks at @vanityfair.com are hilarious! www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

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“Internally, Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion ‘high risk’ scam ads a day.”

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Everything

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

stop doing phrenology with the computer!!

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered Trump’s administration to fully fund food stamps after it tried to deny aid for 42 million Americans. “This should never happen in America.” — Judge McConnell www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

BREAKING: A judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media.

In light of today’s discourse, a reminder: Women have always worked. The big shift from feminism was women getting access to all types of workplaces with an expectation of equal compensation. When they say they want to kick us out of the workplace, they actually mean they want us to work for free.

This is exhausting. But telling. Whenever you hear someone attacking feminists, you should know they’re attacking women and they’re too chickenshit to admit they’re attacking women.

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Damn can Muslims get a moment of joy? Just a second to enjoy this W?

Your must read: “In all this, though nearly one in ten New Yorkers are Muslim, our fears, our lives, are simply not part of the national conversation. Instead, the state apparatus built to target us, one built on an image of us as a dangerous other, is getting more powerful as I write this. “