so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

memes and violence and racism and antisemitism all meld together in the acidic stew a ton of young men dip their heads in daily online, and that shit can cook your brain fast

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

I got PTSD from this as a journalist and likely again from seeing crime scene and autopsy photos while serving as a juror recently. You don’t need to see it.

I think the idea of Dying for Something is very appealing for young men because living for something is much, much harder.

Granny panties, game pad, hoochie, laggy, go bag Anti-SLAPP law, Lock Screen, nanotech, nevirapine Shoegaze, vacay, paleo BDSM LET’S GO

I think the ancient Egyptians would be proud that there are hundreds of options of cat beds specifically for mounting on our desks.

Can’t believe the translations have all been wrong and that Jesus actually turned water in Malort

JetBlue, earlier this evening: Your flight is delayed by 20 minutes JetBlue, 8:06 PM: Your flight is back to being on time, go to the gate NOW JetBlue, LESS THAN TWO MINUTES LATER: LOL actually your flight is actually delayed even more now, bet you’re out of breath

I recognize that this is coming from a place of being very newly and very briefly a tourist in the city, but so many people have told me that NYC is the greatest city in the world, and a week here has me believing that.

I’m visiting NYC and know that some areas are rougher than others, but I can’t help but think about the number of suburban acquaintances who were convinced I’d be accosted at every corner. The only time I’ve been yelled at since leaving the airport was by a food cart guy offering me a free falafel.

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Just going to scream into the void regarding Cigna, which just sent me a notice that they’re going to stop covering one of my medications and that I can take a generic version instead. THERE IS NO GENERIC VERSION!

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

I don’t care how you feel about the protests — if you’re OK with the government disappearing someone like this for ANY reason, you’re a Fascist, an existential danger to any hope of a future for this nation. No one you know should feel safe around you ever again.

Is this my neurodivergence speaking or is being in that early “this person seems cool as hell and I think they want to be friends and I think I want to be friends” territory a little terrifying for most people? I got less stressed over dating!

Why don’t you say that the Tate brothers built an audience by constantly humiliating the boys and telling them that they’re always in a state of humiliation and emasculation unless they’re abusing or dominating over women in some way? And they brag about their own abuses as triumphs?

i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

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Amateurs don't dabble in the Leo Frank case; that takes an exceedingly well practiced professional anti-Semite.

They Might Be Giants are so good live that I forgot about the chaos of the world for a couple hours.

I saw either @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social or his doppelgänger at They Mighe Be Giants and while I had a little “omg is that him” moment, my husband asked who John Green was. Who did I marry?!

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

I understand the cruelty is the point, but I don’t understand how there will be any people left to be cruel to at the rate they’re dismantling public health.

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re: 'move fast and break things' - it's important to keep in mind two things: first, this is a good strategy only when everyone else is *excessively* cautious or myopic, and second, it is now a thing believed by people who are mostly idiots

There is Kendrick. And then there is everyone else. 🐐

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

The whole crowd at the Grammys shouting out A MIIIIIIIIINOOOOORRRRRR might have given me enough life to get through this week.

Have y’all gotten your…uhh…*double checks notes*…Malcolm X™ shirt from Old Navy yet?

Being against “DEI” isn’t about preferential treatment of marginalized people but rather the sheer audacity of us to exist in positions meant for white men.

More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.

“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work. The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths”

As a cisgender she/her person named Sam, I am once again asking folks sitting by to realize that these asshats are fine with harming us non-trans folks, too.

Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from personal consequences, but these people know that.

Does anyone who’s truly “on the fence” about trans and non-binary rights realize that this government’s efforts to control your gender expression aren’t gonna end even if you are cis?

There is undoubtedly a chunk of this nation that hates HIV/AIDS medications because they saw AIDS as God’s rightful punishment of gay men and drug addicts.

I know this is a time of great strife and division in our great country which is why I think President Trump should do something radical, like disband the Kansas City Chiefs.

🚨 PSA: If you are trans, do NOT mail in your passport to attempt to change your gender marker. The State Department is currently collecting them unchanged and will not give a public timeline for returning them. You could be without a passport indefinitely.

Listen to me very fucking carefully: We need you. We fucking need __you__ There's no one else who can replace you in this fight — and it is a fight. And if you aren't fucking here anymore? That means you cannot contribute, we cannot replace you and we fucking need you.