Good work if you can get it: Elon Musk is set to make more than every elementary school teacher COMBINED

Help our FAVORITE comics store keep the wolf from the door! Books with Pictures is a treasure; let’s show them how much *we* treasure all they offer us! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

"You are the monster" #Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social

Just us: A dog and his companion share a moment of almost sacred stillness and solitude on the shores of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, in an image that was recognised at the recent Uganda Press Photo Awards. Photo: Lucas Oyugi

One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

It’s ironic but predictable that the BBC duo -who tried so hard to please the right wing papers-are removed by the right wing papers.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Mayor-elect @dorceyformayor.bsky.social just made history, becoming Albany’s first Black mayor. She’s going to be a champion for everybody in Albany. Congratulations, Dorcey!

New York’s new mayor is also WIRED’s new cover.

#art saving #democracy from @peoplefor.bsky.social www.peoplefor.org/jamie-lee-cu... 🎨🖼️🗳️

NO KINGS EXCEPT STEPHEN Also NO: CONVICTED FELON ADJUDICATED RAPIST CONGENITAL LIAR CON MAN PUTIN PUPPET PEDOPHILE BEST FRIEND OF EPSTEIN LIFELONG RACIST MALIGNANT NARCISSIST SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN SICK SOCIOPATH FRAGILE WHINEY MAN-BABY FAILED BUSINESSMAN ORANGE ATROCITY PARDON POWER A*HOLE 👑 👎 👑

CNN noticed 👀 the extreme Catholic makeup of the Leonard Leo bought and paid for Supreme Court. Is this the first MSM acknowledgement that it might be Catholic, not Evangelical thot driving DC Christofascism? www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

This Is Fascism

✅⚖️ oh yes? #NYT #Musk

Simon is my spirit animal. #ai

Al Jazeera Director General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani says 'protecting journalists is protection of the truth.'

Don't miss "Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’: MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement​," ​by Stephanie McCrummen in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I must admit, I underestimated how easy it would be for fascism to take over the United States of America.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Thanks to everyone who canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions we’ve had over 50,000 people confirm they’ve canceled!

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

that was way funnier than i thought it was gonna be

The Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into ABC, Sinclair, and the FCC. We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.

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Today's a good day to re-up this classic Carl post: The game theory case for free speech reciprocity is actually quite bad! www.peoplesline.org/p/a-game-the...

OakOak.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Terrific essay by @trillingual.bsky.social. "The far-right ... thrives on failures in the existing system, yet offers remedies that would make everything much worse. It is difficult, but necessary, to give both parts of the equation due attention."

🔴‘House of the People’ Citizens’ Assembly Provides Alternative to UK’s Far-Right Descent’ The first sitting of the assembly recommended a ‘People’s Charter’, backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/h...

From: Night on Bald Mountain (1933), dir. Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

Most biologists have assumed for decades that animals are not conscious. But there is growing evidence that the opposite is true. @newscientist.com https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483940-why-you-should-assume-that-even-the-simplest-animals-are-conscious/

LM was a mid-eighties Cult TV and Movies-leaning lifestyle magazine that ran to less than a dozen issues, but I *loved* it and it probably had a huge influence on me as a writer. What similarly short-shelf life magazines did you buy religiously? timworthington.org/2017/09/08/l...

WOW. #predatorkillerofkillers is fantastic 🗡️

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

The real quiz

Trump, Billionaires, and One Hell of a party crash Protesters shut down a $50K-a-table gala for the Manhattan Institute—because nothing says “populist” like tuxedos, caviar, and billionaire bootlicking. Even a Trump clown imitator got cuffed. Welcome to the resistance, Upper East Side.

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Excoriating from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Government’s new Planning & Infrastructure Bill which “betrays an undemocratic impatience with the people, motivated by the blatant appeasement of corporate power…the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory”👇

This is excellent. Legitimate outrage, cogently expressed. Why are most other former Presidents and Vice Presidents, and leading political figures not ringing the alarm bells?