This is a great thread on how we got here.

People are sometimes surprised that Trump and other reactionary politicians don't have consistent policies. They shouldn't be. Reactionaries hate abstract systems and coherence. They don't understand NATO, USAID, public broadcasting, literature, or science. So these things must be destroyed.

Close to 100% of people have no clue how right-wing psychology works or how the modern world aggravates and fuels it. This guy gets it. Read this thread. Retain it. Base your strategies and tactics on it. If you do, you'll be about 50 years ahead of the curve.

17 ways to celebrate MLK Day with art and activism in Chicago: blockclubchi.co/4qSQKNR

In these hellacious times, would anyone be interested in some nice peaceful times on twitch, working through problematic crystal structures? #chemsky

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Thanks, New Yorker

I think it’s very interesting how emphatically these conversations are about inevitability—it’s time, it’s happening, like it or not, and in particular, a sense of: “You have to.” When it comes to treating an AI product as a person, I assure you that I do not have to. And you do not have to.

If you've ever laughed at a post about writing or fanfiction, this fine human is probably responsible. Please help!

Yes!

Limbless, Slippery RFK Jr.: ‘Becoming An Eel Is A Sign Of Good Health’ https://theonion.com/limbless-slippery-rfk-jr-becoming-an-eel-is-a-sign-of-good-health/

it genuinely sucks so much in this country how often you only learn about a super fucking cool person because something horrifying has happened to them

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There was no "battle" at Wounded Knee. It was a massacre. Over 300 Sioux people, many women and children, were butchered. Hegseth is praising and rewarding the murderers. How is this Christian, MAGA?

same along racial lines.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Horses and the joys of horse ownership 2. Crystallography 3. Being an American in the UK

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep 1. Watergate 2. Best time loops / time travel in film and TV 3. Weird Catholic saint lore

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Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Most days...🤷🏼‍♀️

Kamala Harris: He had no plan for actually bringing down costs and prices for the American people. He had very few plans for what he would actually do that was about the American people, and not his vengeance on his enemies.

I find the "war on neurodivergence" kind of scary and exhausting. Autism being the first one people seem to target with their blatant falsisms. Neurodivergence is often a spectrum/range of symptoms, and there can be many overlapping types of neurodivergence seen in an single individual.

In case this wasn't already clear:

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Being anti vaccines for babies is one of the surest signs of a declining civilisation. There could be no clearer evidence on childhood vaccination saving lives and preserving health and yet we’re being distracted by debating this issue.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

we have so much more collective power than people think we do

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Everything is great *turns on anime playlist* *sobs*

Umm, I'm still irritated by this.

Holy shit, another cishet male comedian telling an actually funny, new trans joke.

I feel like indoor air chemists might have some thoughts on this story #chemsky 👀

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

This is a good post, chemsky—please clap

Kirk was a racist who thought black people shouldn’t be pilots. He thought women should be subservient to men. He hated MLK and the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t care about political violence against Paul Pelosi and Democrats. All his own words. You can deplore the shooting without honoring the man.

I'm launching a new video podcast called B*tch, Listen on September 25. My first three guests are Franchesca Ramsey, Elie Mystal, and Judy Reyes. *snaps*

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.