People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it. But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online. www.salon.com/2025/11/17/d...

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

For any of y’all upset about the Democrats in DC caving and getting absolutely nothing in their vote to end the shutdown, we’ve got a special election in Tennessee and a chance to flip a congressional seat. @aftynbehn.bsky.social is the Dem nominee running on a platform of affordability.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Dick Cheney was a FATHER. He was a HUSBAND. What kind of monster would cackle ablut how he's being flayed alive by demons in a replica of an Abu Ghraib torture cell for all eternity while the angels sing and rejoice above just because he "violated the geneva convention" and "killed a million people"

Entirely too many people who believe "people can just work with their hands" have never done any kind of actual manual labor in their lives or maybe remember a summer job from their youth with rosy retrospection and don't realize how different that labor is in your 40s and older.

The Democratic establishment's ugly reaction to Zohran Mamdani reveals an unpleasant truth. They would rather lose elections than change. The addiction to rich donors and consultants is killing the party. But Mamdani shows a path out. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/11/03/z...

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

📣📣📣 The 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Period launches TOMORROW, so here's my annual guide: 13 important things to know before you #GetCovered. It's gonna be ugly for most this year, but there are things you can do to mitigate the carnage & even some pleasant surprises: acasignups.net/25/10/27/slo...

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Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

I Shall Be Released Will the Circle be Unbroken Hallelujah

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Decision desk, HQ has called the Democratic primary and congressional district 7 Rep. Aftyn Behn. Behn spent less money than any of the three other candidates.

What really strikes me about this video is that these goons have no training Pretty sure throwing someone to the ground and handcuffing them is Cop 101 but it looks like they're just handing recruits $50K and sending them into the field with some Army Surplus gear being like "good luck boys"

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Portland never stops being Portland.

You don’t need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don’t need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that “federated social media” is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.

Literally everyone saw this coming. There has to be a crypto equivalent to a festival wristband that can work as proof of age while leaving other PII out of it.

Looks like a whole lot of people didn't get the memo that BlueSky is a tech demo for atproto and not the end product.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

NPR relaunched its shop today, Oct. 1, our first day without federal funding. All proceeds in October will go toward member stations. Some great new designs too! shopnpr.org

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Please share- this is a couple of days old already, we need to be ready as it is likely to be in effect tomorrow!

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

I miss glitter bombing. Pies to the face. Milkshakes.

I will never apologize for a post

JD Pritzker is one of like five Democrats who knows what time it is and no Newsom is not one of those five. Newsom is attempting to become the Trump of the center-right. Pritzker is ready to go to war

I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...

It’s almost like my campaign has momentum 👀

Every episode of Maintenance Phase is the same. I start it thinking, "oh good, they're covering X, I've heard about it & it seems kinda dumb." Then by the end, I'm thinking "holy shit it was *so much dumber than I knew*." This week: seed oils.

Every mass shooting is a policy failure www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...

It's not an odd thing to say at all. She's describing a recruitment tactic, not passing judgment on their character "They act nice" is not the same as "they are nice" and it's batshit that we're at a point where people cannot tell the difference

“It’s so cheap to build a solar panel now. It’s cheaper than producing a plank of wood…But we’ve swaddled this engineering miracle in rolls and rolls of red tape to make it too expensive for American families.”

Anyone else notice the zombie-infested planet on the new episode of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS was called “Kenfori”? We’re told Ken Foree was delighted and honored by the tribute.

she posts videos of them trying to get away from her on tiktok that are sped up yakety sax style and scored by norteno music, theyre hilarious

"Everybody was fondling underwater!’: the Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50 – an oral history" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Taking on a handful of short story critiques to keep my hand in and for a war chest for some journalistic projects with extra costs. DM me for rates/availability. Don't DM if dispassionate but thorough analysis without sugarcoating is going to hurt your feelings.

Julia Child was on PBS for decades. Jacques + Julia + Joy of Cooking is all you need. There's a lot of people posting recipies and videos who don't know a bechamel from their buttholes.

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

My FYP is video after video of pre-med students explaining how the big bill’s student loan cap will make it impossible for them to afford med school. Experts were already predicting a doctor shortage to the tune of 86k by 2036. This will make it exponentially worst. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hFxfBL/