The details in here are horrifying but needed to be made public. Please take care while reading.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Kevin McCarthy, September 2015: www.vox.com/2015/9/30/94... She had a 66% approval rating in 2011. By the time of McCarthy's quote, they'd chipped away at it into the 40s.

"...and spoke with passion about the important role of Jewish students he had demonstrated alongside." The thing about people who said the encampments were antisemitic is that they like to elide how many Jewish students were involved in them.

Germany, Austria and Hungary continue to block EU action against Israel.

Feels like it’s important to remember that many of the mayors and governors who authorized for those students to be abused and have their lives ruined were/are Democrats. And the most powerful members of the Democratic Party, like Schumer, were the loudest to call for extreme punishments.

"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests

One more reason to turn push notifications off. 🚨📱⚖️

(The threat of global imperialist war, global warming, increasingly concentrated wealth and extreme wealth inequality hanging over my head) time to punch left

I’m raising rent relief funds for a beloved Minneapolis family in need! I wholeheartedly vouch for these George Floyd Square neighbors, who owe back rent for a total need of $3000. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 💛

"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Reminder: for over 30 years, the United Nations has overwhelmingly voted to end the embargo on Cuba. This isn’t a contested global issue—it’s a uniquely United States policy, maintained despite near-universal international opposition.

This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe.

Holy shit. The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell used to be a lobbyist for the alcohol industry. She literally argued that the risks drunk driving are exaggerated! web.archive.org/web/20080801...

ISP support chat person: Please stay connected Me: That's going to depend a lot on your end, isn't it? 🤣

Wild video from last year. In a ranked-choice election with the following names, here's how The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell would vote: 1. Andrew Cuomo 2. Ted Cruz 3. Zohran Mamdani 4. Tucker Carlson

Flip this around. "American researcher in China dies after 'hostile questioning' by government authorities" How would the U.S. react?

to be fair, they didn’t stand up for them under biden either

An Arizona hospital killed Bluesky. Literally.

this isn’t from an iranian embassy, just a random poster in iraq & lmfao

See, @thebulwark.com doesn't have a problem with hateful people like @monacharen.bsky.social, so long as that hate is directed at people they don't like, such as trans people.

Here was the context, from the interview with Douthat: 1. Piker called this an instance of adventurism. He is correct. Douthat (and Charen, apparently) doesn't know what that word means, instead thinking it has to do with "adventure." 2. He says it was wrong. 3. He is not lionizing Mangione at all.

Like, I wouldn't expect writers at The Bulwark to be super well read on the writing of Lenin, but lol, come on, guys.

there’s so many iranian embassies going all in on this right now lol

anyone attending the white house correspondents dinner is a fucking traitor

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

It's frequently pointed out that NASA activities (and basic/exploratory science in general) have a fantastic return on investment, contributing far more to the economy than they take. But even if they didn't, no one's actually taking from the "cure sick people" pot to put money in the "rockets" pot.

Remember when DHS agents had no choice but to shoot two Venezuelan men because the men had attacked them with a snow shovel and a broomstick? New video shows they were lying about that one, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

The only way to end the sexual abuse of children who are detained and incarcerated is to stop detaining and incarcerating children. There are no "reforms" that end sexual abuse inside.

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BREAKING: For the first time ever, GasBuddy data showing average diesel prices have risen above $8 per gallon in San Francisco, CA- the first ever U.S. city to reach the $8 mark ever.

As we approach America's 250th birthday, now is a good time for this reminder: One of our Founders, Thomas Paine, suggested we have a universal basic income for all people 21 and over, funded by a tax on landed wealth and property. Sounds like a hell of a birthday gift, don't you think?

Not sure two lifelong Republican operatives are the best people to debate the Democrats' path forward.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

this looks interesting.

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

The NYT is exhausting me again today, so once again I encourage everyone to follow LOCAL journalists and news outlets. These folks are vastly less likely to push right wing claptrap that billionaires feel good about themselves. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

A reminder that apartheid is apartheid no matter who does it. And pretending it isn’t apartheid doesn’t make you right, it makes you complicit.

@mark-carney.bsky.social has made no comment, it is clear where he stands. Grassy Narrows has been trying for DECADES to have a conversation and start to recieve compensation for the state of Canada poisoning Indigenous people. The liberal government of Canada has been ignoring them for a long time.

NEW: @wired.com has ID’d a number of the masked paramilitary agents in the exceedingly violent unit surrounding Greg Bovino that formed the leading edge of the invading force the federal government sent to Chicago last fall; @awinston.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social have the story.

Israel is openly declaring that it intends to ethnically cleanse south Lebanon. Our tax dollars paid for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and now they are paying for even more of Israel’s atrocities in Lebanon. Tell your senators to block weapons to Israel: imeupolicyproject.org/stop-deliver...

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: [email protected]

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms. This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI. This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students. We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

Students seem to be receptive when you pull back the curtain on your own writing process. Show them how messy first drafts are. I do all my edits by hand and I'll bring marked up drafts into class. The point is to recognize that writing is hard and that it takes time.

Students tell us they use AI because it makes their writing better, cleaner, more likely to get an A. But it also makes it empty. LLMs like ChatGPT generate, by design, the most likely ideas and sentences. It is, by definition, impersonal and unoriginal.

I hate that teaching has become policing and surveilling. I hate that learning has become evasion and shortcuts. I hate how AI papers say nothing at all; they have no capacity for originality, contribution, or social change.