This is fantastic news. Might not be because insurance companies care about preventing suffering so much as they don’t want to pay for millions of kids with liver cancer.

Possible Genocide in progress. If anyone...you know...cares... No, Jews aren't involved. But 15,000 people have been murdered with more possibly to come... If anyone cares... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Please read this thread about the origin and meaning of birthright citizenship.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

I don’t usually look to Congress for jokes

A really good (and hilarious) essay on the problems of people using AI as search engines

Good morning, Denver!

I'm going to sound like a broken record by the way I keep mentioning how 95% of Somalis in the Twin Cities metro area are US citizens, but very few mainstream outlets are pointing this out. This should be very basic stuff for any news organization.

People who approach parenting as a project where you build the person you want end up having a pretty stunted relationship with that child.

Please signal boost. Need a wheelchair tech who can help troubleshoot in Silver Spring, MD.

One of these things is not like the other. Time from House special election to swearing in (2025): Patronis R-FL - 1 day Fine R-FL - 1 day Walkinshaw D-VA - 1 day Van Epps R-TN - 2 days (scheduled for Dec. 4) Grijalva D-AZ - 50 days

not an article, but…

A modest proposal: When these anti-vax government dudes go to prison for their murders, play a soundtrack of an infant suffering from whooping cough in their cells all night, every night. High volume. I want those evil people to suffer. High volume baby-can’t-breathe, all night every night.

Why, yes!

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is on my mind. I have seen projects fund in 16 hours. This has dragged for 9 months, which boggles my mind. And it's only 5k? What? Sorry, I can't math. This doesn't make sense. It should have been funded in 9 hours. ko-fi.com/africantrans...

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

The issue about killing the last 2 survivors is secondary: Trump and Hegseth have ordered *83* murders, not 2. None of these people were ‘enemy combatants’. They were suspected drug smugglers until proven to be guilty in a fair trial. Without that, they were murdered. That is all. 🙄🇺🇸🙄

This is so ugly.

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

The Trump admin is systematically firing immigration judges across the country for no reason other their above average grant rates. The goal is to transform an imperfect system which aimed for fairness into a rubber stamp mill, leaving only the “deportation judges” they want.

As for the benchmark SILVER plan, for this hypothetical couple, the cost would jump from $599/month in 2025 to $6,186/month. That's over 10.3x as much, and would cost 88% of their GROSS income in premiums alone. DO. NOT. PASSIVELY. AUTORENEW. NEXT. YEAR. SHOP. AROUND. SHOP. AROUND. SHOP. AROUND.

It's Giving Tuesday

#Kidlit Poets! Open call for poems for the book THE PERIODIC TABLE OF POETRY to be published by @lernerbooks.bsky.social. Submission window 12/6-12/9. irenelatham.blogspot.com/2025/11/open...

The thing about this graph is how it connects to our own lives. For example, my grandmother was the only one of six children to survive to the age of two.

#BlackEduSky #EduSky Day 2 of educator affirmation: Your effort is real and it shows in ways people overlook. It's real because you show up on days you're exhausted. It's real even on days no one acknowledges it. Keep showing up. Your current reality isn't permanent.

#BlackEduSky #EduSky Day 1 of educator affirmation: You are doing work that deserves recognition even when no one says it. Clap for yourself today.

New from 404 Media: Flock is using overseas gig workers to build its surveillance AI. Flock has cameras in thousands of communities around the US which can detect vehicles and people. We found gig workers in the Philippines are reviewing footage to classify people www.404media.co/flock-uses-o...

You really will be amazed if you read this thread of AI hallucinations about a single pair of writers.

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Public art. They're just borrowing another page from the Nazis; steal everything not nailed down and sell it to aristocrats to hoard.

This week I announced the WELLS ACT, named in honor of Mercedes Wells, a constituent who was discharged from an Indiana hospital while in active labor. Minutes later, she gave birth on the side of the road. Her husband, Leon, delivered their fourth child. 🧵

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

No one has to repost me. Don't let that be a valid reason not to support. Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link: ko-fi.com/africantrans...

I have escaped from domestic violence. The domestic violence was not just contained to the home, but also involved weaponization of systems. I hope to do a fuller accounting of what happened one day to bring light to this problem. For now, here is my "Thank You" note to Joe Biden & the VAWA.

My mom died Thanksgiving night, thirty years ago when my kids were young. This year I did what I do almost every year: made a dinner of roast turkey and sides like Mom would have made, and ate it with my family, thinking about my mom and her mom and all the moms. It’s a holiday of love and memory.

Threads from Thomas Zimmer explaining our politics are now more rare and precious

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Meanwhile in Russia: Dimitri Simes said that Trump never even read the "peace plan" he wanted Zelensky to sign. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...

It’s interesting to me that the president thinks the highest insult to women is to call us ugly As if pretty is the highest compliment He knows no women who prioritize intelligence, strength, humor, creativity, kindness, persistence, ferocity, leadership, etc

I co-sign this thread because I was a teenage anti war activist in 1968. I door-knocked for progressive presidential candidate Gene McCarthy everywhere from backwoods Pennsylvania to urban Indianapolis. Black Dems supported Civil Rights hero Bobby Kennedy. Solid Dems, Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Our

Concise & neat, timelines invite a skim for an overview, inspire activities, and share a path through time of a life or event- showing building, progression, and connection. Check out this post from @tinacho.bsky.social and @grogblog.bsky.social 😍📕 #edusky @kl4gm.bsky.social

They all got exposed as frauds on Twitter so they had to move here.

AABB has joined Read Freely Alabama, EveryLibrary, PEN America and other organizations in expressing alarm at a new ban on youth access to trans books by the Alabama Public Library Service. Read the full statement

This thread and article is really quite something. "Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Block grants = less money. And fewer requirements mean less adherence required in relation to federal laws, which protect students’ rights.