A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Just to note, there is a well documented connection between mass in-person protest and election outcomes. I'm looking forward to the academic papers analyzing No Kings in October and turnout today.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Fractal patterns occur in many places in nature:plants & tree branches,shells,feathers,river deltas... Looking at fractals puts our brains into a relaxed state-we recover from stress 60% more quickly (I teach about this in my classes) Pause to take in the details of my photo-it'll help your brain 🧠

Are you on any dating apps? If you go on a few dates with someone and you’re not feeling it, how about letting them know after, say, the third date? How about not waiting until the seventh date before telling them you just want to be friends? Thanks!

Why are all of these people suddenly following me?

this song has been stuck in my head for weeks so now I'm cursing (blessing) yall with it

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Whoa! SNAP! How is Trump gonna recover from this?!?! The gloves are OFF.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Following June’s mass shooting, Austria’s gun bill passed last week It— •raises age for possession from 21 to 25 •bans all private sales (licensed dealers only) •requires a license, for which psych eval must be submitted every 5 years •wait period for gun purchase raised from 3 days to 4 weeks

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” ~ James Baldwin

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

If you're wondering whether Harris is done being a good soldier, here she is on Biden after Dobbs: "[Abortion] was a huge issue on which the president was not seeking to lead. Joe struggled to talk about reproductive rights in a way that met the gravity of the moment."

I woke up with a throat full of razor blades today and called off for my shift (my first and only call-off in the six months I’ve worked there). My manager tells me it’s an “unexcused absence” and that I need to “cover my shift.” I don’t want to go to work and get other people sick. So dumb.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

If people survive long enough, they will look back on this time period and wonder why the hell there wasn't more focus on clean air. Doing everything we could to improve both outdoor and indoor air quality. It's just as important as having clean water (if not more so).

Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.

Annie Proulx - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

So sick of these mewling elite enablers who pretend to believe Trump’s invasion of a Black city in the middle of the worst political scandal of his career is about crime. That’s a pretext.

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

Mamdani: We are reminded no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Good question.

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.

transportation alternatives

Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!

superexcellent piece I've also been wondering about people like my parents, who came to California in the late 1950s because they thought it would be a cool and fun place to live (it was!) got to imagine people feel differently now

We don't have to make stuff up to make Trump look bad. He does horrific things in real life, and I don't want to distract from those horrors with inaccuracies. And we can talk about why this event illustrates how important the NWS is without saying false things about the NWS response.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

look at the jim crow south: corrupt, impoverished, deprived of all but the most basic services. and yet, southern elites — backed by movement conservatives like buckley — fought tooth and nail to preserve segregation because it embodied their ideal moral order of hierarchy and domination

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.

While bombing Iran is bad for Trump’s poll numbers, starting a war and creating chaos is good for Trump as an authoritarian. Authoritarians exploit chaos to claim emergency powers, deploy the military domestically, and undermine free and fair elections. These attacks must be viewed from this lens.

I have spoken to rooms full of nondisabled people and heard this ripple of tense laughter. I have told my own story of flipping a car on black ice and people straight up told me they would just drive more carefully. They can’t handle the idea that you can’t wellness and responsibility your way out.

Adoptive parents probably can’t help reacting like this but it’s another thing adoptees end up having to deal with because they were products in a deal done without their future needs in mind. 🥚

Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

Au Moulin-Rouge, deux femmes dansant

Elon Musk hasn't invented anything as cool as this. He loses.

A dog shelter in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack.

we have a secretary of -transportation making it more dangerous to travel -education making kids stupider -defense making us more vulnerable to attacks -homeland security making us feel less secure than ever -health and human services trying to spread illness everything’s fine.

I choose to ignore Biden interviews because they aren’t relevant to the task at hand & are simply a distraction when we need to move forward & look ahead. I will continue to focus on what is happening now & likely to happen in the future. I posted my assessments of 2024 last Nov.

Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today: He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution He’s fine with a recession Americans can do with less Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting