🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2

the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

That’s right.

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

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these are not even the files lol

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

Tonight was a very bad night.

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 🧠

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.

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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