Ah, the "being anti-AI is ableist!" crowd has found this. Just so we're clear! Telling disabled and neurodivergent students that they have to get their education from the Lie Machine bc we can't bother to invest in real assistance is what is *actually* ableist.

Mirror Universe Kira Nerys didn’t pour herself into that silver jumpsuit for a bunch of nerds to get weird about there being some sex scenes in Star Trek.

The most serious charges against pro-Palestine student protestors in the country have come from a Democratic DA in a blue state. In San Francisco & San Jose, prosecutors are using *felony conspiracy* charges to go after activists who aren't accused of any violence boltsmag.org/stanford-san...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

It is an actual problem that not enough people are getting colonoscopies when they DO have access to them, and it is an even larger problem that Americans don't like going to the doctor and will do a lot of wacky shit to avoid going to the doctor.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

Something particularly chilling about how this is basically how they've spun Liam Ramos, by presenting his kidnapping as an act of charity

have watched it roughly seven times since posting. sometimes i skip ahead and just watch from harville's speech about constancy lol.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

this is the first time I have been made aware that they call them "reTruths" and i cannot stop laughing

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

getting into Star Trek TOS for the first time is watching a random episode that fills you with grief and a new perspective on humanity, then going on IMDb where the episode is rated 6.2/10 by fans and then another random episode where they’re battling three witches and their black cat. also 6.2/10

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can’t explain what they learned www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Did you know? Insects eat plants as medicine. #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities lataco.com/lapd-arrests...

charges, even if dropped, also mark these kids going forward. how many folks are focusing on how the regime is detaining "immigrants never charged with a crime"? any immigrant teens here now fall out of that category. that's the social construction of crime, baby.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Israel gets booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Presenter makes note of it, too, says it's the first time they've heard booing all night.

doing my part to get this to 666 shares

Finally someone said it. The "housing supply"/Abundance strategy only goes so far if we are not paying enough attention to what kind of housing we are building and for whom. Seems intuitive for me, but good to see new empirical data documenting this reality check. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

honestly surprised anyone thinks a guy finding out his hero is a pedo is going to make him rethink anything. even if not personally interested in raping children they truly believe they could one day be cool and rich enough to be part of the circle. temporarily embarrassed non-pedo island-invitees.

Another essay about a historic event I was lucky enough to witness in Burkina Faso - the Thomas Sankara trial. This was also originally published by ever on point @africasacountry.bsky.social #BurkinaFaso #ThomasSankara #AfricanHistory africasacountry.com/2022/04/inte...

Just got back from East Palestine. So much going on in the world, but yesterday was the 3yr anniversary of the train derailment & chemical disaster that upended residents' lives forever—I had to be there. They are getting sicker. People are dying. Please remember them therealnews.com/americas-tox...

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole

Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

starting a petition to take Leland Stanford's name off of everything and replace it with a much cooler Bay Area Leland: Orser

Keep strangers out of your signal groups.

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

This reminds me of how Leon Czolgosz, the guy who assassinated McKinley, was an anarchist but knew so little about anarchism that the local orgs put out a flyer saying "beware of this guy, he's asking the kind of questions a Pinkerton would"

The killing happened about 15 hours ago. Since then: - MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (FBI equivalent) got a warrant for the evidence on the scene - Tried to execute it - Were forcibly turned away by feds - Filed for a temporary restraining order - TRO granted by the federal district court

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

every fucking bookstore in the world should boycott ingram/ips until they agree to put actual, complete ISBNs on their invoices 🖕🖕🖕

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

if you loved Heated Rivalry you are going to love Moby Dick Chapter 94: A Squeeze of The Hand (back me up here @swordsjew.bsky.social)

Look for the helpers

cat is v unhappy that i am only half-assedly waving the laser pointer around while trying to keep an eye on the match lol

The worst, most embarrassing art object on long-term view at a US art museum is Dale Chihuly's Spiny Turd. For unknown reasons, it's at MFA Boston. (Am I forgetting an artwork? Or is this an easy call?)

Some relief from xAI/Musk data center pollution for Memphis’ Black community: “In its ruling, the agency revised the policies around gas turbines, saying that operating the machines still requires air permits even if they are used on a portable or temporary basis” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

On the list of the many ways patriarchy is literally killing us “Men who feel more anxiety over situations that threaten their masculinity — like losing at sports — are less convinced that climate change is affecting the planet as a whole” New from @sammyroth.bsky.social

Not my OC

we are really supposed to believe that B'elanna's whiny loser dad actually courted and won the heart, even temporarily, of the magnificent Miral daughter of L'Naan??? come the fuck on