At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

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A study of 1 million+ grandparents (2020-2022) reveals birthday parties drive COVID-19 risk. Seniors faced a 9.9% higher risk of having a positive test result for SARS-CoV-2 after a grandchild's birthday, increasing to 15% risk following a preschooler’s party. Published: July 13, 2026

As I've been saying for the last year at every protest I've done monitoring at, this is the age of the radicalized Liberal. CPUSA running some anemic table looking utterly despondent while a bunch of people who look like portraits of the author on math textbooks are calling for righteous vengeance.

If you want to reduce crime rates, don’t invest in policing. Invest in libraries.

In those 6 months, crime in the neighborhoods around those libraries went down. I’ll reiterate that NOTHING changed except that the local library was open until midnight, and crime went down (3/ )

whats so infuriating about much democratic appeasement and collaboration is that it lacks a basic self-preservation instinct eg ice/cbp and most leo's are uniformly republican constituencies and increasingly de facto rogue militias loyal to trump bi/nonpartisanship is a suicide pact for dems

"For all its flaws, the Paris Commune deserves anarchist respect as an example of cosmopolitan secessionism and working-class revolution." - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/45016

markets per se are an *underdetermined* system; actually-existing markets emerge out of wider+deeper institutional parameters+incentive structures, different configurations of which produce different market dynamics+outcomes *within material limits* ie supply+demand is fake until the grain runs out

i think you can claim that you're a normal guy with normal politics or you can say one of your key national issues is that transgender women deserve to be raped if they get convicted of a crime but you can't claim both

excessive technophilia is how you become a hypercapitalist neoreactionary type and excessive technophobia is how you become an anti-vaxxer neo trad nationalist type so be careful folks

"terfism is fundamentally a pro-rape ideology" continues to be the most succinct and cutting analysis of that current

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

"Men like Lindsey Graham have taught me how to hate, and I’m worried it can’t be unlearned... Ten years of abuse at the hands of bigots and opportunists, ten years of eliminationism, ten years of my own father’s endorsement of these people; all of that has taught me to hate, to hate fiercely. "

You stupid motherfuckers

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.

My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.

Ironically, high-viz vests help you hide in plain sight. They're great for tactical urbanism projects.

holding up the official FIFA-approved "I have just witnessed a racist act" gesture upon reading this

Happy 5th anniversary to my favorite-ever, most relatable professional baseball quote: “if you always feel miserable, it offers a sort of consistency.” @jrfegan.soxmachine.com

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

I have been saying this constantly over the past few years - Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. We need to establish consequences for that behavior in every aspect of society.

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

Its also why autistic burnout as an adult who isn't wealthy is hell.

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?

Man,

The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham

"In reality, his attentions were often unwanted, and women found excuses to be away from the building whenever he was scheduled to appear." daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Whatever you can say about Holden Bloodfeast, I think it's very sweet they did the Make A Wish thing so he could achieve his greatest wish before he died: watching countless Iranian children be grotesquely massacred to serve the demon god of imperial conquest.

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say lindsey graham died from smoking a cigar because the cigar exploded in his face and his pants and socks and underwear flew off and then he dropped the cigar on his penis which also exploded. don’t say stuff like that

fatality www.instagram.com/p/DasR6g-lZB...

Lindsey Graham got the diarrhea and died. "There was nothing left when he was done," said an aide. "Now we have to try to put the diarrhea back in so we can bury something three dimensional," he added. RFK Jr. is going to give kids in school diarrhea to honor Lindsey Graham and make them stronger.

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Sunday, today, 11th July, Manchester South Hotel in Fallowfield is going to be targeted by far right harassers yet again. If you're going to be there standing in their way, bring water, sun screen and a friend from 1pm until the fascists go home.

Movements simply cannot survive in a trust environment where snitches are ever welcomed back. We can talk about incentives and opportunities for snitches to reclaim their conscience. But absolutely none of that can involve social inclusion in the movement ever again.

There has always been a really unhinged if tiny hippie contingent that starts talking about "restorative justice" and "not compounding harm" to pressure for reintegrating snitches within our ranks. I've seen it time and time again. They remain simply wrong and must be defeated.

I'm intimately familiar with a lot of snitch sob stories, but unless there's a pre-consented to arrangement -- like in Syria where it was expected that you have to tolerate the cops tearing off your flesh for 48 hours but then can crack -- snitches cannot be allowed back in our movements.

"All good things come to an end" seems like a big design flaw. Why not simply invent good things that don't come to an end? Someone should get on that.