*Runs out to buy a few bottles from the state store before it becomes scarce*

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%. Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7 #medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.

This part.

please let us rest.

Amen!

I'm not an organizer at all but it feels like the perfect moment for mass outreach to disappointed Trump voters, to find the persuadable ones and help them see that he was never on their side. Ppl are losing jobs & subsidies & benefits, they're mad. It feels like an opportunity. Am I crazy?

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

I was already planning to boycott Target, but realizing they had the nerve to cut back on DEI after placing ads podcasts with Black hosts for BHM 2025 has really upped my commitment to the situation, cuz how DARE do that my faves at @thisistheread.com?!?!?!

If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:

I feel like everyone who owes taxes needs to withhold them come April... State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

Both the #NYT #Strands and #Connections writers were really stretching it today.

2000: Don't be evil 2015: Do the right thing 2025: Just following orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It me.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

They seem to think that by going back to only white men having positions of power we can heal our divisions. But that’s just an admission that the core division at the heart of it all was white men resenting no longer exclusively having positions of power.

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I am very tired, but wrote this, quickly, to capture what I could since we live in the days of media erasure. Tonight there was a #protest at the #treasury and most #news did not see fit to cover it while it unfolded. I captured posts, video, and quotes as I could--I linked to @indivisible.org

So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?

This fucking guy...

I still don't see how it's not illegal...

its funny when a group of students take over an administration building there are hundreds of cops and they're storming the building but when a billionaire takes over a government building i guess the cops are busy?

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth is available below. "This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice. ... This fight belongs to all of us."

Doechii joins Cardi B and Lauryn Hill as the only women in #GRAMMYs  history to win Best Rap Album.

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

More of this please.

Good morning. Don't give up.

Thousands of federal workers have amazing stories to tell about the insanity that Trump is unleashing. Here’s why we’re going to ignore all of that and put more podcasts with Mikey and Maggie talking about Trump’s mood on our front page.

It's like America clicked on a porn spam ad, caught a virus, got rid of it, and then clicked on the same damn porn ad again.

If you're reeling from Trump's ongoing attacks, please check out my latest piece about what trans people are up against and how we (as in, all of us, including doctors and clinicians) can resist these assaults. Includes commentary from @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social.

Next up, babies are gonna have to start doing modeling on the side to pay for formula...

What Trump is doing right now, including the freeze on all government grants and loans, isn't so much about shrinking government as it is instilling fear, culling opposition, and testing just how much his party and American institutions will bend to his will. jill.substack.com/p/this-is-th...

Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty

Agreed. I’m also fuming that Biden could have released these allocated funds before leaving office. In Nov. political scientists like @profwschiller.bsky.social literally warned that Trump would impound funds when he took office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.

WIC. They are pausing WIC. That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.

Let me get this straight. Petro calls for dignified transit. Trump threatens tariffs. Petro smacks Trump in a post threatening his own higher tariffs. And Trump agrees to what Petro asked for. And yet NYT is calling this *Petro* backing down?

BREAKING: Donald Trump has issued an executive order called "Enforcing the Hyde Amendment," revoking two of Joe Biden's post-Dobbs orders, which directed federal agencies to identify actions they could take to protect access to abortion.

I need someone to explain luxury shops in the airport. Who exactly is buying a $800 Tumi bag in the spur of the moment in transit? Surely there can't be enough ppl doing this to cover the store's rent?

A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate. The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.

because the 20th century happened, any gesture carried out in front of millions of people that exactly resembles a nazi salute is in fact a nazi salute

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

The writers on season 9 of Shetland were really doing the absolute most; how many motives and suspects can there be for a single murder??? Ashley Jensen is brilliant as the new DI though.

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

This guy learned exactly nothing from his disastrous primary run.