It’s not just that the files say he did it. It’s that we can totally picture him doing it. Like, “Oh yeah, of course. Who else would do that? It’s so HIM. Like Peak Him!”

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

merry christmas, Amerikkka

Cue the frog

Oh cool an advertisement for a swastika necklace on my TikTok feed. Just life in Nazi America.

concentration camps.

As Trump increasingly enables plutocrats, his kids, and other allies to take more than they give, this formulation seems like the inversion of reality, except insofar as Trump, his children, and Elon Musk are themselves immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Well that’s incredibly offensive.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Mary Delany (1700-1788), English artist used decoupage to make botanical 'Paper Mosaiks'. Mistletoe, in certain folklore signifies fertility and has since been associated with #Christmas kisses #WomensArt 🎄

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

I don’t think I believe the first thing (maybe i’m just cranky) but the *second* thing is really batshit.

Spirit guardian, Henan or Hebei China, ca. 500-534

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

punished for pushing a student to engage substantively with the material presented in class rather than merely recounting some vagaries of what she believed when she walked in the door. (I refuse to say she “cited” religion.) truly, for being trans and including trans topics in the course.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Time is a flat circle

how it’s going

4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo

cooooool cool

As a public service, I am reading Scott Beardsley’s book on higher education. Just as Beardsley sacrificed a lucrative career at McKinsey to take a $700k a year job as Dean of Darden on his way to the very sketchy appointment as UVA president, I paid $12 for the kindle edition of “Higher Calling.”

“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”

This sentiment/argument was then repeated in the SCOTUS decision upholding state level bans on gender affirming care for youth, citing the NYT as its citation.

The local school system has just informed us that whooping cough (pertussis) is spreading through the schools here. We used to vaccinate people for this, with the DTaP vaccine. Now I guess kids just get the "100-day cough," coughing until they vomit and break their ribs, and maybe die.

nice.

and any D candidate needs to PUSH BACK. and mean it.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

"UVA Board likely to Cost VA Taxpayers Millions in Inevitable Buy-Out for President Set Up to Fail" www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Q: Does anything ever change? "A wave of crime being committed by young men is really the fault of the women in their lives...." A: Nope.

if any journalist of color I know had their photo included in the Epstein files, they would be immediately fired and blacklisted from contributing or working full-time for other media companies

Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children." But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases. Hello?

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.

monstrous, delusional, vindictively regressive, and so, so stupid.

This is metal

Meanwhile, I am still in therapy talking about the racism I witnessed in a hiring process and simply didn’t have the votes to stop The way hiring is rigged against Black candidates is fucking wild, up to and including just saying completely racist shit to people’s faces during the interview.

They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!

Finally, some very, very good news.

The entire Republican Party, at every level & in every place, is a conspiracy to destroy America.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

"Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot, who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all and not a traitor, who took up arms against the United States to preserve the brutal institution of chattel slavery." -- @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social apnews.com/video/us-cap...

I knew I wasn’t bugging www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

ugggh.