In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

S'il y a une émeute, c'est la faute des pistes cyclables.

Pretty much repeating Buckley’s defense of Jim Crow in his debate with Baldwin, without even realizing it, because this thinking is endemic in the culture.

"The Man Without Talent" is the most relatable book about being a cartoonist outside of Evan Dorkin.

People on the rightward side love yelling about productivity. I was literally executively non-functional until I started going to therapy last year (on my dad's dime). I'm now a productive member of society. You want people to work? Give them the tools to work.

Huge kudos to Jen for thinking of victims of domestic violence and putting their safety above all. Not all journalists would get a scoop like this and sit on it, choosing instead to try to protect the vulnerable first. It’s so gross that Elections Alberta then did jack shit about it for a MONTH.

God hates girls.

Not sci-fi: Something IS going on in the woods.

I love that in the comments the OP clarifies that they treat the Billy Bragg version as canonical

women would rather get prescription cocaine and orgasms than go to therapy

Civil War was about states' wrongs

There has been some really bad news coverage this week about a shelter closure in Bridgewater. City councillors keep claiming that “crime has gone up” due to the presence of unhoused folks. Their metric is “calls to police”. Calls to police are NOT an indicator of crime.

It's official: Louisiana's Republican governor just suspended state congressional elections so lawmakers can pass a new gerrymandered map first.

And remember: the whole purpose of flooding the zone with shit *is not* to convince the public that shit is smart and good. The whole purpose is to ensure literally nothing else can be discussed except for OMG why is there all this shit everywhere.

I'm going to remind you that the people who are REALLY going to suffer are their children. Because they are feeding this to their children.

Je suis fier que l’article que Christopher Curtis et moi avons coécrit sur le système de justice au QC ait été finaliste aux National Magazine Awards, dans la catégorie journalisme d’enquête. Je me considère extrêmement privilégié d’avoir fait un retour en journalisme aux côtés de Chris.

I'm not here to defend Clarence Thomas but the VRA vote was 6-3 and only one of those voters was a Black man. He could have sided with the liberal justices, and it would have changed nothing. So why are you so many of you on main blaming him and just him?

“These changes will mean the tiny minority of cyclists who recklessly disregard others face the full force of the law,” transport secretary Heidi Alexander said

Why travel to The Hague when you can just brag about it?

the affects of capitalism www.weareplanc.org/2014/04/we-a...

junk food and junk science generally deserve one another, but I'd like to know who composed this plate of French fries, avocado puree, and side salad to illustrate "ultraprocessed food"

Is anyone going to mention that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all young lawyers on the Florida recount case in 2000 when George W. Bush stole the election? They should have recused themselves on all voter suppression & election stealing cases, but such cases are their raison d'etre.

You can easily spot American Conservative by the fact they'll encounter a major life problem, usually one that many other people also suffer from, and instead of "we should fix this" their take away is always "I think we should find ways to make more people suffer from the same issue".

Overton window is way past "a little bit of fascism, as a treat"

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tired: Young adult fiction Wired: Old adult fiction

Regular guy Donald Trump feeling your pain earlier this week.

Yall are not getting my point. Or think think this is about AI. I said Threads was full of BLACK PEOPLE. Can you say the same for Bluesky? No. The Black influencers, political voices, legal minds etc are largely not here. Some are here. Yes. But a critical mass, no.

this point is very sharp and absolutely applies to fields outside philosophy.

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s time for the Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social! This week, @aetiology.bsky.social takes on RFK Jr.’s claim that drastic reductions in infectious disease mortality had nothing to do with vaccines. Yeah, he’s wrong, but herein Dr. Smith explains why that is.

NASA Administrator Isaacman's "Make Pluto A Planet Again" push didn't come from nowhere. The right has been Pluto-baiting for over a year. Why? Because it is anti-science populist gold. And now it's also a distraction from the White House trying to slash NASA's science budget in half.

Grad school teaches you a lot of useless stuff but reading and thinking through a particular set of articles and books about race, gender, power, and the state in 19th century America in the first Obama administration sure has set me up for understanding everything that's come since.

This ⬇️ 💯 is extremely important and it's essential that it'd be widely watched. It dates back several years (you can see Thiel is much younger) and he really did say that. Nowadays he is less direct but it's important to understand his view of things.

Hegseth is lying again. Biden never ordered troops to polling stations. Some state governors ordered them on standby because of threats of violence, bomb threats, and burned ballot boxes. There was also a cybersecurity component because of hacking threats.

Financial censorship tactics honed on adult sites and sex workers are now being deployed against groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“At the time, she told prosecutors to bring with them unredacted copies of transcripts showing how prosecutors had explained the law in the case to grand jurors. By dropping the conspiracy count, the feds avoided having to share those transcripts with the judge.”

cigarettes are the new waffles

I can absolutely fucking promise you that no woman has ever stood with her finger poised over the Tinder profile of Matt, 31, "not really sure what I'm looking for tbh", and suddenly stopped to ask herself what would Greta Thunberg do?

C’est rendu que les anti-avortements soutiennent politiquement PSPP. Mettons que ça aide pas à se faire passer pour autre chose que d’extrême-droite.

"Watching their sets in a kind of trance Were people in Mexico, people in France. They don’t chase Jones but their dreams are the same— Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that’s the right name! Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout, A gadget on the set makes them look like you." —J. Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar

62% des parents se fichent que les éducatrices qui s'occupent de leurs enfants portent un foulard ou non. La CAQ et le PQ essaient de redorer leur blason nationaliste avec l'islamophobie car ils n'ont plus rien à offrir à part coupures des services publics et cadeaux aux entreprises.

What you miss is being young.

"une source policière québécoise me rapporte que les services fédéraux"

When you SMOKE CIGARETTES you smoke with Reagan

me: I def could make some artistic decisions

les nids de poule sont pires depuis qu'on peut pu prier dedans

Fun socks with black tie. what's even the point of having a country anymore?

EXCLUSIVE: DND admits Canadians working in organization responsible for Op. Southern Spear DND acknowledged my previous reporting and admits Canadian personnel are working in SOUTHCOM and JIATF-South, but deny our involvement in Op. Southern Spear itself. My latest: substack.com/@thestateoft...