Beneath Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, an overlooked retail strip has been reborn as a bicycle parking facility and public passage connecting users to the S-Bahn station. Modest in scale but rich in possibilities, it integrates seamlessly into the revitalised entertainment, commercial and office centre.🧵

Most people probably focus on the damage ICE has caused in Minnesota But their violent, fascist tactics affect people all over the country Here they are-terrorizing 4th and 5th graders at a bus stop in New Jersey May Trump and Stephen Miller rot in hell www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy. For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ital...

I am by no means a class first — let alone class only — leftist, but the older I get the more I think that the way you disrupt a lot of sexual violence and exploitation, including Epstein type shit, is by raising the floor with a massive social safety net and lowering the ceiling with taxes.

Here in rural Oklahoma, i've seen various groups--some definitely wearing shiny metal hats-- yelling about biosolids on farm fields. I haven't been able to work out if it was a real or imaginary hazard, but i'm tending toward real after reading this story.

On this day in 1968, white state troopers fired into a mostly African American crowd on the campus of South Carolina State College, a historically Black college in Orangeburg, and killed three young Black men.

My interview with @healthbeat.org www.healthbeat.org/2026/02/05/g...

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Administrative subpoenas have predictably become a scourge. Why go through a judge or grand jury when some mid-level DHS douche can basically file their own? wapo.st/4rtfCw8

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

their awareness that they won't get targeted for DOJ while the DOJ describes standing outside and blowing whistles as domestic terrorism is surely something

Don't just read the headline. This essay is my lengthy ode to the hard-fought, hard-won successes of the communitarian movement in the Twin Cities, which has been the scourge of fascists and put the most cracks in Trump's fascist front. Nonviolence has achieved much, and will do more still.

Full Report. popular.info/p/ice-has-st...

“Coretta Scott King saw the struggle for gay rights as intimately and inextricably connected with racial justice, and she stood firm against those who would cast the battle for gay rights as dishonoring the spirit of the civil rights movement.” inthesetimes.com/article/mlk-...

I wouldn't let him do even that. Dude would make the lemonade with toilet water or add an actual poison and call it a supplement.

The $70 Billion supplement, peptide, and other unregulated stuff business and RFK Jr Gift link www.wsj.com/health/rfk-j...

From my new @TIME piece: we should tell the full story about trust and vaccines. Black communities are not outsiders to immunization history. Sharing an excerpt on Onesimus and what it teaches us about power and whose expertise counts. Link: time.com/7344423/dang...

Is there any reason folks shouldn't just call their congressperson's office with their complaint?

The economic disruption/sabotage of deporting millions of workers at time of near full employment is only just beginning to be felt. “Construction can’t continue”: South Texas builders say ICE arrests have upended industry www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/s...

There is actual racial discrimination occurring and people are suffering but sure, let’s focus on the musings of a bunch of elite white men posting from their elite positions about how they are the primary victims of racial discrimination in this country. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

OPINION: "The deliberate act of using a transgender or nonbinary person’s birth name after they’ve chosen a new one ... is more than just an insult to one nationally recognized medical leader. It’s a signal about what our health system is becoming." — Arthur Lazarus

Gift link wapo.st/49dTijI

“Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account.“

A really good analysis of why the vaccine injury compensation program is important to public health and how RFK Jr. and his minions are trying to undermine it (with some explicit Kennedy family drama thrown in). www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Hobbes is an irredeemable asshole, but he does love his little Zorro.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

If you're not browning bacon in butter, is it really a holiday meal?

Happy Thanksgiving from the City of Boston and one of its adorable bike lane sweepers!

Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Hear me out. What if rock star (Brian May aside) scientists are a mistake? I don't know exactly how we stop them, but I'm going to brainstorm mid- and late-career humbling rituals, and other means of taking big-heads down a peg.

This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony.

Important thread from our reporter @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social ⤵️

Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints" www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

Name one truly useful skill possessed by or required of c-suite executives. Do they feed people? Tend their illnesses or injuries? Make warm pretty clothes? Build houses? Teach children? Document/explain the natural world? Create art/ literature/music? Keep our homes & workplaces clean & healthy?

Scumbags gonna scumbag

This one man's story tells you everything about what the US is to the rest of the world now. We're terrible allies; we don't keep promises or pay debts. Nothing we say today can be counted on tomorrow.

Fake or real, it's an objectively ugly bag.

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The Mississippi Miracle

We are our best when we collaborate. 🧪🦠🔬🧬🌍🍄 This mural about the invisible #soil #biodiversity in Moers(🇩🇪) resulted from the collaboration between my friend Dr. Arne Schwelm, the people from sci:moers and the Stiftung für Umwelt und Entwicklung under the artistic direction of #cokyone.

Welcome to the first day of #Nudivember! Today's species is Tenellia anulata (I apologize for having an outdated genus on the list). This species is found in Japan. Photos: www.seaslugforum.net/showall/cuth... en.seaslug.world/species/tene...