Portland ranks 57th for violent crime, lower than Little Rock,Tulsa, Lubbock, and Chattanooga.

This was never about criminals. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert and the parent of a child with autism, who notes that increased autism rates are also a consequence of improved diagnostic practices. Autism was first diagnosed by name in 1911. Tylenol first came on the market in 1955. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/pe...

Meta HIRED the “chemicals are turning the frogs gay” guy to police AI bias against, presumably, complete morons: “He [Starbuck] falsely asserted that exposure to the pesticide atrazine turned amphibians "gay,” prompting male frogs to mate — a claim that has been repeatedly debunked.”

They’re just completely erasing history.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

ICYMI — After years of pretending she would never stop fighting to get the Epstein files release, @MarshaBlackburn just voted not to release them. Truly pathetic. www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

The 47th school shooting this year. This shouldn’t be what children have to deal with. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Stephen Miller pulling FBI agents away from investigating crimes so he can see more immigrant children cry.

This detail from the WSJ’s new Trump-Epstein reporting also seems pretty bad www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I truly do not say this lightly but the Supreme Court is behaving lawlessly.

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the six largest health insurers raked in more than $31 billion in net income last year. Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

These motherfuckers are so racist and so don't care.

What if Democrats had defended immigration over the last few years instead of running from it?

Cool signature to find at Kaboom Books, my local used bookstore. #poetry

I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government. I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

The thing is, I’m pretty sure these all majority black cities and I’m worried that Trump will eventually try to occupy them too at some point. The fact that they are in Republican-controlled states isn’t a gotcha so much as evidence of how they’ve been maligned by their state governments.

“Violent crime rates in America’s big cities have been falling over the last two years, and at an even greater rate over the last six months. The decrease in violence in America is unprecedented.”

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

The same people who complain about low birth rates are the same people who want kids to die of preventable diseases, want to gut affordable healthcare for kids & parents, cut funding to feed kids, undermine affordable day care, underfund childhood ed, while making upper ed prohibitively expensive.

Some exciting news to share: My manuscript at dawn, the first of the first to sing has been selected winner of the @omnidawn.bsky.social 2025 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest by @daniela-naomi.bsky.social — get her amazing book Chorus. I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry

Our fall Legislative Town Halls kick off next week! I’ll be all across SD15 (and online) to share updates and hear directly from you. Scan the QR code or head to the link in bio to RSVP. See you soon! 💙 #Houston #txlege

Some exciting news to share: My manuscript at dawn, the first of the first to sing has been selected winner of the @omnidawn.bsky.social 2025 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest by @daniela-naomi.bsky.social — get her amazing book Chorus. I’m honored to be published by an independent press I 1/3 #poetry

Many congratulations to David Leftwich, winner of the 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Contest, selected by Daniela Molnar! Congratulations also to the finalists Robert Black Xinyue Huang Annie Rovzar Jackson Watson JinJin Xu

The GOP’s “pro-life” stance: we’ll force women to have babies even if it kills them and then we’ll let the children die of preventable diseases.

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

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Studies repeatedly show that most people age out of "hardcore" crime by their late 30s and 40s. And nobody is "born to be" a criminal. Even Trump, who is a hardcore criminal who has not aged out of his illicit behavoir, was not born like this. I blame his parents.

Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

Convicted felon has thoughts about other people being "born to be criminals".

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

The numbers are in. It wasn't a hot summer in Houston, right? Wrong. It was the 6th hottest summer on record. Why? Nighttime lows. We averaged 77 degrees in Houston officially. We just trailed 2023's record of 77.4 degrees. Each of the last 10 summers has finished in the top 30 of warmest nighttimes

“Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, warriors, hunters and shamans.” www.newscientist.com/article/2488...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽

Texas Republicans have enacted a host of bigoted, restrictive laws that tread all over people’s freedoms: www.chron.com/politics/art...

This is what makes the internet worthwhile: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium online. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...

This is what makes the internet worthwhile: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium online. iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/vi...

The Republican agenda is just an endless onslaught of nihilistic cruelty.

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals