This chart to me says that opportunities are very unequal in the US. Source: buff.ly/NpnJeWy

Trump got elected in part because we elected a Black man as president and that was a bridge too far for a lot of people.

I mean, when Trump said that he would cut drug prices by 1000%, at least one major media outlet relied on "experts say" to point out it was mathematically impossible to do so. When we've hit "experts say 1 + 1 = 2," not just "1 + 1 = 2," then we def aren't going to say what the laws say they are.

Every week of 2025 😩

He was very weary; the day had been long, and full of dragons.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

The sharp decline in US teenagers’ aspiration to get married and have kids… …is happening almost entirely among girls, not boys. At some point maybe men will start trying harder to understand that. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... | HT @conradhackett.bsky.social @pewresearch.org

I’m sure this is true, but what a perfect week for Ms. Piggy to make a cameo.

This is more praise than most of the New York Democratic leadership.

A couple weeks ago we had a string of bomb threats that disrupted classes for two weeks. That died down and it’s been quiet. But now the NYPD is interrupting our school day to do a “scared straight” thing with our kids despite releasing no evidence the caller was a student. 🤬🤬🤬

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.

The real problem this creates is that you are able to launder virtually any claim through the press by attaching a bunch of numbers to it.

I'm really curious about the denominator in these calculations.

Tonight’s lesson is that most Americans love our country and can’t stand those that don’t.

Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Stop, stop, he's already dead!

Pretty good sign this is bullshit is that it would be 6 times higher than the number of people who left New York in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic. comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/u...

And it’s possible to do this without throwing trans people under a bus.

like, he is almost certainly a pedophile, a fact which almost every actual republican congressperson is concealing. an extremely devout evangelical is destroying America's democracy to keep this covered up.

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

Updating my LEGO White House

from my lunch today; "the trouble is not so much AI making you more productive, but that it's tripling the output of the biggest f***ing idiot where you work"

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

If they are firing then the firing hasn’t ceased. Seems like the test failed.

#nokings Portland frog brigade

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

Teaching students “AI prompt engineering” is such an offensive perversion of inquiry based education it makes me breathe fire.

Lots of people with money who want to make more are telling you this is a tool you have to learn or you'll be Left Behind but as with all tools, you can use your own brain and experience to decide if it's a thing that helps you do your job better and a thing you think is ethical.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

And people keep building more things that mean I have to make the decision if something is real even more often. I'm SO. TIRED. OF. IT.

Put your fucking shopping cart away and push in your chair

Once again, the way people have just memory-holed 2020 and 2021 is astonishing to me.

Feels like she's saying lower courts should disregard those cases then

sherman, for the love of god!

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote. zohranfornyc.com/register

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

Not least because at least three of these videos, all from IBM, say "It's ok if you don't like math, you can still do this!"

Doing linear regression tomorrow, and there are so many videos that are like "This is a great Machine Learning Algorithm for AI!" and I feel like I am going insane...

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

1/ The comments directed @radiofreetom.bsky.social over the last few days about whether we are currently living in what can properly be described as a fascist state are completely missing his point.

If you think Trump deploying troops in American cities is nothing more than an opportunity to pivot to a completely different subject, you do not belong in Democratic leadership.