Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

A can't miss conversation between two of the best out there in @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social. Also brb because we're all getting "left-leaning but scrupulously honest" tattoos.

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

I just listened to Ezra Klein interview Gavin Newsom and I can feel in my body that I am becoming radicalized. Newsom has been a hard no for me. When did he start getting front-runner billing? Too soon. Not him. Not if I can help it. I'm not really feeling sorry for white men at the moment.

They steal our likenesses, they steal our copyrighted work, they don't pay nearly enough in taxes and now they want our tax dollars to guarantee *their* business risks? KMA

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown. The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

In 2023, I proposed the Illinois Grocery Initiative to lower food prices and provide options in food deserts across the state. www.ksdk.com/article/news...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19” SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies go.nature.com/3LeRVbd

Good time for New Yorkers to check out @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and HandsOffNYC.com. They’re building a massive coalition of unions, community groups, faith leaders, etc. to protect every neighborhood in NYC.

Military (esp junior enlisted) if you missed SNAP or WIC this month, AER will make it up. www.armyemergencyrelief.org/offices/ Type in which you missed, apply for that amount.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Trump’s DOJ is trying to send a man to prison for 8 years for throwing a sandwich at a Border Patrol agent. 🙄 www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Global COVID cases rose by over 19,000 last month, though true infections are far higher “Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove archive.li/0D68G

These wannabe aristocrats named their fund 1789 Capital. Curious choice—1789 was a terrible year for aristocrats, what with the storming of the Bastille and the shadow of the guillotine soon to arrive.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Randall Gamboa Esquivel came to the US from Costa Rica in Dec 2024 ICE caught him & detained him in Texas. He was healthy & in contact with his family until he disappeared in June. By August he was in a persistent vegetative state… and ICE put him on a plane to Costa Rica anyways. He died there

30,000 deaths in one year > 80/day In case you're wondering about that figure, it comes from the SSA Office of the Chief Actuary and was given in Congressional testimony in 2024. It doesn't even include people who died while waiting for an administrative appeals hearing or cases in federal court.

The USDA will partially restore food stamps, but it’s not clear when Oregonians will receive their benefits.

The administration is justifying its partial SNAP payments on the grounds that the emergency funds are needed for child nutrition programs like school lunch. But this is bullsh*t logic. Because SNAP *is* a child nutrition program. Half of SNAP households have kids. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing. On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic! newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Centrism: "...mostly a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it's not." -Rebecca Solnit

"If the Democrats lose the next election, it will not be because their Republican opponents seemed like the more <centrist> option" Repeat this. Over and over again.

NYT Republican apologist advises Democrats to continue using their losing strategy. Republicans only saw the center in their rear view mirror. I like the "bashful" in this description of Ross Douthat: "a bashful but thoroughgoing Trumper, [who] believes nutty things." (bsky.app/profile/hamm...)

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community. It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

I have a craving now...

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Have you seen posts about an economic "blackout" 11/25-12/2? Who's organizing, sponsoring? What orgs are participating? I'm not seeing No Kings coalition groups, unions. I need to know there's a coherent plan before I consider it. I'm doing targeted boycotts, told they work better nationwide.

MAGA is refusing to protect healthcare and nutrition programs, taking food from 42 million Americans and forcing working families to choose between food, medicine, and rent. This weekend, join Americans who are coming together to provide mutual aid and care for our communities: nokings.org/alliance

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures. [These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Americans should absolutely be concerned that 1 in 8 people rely on SNAP It’s not a matter of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps It’s corporate greed. It’s companies refusing to pay a living wage. It’s a high cost of living in a stagnant economy stop blaming poor people

Outlawing private equity vultures, or at least the predatory ability to suck all the value out of companies then trash them, causing expanding circles of harm to employees, customers, and communities (deep breath) needs to be high on the list of essential economic reforms. #librarylove

"Help doesn’t magically arrive just because you need it Disabled people are often shunned by their family & communities Remove the supports & people die" Explaining this, especially that first sentence, is painful. It's been shocking to me how many people just can't, or won't, understand.

will kim is still in ICE detention

“Keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.…And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.” The late, great Molly Ivins

getting ready for the best eve

“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...