Bible: In the end times there are gonna be charlatans who use my name to trick you into supporting evil and it will be incredibly obvious to everyone except you. Evangelicals: This section of the Bible has always been mysteriously vague.

The 6 arrested yesterday, along with the 9 arrested Wednesday, brings the total to 15 arrested at the Idaho State Capitol building this week in Boise while resisting the extreme anti trans bathroom ban, Idaho HB 752. This law is the most extreme in the country but citizens are not going silently.

Two notes: this is the same legal authority Rubio invoked for Mahmoud Khalil and Rumesya Özturk, among others (which may be unconstitutional). Second, he has not yet revoked her lawful permanent resident status. He has initiated the process for doing so (which is somewhat of a foregone conclusion)

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests. TAT: [Attacking science | Hollowing state]

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Corporations and billionaire pedophiles run the US government

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

It really blows my mind that for my entire life, folks struggling to get by have to eat gruel and wear burlap sacks in order to "deserve" any kind of assistance, but we've got more billionaires than ever before and are gonna have trillionaires soon enough.

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At Dr. King's funeral, Harry Belafonte lost his cool with a NYT reporter: “this grievous moment was in part the result of a climate of hate & distortion that the New York Times & other papers had helped create.”It wasn’t just Southerners who laid the ground for King’s death—Northern papers had too.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

I shouldn't even talk about this anymore, but the idea that trans people should all want to assimilate into society and live totally in stealth, not letting anyone know that they're trans is harmful to other trans people. This is why there was a big push in the past for gay people to come out

The DOJ dropped 23,000 cases against everyone from terrorists to sex traffickers, prioritizing immigrant roundups over prosecuting violent crime.

The Nintendo 64 was abandoned and never realized its full potential.

Phew. This has been a long torturous fight you have no idea

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The lesson is clear: when bigoted religious institutions are actively countered and condemned as a source of oppression, our liberation advances and lives are saved. When they are not, when they are left to gather their power, things get a lot more dangerous for us all, very quickly"

This is a huge part of why the rich push means testing so hard! Universalism makes the programs hard to kill! Programs exclusively for the poor are easy to kill! bsky.app/profile/allg...

Both Polymarket and kalshi reached out to pay me to put their ads in my newsletters in the last month. Told both to fuck off, obviously. But I bring it up because it seems like the only way to make $ right now is to work for some entity destroying society in a race to the bottom. It fucking sucks.

Every missile fired impoverishes the world. Every munition launched starves our children. Every bomb dropped makes us sicker.

Trump deployed 850 Tomahawk missiles in his illegal war on Iran, as he continues to destroy public services in the US. From slashing food stamps to cutting Medicaid, Trump’s Tomahawk missiles have cost American taxpayers over $3 billion. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/trump-iran... By @minnahfarshad.bsky.social

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Trump is asking Congress for a $1.5 TRILLION military budget in fiscal year 2027. A massive increase. Pentagon funding hit $1 trillion last year between appropriations and party-line reconciliation legislation. The military has failed to pass an audit for eight straight years.

Rich people will eternally propose a public benefit which is unilaterally good, then peddle means testing to grant it, then invent people who are somehow cheating the means testing poor people never asked for, then insist that the system is broken and so maybe it's better not to have it at all.

*after snorting a line of cocaine mixed with crushed up viagra* “Segregation will make us great again.”

As a result of Trump & Hegseth's re-segregation, all five service chiefs, the JCS chairman and vice chairman, and nine of ten combatant commanders are white men. Also, the U.S. military is back to zero female four-star officers for the first time since 2008; there were four in 2024.

PLEASE contact your representativesvand explain to them how awful these bills are. -No to KOSA, KIDS Act, and other censorship bills -No to sec 2.0 repeal/reform -No to pro-AI legislation -No to online ID/Age verification www.badinternetbills.com

Amongst the many crises roiling the nation, the destruction of federal statistical agencies, particularly BLS has gone largely unnoticed. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about the threat to some of our the most important information for good decision making in @prospect.org.

Right after they finish with trans youth, their moving on to target youth with ADHD and autism to satisfy their austerity driven eugenics project. They don't even dignify us with new talking points.

How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines https://aje.news/4htq46

"The photo's biology" is one hell of a tell as to what "biological sex" actually means.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Years of war have fundamentally changed Israel's politics, economy and society, analysts say.

Whaddaya mean? Of course you should have to show your tax returns to use the sidewalk. It's common sense!

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

there will be no Nuremberg 2.0. That would mean that your party was a completely different one than it actually is. You are a Senator and could propose your version of Nuremberg 2.0. to your constituents. Wondering why you haven't done that yet if you're serious about the idea.

the goddamn company itself is calling its own game a trojan horse to spread AI acceptance fuck this game forever, fuck these devs. do not trust any amount of backpedaling.

Assessing the average stress levels of the world right now by the frequency of how often typos end up in news headlines.

It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

“I swear the US military is not discriminating against black people or women, it’s just that white men are always more qualified and I don’t want to see those people in my military who should be working the fields in a prison chain gang or at home in a dress making babies in the kitchen.”

Disabled people live on fixed incomes that keep them well below the poverty line. They are often on more medication than their non disabled peers. A 100% tariff on prescription drugs will break people, many of whom are already having to choose between medicine and food.

Strikes damage or destroy Iran’s tallest bridge and a century-old medical research centre fighting diseases.

I am viscerally disgusted by every tech CEO who extol the disruption AI is going to cause, like that Palantir twirp fantasizing about "seizing power away from college educated women" or similar political promises made by fascist tech bosses. With every bone I despise this overtly fascist bullshit.

And again, the data centers required to run these systems are causing all kinds of problems for people who live near them, and it's only going to get worse as long as this tech bubble continues to fester. And for what benefit? Megalomaniacal losers hoping for mass deskilling and layoffs?

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

“The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel cited Othman Atta, the executive director of the mosque, as saying that deportation documents focused on Sarsour's arrest by Israeli authorities as a teenager living in the West Bank to argue he ​provided material support for extremists.” Sarsour is 53 years old.