This should be front page in every newspaper (and website) every day, like the Iran hostage crisis was. We should be keeping track of how many people we have deported, where we have deported them to, under what conditions, and how many have died. This is a generational shame on this country.

America forgot how disruptive the baby boom was. It’s disrupting again, one more time. A rainy Sunday read.

Pratchett’s politics evolved over the series, because he wrote them over the course of most of his life, and his own thoughts evolved. This does not make his politics “hard to pin down” unless what you’re trying to do is avoid describing the conclusions he reached about, say, trans rights, HELEN.

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

I hope this video loads!! 2 minutes of Ravi AND Kidlet 🥰 Fluttering wings and all. I figured Ravi might show up early, hopefully with a kid in tow. 8:30, it’s cloudy and cool but there are snacks to be delivered!! #birds

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

works just fine for me!

Co fucking signed 🤬

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Decent analysis and critique here. My biggest frustration: once again the party seems to have begun and ended with the assumption that they “moved too far left” in a race where we could watch the campaign moving right as much and as fast as possible. This party needs to stop gaslighting.

New Weird Little Guys: Nazis React to the President Saying They Aren't Real @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/weirdlittleg...

I genuinely struggle to understand what these people think is going on

giving government money to january 6 insurrectionists - who are also uniformly a bunch of child predators, wife abusers, and scammers - is so far beyond. It makes me feel sick.

Starting to think AI psychosis is the most urgent mental health crisis in modern history. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

Cost of living so high but it’s still free to hold my hand

I loved it. I still love the idea of it. I miss that feeling of endless possibility for learning about my world.

Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin In California ICE Detention Centers As Conditions Worsen Full report: lataco.com/adelanto-hun...

JFC There could never be an easier case for impeaching a president. The fact that impeachment & removal is universally acknowledged among the political class to be impossible is the clearest possible sign that the constitutional order has collapsed into some form of dictatorship.

it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more

One of my favorite fun facts that the eagle scream you’ve heard in American propaganda your whole life is the sound of a whole other bird, typically the red-tailed hawk.

In other news, my hed iz pastede on yay is 22 and I still have to routinely remember that phrase only means something to a small group of people so I need to not use it in work chats

In 2023, LGBTQ+ people in Watertown, WI held a family friendly pride in the park event. Acolytes of a local pastor who says gays deserve capital punishment crashed to protest. So did a gang of neo-Nazis who shouted “pedophiles get the rope” around a bunch of queer families and their kids.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

America right now

Everyone In Conversation Under Different Impression As To Which Horrific News Being Discussed https://theonion.com/everyone-in-conversation-under-different-impression-as-to-which-horrific-news-being-discussed/

“You can't be having all these trans women being murdered by men in the headlines when you're trying to convince the public that the safest thing would be for trans women to use the men's bathroom and locker room. You run the risk of people seeing through the propaganda that way.”

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... Check out @socialistdogmom.bsky.social ‘s Weird Little Guys for a deeper, deeply distressing, dive into the online world of terrorgram and young people egging each other in their chats to do+document attacks. This ep is directly relevant to the case below.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

This was a dense & meandering description of another country & another context. I will probably have to reread it to absorb it all, but worth it to see how similar nationalistic & fascist sentiments can come about, unique to the soil in which they are grown, appealing to the history they inhabit

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

I know we live in the stupid times of MAHA but I do not want to go back to the *extremely* stupid times of early 2020 in which each new hour brought with it an exciting and fresh flavor of medical stupid.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

Too real.

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

In one state, CPS took a teenager from her home to prevent her from having an abortion—threatening her mother with murder charges if she helped her daughter get out-of-state care. Another mother was investigated by CPS and police for helping her teen get an abortion *in a pro-choice state*

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids Democrats and Republicans to gerrymander in favor of Democrats.

Y'all, please read and share this story. It's the product of months and years of hard work. The problems themselves are not simple (they're systemic) and the solutions offer their own complexities. Shout out to everyone who lent their time, experience and expertise to this story!

“ProPublica’s tally of kids harmed by tear gas or pepper spray is nearly four times the number cited in a recent congressional report that relied on news stories, yet it is likely still a vast undercount.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

It’s Orson Welles’ birthday Seen here in Rome, 1974

oh my god this is spectacular data

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...