RFK Jr. Fires Piss Czar

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

love it when the paper of record puts together a panel on journalism with no journalists lmao

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I’m on a second round of revisions for a manuscript. The other reviewers said — looks great thanks for doing everything we asked. Accept. Reviewer 2 keeps saying they don’t see the value of the study because if there’s a couple on HBCUs and this topic already, ain’t that enough. 🫩 1/?

She’s really been on a tear

Kenya is so lucky she’s pretty… she better stay on a rich man’s top and ride that pageant history to heaven… oh my that girl has rocks in her skull. My God. #theweakestlink

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

NY AG JAMES: "I believe that not only was SNAP being used as a political pawn, but also, unfortunately, all of the delays at our airports were also being used as a political pawn, and that's why you had a cadre of Democrats who decided to cede power."

I feel insane with *everything*

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

No former and current federal employee should feel good about the fact that chuck and gang have decided to cave on the ACA subsidies. It’s a slap to the face of everyone who has suffered this far to fight back. Every single one of them needs to be primaried.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

“I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message: that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the head of the MAHA Institute…(he) called for the elimination of the childhood vaccination schedule & removal of vaccines from the market. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Putting everything else aside (to the degree possible), what kind of fool takes the republicans party at their word, and believes in anything they promise. If you were anywhere but in a coma for the last decade, this makes absolutely no sense.

no one has ever been better than chuck schumer at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

the thing is as a leftist i could easily come up with a better plan than the aca. republicans can't because the aca is the best conservative healthcare plan that exists

An experimental gene-editing treatment shows promise for permanently lowering levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, possibly helping cut the risk for heart disease. n.pr/4hPhrQp

I got rejected for being too far along in the paper writing process? 😂☠️

Wahoo I got rejected from AERA and I won’t be going! Ima go lay down instead.

Destroying modern life to own the libs.

I'm a little bit confused (rhetorical, I'm not) about why we're not hearing more from the Democrats that Donald Trump fired a bunch of federal employees and a government shutdown where only ICE and the military get paid is completely in line with his plans and funding goals

My new essay on the New Right and its relationship to historical fascism has been published at the Ideas Letter @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ge...

I met @roywoodjr.bsky.social last night and I looked like a snack. I leave the house so rarely for anything that isn’t work related now, so I’m committed to looking tf good every time I do. You’re all welcome. 🥰

*75 years and computers are barely more "intelligent" than they were in 1950.

“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Jared Golden isn't seeking re-election because early polls show him getting his ass kicked and his primary challenger has a better chance at winning than he does But he can pretend it's because progressives are bad, flail on your way out dude, whatever, byebye

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Colorado voted to keep free breakfast and lunch for all kids by raising taxes on the wealthy. What a huge night for progressives and our democracy!

The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

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Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

It’s insane to me that not only did many people choose to send an evil vindictive tyrannical convicted felon back into office with full power of the govt, but they sent him knowing he would spend every day ensuring that all of us suffer and die instead of thrive and live.

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ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

It’s Halloween, but the only thing spooky here is the way Republicans are abandoning the American people.

This study is getting a lot of media attention reports that children exposed to COVID-19 in the womb had slightly higher rates of neuro-developmental diagnoses by age 3. It’s a large study (18,000 births). journals.lww.com/greenjournal...

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Overall social media use is declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

One thing about me, im funny. Im unintentionally making people laugh, when I say the things people think in their head out loud 🙂‍↕️

Classic authoritarianism: Katz says IDF's top lawyer will be ousted over leak of detainee abuse video www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

⚠️ 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2024 alone, including thousands of adolescent girls and young women. WHO recommends twice-yearly injectable #lenacapavir as a new effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option to protect people at risk of HIV. Know more: bit.ly/47gS2eV

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social