Very sad news about Jon Kudelka. He wrote this last year about what really matters. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/04...

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

Please help tell the Government that Medical Research Matters! www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

God bless Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for saying what needed to be said in his Davos speech.

Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Another “breaking news” moment where media takes the gov word as “official” when a) video evidence shows exactly what happened and b) the gov lies every time it opens its mouth. With all the good and important Big Media can and does do, its willingness to cling to “objectivity” is killing us.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

This message hits hard.

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

WHO reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

More of this !!

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

A detailed run through of literature and claims concerning vaccines and autism. Long story shot: vaccines do not cause autism.

For years they droned on about “the Deep State” - a powerful cabal that controlled everything. Then they set their sights on “the Epstein list” - a powerful cabal that preyed on children. (Spoiler: it’s the same cabal) Now they’re in power, guess who is protecting this cabal? They are. Odd.

This Waitrose ad is better than the majority of movies I've seen this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOy...

I identify less with my astrological sign than I do with the way people describe my dog. Like, I guess I'm a Capricorn but I'm for sure "treat motivated."

Maybe don't start destroying the White House right before an election. Things the consultants don't tell you.

THERE IT IS

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

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We can't translate what we haven't discovered. Fund the questions, not just the answers. @australianlabor.bsky.social, @mon4kooyong.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If your savings account can’t buy you a yacht, maybe stop voting like it can.

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Portland has fallen!

Discovery research is the sexiest 😛

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

But also we’re terrified of the subway

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91