Please hear me when I say that 1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements 2) they pre-date the age of social media 3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

I don’t think that age gaps are inherently bad but when your fiancée keeps boffing significantly older dudes with histories of abuse and harassment and you are a significantly older man who just lost his job because you harassed people you are maybe not the outlier you think you are

No, a Karen didn't call police on her new Black neighbor who turned out to be the #Boston police chief; to start, we don't have a police chief www.universalhub.com/2025/no-kare... #AI #Feh

I'm just going to continue to scream into the void from inside the tech industry: no one, not even Amazon, has advanced enough AI to replace 1800 engineers. They're just firing workers and piling their work on other *human* workers without paying them more, as companies have ever done.

Before the ACA I could not be insured unless I joined a high risk pool. The last time I looked into that was 1998 and it would have cost me $8000 a year (the equivalent of $15,600 today) when I was only making $20k before taxes. We cannot let these Fascist monsters drag us back to that.

Man all these important male journalists really don’t want the Epstein Files to come out huh wonder why

It’s grossly inappropriate abuse of power and esp in the context of trump threatening reporters and the companies they work for every other fucking day- can be understood as a possible tool of trading ‘keep ur job/license in return for sex’

It is NOT ok for politicians to fuck journalists, guys! Even if it’s consensual between two grown ups!

Alright I see people starting the ‘I don’t care who RFk fucked, he’s killing children’ thing and as somebody that lived through Clinton, we need to stop that. SURE we don’t need to know all the gory details. AND *ITS NOT JUST NUZZI THAT WAS GROSSLY INAPPROPRIATE*.

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

They been trying to destroy Rashida Talib’s life everytime she opens her mouth please don’t make me mad today Because you can’t properly verbalize your emotions without hyperbole

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

saw this at the chicago international film festival and...yes.

I feel validated by the fact that I’m not the only one who thinks ד/ר look really similar—so similar they’re a common source of variations in old manuscripts of the Torah!

Seeing some “Trump has no real beliefs” and that’s clearly not true Trump is very very consistent in his anti-Blackness, misogyny, protectiveness of scammers, and commitment to a worldview where someone is always getting screwed and you don’t want it to be you. That’s a coherent politics!

Also: I think most bullies have an instinct for when the person they want to pick on is too popular for them to go at without getting blowback, and they know how to miraculously become charming when that fits their preferred narrative. If you've never seen this, it's confusing! Do not be fooled!

trump absolutely misses NYC and it clearly is eating him up inside that everyone here hates him and he can never come back and see a Broadway show ever again without getting booed out of the theater

I dont like movies where the Baddies are sanitized ... i need them unleashed and untamed

Based on what I've heard about how Mamdani charmed Adams, I am totally unsurprised that he managed the same with Trump. It is genuinely not that hard to charm ego monsters, if charm is in your toolkit and you can manage you ego for an hour

Pregnancy should be more fully understood as a power trip, one of my perhaps crankest opinions

? because of course it's not quite over and arguably not quite a human (I mean literally and only pregnancy, not parenting). But it is creating/giving human life, which is both better and more impressive than the inverse, and also completely unique

[US not ready for a female President] “I’m not hearing that, and that’s not the message we should be sending to the American people, to our young people…And I’m not speaking about what any particular person has said. I’m not reacting to anyone else’s comment. I’m telling you my lived experience.”

Interesting to me in the sense of “the parties are two sides of the same coin” doesn’t look very true when capitalists prefers Republicans 80-20 But in other years may have been a more valid analysis

Part of the job of being Speaker is forcing votes that unite your caucus and split the opposition’s caucus So I have to say Johnson is better at being speaker than I expected

Am I the only person who liked dating apps and kind of enjoyed crafting a first message or going on a first date? Like it’s fun to craft and present your most attractive self in small bursts and people are hot and interesting and the uncertainty of “will they like me, will I like them” is exciting

i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.

YELLING WORKS.

I feel like RFK Jr is going to permanently destroy the CDCs credibility with the public

The debate about removing nonconsensually posted images is a perfect example. It was *tech platforms* that responded to that demand by banning nude content. A lot of feminist groups saw that as a second act of oppression, not some win that prevented violence.

Losing loser loses again!

Folks do a lot of talking about “avoiding shame “ and “getting their needs met” But kind of avoid the repair bit to the “Avoiding shame” can also include dumping your shame into the person it’s safe to be mad and loud at Rather than actual repair

Also … I don’t know the age of everyone but after a certain point with certain resources You are responsible for your day to day choices in how you treat people . Them being more privileged/ resourced isn’t an acceptable excuse or even an explanation

"If you are just one person with an opinion you are easy to ignore [...] our power is in our unity, our message discipline, and our ability to turnout in numbers"

I find the rehabilitation and weasel word around what’s happening VISCERALLY abominable We are watching full fascism , with apartheid , and a dash of tech loaded Pravda And folks want to be babied While openly admitting they elected to make their scapegoats more precarious SUFFER

First Democratic member of the Senate to attack Greenblatt in public?

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

Poetic attacks reminds me of salt circles to trap autonomous vehicles

The unemployment rate for Black Americans remained at 7.5% in September, the highest level since 2021 and a nearly 1.9% increase from the start of this year

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out

Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is nearly in the worst place since the pandemic.

The US tech job market remains extremely weak—overall, employment only increased by 2k last month and is down 7k over the last year That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

I’m gonna reboost this and request a brain saving miracle because if Idont have enough my retirement that would be AWESOME and rock back and forth before editing

I think it can be a mistake to focus primarily on the abstract regarding left wing vs liberal criticism or left wing vs liberal foreign policy principles when in reality what matters most is the practical implementation of the program and "liberal foreign policy" in practice is uh very illiberal.

Broadly speaking the fact that a Chris Van Hollen, who is a liberal that's hyper critical of the American patronage of both Israel and the UAE, is an exception to US institutional liberalism rather than the rule is a big part of the problem as to why we are here.

My McBride take continues to be they she does not and cannot represent the trans community - she represents Delaware. Delaware is not a majority trans district, or even a district with a significant trans minority. Someone who has not been chosen by a trans community cannot represent us.

We have to accept that part of getting to the other side of this is being mean. We should be asking why their parents don’t love them, if they’re happy their spouses are stepping out while they’re playing soldier, if they’re looking forward to their children not coming to Thanksgiving.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Every day this is proved more true