It's generally a mish mash of "we're just normal joes who don't want to distract from concrete economic populist materialism by focussing on identity" from a bunch of very accessible, jokey, smugly center-Right of the Left who fancy themselves the vanguard of some social democratic movement.

I already knew QAA pod were sometimes clueless on socialist politics. It's still disappointing one of them gave a shout out to Joshua Citarella and Doomscroll which he'll be appearing on soon. Some folks don't know what red-brownism is, or what populist center-right nationalist social democracy is.

Brain retraining is pseudoscience garbage and wired should be ashamed of itself for publishing this crap.

Canada’s first H5N1 case—a 13-year-old BC girl—spent 61 days in hospital, including 14 days on life support. A worst-case bird flu pandemic could reach 164 million deaths globally. Writer Renée Pellerin questions whether our health systems are ready: https://ow.ly/W3Q150Z3I8x

#USDA reports another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy cow herd in Idaho. This is the 1,107th reported infection of a dairy herd since the outbreak was first detected in March 2024. Infected herds have been reported from 19 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

The Epstein Transparency Act isn't very transparent. Release the damn files. 😡 The women wait.

Recording someone in public without their consent should remove your phone privileges. If they are a retail worker upgrade that to teeth privileges.

Draft memo outlines the end of US blockade and reopening of Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media claims. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4u3UHAK

Thats what a completely rigged system looks like. The Zionist Epstein network has stolen trillions.

Just remember that the kind of people trying to ban pornography between consenting adults on the premise of protecting kids Read written porn on the train

Liberal propaganda putting in the work to support the state while Donald Trump uses all of its power to undercut and defund these very platforms they rely on. Amusing to watch

In my personal network, I was in close contact with an Iraqi American who was from a Shia family. This family had specific reasons to hate Saddam Hussein. And they opposed attacking Iraq. But NPR never found Iraqis to interview who sounded like the people connected to me.

NPR found a huge number of (alleged) Iraqis who either supported the invasion or considered it a reasonable option. They always hid the full names "for the safety" of the people interviewed.

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

Horrific shit

read the room! www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Lakers had 15 more free throws than OKC and lost by 23 points. LeDiddy still going to blame the refs? (He’ll blame Donkic’s injury)

Be ready to share this message with your colleagues, departments, mentors, mentees, etc. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IS REQUIRED IN THE SCIENCES.

“ScIeNcE iSnT pOlItIcAL…” Dude. Shut up. If you have been supported in your work BY EVEN ONE TAX DOLLAR, you need to be clocking in to do your community service. This is the new norm. This is your service to society. If science is important…act like it. If we all act, we win.

We’ve got big ways to engage coming up. But in the meantime, add your senators and house rep district and DC office numbers do your contact list and give them a call.

Protests, calling your electeds on your drive to work, signing letters, talking to your loved ones and colleagues, teach-ins, sit-ins, op-eds; pick some things to do. If every scientist did this, we wouldn’t need to convince the public…BUT THE WORK WOULD CONVINCE THE PUBLIC OF OUR ROLE IN SOCIETY.

This is ridiculous, you guys. No other sector wishes to have goodwill from the public while also NOT FIGHTING FOR THEMSELVES. This hubris is what bad actors exploited to get us into our current mess. IT IS TIME TO PAY YOUR SCIENCE ACTIVISM TAXES. 24 hours of civil service a year—minimum.

Look. We don’t “need to convince the public of the value of science”…STEMM is a big constituency! 30% of the workforce 18% of registered voters Scientists want the public to pay for research, support & trust us, appreciate expertise…but we won’t stand up for ourselves because we are “too busy”.

Good news about @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social . The arc of history doesn’t bend itself, but it does bend towards justice when people of good values do the right thing.

It seems like MAHA is getting less extreme, based on recent decisions like sending Casey Means back to her orchard for guidance from the universe. But no. The new nominee is a MAHA loyalist. She just doesn’t show her whole mitochondrially impaired ass on Instagram. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Lai family has been *really* sucking up to GOP - Jimmy Lai’s daughter was invited by Mike Johnson to SOTU and she was pictured smiling and enthusiastically clapping. I can understand why the Lai’s are doing this, but as we all know, a show of loyalty doesn’t guarantee anything in Trump world

Counterpoint: it won’t

May 9, 1991: A bird lands on the floor of Boston Garden multiple times during Game 2 of the ECSF, and SportsChannel's Tom Heinsohn casually mentions circus monkeys having once been loose in the Garden "for over two years." The Celtics beat the Pistons, 109-103, tying the series.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. Two more were killed on Friday and one remains missing. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

I (thankfully) do not work on biothreats anymore, but some of y’all know me from Covid-era twitter and before that (!) from Ebola-era twitter so if it is helpful to you: I don’t think you need to be concerned about hantavirus

You asked: Can Congress pass “SCOTUS-proof” legislation protecting voting rights? After Callais, two experts tackle the congressional paths forward in our new Q&A.

The First Pariah State: How the Proslavery Confederacy Menaced the World The often-forgotten global story of how the Confederacy lost its bid for sovereign nationhood press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Tennessee's governor has now signed into law the new congressional map, which is meant to lock in an all GOP congressional delegation and eliminates the Memphis-based majority-Black district.

Man who has never won an election is frontrunner for Dem nom for prez, claims rightwing media outlet.

Albert Meltzer (Londres, 7 janvier 1920 - 7 mai 1996) – PARTAGE NOIR www.partage-noir.fr/albert-meltz...

People who work in the meat industry, in vivisection, in law enforcement, in the military industrial complex, and in fossil fuel extraction are all trivially engaged in immoral action tantamount to murder. Attacks on Yud's right to say similar about AI are attacks on all activists.

Being able to say "everyone employed in industry X is engaged in immoral action tantamount to murder and they have names and addresses" is basic free speech and the bedrock foundation of all activism. Without that freedom we have nothing.

There's folks championing legal action against Yudkowsky for saying "if anyone builds it everyone dies" about AGI. I want to be clear whatever you think about Yud, appeal to the terroristic violence of the state legal system to stop basic discourse is Huntington Life Sciences level evil.

Look at these fucking assholes. If anyone needs to be taken down a peg it’s whiny garbage like this who can’t handle people advocating for disability accommodations. Shut the fuck up. No offense.

#OtD 5 May 1970 100,000s of university students in the US walked out on a nationwide student strike against the Vietnam war and in protest at the killing of four students at Kent State by troops the previous day. Learn more in our podcast series: workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-...

the necessity of the Voting Rights Act has never been more clearly demonstrated by the behavior of the Republican party immediately after gutting the Voting Rights Act

"… to help Americans quit antidepressants": I don't need such help. If I _did_ I'd seek my doctor, not some roided-up chud who looks like a fruit leather left out in the sun on a Venice Beach street.

Defiant border czar brushes away MAGA critics, says ‘mass deportations are coming’ www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

I don't know what area of rural Georgia this is, but odds are it's an impoverished and/or Black community. What fucking right do you have to decide your 4k Netflix is more important than their air and water?

I can't believe I have to bust out *this meme template* in 2026 because "opposing datacenters is NIMBY-ism" is apparently discourse now.

adam correctly called this before trump was even back in office