JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

This is a lovely behind the scenes look at alllll the work DW puts into their merch!

If you, like me, try to limit your Amazon shopping, you can still benefit from Prime Day deals by shopping the sales that other, non-Amazon retailers put on to compete with APD. For example, I need some new sheets. I can buy them directly through the company website at a similar discount right now.

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people." Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Don't mind me, I'm just posting a couple kitten pictures to save them to the laptop to update my stream's "Starting Soon" page. What stream? This one that starts at 7:00 EST! www.twitch.tv/normans_own?...

Learning the Wells Fargo connection to the Chicago ice raids was just the reminder I needed to start moving my banking elsewhere. It’s been on my to-do list for ages and I just kept putting it off, but not any more.

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Oh so the rats are leaving the sinking ship are they? (Apologies to rats. They are smarter and kinder creatures than the “manosphere” filth mentioned in this article.)

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels

It’s so cool haw family can take a day where you were already struggling to regulate your emotions and just FULLY knock you into “whoops now my brain is screaming and will be for the next few hours” town. So cool. (Everyone is fine. Just stupid.)

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

this felt too informative not to share

wizard frog is insane

They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day. They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse. But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention. We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in. www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

A free printable bookmark full of *action* steps folks can take in the days of Banned Books Week and more importantly, the other 51 weeks of the year. Feel free to use however you'd like! buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

The sunk cost fallacy is just that—a fallacy. It’s okay to change the things that aren’t working for you, from jobs, to partners, to gender.

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🇲🇦 VIDEO: 'Clear demands': young Moroccans sustain week of protests Youth-led protests demanding reforms to public healthcare and education take place in Morocco's capital Rabat for a seventh day in a row.

Hello Philly folks! We're vending at the Darksome Art and Craft Market at Mount Moriah Cemetery! Stop by, say hello, buy some shit, etc, etc! (Also enjoy the rainbow I somehow captured in the photo)

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..” @marketwatch.com www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Oh. Oh no. No, no, no. This isn’t grabbing the third rail, it’s sticking your tongue on the third rail while dressed up as Reddy Kilowatt and playing “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC. Do not mess with the commissary.

Small kittens are cute but we still have so many older kittens and adult cats who need their perfect people, too. If you’ve been thinking about adding a cat to your life, check out some wonderful little souls looking for homes in the Mid-Atlantic: crits4cats.petfinder.com (Elkton, MD, DE/PA/NJ ok!)

NEW in Bolts: We guide you through more than 180 elections on the ballot in the fall of 2025, and why they matter.

The same way the mayor of Newark getting arrested was a sign of what 🧊 was going to do and keep doing, so is this. Everyone should be upset and mad about this. Everyone.

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

I was making dinner and reading this package. Then I was like “…wait.. WHAT!? Computer enhance!” Dip bread cheese in your coffee!? Ya’ll are wild for this one Carr Valley. 😂

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

*deep breath* It’s ALMOST. LIKE. DOGE NEVER was and STILL ISN’T a LEGIT. GOVERNMENT. AGENCY. and MAYBE everyone in it should be FIRED, INVESTIGATED, and ultimately PROSECUTED!?

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here! Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only! And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

I’m trying to hold on to the whimsy of planning my Halloween dress outfits while also reading up on the government shut down. …I guess that’s actually decently spooky for October 1st?

Spooky season has arrived 🎃👻🦈 #art #halloween #sharks

Who has watched the 24 hour live stream so far that the house Dems are doing on the shutdown????? This should be the biggest story right now and literally 45 people are watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBY...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.