@marcussimmonscc.bsky.social saw an art and thought of you

Gavin Newsom wants to be president sooooo bad. And that's a good reason why he shouldn't be. No one who really really wants that power is the type of person who should have it.

All the pundits, all the opposition, the whole world is just waiting for the narrative to take a turn because, they imagine, the story must take a turn. There is a sense that history is anchored by redemption. You imagine he will pay for his crimes, his abuse of children. Redemption is not coming.

New today at Science Advances from @kshoub.bsky.social and me. We revisit the question of whether a local tragedy (mass shooting) influences voter behavior. They do, at least at the local level, with some important caveats and implications for policy. Short thread... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pre 2016 this would've been enough. Unfortunately it's 2025 so it will not be enough.

Okay, but, dear liberals, you're missing the forest for the trees: the Affordable Care Act was, in fact, a compromise that hinged on health insurance remaining a capitalist marketplace. Democrats have repeatedly abandoned a public option. Biden campaigned on it and then did nothing for 4 years.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Trump: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." Senator Angus King and the Senate Democrats who are lying on their backs with their legs up: "Here. It's all yours, Daddy Don."

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters. The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself. And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.

How did I leave work with 22 unread e-mails and return to work with 89 unread e-mails? Who has the time?!

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Phew, the Democrats are funny. Are you really telling us you collaborated in all this pain and gonna get nothing out of it? Losers.

Article says private jets are 1/6 of all traffic handled by FAA and entire reduction in FAA load could be shouldered by grounding private jets. No need to affect commercial flights.

“Intellectual diversity “ as in they want professors to also teach dumb things?

It’s left out so many more subtle supremacy ploys. For example bathroom & beauty products that were intentionally designed to ruin the health of melinated hair & skin. Photography techniques that compliment my pale pasty complexion but makes an actor like Denzel appear dull and drab

5. Believing America is supposed to be a white nation dominated by any one religion.

A few big ones I don’t see there: 1. Believing people who aren’t white are born more prone to crime or anything else. 2. Same for (bogus) IQ obsessions about who’s superior, inferior.. 3.Assuming other race groups have inferior/lesser cultures than white people. 4.Teaching, pushing any of the above.

Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.

TSA worker and mother of 2 details life getting unpaid during Mike Johnson's government shutdown youtu.be/14PB4Tsdyrk?...

Good morning, #2025SHA! Looking forward to a full first day of history and conversation. thesha.org/meeting

This stage of the decline of the American empire

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

“People perceive me as this sort of lefty figure; I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis." - Stephen Colbert He fits the mold.

NJ gov race was 14% difference. The pollsters were way off.

The best of vocal performances from the Monica and Brandy Atlanta show came from the background singers, tbh.

one battle after another did not feel like a three-hour movie. i had a good time.

The only thing I see here is Obama is going to be giving "advice," which will undoubtedly be, "here's how to moderate your message and how to compromise with the people who literally hate you"

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law - al.com share.google/teiB2sJSo0ft... At the same time AI is diminishing critical thinking, the University™ is also debilitating courses that cultivate critical thinking. And these young adults already don't read.

Please give the story a read and share. Let us know what you think. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The decision left survivors reeling. In interviews, they described being molested in a church van. Stalked in a church nursery. Raped with a statue of Jesus plucked from a mantle. Told to repent. Now they are demanding change.

The Assemblies of God has long known of this danger. A few years ago, it considered making child safety policies mandatory at all its churches—but then backed away after lawyers warned it could expose the denomination to lawsuits. The legal risks, their top lawyer said, “outweighed the benefit.”

“They made me feel like something was wrong with me and not the person abusing me,” said Meza, one of nearly 20 people suing an Assemblies of God church in California accused of concealing decades of abuse. Others said preachers twisted scripture to silence them. "Touch not the Lord's anointed."

In some cases, denomination officials oversaw the restoration and reinstatement of accused child abusers. In others, churches put convicted sex offenders in charge of youth groups. In total, these men were accused of abusing more than 475 people, mostly children.

A children’s pastor filmed girls in a church bathroom. A preacher accused of abusing children was sent to therapy. A worship minister who molested boys got a welcome-home party from his congregation . All remained ministers in the Assemblies of God — all went on to abuse more children.

We spent nearly a year working to answer that question. In total, we found 200 Assemblies of God ministers and church leaders accused of sex abuse over 50 years. More importantly, we found a pattern of churches enabling and restoring alleged abusers rather than pursuing justice for victims.

Next we uncovered how pastors steered hundreds of boys and young men to a convicted sex offender hailed by some ministers as "the holiest man alive." Assemblies of God leaders all the way up to the top national leader were repeatedly warned about Daniel Savala but failed to stop him. Again: How?

Last year we got a tip about a children's pastor who'd managed to stay in ministry for decades even as allegations of sex abuse trailed him across four states. I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/

This is just a reminder that America doesn't have a housing shortage. So, the existence of unhoused and housing-insecure people is just a feature of (American) capitalism.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

what fire has been ceased, exactly

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage flip.it/Qw9pTl

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This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits - www.nypl.org/education/te...

When you read those Charlie Kirk text messages about "Jewish donors," just remember it's only anti-semitic when non-right-wing people say things, whether those things are anti-semitic or not.

"Culturally conservative voters are also correct that Democrats have moved left over the last several elections. The best way for that bloc to not be distracted by right-leaning coverage of a reparations bill might be for fewer Democrats to endorse a reparations bill." "Out of touch" with whom.