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most of what's broken about white culture can be explained by their abandonment of family members who don't "produce" in the service of ensuring care can be redirected to maintaining the illusion of patriarch's autonomy

The weekly presence of grandparents in your life makes it much more likely for you to survive and thrive

My most woke opinion is that autonomy is based in physical support of society and emotional support of our family and friends. no one gets through it alone

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

Marchetti's constant undefeated phys.org/news/2025-11...

This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing. Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.

trump take plane

One of my favorite things about NYC is that the entire fleet of NYC ferries was named by 2nd graders. I think about this every time my run takes me past the docks. Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.

Finally driving my first EV and can’t be the only middle aged dad now *obsessed* with regenerative braking and getting as many miles as humanly possible.

*SPEAKER JOHNSON TO SWEAR IN GRIJALVA ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Call them: Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023 Fetterman (PA) No Point

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

Yes!!! Chester. A. Arthur.

the senate republicans aren't negogiating with the senate democrats... they're negogiating with trump and the house republicans and I wish them all great joy in each other

Science Bluesky, I need a question answered that is not yielding to Google! Can you carbon-14 date an alien? Because I know it requires nitrogen-14 in the upper atmosphere and if the alien homeworld doesn’t have the same nitrogen content…?

jury nullification folks... the great bastion of sanity in the masses

like many folks I did not know that parking in bike lanes technically wasn’t illegal in Montgomery County, at least until this week. now we just need MCPD to enforce it— www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day

I want more postal worker procedurals. Shit, bring on a show about postal police. They're generally not running around strapped, and they're scarily effective.

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Baltimore just eliminated parking minimums, reduced lot line setbacks, and allowed single-stair buildings for buildings up to six stories All without years of studies or prevarication. This is not just the path to rest belt revival, it is a model for cities nationwide

Neal Katyal's opening volley against Trump's tariffs: "May it please the court: Tariffs are taxes."

Congratulations to Mamdani on winning the mayorship of the only city in this country! 🏙️🗽

Pour one out for everyone walking through the Chapel Perilous on this post-election

this is the only correct answer and a screening question for the highest offices in the land

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

I’ll take this and raise you “personal trainers should be an integrated part of the (free) health care system”

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Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918) movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...

🚸ICYMI🚸 MCDOT is conducting safety assessment studies at 15 #MCPS public schools throughout Montgomery County, MD Government and is requesting parents/guardians whose kids attend these schools to complete their schools survey✏️! ▶️https://ow.ly/3iCv50XjMm6 Montgomery County Council #MCPS#visionzero

the auth/approps process fuckin sucks, but WE CAN JUST CREATE A BETTER ONE

For two days we've used Slow Reveal Graphs as my fourth graders explore line graphs. As I click to each new image there are loud gasps. It makes my day.

Reports of ICE ads on #Spotify were noted in early October. People began calling for boycotts immediately. Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses. And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏 #BoycottSpotify

Enjoyed this episode - especially @jamellebouie.net's Reconstruction analogy to explain why Congress needs to rediscover its authority

Though I'm grateful for the "extra" hour of sleep, I still want Permanent Standard Time.

A visual representation of GOP and Democrat budgets. Each cup = $50 billion, and each color represents something different. A way to see how the federal government is spending and who it benefits. Now, which budget/policy benefits ALL Americans? #ProudBlue Video credit: sully_dawg/Tiktok

Mikie Sherrill: On day one, I'm declaring a state of emergency on utility hikes. I'll freeze those rate hikes to lower your family's bills. New Jersey, I am not playing. I am not writing a strongly worded letter, or starting up a working group, or doing a 10 year study.

The trump administration threatens to shoot randomly in defense of the dead while refusing living Christians their freedom to join in communion in the Broadview ICE facility. trump admin is anti-faith

🚨 100 US cities have now fully abolished parking mandates citywide! Shreveport, Louisiana, pushed the count to the 100th mark! It also became the first city in Louisiana to entirely abolish parking mandates! parkingreform.org/mandates-map...

corollary: there exists a group with no priviliges that must accept all the responsibilty

can't. stop. laughing.

Single smartest thing I think blue states could do is go on a MASSIVE home-building spree, bring down rents, and precipitate a massive multi-racial Second Great Migration. Provide shelter for the sane and strip the lunatic states of their power in the House.

New rule: if your net worth is written in eight figures. everytime you eat out, you pay for everyone's meal

wish i knew how to do politics of joy in the face of wanton destruction

I’ve declared a State of Emergency because the federal government is — illegally and cruelly — withholding funding for food assistance. We are providing $10 million in emergency aid so Maryland families don’t go hungry.