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How it started / how it's going, Lena Wen edition. I appreciate the change of heart but I'd be substantially more sympathetic if it hadn't been breathtakingly in March of 2025 that Bhattacharya is utterly unsuited for the job.

What happens after ICE raids a city? Last year in LA, partners and primary breadwinners, grandparents and children, carwasheros and coffee shop regulars were arrested, detained and deported – disappearing from their neighborhoods... This is what came next.

SFF, we need to talk. I'm not here to rag specifically on Bona, who did the right thing by going public. No, I'm looking at all of you. Or at least, 15 of you. Because this right here? This is buckwild.

The entire country watching Mamdani do everything he said he would do and THEN SOME genuinely swung the political environment straight into the DSA. We FINALLY see that it could have been done this entire time and that every incumbent has been entirely responsible for how behind our country is.

so much this

NEW: Despite Trump "stalling this case for years," it appears that E. Jean Carroll is about to get paid. More than three years after a jury's verdict, Trump is running out of options to avoid paying the woman who, a jury found in 2023, he had sexually abused and defamed. Tonight, at Law Dork:

This is really the meme about how men will try everything but therapy.

to be fair, they just need to know how distantly related you are before they can fuck.

if you make a not so good video game your studio is at risk of death which means of course if you make a very good and even best selling video game your studio is also at risk of death

“ceasefire”

Thank god someone as callous and dishonest as Graham Platner in his dropout announcement won’t be in office

👇👇👇 We’re in dangerous times, we must all stand up for human rights and democracy also in Canada

I don't want to keep having discourse on sexual assault when one of God's Favorites gets caught out again again again So maybe we can just keep talking about consent and why we need vocalized, emphatic consent (more than once!) instead

Platner's fanboys keep pretending that the rape allegation was a bolt from the blue, but the reality is the opposite. It was the last straw after months of bad acts, bad comms, bad faith, and bad polls. Even before this week, Platner entered July with no real allies left. And that's on him.

i don’t have much to say. the platner video is just a lot of self-victimization with zero accountability. real conspiratorial ideas of who is working against him. glad he’s dropping out. good riddance.

academia:

Do you or someone you know have a sense of lgbtq affinity or support groups near Bay Ridge? For a gay friend who has had a rough path and is at age forty finally able to be out.

"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

I want to see a movement rise that actually puts the needs, dignity, and thriving of all human beings first—and you'll know if it does, because the media will treat it as "dangerous" in a way that it never managed for open white supremacist fascism led by an illiterate addled Nazi ragejunky.

These people are such racist losers

starting to think that being terminally online infects some people into becoming utterly unable to admit they might have been wrong about anything they posted online “keep posting through it” has become a desperate mantra

Something I haven’t seen people talk about a lot is how if women do try to physically resist an assault, and then they get hurt, it’s *still* her fault for “escalating”. The whole situation is always entirely the woman’s fault for existing in it in the first place.

The son of the man ICE murdered has called for an investigation into his fathers death. ICE uses the excuse of the victim weaponizing their vehicle when we have seen footage of ICE causing the issues! Credits: @nowthisimpact

working on an essay about the 10th anniversary of INFOMOCRACY and found this piece I published on @reactorsff.bsky.social right after it came out in June 2016 and it's simultaneously still relevant and a total tweet-screenshot time capsule reactormag.com/living-in-an...

Devastating article from @thebulwark.com. >> “I love our dad, he worked hard ... He always told us that we needed to do well in school so we don’t end up like him in the sun.”

For people who are unaware, when AI models are trained to detect CSAM, it's with a mathematical abstraction of the CSAM image. There is no legal database of training data of CSAM images. But Grok was trained on them.

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

how we know it's 1899: ✔️ US President threatening Spain ✔️ US warships off the coast of Cuba ✔️ women's right to vote earnestly being debated in the public press ✔️ everybody's remembering the Maine

Weird how the freaks who claim to be into “history” and “classicism” or whatever ignore the fact that trans people were revered in many ancient cultures and that respecting nonbinary genders seems to have actually been a societal benefit

they're waking up at 5am to stalk your neighbors at 6am so they can gun down fathers at 6:50am for the crime of commuting while brown to their job of building the houses in you live in

if you’d said “he’ll be so bad at the job everyone gets explosive diarrhea,” you’d have been called alarmist and you’d have been right

Cannot stress enough that you can live your life unburdened by what David Brooks and Bret Stephens say. You can just ignore them! It won’t make any difference to argue with them.

it should be illegal to require professional references at time of application. please stop making more pointless busywork for all of us

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I’m sick of pretending legislated transphobia is based in anything but hate and bigotry and a desire to control and abuse other people, particularly children and marginalized groups

Targeting children to increase their risk of experiencing harassment & violence, and increasing their risk of mental health issues & suicide is truly evil. This does nothing to help with parenting, with schooling, or even with imaginary “transgender issues” these people claim exist. It’s just evil.

It continues to be remarkable at how disengaged many UK academics are from the idea of a faculty union, and even what their potential can be - even while the UK academy burns on their watch 🤦‍♂️ Your local union may be imperfect, but if it has bargaining rights etc - this is the one you can work with.

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

Drop Site is doing critical coverage on the Gaza genocide and the Iran War, and this revolting excuse for “reporting” threatens the credibility of their entire operation. A glute massage is a real thing that professionals administer for athletic training. Not an invite to a boyfriend to rape you.

“Florida’s salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the state’s own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry – classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Important piece from @julialurie.bsky.social. Discussions about birth control's effect on mental health are usually dominated by trad wives, ultra-conservative groups and dodgy fitness influencers, and I'm happy to read something deeply reported on the subject. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

honestly, yes. so many of us have had situations like that, and now we know where these men stand on our rights and safety. clarifying, really.

One time I kissed with a man at the bar who then insisted on going home with me after I repeatedly said no and he followed me out the door and I ran to a friend’s house because I knew he was trying to follow me home. I guess if he assaulted me that night I would’ve had it coming according to Grim.

i was ranting about this with david last night. if you were wrong on platner it is absolutely an option to take your L in silence. like you can just shut up!

the number of women responding publicly and privately that they feel physically ill from grim's bullshit is so profoundly upsetting. i feel it, too. misogyny is sickening but also literally deadly.

"she asked for it"