When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

This guard also did more than the entirety of Uvalde PD did to keep children safe, without qualified immunity or bankrupting a city with overtime.

multiple things can be true at once: 1) there shouldn't be billionaires 2) since there ARE, it's interesting to see one spending money on being an ocean nerd in the name of science, instead of feeding us to machines and destroying democracy 3) valve's 30% cut of steam sales is too high

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

This is so not the point here but "technology is neutral" is one of the biggest lies of the modern era. What is the neutral use of a gas chamber? Oh wait there fucking isn't one, technology can be structurally, materially evil because that's what it's designed for Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The college grads in open revolt against pro-AI speakers is a reminder that this isn’t about a failure to adopt technology. These students are the first generation to have had language models throughout their college experience. No one wants it. They want an education, not a four year sales pitch.

Right wingers will continue believing the shooters were trans while planning the next shooting that will be pinned on trans people

The law when she said this

This shit makes me so angry and sad.

tapping the sign

I don’t even know what to say anymore man. Every day trans people are a target. They do nothing but want to exist and they are a target. Every time we see senseless violence in the US, it is spun into a lie involving trans people.

what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him

Kickstarter has reverted their policy changes on Adult Content! They issued an apology, siting Stripe as the reason. The pressure we put on them worked. This is a step in the right direction. But the threat of Stripe remains. It’d be great to see KS end ties with them & process payments elsewhere.

SC Gov. McMaster signed a anti-trans bathroom bill into law on 5/15. In advancing the bill, it was amended so that schools could install a temporary outdoor bathroom for trans/nonbinary students — basically a porta-potty. The law includes that amendment. They’re making trans kids pee outside. 1/

I was a bit off on the timing in my February 2025 predictions of what RFK Jr. would do if confirmed as HHS Secretary. He’s already accomplished all of these things.

im going to start loudly booing the people who bring up their ai trash and grifts in real life too. why let the college grads have all the fun? be the change you want to see.

Your podcast must be a video Now your video podcast must have social clips Now your social clips must scale to compete with paid clippers Now you need to manage your own paid clippers Now you are no longer in the podcast business

This was going around again and the original is stuck on a private account on a terrible website, so... Repost of the time back in 2020 when I played Bad Apple inside a pregnancy test.

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

Nice to get confirmation it's been a Führerbunker all along, I guess

One of the Nazi terrorists who attacked a San Diego mosque obsessed about Muslims, Jews, women, Black people, gay people, trans people, immigrants, and being short.

@samreich.bsky.social So, any plans to explain why you insinuated that trans women are all pedophiles in the @norollsbarred.bsky.social Blood on the Clocktower video? Or is your plan to stay mostly quiet about it like you did with the copaganda show?

@samreich.bsky.social So, any plans to explain why you insinuated that trans women are all pedophiles in the @norollsbarred.bsky.social Blood on the Clocktower video? Or is your plan to stay mostly quiet about it like you did with the copaganda show?

Ebola outbreaks today are a product of profound global inequalities and are caused most of all by the effects of colonial and now-ongoing-neocolonial economic violence. That should be front and center in journalistic coverage and epidemiologic discourse.

For all my love of Williams' earlier scores, i never even knew her name until now.

Bluntly, the current patriarchal order has made it explicit that it would welcome the annihilation of humanity before the annihilation of the order.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

This. I don’t know how to explain to people that in a moment like this you need the *best* people you can find, not the most tepid bowls of oatmeal who will do fundamentally nothing to turn the tide.

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

"do you think the government should be able to override a minor, their parents, and their doctors for gender-affirming care" buddy I think the parents shouldn't even need to get on board if a teenager wants to transition, we are Not The Same

[mind expanding to galaxy size] we should have estrogen and testosterone at the supermarket next to ibuprofen, and they should be manufactured by the state

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

I’m so tired of politicians telling us that we, the people have the power to change government but then not fulfilling their part of the basic premise, which is acting on our behalf. The whole point is that they’re supposed to pitch ideas on how to make things happen and we give them power to do so

transphobes should kill themselves and save us the bullets

sorry if i get banned again if i do it confirms that the mods are transphobic shitheads

I've chased down citations in languages I don't speak for podcast episodes like what are we doing here lol I get the science papers operate differently from humanities papers in that you can do a collaboration where you just straight up aren't doing part of the work Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Black people do more prison time than this for weed

They're charging right ahead with making Trump the official head of American Christianity aren't they

variety.com/2026/film/fe... “…I believe that those who are drawing up the so-called blacklists will actually be exposed, and they will be the ones suffering the so-called consequences, at least on a public and social level. And this is a major change.”

It's like they got together to try to find a policy designed specifically to please absolutely no one.

Fire season is going to be horrific because "America first"

completely absurd that this is not always treated as a serious crime, there’s no functional difference between it and someone taking money out of the cash register at work except that one is committed by the boss class

this is an anti-constitutional event. just so we're all clear

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

The Onion should do a satire with a good outcome just to see if they can manifest it.