Adoption exists to solve adults’ problems and to make adults’ wishes come true. The welfare of children is merely incidental; their rights are never protected. 🥚

Lovely Boston sunset tonight! cc: @universalhub.com

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

JefBlue’s Celtics-painted ship N595JB finding her light on this late winter afternoon sun on the taxiway at Boston’s Logan Airport; operating as JetBlue flight 165 to Fort Myers, Florida, she was awaiting clearance to proceed to the departure runway. cc: @universalhub.com

Yesterday was Mooninite Panic Day. Help celebrate by contributing to Sean Stevens' GoFundMe - he's in the final stages of dying from cancer. If only for the lolz he brought to the world. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

At least 600 clergy came to MPLS in the freezing temps, dropping everything from their overwhelming jobs including like 100 rabbis to be there in solidarity. The Bible commands us to care for im/migrants at least 36 times, more than any other commandment. "Thou shalt not murder" is also a thing.

This is outstanding.

JFC it’s terrifying how bad it is out there & it’s inspiring that tons of people are stepping up to organize community safety.

The old constitutional order is gone, and we should be straightforward about that. It’s obvious that, whatever else is on the reconstruction agenda, ICE abolition must be included. For goodness’ sake, Bill Kristol is in favor of it. Can you really not get there? trib.al/I2YUL7P

Anyway, the mere existence of ICE (and of borders) is a human rights violation. People are meant to move around the world freely, and any restriction of that movement is immoral.

Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.

The #NYE2026 video wall operator in Times Square NYC managed to do the funniest thing ever to the “America250.org” video that ran after the ball drop: THEY REDACTED THE QUOTE ENGRAVED ON THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, blacking out the word “saved” in the phrase “saved the Union”!!! 🇺🇸🫡 Could not make it up!

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

“Given that we are all, every day, imbibing madness, how do we guard our souls?” Excellent piece in the NYT for a change: archive.is/bSCRz#select...

“Woke” never stood a chance with THIS President!

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs. Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

We already know, via actually-existing AI's predating *electricity*: bureaucracies and corporations allow people to carry out absolutely amoral decisions with absolutely no sense of blame or responsibility for the outcome.

Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable. You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I wish more people would enforce a boundary in response to anti-social behavior.

Coates directly addresses elite institutions that bend the knee to Donald Trump: “It's one of two things: you’re either cowards… or you’re with him.”

This is the time of year that makes me question why I remain in New England. (The answer is, mostly, the incredible network of friends I’ve developed. But I'll still try to get away for most of the next 50 days!)

The SNAP fight is actually a recapitulation of the entire purpose of the shutdown. There's a contingency fund, Trump is required to spend it, but he's not, usurping Congress's power of the purse, essentially so he can do it again with normal appropriations whenever he wants

Given Mr. Trump’s documented propensity to produce spectacular distractions from his true power moves, his surprise demolition of the entirety of the East Wing should be informed by the original purpose of the Wing’s construction: to hide construction of the Presidential Bunker🇺🇸

The Trump regime & its backers have telegraphed their every move so far– why would they stop now?

Such valuable resources here from a committed activist & thinker!

BlackRock's bitcoin ETF now manages nearly $100bn, making the asset manager the single largest known owner of bitcoin. The ETF now throws off nearly $250mn a year in fees for BlackRock. www.ft.com/content/0cc9...

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities. I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

In case anyone wasn’t clear what the issue here is, the man’s last name is MIRANDA.

Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas. Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.

I mean, I kind of get it! Acknowledging a present state of civil war is, uhhhhhhh... bracing??

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

How did Portland and Minneapolis start getting people to cycle more? Simple! They utilized modal filters and created neighborhood greenways. Not only prioritizing pedestrians and bikes but also reducing rat running on side streets. More cities need modal filters!

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Weird how “we should blow up the UN” isn’t considered encouraging political violence. 🤔

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

"this is 9/11 2, let the purge begin" (24 hours pass) "what a tragic case" (24 hours more) "are 'Labubus' making kids TRANS???"

you can use your last words to curse black and trans people and newspapers will be like "a true patriot, he always stood by what he believed was right"

a lot of normal people just think a case happens organically but there’s so much ground to be gained by informing the public that this is how their state governments spend their tax money

An incarcerated man sent a 71-page portfolio to the prosecutor who led his conviction. His long shot paid off.

Can’t believe what @voiceofamerica.bsky.social looks like nowadays! #dc #nationalguard #deployment #unconstitutional #police #state #policestate #Trump