Luigi Mangione is setting unrealistic male beauty standards.... not every man can be so hot that the New York Times deems their face an existential threat to the societal status quo...

law enforcement does nothing about death and rape threats, rarely gives stalking victims restraining orders, but when someone snaps at their massive corporation insurance company in a single moment of justified rage it's jail...under these conditions do they not expect people to eventually just snap

Luigi got them shook.

‘A rapist can be in the family’: how Dominique Pelicot became one of the worst sexual predators in history

ICYMI: We directed $11 million to support food shelves and fight housing insecurity. All Minnesotans deserve a warm home and full table this holiday season.

Tokyo to introduce a 4-day work week in April 2025 to help working mothers and boost record-low fertility rates.

whatever you feel about this you have to admit it's rare for a radicalized man who's frustrated or angry and ready to choose violence to actually correctly identify the source of their suffering, instead of just blaming and killing women and minorities.....

#Exclusive: Peter Dutton's bid to politicise the #CSIRO's analysis of nuclear power is “lazy”, “absurd” and “undermines the scientific process”, a former energy director at the agency says

Gett an lode of theez badboyz

Spaghetti Nebula - Supernova Remnant

say what you want about Newsmax but they bring on the biggest sexual misconduct experts

Dallas Black Dance Theatre fired all of its dancers just days before the season was set to start because they attempted to unionize. On Sunday, the theater reached a $560k settlement with 10 retired dancers — and it agreed to write personal apologies to each one. thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/10/t...

NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Peter Dutton has said "we should have respect" for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, but pledged not to display them if he is elected Australia’s next prime minister, claiming they're "confusing" and “dividing” the country.

I wrote about who we’re allowed to kill without consequence. www.laura-bassett.com/p/vigilante-...

Saturn as seen from Titan, painting by Chesley Bonestell 1944

My wife (who has managed ERs for many years) was trying to keep her cool reading all the headlines about the CEO and asked when someone was going to write a story about all the violence caused by insurance denials that happen to nurses and staff and doctors because patients can't get to the CEO

Japanese government to populace: Go fuck yourselves.

The Royal Horse Guards, stationed at the Royal palaces in London, usually don't interact with the public but sometimes they make an exception.

Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳

##ArtAdventCalendar “Garden Queen” a big fluffy #breakoutdahlia . I love growing and painting dahlias. Breakout is always a charmer. #watercolor #watercolorpainting #ArtAdventCalendar

www.theroot.com/who-was-jord... This is absolutely heartbreaking & the lack of real consequences for the white male aggressor whose actions killed this young, unhoused man in need of basic services - is beyond f*d up.

Who else agrees? ✋🏽

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE #ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION. REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription. In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

violent anti-migrant rhetoric leads directly to actual violence. and of course the NYPD hasn’t caught the heinous criminals who did this. remind me who’s really dangerous in this city. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

yeremi colino, a teenager stabbed to death in NYC last night by a group of men after he told them he didn’t speak english, deserves as much attention as the healthcare CEO, if not more. let’s give it to him. www.amny.com/new-york/man...

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

The Flame Nebula Credit:NASA, ESA, and N. Da Rio

After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection infrastructure, Telegram has suddenly (ie following Durov's criminal charges in France) agreed to work with the Internet Watch Foundation to help stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). www.bbc.com/news/article...

NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula" Credit:NASA

Kendrick Lamar and SZA announce their joint tour ‘The Grand National Tour.’ Kicking off in April 2025.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has announced that it will stop publishing content on X from January 20th The organisation stated that it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda.”

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

The Hunter Biden story is a perfect encapsulation of what’s wrong with American media: Is it a story? Sure. But every newspaper in America devoting front page headlines to Hunter fucking Biden while Trump appoints a cabal of rapists, racists and con-men to positions of enormous power is MADNESS.

Yes

@chaniapp.bsky.social latest affirmation of the week. The depth of these affirmations hit hard. ✨💕

Victoria’s clubs give more money to themselves in guise of ‘community benefits’ for tax breaks

I’m quoted in this Snopes article as the source of the accurate claim that Hegseth published an article claiming sex with an unconscious woman isn’t rape. But Snopes describes me as “X User Judd Legum” I’m actually a journalist and reported this in my independent newsletter

Belgium committed to decriminalise sex work, following effective lobbying by sex workers organisation Utsopi & allies. Sex workers can now get actual labour contracts and social benefits. #SexWorkIsWork www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

No mother “accidentally” tells her son he’s a piece of shit when it comes to women.

Sex workers in Belgium are now entitled to health insurance, pensions, sick days, maternity leave, safety protections and formal employment contracts under a new law. This is the first law of its kind in the world.