KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

I've always believed movies split into two ("to be continued") are terrible. It's an excuse to get sloppy on editing in order to milk something for more cash, that's all.

#Minnesota Honestly, I assume every masked "ICE" "agent" out there is doing sex crimes. There's literally no other reason to hide their identities.

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin. There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. By @megomatz.bsky.social

this, all day right now (unmute, it’s a bop)

I didnt realize that CA pulled the trigger mechanism out of Prop 50, which means itll go forward even if the Texas maps stay struck down. Absolutely hilarious. Republicans have on one to blame for this but themselves.

It's already mid-November and there still isn't snow on the ground. ☹️ #Minnesota

Tried to buy a Google Play gift card for my dad to use to pay for a couple little game apps but there was an error and now it'll take weeks for Google to address it. Great.

This is a good thread because it goes beyond "get a lawyer" and into "here's the sort of lawyer you need and how to find them."

No Rapist Left Behind

So their plan is to get a fake drug (or real drug with fake effects) approved and contract to supply city/state police and drain taxpayer money, I suppose? 🤔

👇 Note: There are probably state differences with the vaccine availability right now. e.g. Minnesota has pretty broad access for COVID vaccines in terms of who can get them, while red states probably limit the vax.

US House overwhelmingly votes to force release of Epstein files minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/18/r...

Lots of advice in the replies 👇

And now MBS is getting the blood-red carpet treatment to the White House. Vile and disgusting. Absolute thugs rule us.

Federal agents from ICE, DEA and the FBI raided a St. Paul paper distributor Tuesday morning. Hundreds of community members responded in protest, clashing with officers. At least two people were detained by authorities, according to a witness.

You can't convince me that that this isn't a war on women. Not when miscarrying can potentially cause a longer sentence than forcibly impregnating someone against their will does.

PLEASE DO

#China: RSF is sounding the alarm over the disappearance of Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, who was reportedly transferred by the Chinese regime to an undisclosed facility and denied access to family. The international community must increase pressure on Beijing and demand her immediate release.

I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization

Oh fuck this

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Men, shut the fuck up.

In one of my astrophoto groups, a guy posted a photo that shows some non-celestial stuff in it and someone said it’s satellite constellations and another person said that astronomers really hate those and several men have weighed in to say actually astronomers think they’re fine Me: WE DO NOT 🔭

“Marketed for kids 3-12, Kumma gave step-by-step instructions on a common “knot for beginners” who want to tie up their partner. Another time, the AI explored the idea of introducing spanking into a sexually-charged teacher-student dynamic, which is obviously ghoulishly inappropriate for young kids”

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I need white women to be clear that men of color who perpetrate sexual misconduct against women are more likely to target women of color because the way white supremacy is setup, it’s not nearly as safe for them to target white women

NOT COOL

I’m gonna disagree with this one. What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why. We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority. By @andykroll.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2023)

Is this the worst time to be alive for the “words mean things” community?

When he was appointed president of Harvard, we student activists brought this up as an objection to him and were told we just didn’t understand economics

THE LAST THREE WORDS----

Remember, corporate shareholders always want to reduce overhead to increase profits. Biggest overhead = employees. Replacing with AI, laying off, & hiring cheap AI trainers is the short-term profit. The real 2025-26 US jobs report will beb much worse than the height of COVID lockdown.

Clark's family joined activists and other community members just blocks from where the shooting took place a decade ago. A volunteer effort called The Reinvestigation Workgroup, which co-hosted the event, said it is working to clear Clark’s name and get police accountability for his death.

Hate and fear are both highly lucrative. See: Facebook, Youtube, Spotify, etc. etc.

Wow

ICE Ads On Spotify? NYC Comptroller Says The Platform Has Explaining To Do. www.huffpost.com/entry/spotif...

If you weren’t clear on why any restrictions to medical abortion come from bad intentions - they are intended to control people and block access to abortion - the people who want to offer/force counseling on patients before they can access medical abortion also want to shoot people who get abortions

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social just passed away. What a heartbreaking loss. And a reminder of how important Teen Vogue was.

Good morning! 🪶

Finally got my COVID shot last week because my health insurance is weird about it, but at least it's covered, which is going to depend on state mandates/guidelines/laws. Blue states have been trying to broaden access and insurance coverage of the vax while red states do the opposite.

FYI Minnesotans who use public transit #Minnesota #Minneapolis

I am irrationally stupid levels of emotional about this news item www.them.us/story/pope-l...