So the department of education is rejecting income-driven student loan repayment plan applications based on, among other things, applicants having asked to pay the lowest possible monthly amount. Which is *Literally What IDR Is For.* "We can't help you." "Why not?" "Because you asked for help. 🤷🏼‍♂️"

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week. How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help. Give what you can. Tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

Canada celebrates The Rapture in October

Lolololol lololol

Hahahahaha

Y'all...world health agencies are telling their citizens to ignore health policy from the US www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM8vahJT/

MedTok has quite a bit to say this morning and it's worth a listen www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM8WN6sx/

Critical thinking atrophies

I have bday dinner reservations tonight. Really hope the rapture doesn't cause any issues.

This one took me out!!! 😂😂😂😂

“This questionable statement reflects a widespread myth in the wellness community concerning an extremely common gene mutation called MTHFR” MOTHERFUCKER! The mutation is called what?

Ummm www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMevCVTN/

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A cybertruck for your face

She said furry! Drink!

Brb. Going to go back in time and try to explain this to people in 2002.

Am I to understand that two former dope boys from Virginia who are now doing the work of the Lord and keeping real rap alive are performing in St Peter’s Square ?

There are now 5 HBCUs on lockdown, also a middle and high school in Boulder, and (what seems to be a fake) bomb threat against the DNC. The VOT Chapter at Hampton is safe, but I feel so terrible for all the students dealing with this today.

I've been saying this since before the election: the data is going to disappear. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6wUVh8c/

Meanwhile, Mensa co-chair Brian Kilmeade asks, "how are we going to remove DEI from blue state schools without a Department of Education"? www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

more than a decade of public scholarship has taught me that the moments when it's most tempting to react strongly and quickly are the ones when it's most useful to step back, seek context, and force yourself to think slowly. i don't always follow it, but those are my guidelines for myself.

Goddamn it!

nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

all right, so that ice video that’s going around is from June. I have blocked all of the accounts, posting these out of context videos as I find them, but this is becoming a major problem on this platform. accounts are posing as sources and then posting out of context videos almost constantly now.

the leading organization fighting gun violence now offering training for how to shoot a gun seems like…a pretty noteworthy pivot. (in the video the executive director calls this a NEW program, separate from past “gun safety” efforts.)

Someone tell these SV fanboys that this pedantic, paternalistic tsk-tsking doesn't work anymore. It's such a tired old linguistic trick to demean any discussion about equity.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

The millionaire CEO who stole a hat from a child at the US Open is, ultimately, indicative of the whole ruling class. This is what we’re up against, a small number of people and a system that will gladly and unapologetically steal from children and from all of us. www.jphilll.com/p/who-steals...

Reporter: there's a school shooting problem in america Trump: sure but there are thousands of schools where there are no shootings

some other asshole: we need to control the sky

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Finding people online who scold you for cursing in 2025 must be what it was like to see wild passenger pigeons in the 1890s.

It's honestly amazing how stupid the end of civilization is turning out to be www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6qok1sS/

Confirming: Katherine Wells, head of Lubbock Public Health, told me the CDC was under the gag order when measles was first confirmed, so she had to turn to publicly available literature to make a cross-county containment plan: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

The Supreme Court could give immigration agents broad power to stop and question Latinos

I also think this is an inevitable result of the media-driven campaign to demonize, target and harass a minority (trans people) having succeeded; it has created an appetite for blood and many of the most eager participants are the same people.

the entire UK media, with a couple of exceptions, seems to have decided that the people *literally calling for refugees to be burnt out* are the good guys. it is shockingly evil.

ICYMI, my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, which among other things imagines how the cuisine of an extradimensional diaspora in Calcutta might develop, is out in S. Asia as a paperback, in N. America as a limited ed hardcover, & the world as en ebook:

Is it me or are things escalating quickly?

Remodeling your restaurant chain is a crime now apparently.

The assault on children with disabilities has started. Here's what they are doing in TN. FL is going to eliminate cert of completion for all students with IEPs or 504s. They want to segregate all kids with disabilities now. Guess which industry is in need of employees? www.tiktok.com/t/ZT64UJnUB/

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

Are you college educated? Have a good resume with experience? Well the gov said your SOL so get to pickin'

Peri insomnia is wild. Why am I still up???