the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

I'm going to become a money influencer and teach people how to save by never going anywhere or doing anything. It'll be called going tree mode

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here. They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.

For decades now a thing that has always baffled me in politics is how “people who commit domestic violence should not be allowed to be police officers” is somehow an outrageous, controversial opinion that transcends party in its very absurdity as opposed to being the easiest slam dunk position ever

Never yet been proven wrong: If ppl start a relationship knowing they’re poly and there’s multiple partners involved from the beginning; healthy, normal if one person decides they want to be poly after years of monogamy w one person: they should just break up

My comments with @texastribune.org www.texastribune.org/2026/03/26/t...

March 26, 375 CE: Honoria, a 30-year-old mom is buried in the city of Salona (Croatia). She is buried in the sarcophagus with her parvula ("little girl") who died earlier—likely after childbirth (CIL III, 9506). mappola.eu/index.php/20... 0.5-2% of Roman women died in childbirth (versus 0.01 today).

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Which is essentially a bill that would banish trans people from the state, not unlike the fines & restrictions placed on free people of color prior to emancipation. A forced removal bill operating under the guise of “public safety.”

The VOTER Act of 2009 would have created a national vote-by-mail option, as well as early voting, same-day and online voter registration, recount standards etc. The Dem-controlled House did not send it to the Senate in 2009, the year that Dems had filibuster-proof windows of 60 seats to vote on it.

if you called these people stupid over the last 10 years you would get lectured about how they’re little babies with zero agency that we need to bow down to to win over because wokeness hurt their feelings

genuinely why does anyone report anything he says at all as if it means anything still

The communists took power in a country ruled by one of the worst dictators in the hemisphere, seized the property of people who ran literal slave plantations, and increased life expectancy, literacy, education, health outcomes, and standards of living for one of the poorest countries in the world

This was all it was ever about. No one in power ever gave a single fuck about the people of Cuba or their rights or freedom. All we did for 60+ years was starve, immiserate, and kill its people so we could hand the whole country back over to the rich gusano pigs who enslaved them in the first place

I think we just need to make this shit mandatory.

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

At the end of the day it doesn't matter whether you're doing the work for the regime out of loyalty or fear. What matters is what you do, which is the same.

Exactly. Police and fire departments don't make money. Roads don't make money. They are services. They provide things people need. This isn't hard.

this is the most self-inflicted wound in the long and storied history of Trump administration fuckups and unfortunately as per usual they have managed to hurt everyone else at the same time the world will pay, for years, for the hubris of the stupidest and most evil people alive

it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen!

We’re very excited about our hookworm anemia vaccine and hope it becomes the second licensed human parasitic disease vaccine after malaria and the first human parasitic worm vaccine blogs.bcm.edu/2026/03/19/f...

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

but we have to kill cancer research

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in Nature Climate Change, establishing the core principles of a post-growth climate mitigation scenario that can achieve rapid decarbonization and high well-being. nature.com/articles/s41...

ok but that's just gorillaz

Nobody: Nobody: Nobody: Me: WHERE MY IN FLIGHT TURKEY VULTURE FANS AT!? 🪶

Omelas-level cruelty as pretty much the entire world watches this guy literally – yes literally, using the word correctly here – starves an entire country to death for no apparent reason other than “communism bad” and does absolutely nothing. One of history’s greatest war crimes is page 7 news.

The fact that so many people working in media truly believe that medical institutions are biased *in favor* of trans people is going to make my head explode

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

"Young men are all right wing now!" Erm, no. 30% of young men (18-24) would vote Green, whilst just 12% would vote Reform. www.instagram.com/p/DUn9esviFX_/

President Xi if you have a big microscope ….

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

Don't know why Birth Rates discourse is back On Here, but if the global population dropped by 50 PERCENT we would only be setting the clock back to the MID-1970s, when Soylent Green came out as an overpopulation panic movie, a so I think we can tolerate some marginal dips in population growth.

Feels like every single Democratic official should be loudly pointing out that the president is a dementia-ravaged thug who needs to be impeached and removed from office, even if just to cover their own asses for when he inevitably tries to nuke the Oscar ceremony or whatever.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

pressuring or forcing women into pregnancy is not a viable solution for any hypothetical problem no matter how dire. it is bad for women, and bad for the children they did not want to have. it is bad for a society to be built this way

my take on birth rate discourse: If the only way our species can keep going is by forcing the half of the population born with Unlucky Organs into reproductive slavery, we should go extinct, and good riddance

like okay what if when they have the choice most people just want one or two kids. an some don’t want kids at all. like then what. Will (somehow) pressuring the former into having more kids, the latter into having kids be /GOOD/ for kids? kids arent dumb. They can tell when they werent wanted

One more: when ppl say they want increased birth rates they obviously don’t care abt like. The toll pregnancy takes on women. But they also don’t care about the mental or physical health of children who grow up with parents who did not want them or did not want as many of Them.

I simply think that even in a post scarcity society the number of children most women want to have is lower than it has been for most of human history. When they had no choice.

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

Both anti-vax and anti-trans bullshit “science” exist to validate the anxieties of the worst parents rights fascists who seek total control of their children whom they see as property. So of course they’re connected

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes. #Archaeology www.science.org/content/arti...

The fact that universities even allow classes like “The Biological Basis of Behavior” to exist is what continues this shit.