Can we normalize lock picks?

It is staggering to read about history and try and understand the enormity of child death , even among the most privileged classes . it genuinely shocks and horrifies me every time I read something like this .

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you

If the NIH and HHS were under any other prior President (Dem or GOP), we’d see a rapid shift of funding to leverage this. But the politicization (and gutting) of these agencies means it won’t happen—and so many people will die unnecessarily as a result.

12% of Americans will lose access to food resources when SNAP benefits expire in 8 days

MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children. Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat. We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

If there is any silver lining to this whole foul era, I hope it at least persuades progressives that this strain of thought that views restricting trade & immigration as some kind of boon to the working class has always been dumb and ugly.

you mean to tell me there's a guy in Illinois running specifically on defending trans rights and his last name is "BLAHA"??? chat do you think he knows?

You can change your sex. trans women are biological women

A racist strain runs thru much of what the nyt does today, like this evidence-free “cartel strikes” propaganda.

worth reiterating again that “the executive can raise and spend money however he likes” has been anathema even under monarchies for centuries we’re not rolling back anything in US history here, we’re rolling back the English Civil War

Here at Baron H Auto the credit must flow

mgmt should sue

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The fact that these 2 things can be happening at the same time demonstrates the contempt the ruling class has for the people

Love you forever queen

"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters" hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Personally I think a really good reason for you to stop going to Thanksgiving with any MAGA relatives you may have is because you really cannot trust them not to sexually abuse your children

"When doctors can come between us and our transition, our rights are in their hands." "[F]ree access to trans medicine should be expanded." "Everyone, no matter where they live, or what hormones they need to live with dignity, should have their medicine freely available." #USA #Healthcare

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

one thing I like about zohrans messaging is how he just constantly hammers home “corruption” re: cuomo. just as constant as his positive message of NYC affordability.

President Xi I am ready and willing to manage the big microscopes at any time . I’ll learn mandarin.

Some of the best labs in the world working on the transmission and treatment of malaria - understanding the spread of drug resistance and how the mosquitoes transmit the parasite - are at HSPH . this is the most pro-malaria administration in American history and it isn’t close

so awesome that as long as you’re right wing and Christian you can do whatever but transsexuals get demonized for the exact same medical treatment by the exact same newspaper

The mice could be used to better understand and treat heavy menstrual bleeding, and study reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis. https://scim.ag/473mwRw

everyone who talks in an essentialist way abt “how men are” meaning we all have to accept sexual assault, misogyny, Nazi tattoo politicians etc hates men more than the most extreme blue haired tumblr feminist could possibly imagine

failed state

it's been an open secret that some (def not all) anti-trans activists seem driven by trans feelings that they themselves possess but are trying to suppress. but this right here it's completely batshit!

How did Romans perceive time? How did doctors like Galen keep time? Interesting book from P.N. Singer on the devices, measurement, and application of philosophies of time. Not a ton new here but the time and ancient medicine chapter looks very intriguing. books.google.com/books/about/... 🕰️

You can change your sex

importantly, it's not just "projection" or "deflection" they see the kind of bodily autonomy that's foundational to queer liberation as deeply disruptive to their desired social order (grown men raping kids) in a very real way, body rights and sexual self-determination *will* end their way of life

Say what you will about zoomers being duped last November, I take it as an enormously positive sign that a years-long effort to infiltrate basically every new media avenue available to dump right wing brainrot into young minds has completely and totally collapsed in 9 months

this is a lot of words to say HE’S REINVENTING SHIP MONEY BECAUSE HE THINKS HE’S CHARLES I STUART

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past. going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...

I’ll say it every damn day they killed Charles I for less than this

Running for mayor of orc city with the promise of meat on every menu

just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

LFGGGGGGGGGGGG

when they say viewpoint diversity they mean affirmative action for conservatives

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

Far right religious think tanks realized transphobia was a wedge issue that the h could use to infiltrate the UK and it worked

It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.

Ok. How did we get to this moment?

when markey faced a primary challenger last time I limped to the polling booth despite being hit by a car mere days ago this time I will be there no matter what we can’t let a nasty transphobe take MA from us

not gonna QT that one post of "the left is seething about how normies are out and against ICE" but i will say that to any extent this exists it's largely from well earned resentment from libs scolding about how abolish ICE was stupid and irresponsible. getting yelled at for being right 'too early'

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”