The best defense is an indiscriminate offense

It’s true. We appear to be rushing head-long & straight into it.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

"Trump is sending your children and spouses to die while dining in his golden palace" is the message I'd like to hear every elected Dem say repeatedly.

Pokemon has released a 30th anniversary logo for every single Pokemon. Quote with your favourite! My spooky boy Chandelure www.serebii.net/pokemon30/#a...

we’ve invented the Power Vacuum from the landmark book Don’t Invent the Power Vaccum

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

These attacks are illegal, insane, and immoral. The power to declare war lies with Congress and they must act to block this immediately.

This really is it. Start calling for impeachment and talk of nothing else.

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

Learning should change you and yes, that’s what they are afraid of.

🎵Beans for your breakfast, beans for your lunch, beans for your suppertime. Judge, she had boiled beans, stewed beans, soup beans, fried beans. Beans rain or shine! 🎵 youtu.be/vBbl53b0AD0?...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Solidarity with my academic staff comrades ✊, but the public provost candidate talk might not be the place for a sprawling 15-minute diatribe that ends with a demand that they set up a meeting with you on day 1.

The largest categorial of American "bike lanes" are little more than lines of paint at the edges of deadly roads — and that lack of quality infrastructure is keeping many would-be riders out of the saddle, a new study confirms.

Guys being Dudes

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

🚨HUGE NEWS: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos just now in a speech at the beginning of the Assembly floor session: “I will not be running for re-election in November.”

Rubio: Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy The noble legacy in question

But it only happens if we make it happen, which will take sweeping away the current obstacles to justice, including structural ones like SCOTUS, pardon power, the filibuster, the cowardice of democratic leadership, and more. It's possible, but we'll have to build so much political will ...

They definitely will not return/restart these programs, and they'll use "the continuing uncertainty" as their reason despite the fact that many wanted to end these programs anyway and the GoP gave them the excuse to do so. /1

I would be more joyous in hearing of the Department of Education's capitulation on this particular front, except that my own state system's self-inflicted injury on this topic pre-dated the actions of the current DoE leadership by more than a year, and still stands. www.wpr.org/education/uw...

Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties

Yup.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The Moon and Mercury

Sum of All Fears for so many reasons, but I'm pretty sure even a dirty nuke would have knocked out the cellphone towers

Se7en Muppets

I am fully on the skeptical but hopeful side of ML technologies. No, you should not trust the results from Grok, ChatGPT, etc., but there are many (and growing) case studies where ML can have a serious, positive impact.

This looks like a Mclusky album cover. 10/10 would listen

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Old North Church, Boston

Somewhere, in the vast depths of the abyss, there's a worm that lives on the corpse of a dead blue whale, consuming the oil that leaches from its bones. It's name is Osedax mucofloris, the bone-eating zombie snot flower worm. It will never see this video. Envy it.

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

I can confirm this is the third observer being targeted and picked up by fascist foot troops that I have heard of personally in the last two hours

When the Wisconsin GOP forced Act 10 through state government, ending collective bargaining for state employees, Jackson showed up to support us while national Dems stayed silent. I will never forget either of these decisions. RIP to the legend.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

A giant loss: Robert Duvall is gone. An extraordinary artist who was fluent in every dialect of film acting, from ice-cold underplayer (The Godfather) to expert naturalist (Tender Mercies, The Apostle) to balls-to-the-wall maniac (Apocalypse Now). One of our all-timers. Plunge into that filmography.

This just the plot of Dune, right?