I wrote about the murder of Renee Nicole Good and the deadly strategy, as Steve Bannon once called it, of flooding the zone with shit. New Racket. theracket.news/p/everything...

Dear NYT, ICE just shot a mom. You can spell out the expletives. Thanks.

No rest until justice.

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

Looking for a good antidote to Avi Loeb’s ET advocacy? This excellent blogpost, in the spirit of Sagan’s Baloney Detection, offers rebuttals to the most pervasive and pernicious arguments you might find swirling around this topic. tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Ok, these are just names of bars in the Tenderloin

lol. lmao, even.

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Suck it, RFK Jr! I may have had to go to Connecticut, and I may have had to affirm having a condition that puts me at “high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus” which, if anyone asks, is “being alive”. In spite of the attempts of the antivax establishment to stop me, they could not!

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim. He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease. He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States. And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

It is instructive how apoplectic certain center-right commentators are about Mamdani's proposed rent control freeze in New York. "Doesn't he know that this will not lower the price of housing?" But when I inquire if they know the details of how NYC rent control, invariably they do not. (1/n)

What do these countries have in common? * Belarus * Brazil * China * Egypt * Eritrea * Libya * Mali * Mongolia * Myanmar * North Korea * Poland * Russia * Rwanda * Turkmenistan * United States * Vietnam * Zimbabwe

“This is not normal.” That is for sure. That bill sure is not normal

TIL "capitalism" was a term of ridicule coined by socialists. An early use of that English term (1863) was from a German-American educator who started the first kindergarten in Boston after being driven out of a suburb of San Antonio and later Houston in 1856 for advocating for abolitionism.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

It is horrifying that the skills practiced in school lockdown drills are now being used in response to reports of ICE activity in the area.

Cuomo already sounds defeated by Trump's authoritarianism. I will stand up for our city of immigrants because I'm not funded by the very same MAGA billionaires who put Trump back in the White House.

Following the inspiration of @ohdearz.bsky.social @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social here’s the NASA fleet with the proposed budget cuts. Red X’s will be fully defunded, green X’s will lose all NASA funding but have other funding sources, and exclamation point means >50% cuts

That's the point. You can't have serfdom if you have good or safe jobs. And you can't have lords without serfs.

Hey @psychologytoday.com! I found a bunch of your "verified therapists" promoting outright snake oil and pseudoscience in their public blogs. What is your review/vetting process for them? How are you going to handle problems like this? I sent y'all a list of some examples of this.

Trump administration has suspended an air-quality monitoring program at national parks across the country. The program collects data on levels of harmful air pollutants, including ozone and particulate matter, at the 63 national parks in the USA.

Are yall following this Newark situation? Apparently staff layoffs in Philly led to the screens going blank in towers at Newark on Monday which freaked controllers out so they took trauma leave so as not to kill anyone in their watch & now not enough controllers. DO NOT FLY FROM NEWARK. Seriously.

SCIENTISTS: The proposed Schedule F is out. It has potential to undermine or destroy merit-based science. Rules/regulations have the force of law. This rule may put peer review in the hands of political appointees. Make your public comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u... Is it just a coincidence that this trend began when public school funding cuts started to take serious hold?

Is it morally unethical to respond to scam texts with insults, wild accusations, hyperbolic threats (“I will send demons after you”), and demands for money? I feel like this is a place I can have fun letting out my anger, but what is the moral calculus of how far is too far?

Free Mahmoud Khalil!

Speak up!

I'm writing a piece for @iflscience.com on the latest Musk/Trump moves against science in the US: NOAA and FDA cancelling flu vaccines. If you have been affected by cuts in any agency or you have comments on how the mass firings might endanger people in the US, DM me. Happy to keep you anonymous

Another day, another opportunity to contact Gov. Hochul to ask her to respect academic freedom! 1-518-474-8390 | Office hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm Today I was on hold for a mere 15 minutes and talked to a staffer for an additional 10 minutes. It was clear that the staffer had heard from y'all prior!

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

If you didn’t know of someone for whom the cancellation of cancer treatment trials was a matter of life and death, now you do. Especially folks in GOP districts, call your representatives and tell them you want people like Helen to have a chance to live. Thank you. 🧪

Hochul is content to ignore her constituents (like me!) who ask for a chance to be heard. But we learned during the congestion pricing fight that if we make her political life uncomfortable, she might eventually modulate. Call her! 1-518-474-8390 | Office hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm

Time to demand answers. You can call Hochul at 1-518-474-8390 | Office hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm According to the Post, @cuny.edu chancellor, Felix Matos Rodriguez (Phone: 646.664.9100) and Chairman of the Board, William Thompson (Phone: 646.664-9050) supported this attack on academic freedom.

10% of the NSF staff fired. The Romans called killing 10% of the enemy “decimation”. They decimated the NSF.

Nothing to see here. Just the destruction of knowledge and careful study. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Ceding any rhetorical ground is not necessary. Right-wing critiques of “DEI” and “woke ideology” are simply in support of discrimination and marginalization. So, to first order, being “woke” and “having DEI” is the morally correct choice. If you disagree, you are supporting immorality.

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

Friends, I give you the inimitable Jenifer Lewis: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2ARQ22x/

Get out there and form community.

So ya see, the thing about Americans is that we are deeply selfish and individualistic and 90% of our population is incapable of admitting they’ve ever done anything wrong in their lives. So now half our country is demonically possessed while the other half argues about who botched the exorcism.

Don’t let up. Have you called your senators and congressperson to ask what they’re doing to resist the coup d’etat? Today is a good day to do it again.

Advance compliance is no good. Next step: compliance with evil generally is no good. Do not follow orders just because they are given. Stand up, fight back.

So many people are hoping that if they comply a little bit now, they will be in a position to resist big later, but that's not how it works You comply a little bit now and they move the goal posts and you comply a little bit more and they move the goal posts and eventually 10+ million people die

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

They do not like our history.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.