We’re bribing Iran with hundreds of billions of dollars for an outcome that our intelligence community assesses Iran isn’t even going to agree to. Absolute clown show.

latest for Necessary Behavior! on THAT author and how her bigoted views have tarnished her legacy. you can read here: necessarybehavior.com/on-jk-rowling #jackswrites #harrypotter

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it is not polite to mention my exhaustive personal history of human rights abuses

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

Gift 🎁 link. FDA officials "have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a [HHS] spokesman...confirmed." "The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds, 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

epic win! now you can travel the world with your ANTI-WOKE passport. wait what? oil and jet fuel prices are HOW HIGH?????

"Clavicular’s movement lives in the vocabulary of “looksmaxxing,” “hardmaxxing,” and “ascending,” a lexicon born in incel-adjacent internet forums and now being pushed into the mainstream by TikTok, Kick, and algorithmic outrage." theintercept.com/2026/05/05/c...

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

Shelter in place security orders and NOTAMs now operating in Jalisco as the military carry out further ops.

Violent clashes erupted in parts of western Mexico on Sunday amid a military operation that led to the death of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, triggering widespread security concerns throughout the region. www.cbsnews.com/news/violenc...

“I could spend this essay demanding the federal government restore these databases. But I learned something during the AIDS epidemic… Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate. So let me propose what we can build while we wait.”

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An Israeli 'organised camp' in Rafah would use facial recognition as a 'sorting' tool to deter return, analyst warns https://aje.news/3t98ec

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

I feel like it is very hard to function on a daily basis if you think too hard about how many things in the US are completely falling apart and/or actively being destroyed right now, which is one upside to being recently laid off

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/

edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/u... This is harmful Conversion therapy is harmful Stop this awful practice now

If you're outraged, good. But don't stop there. Donate. Volunteer. Show up. Speak out. Allyship without action is just optics.

An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding. Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year. Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said Trump adviser Russell Vought. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down." (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @documented.net)

Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist

The richest country in the world can afford Medicaid. The richest country in the world can afford food assistance. There’s no reason for the cruel and dehumanizing cuts in this big bill. It’s fascism. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. It’s a cull to accelerate ethnic cleansing.

Trump once again raised his “controversial” (read: illegal) plot to widen the net of targets in his massive deportation scheme. “‘The Homegrowns Will Be Next,’ is one of the more chilling authoritarian phrases I have heard." https://trib.al/JPp1bU9

Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class

As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Mushroom Cloud Hopefully Nothing Major theonion.com/mushroo...

Latest for Necessary Behavior, and it’s a heavy one. Closed off Pride Month talking about Zionism and its intrinsic connection to pink-washing—and how it all serves an Islamophobic agenda. You can read at the link: necessarybehavior.com/the-israeli-... Thank you for your support! #jackswrites

It’s never too late to start masking again. Covid isn’t over. Measles is spreading rapidly. We’ve got anti-vaxxers in charge if public health. There’s a huge community of support here if you want to learn more about respirators. You won’t be the lone masker, I promise!

Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

"I had to write up 170 incidents in a little over a year, and I was struggling mightily with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. Since I wasn’t able to care for myself, I couldn’t take care of my team or the community’s library kids." 📚 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

and people say this website is dying

If you want to make America healthy again, start with Universal health & UBI Masks in healthcare Clean air & water Affordable housing & food Guaranteed education Paid time off Affordable child care When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent." www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

The hospital in Georgia didn’t “save a life” They had that chance when Adriana Smith sought medical care. They could have saved her & her fetus. What they did was carry out a medical experiment without consent. They failed her in life & then robbed her of dignity in death 🧵

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.