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guys I think this is going pretty well bsky.app/profile/acyn...
You should talk more about the things you love. Especially online.
Sincerely, I wonder if we need a version of the “school bus and/or bicycle” pitch for these communities that cloaks it in 80s-tinted nostalgia. Like if these (overwhelmingly white) families want to “go back” to raw milk, then at least see if they’ll take back school buses to remedy this nonsense.
this is the ur- falsehood of our political era and everything from "schools shouldn't have locked down during covid" to "trans women in sports is a national crisis" are downstream of it and the through line of all of them is national media's willfull ignorance and complicity
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
I complain about media outlets all the time, so credit where it's due to @wsj.com for this chart which says more than a thousand words could. There's no dancing around it, no explaining it away, there's just the ugly truth. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
70 new movies just got added to HBO Max today. See the full list... discussingfilm.net/2025/08/23/n...
Whomst? I’m sorry but every time any “YouTuber” or “streamer” is mentioned I turn into Lucille Bluth
How can the U.S. Open crowd watch Sinner do this to another human being and not try to intervene. Monsters
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Record-breaking levels of corruption
"The trading debut was most likely the biggest financial success for the president's family since the inauguration" is a very bad way for a journalist to describe the pathological corruption exclusive to this specific family.
Leaving no stone unturned when it comes to making life in America harder and more expensive, Tr*mp is now working to drive up the already obscene price of prescription drugs! And he couldn’t care less who will suffer because of it. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/n...
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We don’t need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Thank you Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson for marching with me in Boston this Labor Day. Let’s show Donald Trump and the rest of the country that workers won’t back down in the face of his attacks.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
as, you know, a historian, I don’t love appeals to Britain’s humanitarian past: but this is absolutely the time a Labour politician should be wheeling out Britain’s “proud history of welcoming people in need” or whatever
Can someone please urgently find Farage’s paint thinners and remove them from Starmer’s and Labour’s proximity? Absolutely noxious fumes over there these days
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Co-sign this.
“RIP to that one rich young ruler. But I’m built different. Richer & better, even. And when the Jesus experts said I shouldn’t be rich, I funded a cadre of better “Jesus experts” that told me actually Jesus never meant any of that. Now I sleep soundly snuggling my piles of money.”
If he had a spine he would say "why would she be worried, please explain to me exactly what you are implying. Say it out loud, you ghouls"
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
A vast gulf exists between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations and rightwing propaganda about his omnipotence on the one hand - and the realities of a complex modern state and society on the other. And in that space, politics continues, possibilities to resist and push back very much still exist.
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
It is simply astonishing the degree to which open racism and bigotry have become normalized. This was the kind of thing that only used to get asked on neo-Nazi podcasts, now it's part of the 'respectable' media discourse.
I would love to find some more of these cargobikes available in the US!
Umpiring youth baseball starting when I was 14. $14 per 90 min game. With unpaid breaks, it averaged out to $8-$9/hr.
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
A DOGE whistleblower revealed that employees uploaded a Social Security database—containing full names, dates of birth, and addresses of hundreds of millions of Americans— to a cloud server without “independent security or oversight," creating “enormous vulnerabilities" to hackers. trib.al/FDTWG43
Russian forces (official, quasi-official, and otherwise) have been conducting non-kinetic and semi-kinetic warfare against Europe and the US for some time now, and it's largely been invisible to most.
I mean, whom amongst us hasn't bought a church for someone, developed a secret crush, attempted to commit a murder, then written a book about the experience.
It wasn't just America's defeats overseas that created the reactionary movement it was the psychological shock of the possibility of white supremacy being destroyed by the people they'd ruled over for hundreds of years Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I think this is actually very wrong in a very, very important way which is that the thing that actually drove all of these people completely over the edge were the two Black Lives Matter uprisings in 2014 and 2020 Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
You don’t have to believe in a place to send people there… for example Trump can go to hell
lol- for the love of cycling and country, let’s obliterate the schoolyard rack forever. Bad design is bad design.
with the benefit of hindsight these remain the most insulting things they expected us to buy into
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
Apparently “leading” lawyers and “experts” say that the Good Friday Agreement is no obstacle to UK leaving ECHR. Me, being neither, merely sets out what the Good Friday Agreement expressly says. davidallengreen.com/2023/07/why-...
Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
Never mind Storrow Drive, maybe Packards Corner needs some warning signs www.universalhub.com/2025/never-m... #Boston #Allston #MBTA
Bc what I want, after a long day of dealing with other people’s tedious bullshit, is some more tedious complication to navigate my own house. 😒🙄🤡
Whole statement felt like the Bob Odenkirk character on ITYSL making stuff up
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Stories like this anger me so deeply — the arson of American ideals & the pointless & despicable cruelty are often too much to bear. May the ghouls who enabled this injustice never know a moment’s peace the rest of their lives.
A few months ago (he played around with extensions for awhile 🙄)
Nobody likes an ultra processed food like a wellness grifter telling us the dangers of ultra processed foods. I'm sorry but your protein powder, and vital greens, and whatever the fuck bloom is did not come out of the earth looking like that.
This... 👇🏾
Media has been hollowed out from the bottom and a lot of that was beat reporting and grassroots stuff. The top is left without much to support it. There are about a fifth as many reporters per capita compared to 25 years ago.
Donald Trump believes public health cost him in 2020. He wanted to move past the pandemic quickly. But the experts kept pushing back. Kennedy is a man whose career depends on attacking and undermining public health. Their alliance is political.
This is a wonderful essay on how humility helps fuel curiosity which leads to expertise.
“there is nothing cinematic about the dystopia. It's plain and dull and mostly happening on our precious screens... This country and its social contract can fall apart with a quickness, and when it does, remember: There's no one coming to the rescue.”
“One of the enduring lessons of Katrina was the knowledge that the country could, at the drop of a hat or the bursting of a storm cloud, convince itself that it bore no responsibility to large swathes of its population”
A draw would have been a fair result, but not much you can do about a free kick like that good lord
It's very annoying to lose like that. Szoboszlai probably scores that 1 in 100 tries.
Liverpool 1 (0.3)-(0.4) 0 Arsenal It feels like this is going to have narrative overload and lots of second guessing but I don't think I have any of that here. Ran out a bit of energy at the end but on balance a bit better and I leave feeling positive about the team.
"Why wouldn't you want the President of the United States to flood the streets of your city with soldiers to very temporarily and completely unsustainably suppress all human activity, including crime? I am a very serious journalist."
Expected Goals today Liverpool 0.45 Arsenal 0.55. Liverpool have scored four goals in a week from an xG of 1.14
It took a piece of brilliance to win an otherwise pretty even game. Unstoppable free kick. I just think after what was a solid enough first half, we didn't really push on. Second half performance not as good, and maybe we left it too long to make changes. Not a fatal blow, but a blow all the same
Quit, quit, quit, quit
Great passage from Ødegaard to Madueke and almost connecting with Gyökeres. Maybe some hope for stoppage time
Well, shit
Not a coincidence that our first carry into/between defenders in quite a while was from Eze. #Arsenal
Wonder if anyone at the Times feels they owe Claudine Gay an apology yet, no I’m not going to stop bringing this up
Martin Odegaard and Ebere Eze readying to come on for Arsenal.
"Fun really is the name of the game for Trump & co. It’s fun for them to see a majority-Democratic city like DC live in fear of violence/deportation, to flood the trains/buses with armed law enforcement just because they can, to unleash troops who understand that they will not be held accountable."
“I keep my kids dumb and pliable for fascism, and I’m proud of it!”
Kristi Noem is on TV to lie about DC and LA to get everyone to calm down while they quietly stuff fascism down our throats. Schumer and Jeffries are both staying quiet and—critically—pressuring the other Senators and Reps to stay quiet.
I am absolutely a broken record but: Trumpers are well on their way of convincing a majority of the public that everything is normal and fine. And that is because @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are not out in public shouting about the occupations of DC and LA.
Martinelli throwing his hands up wanting the pass from Madueke is rich as hell
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Pretty cautious stuff from both teams, I think we've had a bit more threat than them. Noni Madueke probably our most dangerous player in the first 45, but there's barely any service for Gyokeres and Martinelli has been poor on the other side. Feels like a game that Eze could impact significantly.
1. Kamala Harris did not lose the election because of things she said. She lost because of things Donald Trump said she said.
Madueke has looked threatening but Martinelli has singularly failed to take on one of Liverpool's weak points. Chance to play in Gyokeres resulted in head down running the ball out of play, several wrong decisions on the ball & then Arsenal not helping by ignoring the Brazilian's runs in behind.
Keep seeing this very photogenic 60s(?)-era Lambretta scooter on walks w the dog. This morning I finally yielded to the urge to snap a couple pics. Feels like it belongs zipping around Rome in a Fellini film.
"In short, if Trump and Kennedy are going to divide the country over public health, Democrats should polarize the living heck out of this debate as well—but on *their* terms." YES
Martinelli runs a 4v4 counter and neither passes nor shoots. Quite sick of that. #Arsenal
FFS, we have no luck at all with injuries
At a genuine loss for words with all these Arsenal players getting hurt three matches into the season. Inexplicably bad luck.
Jesus, Saliba is out now too?! Injury gods have no mercy for Arsenal
In the same depressing way that many people view the physical world as a mere backdrop for their digital content (credit Bo Burnham), companies increasingly view their primary role as collecting data rather than delivering goods or services.
i don’t want to be Loyal. i don’t want to be Enrolled. i’m trying to go to the store
feeling like an alien lately because i’m not interested in Points. i’m sick of being told to Earn Points. leave me alone
Nbd, there are several lines of encouraging discussion happening. And I appreciate you sharing. I just need her and the do-nothing state leg to get in gear
Pediatric only. She and the state legislature have not taken any real action to fix the state law that only allows practitioners to administer vax if authorized by federal health bodies (FDA & CDC). It’s why we’re now only one of like two states where cvs won’t let us schedule shots.