"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
nature.com
I'm pretty sure the third guy is just an anagram of the first guy and will just *be* the first guy in a fake mustache
OldManLefty@jonbandit.bsky.social · 9mo agoThese are Kid Rock's "special guests for the TPUSA Super Bowl halftime annoyance: Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. I've been out of mainstream music for quite awhile, but I haven't heard of any of these "stars"
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 11mo agoutterly incapable of grace
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 11mo agoI'm not quite sure where to start
Ray Morimura (Japanese Artist, born 1948) "House in Tamugimata", 1999. Japanese Woodblock Print, 45 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 12mo agoHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs
Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources
The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with
Sophie Sherry@sophiesherry.bsky.social · last yr.During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System
The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.
wsj.com
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
I know we say cruelty is the point but I think fear is the point. They want everyone too afraid to stand up to them. I hate that I got worried for everyone involved in helping this man, waiting for ICE to come back with a tank or some shit. But this is community at work and I love that they won.
Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · last yr.This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
If Trump’s re-election didn't motivate you to stockpile abortion pills, here’s your chance. www.jezebel.com/trump-admini...
Trump Administration Officially Going After the Abortion Pill
If Trump’s re-election didn't motivate you to stockpile abortion pills, here’s your chance.
jezebel.com
that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
I see lots of people pointing out that this is a lie and even Ted Cruz knew it was a lie and Trump already threatened ABC again, and yes, yes, yes... THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. They lie.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.JD Vance: "On the free speech conversation, I'm pretty sure Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air last night, and to the extent he's not back on the air it's because he's not funny and has terrible ratings. This is not a federal government problem ... the FCC commissioner made a joke on social media."
It’s grotesque to think your religion is gonna punish everyone you consider an enemy while you escape but actually we all have to take responsibility for our actions in this life and on/for our shared planet, hope this helps
I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.
Steven Rosenthal@stevenrosenthal.net · last yr.26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.