N Mpls girl "struck by a car while...delivering invitations for her birthday 11th birthday party. Angel is currently in the pediatric intensive care unit and has multiple surgeries and a long recovery ahead." Let's make sure Angel's mama can focus on her babies during this horrible time.

Bill Lindeke@blindeke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Go Fund Me is here: www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

The amount of men going around reply settings to shout about how it’s definitely not all men makes me feel like y’all are maybe not getting it 🥴

Kids die every year at both fall back and spring forward, many more than 8 kids in PA in 1972. There are statistics about this going back decades. The week following the time switch in either direction has increased fatalities in a bunch of sectors and we’re doing it *twice a year*

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

The thing about radium is that it believes in you even if you don’t believe in it. He should absolutely be stopped from peddling this horseshit to people, but if he really is drinking radium water…well he’ll be stopped one way or another.

MisterJayEm@misterjayem.bsky.social · 15h ago

"holistic influencer"

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

White women are never beating the weakest link allegations and I will be praying on this woman’s downfall, specifically. The devil’s gotta owe me one by now.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 16h ago

Quite the ad featuring Ken Paxton's estranged wife, Angela. "Let's talk about the elephant in the room. In a general election, it's not as much about the individual players on the team. It's about getting the whole team across the finish line. ... That's why I'm voting for the Republican ticket."

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is insane.

Meanwhile on the other side of the couch. Oh you “need this yarn” and it “doesn’t belong to me”? Sounds like Not My Problem

Extreme cuteness happening over here tonight

Also $90 is…not a lot of money? You’re buying votes with $90 checks????

Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · 14h ago

"Check to seniors = money for midterms" the way media outlets treat Trump bribing voters like it's a no big deal is mind-boggling.

So depressing because it's so fucking true.

Thought Slime’s monster@slimemildred.bsky.social · 17h ago

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

Okay, I think we all know I'm absolutely for this. But. BUT. Convicting needs 67, and I really need to all of us to actually include this in the conversation, especially if you have some social weight and expertise in your field. I'm not being pedantic, understanding reality is important.

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 14h ago

What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.

I think we’re on exhibit Q of the Sometimes People on the Left Replace Evangelical Christianity with Leftism argument by this point. Forgiveness isn’t something you earn and certainly isn’t something you’re owed!

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13h ago

I keep seeing “restorative justice” being thrown around today and

Me when I’ve never played the drums but I’m already at the Duran Duran show and I’m pretty sure I can do it

Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 13h ago

Oh yeah that’s the good stuff

Mr Measured is finally home and he’s in putting together a dresser and I can hear Kid 1 listing yōkai and their powers in very long run-on sentences. Given that he bought the book they’re learning this from on the LAST trip and I’ve already heard this list 183 times this week, good luck to him lol

Most people aren't talking about the kind of transformations we really need, because I think a lot of folks have surrendered to the idea of living in a "rape-prone" society. The satisfaction of occasionally punishing some of the most egregious actors is all many are allowing themselves to hope for.

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

Cholula@cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Without the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.

#ShowMeYourKnits this week is socks, and I have weirdly become a sock knitter this year, so I actually have a few for this one! 🧶 #knitting

Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."

Not as punishment. Not as a matter of being carceral. But because his going to any one of these events from here on out would continue to push women out of the profession, and at a fucking bare minimum, he had to stop doing harm before you could begin to talk about restoration.

So if you actually care about restorative justice, the thing I beg you to start doing in these cases is CENTERING THE FUCKING VICTIMS. And not demanding that people immediately jump to how they can best not ruin the man's life.

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

Goldstein (still not a pseudonym)@goldstein.latinsky.app · yesterday

How many local models do you run?

Also prove to me that any white man HAS been punished “for the rest of his life” because lol. Lmao, even.

Joshua Keep@jekeep.bsky.social · 23h ago

Two completely different issues that by no means are contradictory. Prisons are institutional. Public shaming is social. We do not get to control people feelings. And reform by no means should require putting someone back to the position they held before. Especially as a media figure.

Two completely different issues that by no means are contradictory. Prisons are institutional. Public shaming is social. We do not get to control people feelings. And reform by no means should require putting someone back to the position they held before. Especially as a media figure.

Alice@majorascasket.bsky.social · 2d ago

I haven't watched a Jacob Geller video in quite a while; so this doesn't come from a place of parasociality We as leftists need to pick a lane. Square this circle for me: * We want to abolish prisons * People should be judged for their sins for their entire life

the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching

BUT, Wood’s experience helped inspire Working Women United, a public speak-out on workplace harassment, and a new language for identifying a problem women had long experienced but struggled to name. Anyhoo, this is why Women’s and Gender Studies is important. Talking to you, Cornell.

While women’s and gender studies programs are being closed down all over the country, the work feminist scholars have done has never been more important.

Todd Wolfson@proftwolf.bsky.social · 2d ago

My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators

Also curious about the definition of “physical labor” because I make things with my actual literal hands and there is a HIGH rate of physical burnout in my industry but I’m going to guess artists are not allowed to be blue collar under anyone’s bills, left or right lol

Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why are issues like retirement age and the physical toll these jobs can take on the body so rarely mentioned? stevens.house.gov/media/press-...