my 5yo said she was making a sign for her fort and I was expecting like "no boys allowed" or whatever, but in fact it said:

"Both the literacy crisis and moral deterioration of our leaders pretty much guarantee our school will be shuttered soon. But in the meantime, we hope to have a well-rounded, fun year interrupted by only one or two major geopolitical crises." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bac...

Back-to-School Shopping List for the End-of-Times Academic Year

“One case of bottled water. Please note: This is not drinking water. This water will be used only if Tony the Chatbot becomes sentient and begins to amass po...

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The MAGA Murder Regime is torturing and trafficking children.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 9h ago

⚠️ CHILDREN IN CHAINS 🧒🏽⛓️ 🧊✈️ KANSAS CITY: A shackled man watches above as two boys climb the stairs to join him on an ICE flight (GlobalX – N319NV) Friday to Louisiana 👀

AOC is freezing her eggs and conservative men are losing their minds. This was never about the birth rate, families, or “life.” They just don’t like it when women do things on their own terms.

Republicans insisted for years that they'd *never* punish abortion patients—now they're getting around that promise by charging women with "abuse of a corpse" or "failure to report a death" It's not just abortion patients: women who don't dispose of miscarriages "properly" are also being charged

What to Know When a Pregnancy Arrest Goes Viral

Everything you need to know about the Georgia abortion case

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Bc Republicans’ ‘late abortion’ talking point only works if Dems continue to accept the premise that opposing government interference in abortion is radical. It’s not. In fact, that’s what voters want: 81% of Americans don’t want abortion legislated at all, including a majority of Republicans.

That means it’s past time for Democrats to get their own abortion messaging in order—namely, by standing up from their defensive crouch and finally telling voters what they want to hear: The government has no place in pregnancy at any point.

Last gasps of summer.

someone is repeatedly yelling “shame!” and “lies!” in the background as Lutnick tries to hold a press conference

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👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine

Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

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"I'm going to get a lot done this evening" Me all evening:

not a single person has wondered whether dolly's life had any meaning because she didn't have any kids. it's almost like your legacy is about what YOU do with your time here.

Mind Blown Reaction

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🇪🇸🌍🌎🌏 Spain's new floating ocean solar farm off Gran Canaria makes clean power and fresh water with a 12% boost Spain is also planning 12 more similar facilities by 2029 #Spain #greenenergy #climatechange *link included

In the U.S., "free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength... Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel (Gift Article)

The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.

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READ: The establishment debate over Hasan Piker isn't just about a streamer, it’s a proxy war over Palestine’s growing power in progressive politics. Why the push to exile him proves the center has already lost the argument: mondoweiss.net/2026/04/the-...

The Democratic Party debate over Hasan Piker is really a fight over Palestine’s new place in U.S. politics

The moral panic over Hasan Piker’s involvement with the Democratic Party is really about Palestine’s growing influence in U.S. politics. While Israel supporters might want to ban him and Palestine…

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Masked Israeli “settlers” attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the occupied West Bank Story and video of the attack: www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

The reason people aren't comfortable with it is because the argument only has one loud side. If Democratic elected officials rebutted the very obvious bullshit of the right wing, things would look different. Instead, almost all of them cower at best or participate at worst.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10h ago

Pew Research Center poll on “transgender athletes competing on sports teams that don’t match their birth sex”: • 27% of American adults are somewhat/very/extremely comfortable with it • 73% are not comfortable with it Democrats are also NOT comfortable with it: 55-44% margin.

AOC is getting ready to run for…something. (I think she’s more likely to run for Senate than POTUS, but we’ll see soon enough.)

Scoop: AOC shakes up team ahead of 2028 decision

The personnel changes come months before she'll decide whether to run for president or Senate.

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Mitch McConnell has been out sick for two months and continues to receive a taxpayer funded paycheck. Since his time in office, he’s voted against paid sick leave 23 times. If Mitch McConnell can get paid sick leave, so should the mother who just gave birth.

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Lake Epstein Files Gulf of Crypto Scams River of Defeat by Iran Public Naps Pond Corruption Creek. I have as much right to name international bodies of water as he does. So do you. Go at it. Of course I'm not ever for altering original indigenous place names, not even for Lake Ontology.

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.” Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Copilot 13+ is often framed as a "less dangerous" version of ChatGPT, that will be "safer" for students. What's different and what's the same? Same: - Undermines learning, causes cognitive offloading - Will write entire essays for students - Gets facts subtly wrong - Makes students give up sooner

Over time, the Trump formula for Venezuela is becoming clearer. In essence, the arrangements between Trump and the criminal syndicate that run Caracas are like those between a crime family boss and lesser criminal gangs that report to him.

‘A New Form of U.S. Colonialism’: Venezuelans Bristle at U.S. Oil Takeover

A deal giving the U.S. majority control of vast Venezuelan reserves strikes at the heart of national identity.

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I can never match the amazingness of Dolly Parton, but my free little library and plant stand can help continue her legacy. We just put out a pile of milkweed pods so our neighbors can take a book to read in their own butterfly garden. Every book, every word, every seed, helps grow our community.

Proton offers email, docs, and sheets just like Gmail but it's based in Europe. Vivaldi is a top tier browser to replace Chrome, based in Norway. Bonus: no "AI" crap. StartPage is a solid free search engine also based in Europe. Turn the American tech off.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 7h ago

OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

The goldenrod soldier beetle/Pennsylvania leatherwing is an inadvertent pollinator. As beetles fly or trundle or bebop across flowers in the quest for pollen and nectar, they carry pollen from one flower to another. Both adult beetles and larvae are predators on aphids & other insects. #Inverts

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

While many in Democratic leadership insist voters must focus on defeating Trump to the exclusion of all else, they keep demonstrating various commitments they prioritize over this.