It cannot be overstated just how dumb it was. They wanted to make Newline rename "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" because they found it disrespectful. They banned the song "I am Leaving on a Jet Plane". The background of random TV shows like "Charmed" was suddenly full of flags. I could go on
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last yr."Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
nytimes.com
The flood in Nepal shows us why the claim we can just "adapt" to #ClimateChange is so dishonest (or foolhardy): climate change will break and remake our places so we cannot live in them safely, often with sudden and overwhelming violence. There is no such thing as bouncing back.
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
The cancelation of "Deli Boys" is not why we can't have nice things, but it's illustrative of the nice things that we cannot, apparently, have for very long.
‘Deli Boys’ Canceled After Two Seasons on Hulu
The series produced by Onyx Collective debuted its second season in late May.
hollywoodreporter.com
controlling measles outbreaks is extremely resource-intensive for health departments. the public health system is under a lot of stress in a lot of different places right now. that drives up costs too
Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn analysis finds that New Mexico's measles outbreak cost $5.4 million last year. NM had 100 cases. AZ outbreak is more than 3x larger; Utah's is more than 7x larger. TX and SC are each 10x larger. Welcoming back measles is going to be very expensive. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
one of my all-time favorite disgruntled reviews of THE ODYSSEY long precedes the movie & comes from my partner. His take: “Odysseus is a shit sailor. There was very little ocean to cross to get home”
Yes
The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020
It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3mo agoRunning out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
Huge investigation out today helmed by @rebleber.bsky.social and @rebeccajohn.bsky.social revealing just how long ago industry knew gas would destroy the climate -- with tons of new details showing how they hid the facts and worked to promote gas as "clean." 👏👏
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 3mo agoNEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues
Deeply sad to read of the passing of Wai Ching Ho, whom I had the tremendous honor to work with on my feature film ROBOT STORIES. A brilliant actor and an incredibly warm and wonderful person. Deepest, deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
Yesterday, I arrived in Taiwan—the first Senator to visit since Trump and Xi’s summit—to deliver a strong message: Regardless of who is in the White House, our commitment to Taiwan is steadfast. It's concrete. And it can save lives. My op-ed ⬇️
Opinion | America's Commitment to Taiwan Outlasts Any President | Tammy Duckworth | Taiwan
In an era of international relations where politics and policies seem to change by the hour, there are few truths that have proven self-evident for decades. But here's one: The sec......
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45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
nytimes.com
Understand that "tested" also means genital inspections-like a strip search-for Black girls imagined as being too fast or strong. If you don't know the very obvious, there is research about the harms of strip searches done to youth for any reason & Black girls are more likely to experience them.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3mo agoGuaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.
AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.
BTW, racist Americans have hated Haiti since 1791, because Haiti was the first successful revolution against enslavement. And I want to note how Justice Jackson included a detailed discussion of the Black Codes in her defense of Hawaiian historical sovereignty in another case today.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4mo agoKagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.
It's been over seven months now and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
we spent the last century reinventing the physical experience of womanhood to the obvious and vast benefit of humanity and I don’t think we should give any of that back voluntarily
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4mo agoYour reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Officials have banned reporters covering protests at Delaney Hall from wearing gas masks and carrying bags with other protective gear. These kinds of bans are dangerous and wrong. We spoke to journalists who told us why.
PPE bans not only risk reporters. They risk the public’s right to know
Journalists who cover protests across the U.S. told us how personal protective equipment keeps them safe and helps them report the news
freedom.press
Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting
Veteran journalist says executives pushed unverified claims and gave politicians a say in interviews
theguardian.com
Today is the start of Pride month. Take a trip back in time with us — not that long ago, when the fight looked different, but what we were fighting for was the same. We got us. We always have.
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 5mo agoIt’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
"[ICE] fired pepper balls at the senator" ICE fired pepper balls at a senator ICE. fired pepper balls. at a senator. they do this because they believe they will face no consequences. we cannot let this be the case.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 5mo agothey’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
What I witnessed and experienced today was shameful. Delaney Hall is a failure; it’s this administration’s failure. The only way to make this right for our communities is to shut it down and make sure the failures we’ve seen never happen again. 4/4
This is more of the same lawlessness we’ve seen elsewhere around the country. Our country deserves accountability. Our country deserves the humane treatment of every person here. In fact, our Constitution demands this. 3/4
Instead of engaging with me and others about the poor conditions, ICE sent in an armored vehicle and a line of armed agents that only poured gasoline on the fire. Civilians were tackled and restrained, and agents fired pepper balls and spray into the crowd. 2/4
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
nj.com
A reminder of why allowing internet archiving is so important (at a time when too many news orgs are blocking places like @archive.org ).
Nathaniel Rakich@baseballot.bsky.social · 5mo agoABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
