I’m so old i remember when Bill Clinton “reformed” welfare so Republicans would never be able to attack Democrats for giving people “handouts”.
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Senator Slotkin reminds us that when Democrats talk about a return to unity, they just mean unity among white homeowners.
Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 6h agoBut that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.
But we're all in hell right now - and we badly want Democrats to be capable of pulling us out. When they show this weak, spineless side it freaks us out.
We just don’t know if it’s fair to the other kids to let a child who is tortured all the time have a brief respite to play sports.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterdaysorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
Maryland Rennaissance festival bans people with disposable income at the behest of people who just come to get daydrunk with a turkey leg.
Sara Luterman@slooterman.bsky.social · last wk.I’m a parent and I think this is a bad call on the part of Maryland Renn Fest.
There was a piece in Nature yesterday about how the NSF, between canceled grants and historical low grant awards for 2026, was sitting on an eighth of its budget unspent and reserved for some nebulous white house initiative. Makes you wonder.
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last wk.absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · 2w agoSCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck
Weird assholes out in the world talking about your testosterone level like its your DBZ power level.
in a sense my entire experience of being a man has been watching other men feed themselves into threshing machines and having the guys look at me like i'm stupid when i ask why
Imagine having the Empire come save your one-year postdoc
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoNathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.
So I really loved Teenaged Sex & Death At Camp Miasma, but it does feel like admitting that is admitting a lot of things about yourself all at once.
Believe in the future Dirty Pair promised
Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3w ago2.34% of all Americans are trans, according to US government census data. This number absolutely POLEAXES me, and from what I can see in the source data, the number is completely and totally legitimate and based on a colossal datapool of almost 2.5 MILLION respondents. Let's dig in.
I mean that’s just heterosexuality when you frame it like that
Maggie Serota@maggieserota.bsky.social · 3w agoNatalie Harp quoting Pride and Prejudice to a dude who used to fast-forward through Bloodsport to all the times dudes got kicked in the balls
it sounds like deranged hyperbole when i say "ai safety" is, primarily, a sex cult based in berkeley california. it is also literally true
My friends keep telling me that Odyssey is really good, and they want to discuss the story with me. So I finally watched it today.
i don't like this take of people basically ignoring the guard or going on with their lives equals people have accepted them. What exactly is it you want me to do when i see them every ten seconds and i still have to finish walking to work?
NPR@npr.org · 4w agoThe deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
Look, you either gotta handwave away all the science crap for the sake of the emotional tug or you gotta be a hard, hard physics pervert excited at the prospect of unwinding how we understand reality. The moment an author starts talking about the "rules" of time travel, they are neither.
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 4w agoThe best philosophy with time travel narratives is “don’t worry about it sweetie”
Kamata-kun from Shin Godzilla is a treasure and was an instant new beautiful star of cinematic canon. Perfect concept. Perfect execution.
An interview with Rumiko Takahashi & Junji Ito about their work and their friendship ❤️ 17-min video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_1P...
feels like this site always puts me in the position of saying "can we hate our enemies *accurately*" in a way that sounds like defending them, I hate that Elon Musk is a murdering bigot and makes the world worse in many ways but fyi NASA used to lob Saturn V third stages at the moon on purpose
I don’t understand how you land on a movie premise like “The Purge but for Sex” and immediately go with the people who follow the law and not Sex Outlaws, Fuckin And Suckin Against Authority