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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

Published in the US today (UK in July) - looks amazing! 🤩 Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian www.spiegelandgrau.com/forest-eupho... #queer #LGBTQ #pride #nature #PrideInSTEM #SkyBooks #BookSky 🌈📚

I couldn't NOT do this.

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.

It is, uh, not great to find out that a ton of american politicians really crave having secret police.

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

I’m in a public library. Numerous adults are helping kids on summer break. Some kids look brilliant & are working on things that look complex. Other kids seem like they need more help. A woman with a laptop is helping a struggling patron apply for benefits. Libraries rock!!!📚 #SupportLibraries

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

1/2 Today in Minneapolis, ICE/FBI raided a taco restaurant, yes, you read that correctly, a taco restaurant, dressed in full battle gear—long guns, body armor, the whole damn militarized show. Do they think they’re in a war zone? This is about instilling terror, rooted in racism. It won’t work.

“Dr. al-Farra said that most of the victims were children aged between 10 and 13, many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest.”

Something Ta-Nahesi Coates said on Israel/Palestine that's stuck with me is people often obscure the issue and its stakes by going on and on about how complicated it is, when, actually, it isn't. You only have to go through these pathetic contortions at length to justify a bad perspective.

ham on the net; never found

It would be a novel idea not to die crossing the street in DC, but my bad we gotta accommodate suburban drivers instead.

I'm sorry, but an eleven hour cedh final table of which 9 of the hours were filibuster and bluster? You don't need my opinion on tournament commander anymore. I just need to point at that.

The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

Terrorist Attack

It's often overlooked by both policymakers and the news that children can be homeless too but in fact! Child homelessness is real and does exist and is sharply increasing YoY and the only possible thing that can solve this is housing for all with no strings attached

These people are such monsters sfstandard.com/2025/05/13/n...

@mayorbowser.bsky.social at the DC Dems meeting tonight, wearing a color-changing raver ring

Ngl, this is why I appreciate DDOT even more. They’ve recently taken community input and prioritize safety. They took the four lane feeder road that runs perpendicular to our block, took a lane out, made the middle lane turn only, and put up barriers for cyclists. Never thought I would see it.

The nicest thing I’ll say about the Carolina Hurricanes is Hamilton the Pig is a fantastic mascot and will get no ill words or hate from me.

AGH TWO GREAT HUMANS GET TO COMMENTATE ON MAGIC YESSSSSSSSSS

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

If you've had one of those days when all you really need is a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes, here's a baby bear trying to catch snowflakes.

This should be the platform where my cats get famous for being really cute finally

until this moment i thought i was slow to mature because i was nearly thirty before i had a clue what i was going to do with my life. (and then i still ended up doing something else entirely!) this is a grown man being a child in all the wrong ways. at least i was never *this*.

if we’re talking about amendment fights this is a case where the second one would seem to apply as the founders intended

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

If I got my wallet inspected this bad it might make me reassess my priors about whether my race made me innately smarter

it will be interesting to find out who will win

the most appalling part of this political era is the physical harm they are inflicting on innocent people but secondary to that i find the constant smug lectures from this country's biggest collection of hypocrites, scammers, perverts, pedophiles, and overall bozos very distasteful