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I often wonder why people follow me on here. What are they hoping I say? What are they hoping they can learn from me? How do they expect to engage with me? RSD Musings…

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I am devastated by the loss of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in a horrifying act of violence. Our prayers are with their children and all who loved them, and with State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who were also targeted.

submitted 9 days ago • 410 comments

ALS is a quick and cruel disease that robs the body of the ability to move. There is no cure, but now there is new hope. Scientists have developed a genetic toolkit that can target the exact nerve cells destroyed by ALS - a discovery that could speed up the quest for a cure.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Rest in power all the victims of the #Charleston shooting that was 10 years ago today. I can't believe it was that long ago. White supremacy is a scourge this country and world.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

After the mayor of Newark was arrested for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a DHS official is threatening to arrest three members of Congress who were also present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 43 days ago • 346 comments

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 43 days ago • 13 comments

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

submitted 50 days ago • 118 comments

When K-12 teachers were speaking out against the theft of our academic freedom through the use of scripted curriculum & standardized testing takeovers… it was a path to this moment, I am unsurprised but deeply saddened.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

cheating with a video but this was the first thing that came to mind

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

This show mixes in Inuktituk language elegantly and even does covers of popular songs. It touches on Inuit cultural norms and obstacles of live above the tree line. It is beautifully shot, includes fun plots and great actors we will likely see more of.

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

btw seattle is REALLY funny

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

submitted 59 days ago • 90 comments

TIL Katy Perry has financially manipulated so many old people out of their homes for her own benefit that she's got a law named after her www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc...

submitted 61 days ago • 56 comments

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it: www.404media.co/this-college...

submitted 67 days ago • 34 comments

At the end of May I'll no longer work for Underdog Games. The owner is shrinking the company to almost nothing to give it the best chance of keeping the lights on during the tariff tsunami. It won't need new games (I manage our design studio, and design myself), so I'm done. 🎲✂️(1/7)

submitted 80 days ago • 33 comments

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

submitted 78 days ago • 413 comments

I wish more people had patience with disabled children so that when we grow up and become disabled adults we don’t feel bad for existing and think our presence is a burden on humanity.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

love a to-the-point sign I know he means it too, that man would clearly rather be doing anything else than having to protest over basic shit in the rain in his good poncho

submitted 79 days ago • 11 comments

Small towns all over the country depend on federal services — which is why they're pouring into the streets today to say #HandsOff! Here is Ames, Iowa 👀

submitted 79 days ago • 48 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 81 days ago • 949 comments

Crazy to suggest anyone thank McConnell for anything.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

I think once people stop waiting for one person or one big galvanizing moment to "save us" and realize this is gonna take a lot of work from a lot of people for a long time we will maybe get somewhere.

submitted 83 days ago • 44 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 85 days ago • 184 comments

Just a reminder: there IS a Substack labeler available on Bluesky that alerts you when a shared link traces back to Substack. Whether or not you follow the link is up to you, but at least you’ll be aware of who’s using that site.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?

submitted 87 days ago • 113 comments

Hi. Among other things, I am an election lawyer. In Wisconsin. I assure you that our elections are secure. Every vote is on paper; even those marked by machine have a paper ballot the user can read and has the opportunity to re-do if they need to. There is chain of custody for ~everything~. 1/

submitted 88 days ago • 32 comments

Maroon √25

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

If something isn’t a right, is it a privilege?

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 94 days ago • 958 comments

Y'all remember how Michael told Paul Hagan he wasn't a war time consigliere? That, but congress. This is an election season message. Not an active constitutional crisis message.

submitted 97 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: At least 100 Palestinians, including many children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip as Israeli officials threaten a ground invasion, according to Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/191eo5

submitted 98 days ago • 43 comments

Some of y'all would have been posting about abolitionist meetings and Underground Railroad stops on social media and calling it resistance, and VERY SOON (not today, but soon) we need to have a convo about actual signaling (not virtue signaling) and moving quietly while presenting otherwise.

submitted 98 days ago • 28 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 99 days ago • 625 comments

People who think they can push Dems to change are like the people who date someone because they think they can fix them.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

McSweeney's weighs in

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Was just reminded that Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell eliminated the city's workforce equity programs in last year's budget, along with other programs to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. publicola.com/2024/11/18/l... publicola.com/2024/11/04/h...

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 101 days ago • 1349 comments

submitted 103 days ago • 66 comments

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

submitted 104 days ago • 79 comments

And as long as Im BREATHING I promise Im not letting you dog ass bitches rewrite history on how you fuckers did teachers during COVID.

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments