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This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

submitted 12 hours ago • 160 comments

These stats from the City of London (aka the square mile) are unbelievable. They’ve already exceeded their 2030 targets. Cycling up 70% since 2017, motor traffic down 34%. The full report is v interesting - they do proper traffic surveys every 2 years.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Gentle reminder that if you rag on a GOP guy for installing a make-up room by saying he’s feminine and/or gay you’re being queerphobic, transphobic, and misogynist.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Mike has this right. It is a coup, none of this is legal, and we need to talk about it in terms of authoritarian repression, not normal policy changes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A useful thing to do when you think someone is "being dramatic" or "overreacting" to a situation is to stop, take a breath, and ask yourself: What would have to be true for their reaction to make sense? Are you sure those things are NOT true?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

If it's true he still has access to all that data he stole

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

i am extremely tired of this topic today but I wrote a follow-up blog post just to make sure i got the important stuff out. ok i'm over it now i don't wanna think about it anymore for a while.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

submitted 1 day ago • 370 comments

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife? HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS? www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

submitted 2 days ago • 179 comments

Dr. Josephine Baker fought for milk testing in lower Manhattan over a century ago, where babies were 7 times more likely to die than WWI US soldiers in the trenches. Milk was often adulterated with chalk and germ-y water. Today the FDA stopped testing milk due to lack of staff. Shame on you, Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 4 days ago • 256 comments

Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no oh no. These people have no idea that their AI companionship, finding purpose, "therapy" chats are not HIPAA protected, can be subpoenaed, can be used for training, etc. Plus the bots literally are not qualified to practice psychotherapy/medicine. hbr.org/2025/04/how-...

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I keep expecting these stories to end with like "...his lawyer, his dentist, and a man named Maliq who is the Deputy Defense Secretary for Yemen."

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The reason for the season:

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

"I guess it really is a Big Tent" I yell over the sounds of breaking glass caused by David Brooks throwing a metal trash can through the window of a Starbucks to distract the police while Bill Kristol spray paints NO SYSTEM BUT THE ECOSYSTEM on a cop car

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

NYT actually published this sentence, which asks us to take baseless moral panic bullshit seriously as a reasonable position. Supporters of the Holocaust considered Jews to be subhuman saboteurs of German society, too. So fucking what??

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

before chatgpt came along, millionaire executives were forced to use this technology

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

I’m a trans woman with a 9 year old son. I do all of these things and more while also having a high stress job. The audacity of this gives away the game that they don’t even think we are human.

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

I can literally HEAR this motherfucker saying things like “all of the sudden” and “upmost respect” to a captive audience of GS-14s

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

submitted 4 days ago • 312 comments

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

submitted 4 days ago • 470 comments

“Symptom management — preferably management of symptoms the patient actually has” is a surprisingly common critique I’ve had

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

So the Trump administration is claiming that they went to war with Harvard by accident www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 5 days ago • 214 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 6 days ago • 1750 comments

This should be front page news everywhere, except for all the other problems that should also be front page news everywhere.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

submitted 6 days ago • 231 comments

Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

submitted 6 days ago • 594 comments

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

If it's true that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was "transferred nine days ago from the CECOT prison to a lower-level facility in Santa Ana," that means that one of the very few facts that the Trump admin told Judge Xinis in its declarations was false.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

I know it’s not a popular fight for Dem politicians to fight but We The People need to be pushing back against the idea that ‘gang ties’ is a meaningful thing to claim about a person. Whole neighborhoods have ‘gang ties’ the way law enforcement uses the term

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

This is not about one man. MOST of the people Trump disappeared have NO criminal record. Yet they had no due process, and have no outside contact. Merwil—reportedly grabbed by mistake. Arturo—a musician. Andry—a makeup artist. No record, no explanation.

submitted 7 days ago • 74 comments

sidebar: it’s bonkers that we have a concept called “disaster season”

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

#FireHydrantFriday with The Joy of Wall Furniture, Venice

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I laughed every fucking time the two legged walker fell over

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In the event they did NOT DEFINE “biological sex,” may I refer you to my talk at Oxford, where I talk about the disconnect in rhetoric between how biologists define sex & how people say they do. If you’re a UK law-person, maybe it can help the courts settle on the correct definition (link in reply)

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

10/10 tattoo idea right here

submitted 7 days ago • 78 comments

U.S. citizens being detained for ICE. "The man, who was arrested Wednesday after a traffic stop in which he was a passenger on his way to his job in Tallahassee, is set to remain in jail for the next 48 hours, waiting for federal immigration officials to pick him up". PICK HIM UP TO TAKE HIM WHERE?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he was denied entry into El Salvador prison where Abrego Garcia is held.

submitted 7 days ago • 78 comments

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

submitted 7 days ago • 92 comments

In the shadow of the recent court decision, hopefully it comes out in my writing but: trans rights are human rights and 'biological sex' is a complex non-binary phenomenon.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

Raise your hand if you’re an autistic person who A. Pays Taxes B. Has (held) a job C. Plays/Has played baseball D. Has written a poem E. Has gone on dates F. Uses/has used the toilet unassisted G. Any combination of the above 🙋‍♀️ This man should be no where near health policy ffs

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

lots of people think immigrants who didn’t do it the “right way” (which ~does not exist) should be bloodlessly removed. very few people think they should be beaten or shackled or starved or frozen or shot or enslaved.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 8 days ago • 238 comments

I mean, the thing is that it’s rather hard to walk over to the consulate from a Latin American concentration camp.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments