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empathy is important, people falling down those rabbit holes NEED to know that you their loved ones will be there for them when and if they leave but empathy must be paired with a hard line. "No I do not believe this. No I will not debate certain things. If you cross this line we no longer talk."

submitted 19 hours ago • 59 comments

this is the type of speech censorship that we would hold up as evidence of terrifying and unacceptable authoritarianism in another country

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

I wrote about the pervasive societal impulse to extend the benefit of the doubt to those who've proved themselves unworthy of any, and the importance of establishing a human framing in the fight against fascism before you can even begin the fight, much less win it. www.the-reframe.com/the-reframe/

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Apart from everything else about this, an "anti-boycott law" is such a conceptually insane idea. Making it illegal to not buy things

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

submitted 2 days ago • 607 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 5 days ago • 1141 comments

Some have responded w/ a version of "why are you elevating this story when non-citizens have it much worse?" This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Speaking as an american, fuck us up canada

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

submitted 5 days ago • 189 comments

Welp, was considering getting a family plan but NOPE. Not supporting that garbage

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 9 days ago • 610 comments

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 6 days ago • 225 comments

in New Hampshire, JB Pritzker hits the "simpering timidity" of many Dems: “Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire,even as the flames are licking their faces"

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 900 comments

Finished reading @deathbybadger.bsky.social's "Once Upon a Tome" last night, hadn't realized it was 2AM when I finally put the book down. Such a charmingly witty read with just the right amount of snark

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

If they can arrest a judge, we can arrest a president. Game on.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

this is black-letter violation of the fourth amendment

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Absolutely zero patience any longer for politicians who don't do the right thing. Leaders lead, you cowards. Get on it.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Watching LOTR extended editions is worth it for opening Bilbo commentary alone “Some think Hobbits care only for food. This is unfair: we ALSO really like drinking and smoking!”

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

US Constitution Amendment 6: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law ...

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

submitted 12 days ago • 251 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 12 days ago • 757 comments

That darn observable reality and its liberal bias!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 13 days ago • 136 comments

I can vouch for Matt as a solid commissioner who's good to work with.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

BP probably heard “(New) Mexico” and got so excited to do a hate crime that they forgot it’s a US state

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I dunno man. I just like making creative things, art, stories, and I hope people like them. That's not a strong basis for a career according to some, but it's what I got. 🤘

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 14 days ago • 194 comments

you're god damned right

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

submitted 14 days ago • 190 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 15 days ago • 819 comments

"I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” Killed just before her wedding with 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

The secret hidden stage of long-term relationships is coming up with progressively more unhinged Venmo messages for your partner to decipher

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

submitted 17 days ago • 166 comments