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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.

"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider

today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted

should have known better

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Poor health causes poverty, poverty causes poor health. Poor people are more likely to have dietary restrictions and foods that meet even common dietary restrictions are harder to get even if the cost of groceries at the register of the local grocery store or gas station aren’t a factor.

DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments “People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

“We’re losing billions of dollars a year, but at least we’re telling teens to kill themselves”

there are a lot of people mad about this who do not appear to understand that the strategy *from the very beginning* has been to make ACA subsidy extension a lynchpin of negotiations, and if you think these are pretty meager demands, well, you are correct, that is the point

Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.

It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.

And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

Reminder: It benefits nobody in a way to list sex assigned at birth on passports, there is no requirement to include it, this is just about punishing trans etc. Americans.

There are no words for how evil this is

too big to fail speedrun

Of all the predictable things this was among the most predictable.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of presch...

The shutdown is shuttering Head Start centers--including 24 that support the migrant farmworkers who form the backbone of our agricultural economy.

Which means that, by refusing to fund healthcare, the GOP is not only hurting kids but also raising prices at the store.
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Shocked, shocked to learn this administration is shutting down effective public programs and forcing us to go through regulatory rentiers instead. Crony capitalism 2.0.

Local Cops Aren't Allowed to Help ICE. Did the Feds Dupe Them Into Raids That Rounded Up Immigrants? The DEA coordinated with ICE before the raid to take cannabis farm workers into custody and deport them — straining Oregon’s sanctuary laws.

"[L]ine between drug and immigration enforcement is blurring."

"[T]wisting the intent of Oregon sanctuary law to rely on the pretext of some other purpose [..] to justify participating in immigration enforcement."
#Oregon #USA #Policing #Drugs #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Just opened this app to see so much baseball commentary/hyperventilation. Reminds me of the fun Twitter days. Go sports!

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Halloween is the best holiday because it's all about people giving neighbors and strangers treats for free and telling kids how awesome they are.

The Onion: ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

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WTF 🤬

A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

In the last 4 years, a CBP agent has been arrested every 1.5 days. As you can clearly see, both agencies have severe problems with employee arrests.

In the last 4 years, a CBP agent has been arrested every 1.5 days.
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I love following Jenn Budd. If you haven't checked out her BlueSky account please do. She is on here, but she did not post this article so I am sharing it. This is how F'ed up these agents are.

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
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• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

But, tastefully, that salary is still only 10% of what the football coach makes

there are going to be a lot of stories in the next couple weeks about the generosity of ordinary people in helping their fellow Americans and all of them will be wonderful and none of them should be necessary

we don’t have to have a government this cruel and capricious