"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
Just straight up state-sanctioned terrorism.
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
Exactly. It’s a big tell that we medicalize everything, but we wouldn’t medicalize this.
The underlying logic is “more testosterone is more masculinity and more masculinity is always better—no matter who it hurts.”
Thank you for the kind words! I’m so glad you appreciated the interview!
This was a weird story to report. It's less about being able to find a definitive answer than profiling the uncertainty people in Minneapolis are feeling, as well as their distrust of the feds after seeing their actions. It's worth reading past the headline. (6) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ACLU drone expert Jay Stanley says if it is the feds, that the public deserves to know what drones are being used for: “In a democracy, it ultimately should be up to the communities what kinds of powers they want police to have over them.” (3). www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
fuck this so much
we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
The risk factors of gambling addiction—and other problems that primarily affect men—are never just “testosterone.”
This story is actually a cautionary tale about the social dynamics of patriarchy that encourage men to continue to engage in harmful behaviors.
All the while, men on the outside aren’t intervening because that suffering can be interpreted as a strength (too much testosterone) AND because if it tips into weakness, they start to feel like the dominant ones.
Instead of getting help, men have a lot of other men just watching the spectacle.
It’s harder and harder to be satisfied with a good result. And accordingly, the writer feeling like he’s one of the best bettors is the moment he really starts to lose control—and starts to lose money, which feels increasingly like an identity crisis.
When you add in that masculinity is competitive and hierarchical, the situation can get really dangerous. Because now, being a good bettor isn’t enough. You have to be the best.
(I’m not making that up, by the way. The article mentions that a lot of men begin betting because their dads get them into it.)
And that framing is a part of why men *actually* struggle with stuff like gambling addiction.
A hobby turns into a source of identity. And when it’s one of the only ways a man can connect with someone like his father, then the stakes for losing a bet feel a lot higher than the money involved.
If all of men’s woes boil down to “testosterone,” then men’s suffering becomes valorized. Because men who act in self-destructive ways (that often hurt others too—the article gets into that) are just chemically “too masculine.”
It becomes a sign of strength that other men are encouraged to emulate.
I read this article last night and I couldn’t stop talking about it.
But I can’t shake how bad the gender analysis is. The reason that gambling addiction almost exclusively affects men is not “testosterone.”
And it’s wild that *this* is the kind of framing men’s rights activists approve of.
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center
www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz...
What a world
I have suspected for awhile that we are already seeing the violence that runs downstream of (mostly) privileged (mostly) men with gambling addictions. And it will only get worse.
Everything will, in the end, have been about crypto and fossil fuels and we are mostly just casualties. Sigh.
We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
Right? Even to accept the statement as if it’s good faith, you have to embrace the idea that it’s good for women to lose money and give it to men.
The second half of that statement is a lie, by the way.
The goal isn’t to help working class men. It’s to make them feel more powerful in comparison to women—specifically through reducing women’s wealth.
Which is all a distraction from the wealthiest white men hoarding even more wealth.
Silicon Valley has taken a hard pivot from college-for-all (and coding-for-all) to manual-labor-for-all-except-us-billionaires-and-our-kids.
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
Almost half the shows are copaganda FYI. Tracker technically isn't, "he's a lone wolf survivalist" but it's adjacent IMHO. If you remove the news shows it's fully half.
