Joy Hanna-Blais

Oh crap.

The only good part of this moment is that campaigns will no longer pretend like these fucking bozo nonstories matter at all. The "You can't kill me, I'm already dead" energy has a kind of propulsive magic to it. Having nothing to lose and being right is a cheat code and a force field.

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes

the way she managed to slide "alligator lives matter" into her call for genocide, a racism turducken

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

17 sick and 3 dead from a food borne illness. Meanwhile we’ve cut funding, staffing, and protections at FDA, USDA, and CDC. Chicken fettuccine Alfredo meals sold at Kroger and Walmart recalled

www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/h...

last week's worth of job postings from the APSA database

While it is still early, universities are starting to post jobs for the fall academic market.

Over the past two weeks, more than half of the new jobs posted to the American Political Science Association website have been from non-US universities.

👀😬

"We are devastated and heartbroken at the loss of our parents, Melissa and Mark. They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can't believe they are gone. Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much. "We want everyone to know that we are both safe and with loved ones. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy as we grieve. "Our family would like to thank law enforcement for their swift action that saved others and for the coordination across communities that led to the arrest of the man who murdered our parents. We especially would like to thank the officers who were first on the scene to our parents' home and their heroic attempts to rescue our mom and dad. "Our parents touched so many lives, and they leave behind an incredible legacy of dedication to their community that will live on in us, their friends, their colleagues and co-workers, and every single person who knew and loved them. "If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following: • Plant a tree. • Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail. • Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do. • Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it. • Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone. • Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something. • Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. "Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

A truly moving & brave statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark:
"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔

I love this for them.

I make something extremely similar as often as possible (more peppers, cayenne instead of hot sauce, tomatoes and avocado added on top) and my main recommendation is fresh corn cut off the cobb is absolutely worth the effort.

I weep. And rage.

TRUMP PARDONS JEAN VALJEAN BEFORE THE INTERMISSION; RUINS SHOW

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

If Taco Bell doesn't immediately make a chicken taco wrapped in a Cheetos dusted shell, they've missed a YUGE opportunity.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.

Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!

NO.

Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.

PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.

This is also about autism.

It is still startling (while also heartening) to me that Americans are forming mutual defense compacts against our own government.

The proper reply to such letters is...

"Your inquiry is noted. We decline to engage in politically motivated theatrics disguised as oversight."

There is plenty to criticize about the FDA but keeping annual food safety related deaths to under 6,000 cases in a nation of 340 million people is *fucking astonishing*

Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group

If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

Yay exploring students! Sounds like a good time!

Burn it all down

It's a dealth cult.

But here's what I don't understand. If everyone is too poor to buy anything much (or are enslaved), and tons of people die for lack of medicine and healthcare and housing and food, who the fuck will make the rich rich anymore and just how will that work?

And in the end, they even sacrificed their claim to “state’s rights” for which they enslaved, seceded, fought, segregated, assaulted and murdered, and in the name of which they degraded themselves, their families and their region.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

I’ve been slammed at work and taking L on college visits and I granted myself a week off. Looking forward to the Hands Off protest on Saturday though!

protect your hope. protect your joy. protect your love. if anyone gives you any shit whatsoever about not paying enough attention to the permacrisis, send them to me and I will explain that the only way through is to work to keep our and each others' lives worth living.

The good news is that money isn't real. It has no intrinsic value, you can't eat it. The blood and flesh of the rich, on the other hand, can be made into dozens of useful household items