James Craver

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

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I just walked past a store called "Fragrance Outlet" and that's the weirdest way I've heard to describe a butt...

Science fact: bonobos are pan-sexuals...
see how clever I am?
anyone?
*cries*

@gutsickgibbon.bsky.social Half-baked thought experiment: If you added some amount of Neanderthals to the current human population, what would happen?

“The world is telling us, screaming at us, that global warming is causing climate change, and we’re the reason why.”

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
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The architects of the DEI purge -- Rufo and Hanania in particular -- are straight-up white nationalists who are engaged in a systemic project to dismantle as much of the Civil Rights Act as possible without having to explicitly admit what they're doing.

Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.

Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

YouTube video by LegalEagle The Insane Story of How the Onion Bought InfoWars (and How Alex Jones Is Trying to Steal It Back)

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Reasons That I, a Trans Woman, Have Had to Use the Bathroom at My Workplace “House Speaker Mike Johnson declared Wednesday that lawmakers and staff will have to use the restroom corresponding with their biological sex, a st...

"A male coworker had said something unhinged in a meeting, and I needed to debrief with the other female coworker who was in the meeting."

While writing a book about why it’s so hard to change minds, I changed my own mind about How Minds Change. Persuasion, debunking, disagreement – learning new things or rejecting them – what I learned about what does and does not work and the science behind why: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschan...

I have to say my WiFi has been excellent since I got my chip injection 😜

Modern sci-fi is so rarely good, and the score is unreal. I think about this movie and the fact that we lost Jóhann Jóhannsson way too soon at least once per month.

It’s the weekend after an amazing period of explosive growth, so the chuds are showing up tonight in droves.

Remember the Bluesky way:

They want you to react.
Do not engage.
Block and move on.

All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while

America.

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

Being progressive means committing to helping people who hate your guts and would not do the same for you. It's not about living out your fantasy of shooting the Czar in his palace.

You are not going to line people up against the wall. You will not have retribution. You will never be thanked.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

Steps For Transgender People Preparing For Federal Crackdowns Under Trump Donald Trump has pledged severe federal crackdowns on transgender people. I outline steps for preparing for these challenges, sharing stories from trans individuals who are already taking action.

"At the post office, there were five people in line for passports. Four of us were trans."

I cover steps trans people can take, interviewing trans oeople on their preparations for federal crackdowns and Trump.

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Just look at this quote here. This man is incredible with his support for trans and queer people.

Governor Andy Beshear, in a Trump +30 state, gives advice to Democrats: Do not throw LGBTQ+ people under the bus, it will not work.

His advice to dems: Lead on your values.

This man ran on a fully inclusive campaign in 2023 and won. He received the same kind of ads Harris did.

So Trump's new secretary of defense has white nationalist tattoos

no DoE plus vouchers = a good chance that a child with special needs just doesn’t get an education

“Comedy is when Trump rounds up millions of immigrants and puts them in camps. Tragedy is when animal control takes away an illegal Instagram squirrel.”

Democrats Need To Compete In The New Media Landscape — Or Keep Paying The Price As always happens after a bad election loss — and is compounded when that loss is sweeping, and to the man who launched a coup against the country — the losing side is in full panic mode.

In the states where Harris set up a temporary but pervasive media apparatus, she negated some of the nationwide drag. That speaks to the reality that most of the country is awash in right-wing propaganda all the time.

The Patriots playing in London is such a missed opportunity for the NFL to lean into pro wrestling fun. They should’ve come out as complete heels. Drum line and fifes. Reenactors doing Bunker Hill. Burn an effigy of King George III on the 50-yard line. Get that crowd hyped