Pierce 🏳️‍🌈

there’s a longer version here in which our hero follows up by telling him “you can go peacefully fuck yourself” after he claims to be “peacefully standing for my beliefs”

lol

I still cannot believe somebody actually exists in this administration with the name "Vought" and he's even more evil than the ridiculously, comically evil corporation in The Boys.

Wahs are well known as vicious ambush predators.

Press Releases | Congressman Jim McGovern

Congressman Jim McGovern, longtime advocate of normalization between the US and Cuba, today introduced a bill in the House to officially repeal all of the legal pretext for the American blockade on Cuba.

Happy Birthday!!!

a white crowned robin chat stands atop a book titled “a dumb birds field guide to the worst birds ever”

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅

(this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him)

🧪🌍 #bird #birb

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

they're reinventing Omelas from first principles

"those teenagers getting raped was a necessary evil for these stock market gains" is but moments away

Incredible.

The "you gave a chimp a machine gun?"-ass administration. bsky.app/profile/clan...

Man, she can't even Mean Girl competently.

Read this lede and remember how much taxpayer money of yours Chuck gave ICE and they're trying to do it again. He's the worst poker player in history and yet he has convinced a fair amount of people who appear to be intelligent that he still knows what he is doing

The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

it is difficult to do, but every now and again, people overestimate how stupid the general public is.

what is up with all the people who are mad at being told we have to vote?

okay but like the burden is literally on us

A professor of mine in college showed the class a picture of a young boy in post-WWII Italy sitting atop a bunch of flour bags with that classic U.S. star. It was him; he never forgot the country that fed him and his family.

Ah, well, too bad, guess we'll just be known as deranged shitheads.

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

one of the most distinctive things about the second Trump administration is the active attempt to appear as evil as possible. this is his portrait from his first and his second administrations.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Oh, so it’s illegal to share a conversation with a friend now? Really? I can’t let my friends know what I’m talking about? It’s illegal to have a group call with my closest friends just because they’re from another country? Are we also going to make it illegal to have a good time with your friends??

The minute details are obviously significantly different but a core similarity between UKR and Palestine is that neither can actually reach a political solution because in each case their corresponding belligerent has an outwardly eliminiationist goal and has shown that it won't deviate from it.

Minneapolis has real Boston 1775 vibes lately. No surprise that John Adams—a moderate farmer and lawyer, yet the principal agitator for independence—was radicalized against the English crown by its Eye of Sauron-like brutality against his city.

I waited for confirmation, and it has now been confirmed: there was an explosion followed by a massive fire at the Joint Staff of the Iranian Army (Artesh) in eastern Tehran about two hours ago. Little else is known at this time.

Honestly, the fact that it has been litigated before with an unsatisfactory result is exactly why it should be relitigated again and again until it sinks in it‘s not just “Trump being Trump,” he’s not your wacky fun uncle, and it should not be acceptable behavior by an American president.

Are we in hell?

Costco is America's most beloved institution precisely because it acts like a rational business.

One reason that institutional capital is significantly better than oligarchic capital is that it is actually profit-maximizing—often something that can cohabitate with the social good—rather than hegemony-maximizing.