pkstrode

What about farm animals that are treated like pets?

In my HS science research course, my goal for my Ss is that they are able to think, talk, and write like scientists. If they can do this, they tend to be recognized by science fair judges. But there’s much misteaching of how science works. See my paper from 2015.

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These people are either clueless about what happens in real America or they are willfully ignoring the reality of millions of people.

Do you know when I can expect my cool T-shirt?

If I didn’t lose the race, then I would have won it.

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

Constitutional crisis is here

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

I agree with some of these concerns, but weren’t there similar arguments against the use of electronic calculators in the teaching of mathematics?

Done!

1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit A Trump administration proposal could put more than a million low-income households at risk of losing their government-subsidized housing.

The Biden administration was really good for the worst-off 20% of Americans. The Trump administration is going to be tremendously bad for them. apnews.com/article/hud-...

Idiot

“The post also highlights Mr. Trump’s longstanding belief that he can convince his followers of nearly anything without losing their support.”

Not as long as healthy food is expensive and crappy food is subsidized.

Anecdotes are not data and correlation does not imply causation.

Good Grief, by Andrea Gibson

Let your
heart break

so your spirit
doesn't.

I literally had two pieces of carrot cake yesterday; they were delicious.

Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.

After today's press conference on the Texas floods I would expect any reasonable person to finally agree that The President of the United States is a heartless idiot and a danger to all of us.

Most people on Medicaid already have jobs, so this is about something else.

Sucks we don't have a press that will report that fact and then frame this story properly as real fucking ominous

So urban workers will be sent down to the countryside, then?

If only history could be our guide…

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Sen. Raphael Warnock on the Republican budget bill: "This is Robin Hood in reverse. Socialism for the rich."

Don't want billionaires to get even richer at your expense?

Have a Republican senator?

It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Misleading framing. Support for gay marriage is on declining in a statistical sense among Republicans. It’s plateauing for Democrats and Independents, which is completely predictable. We will never have complete support in either of those two groups.

Billionaires used to try to hide the fact that they were buying elections, now they write thousand word essays proudly announcing it on social media.

Reminder: Nothing that ever helped the working class started with a billionaire buying an election.

Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.

Distributional Effects of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act CBO responds to a request for an analysis of the distributional effects of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and updates the preliminary analysis it provided in a letter dated May 20, 2025.

The Bill will reduce incomes for the poorest 30 percent of Americans, change little in the middle and give the top 10th an extra $12,000 a year. I know I oversimplifying here but imagine what an additional $12,000 a year could do for the poorest 30% of Americans.

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Essentially asking the mainstream media to function as State TV.

I’m happy for Zohran Mamdani and the people of New York City. Hopefully he will be elected Mayor in November and the US can move even more in the direction of democratizing the economy, which is essentially what democratic socialism is all about.

Indeed. It’s just semantics. Like when the Passenger Pigeon was totally obliterated into extinction by over hunting, habitat loss, and persecution, it was really just a temporary setback for the species.