Carrie

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again

me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

Ruby Bridges, age 6

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With," depicting the event originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridge talking to President Obama as they look at Rockwell's painting when it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.

She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.

The past isn’t past.

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This needs more attention. Right after Trump went on Fox and Friends and blamed all political violence on the left, they removed the NIJ study that showed otherwise.

trying to explain dental plan coverage and having to raise my voice higher and higher above their incredulous laughter

H.P. Lovecraft Writes Olive Garden’s Dinner Menu Fried Calamari Tendrils crusted in grit assail my palate. Begotten of the sea, yet containing the essence of a carnival. Fried and without end. At...

"Such that they confound the senses and simultaneously seduce my bravery to dread. I am left muttering to myself a mantra of origin unknown, 'When you’re here… when you’re here… you are… family?'"

Transphobia is infuriating AND self-defeating. If you're AFAB, you're going to go through menopause...HRT has been a lifesaver for me. It may even stave off dementia!

If HRT is banned for trans folks, think it'll be easy for us cis folk to access it?

A little solidarity just might save YOUR life.

Why are child vaccination rates the lowest they have been in more than a decade? The World Health Organisation sets a 95% target for routine childhood vaccinations to ensure herd immunity and protect the vulnerable who cannot have immunisations themselves - but uptake in England h...

Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines

Republicans thought they were getting people who would expose the Deep State pedophiles with Trump, Bongino and Patel. Instead, they got their protectors. Maxwell just got rewarded with a nicer prison, and in exchange, the pedophiles stay concealed. Hell of a legacy, fellas.

Yes 🙌

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

I laughed.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

TIL:
This is a Curta mechanical calculator, the state of the art from 1938 to 1970, when electronic calculators replaced them. It could do rapid arithmetic operations.

Nicknames for these pocket devices:
"Math grenade"
"Peppermill"

The inventor was an Austrian engineer, Curt Herzstark.

“You’ve barely even touched your Wallace and Gromellette” breakfast of bread, eggs, mushrooms, cheese and olives arrange to looked startlingly like the animation characters Wallace and Gromet

It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to tax new solar and wind capacity, as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB, when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022, and the grid is ever more fragile.

Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.

The analogy is to mid-1930s Germany, not to 1942.

Right-wing populist nationalists with a cult of personality that tried a coup, failed, regained power while vowing to violently scapegoat minorities, then dismantled rule of law from within.

How identical do they need to be to allow comparison?

Absolutely. Generative AI has become incredibly popular with people who don’t mind that it gives them the wrong information 5-10% of the time because they don’t know that they’re getting bad information. And that’s just our new normal.

Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday.

Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast?

Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.

Happy 99th birthday to this great American artist.

A Military-Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded that she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.

I am in awe of @queenofthinair.bsky.social and proud to be a friend of someone with clear principles and ethics. The USNWC & the military are losing one of the best scholars and teachers on a critical topic for leaders in the profession of arms.

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Update on National Archives at College Park - AHA Many AHA members have expressed alarm about a post on the National Archives website regarding restricted access to Archives II in College Park, Maryland. In a message on X (formerly Twitter), which we...

Many AHA members have expressed alarm about a posting by the National Archives about access restrictions at Archives II. In a message on X (formerly Twitter), the Archives has clarified that research rooms will remain open to the public. 🗃️(1/2)

There’s a weird thing on this website and lots of left-wing subcultures, where people love to throw around “liberal” as an insult, but from what I can tell liberals voted overwhelmingly against Cuomo and are rallying behind Zohran now.

The electrification imperative How a switch from burning fossil fuels to using electricity can unlock the full value of the energy transition

People inside (and outside) the energy world waste way too much time debating the merits of individual energy sources & technologies. The most important thing right now, which all our resources should be aligning behind, is ELECTRIFICATION.