Julia Bascom

If you don’t think you know anyone with long covid what you really mean is that people are uncomfortable sharing their health status with you or there are people who have dropped out of your life (due to illness) that you haven’t checked up on.

Hey @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov it’s not to late to issue a statement saying you regret confirming Kristi Noem to lead DHS.

Your colleagues Sen. Kaine and Sen. Kim did.

In other words, the backsliding is real and serious. This is perhaps the most unfavorable that the public has been toward trans rights in quite some time. Republicans have successfully and effectively exploited several flashpoint issues, like sports, in order to shift public opinion in their direction, while progressives have been unable to effectively muster persuasive arguments. Some of this may be down to an unwillingness to even entertain a debate, in an unsuccessful effort to maintain a unified front. Progressive activists and organizations have often been confrontational when challenged with dissenting views, leading critics to claim that these tactics left little room for actual debate. The net result, however, is the worst-case scenario for progressives and trans individuals alike, as a previously sympathetic public’s support of trans rights has completely unraveled over the last decade.

The anti-trans side made bomb threats to children's hospitals. They spent a billion dollars messaging this over the last 7 years while the Dems mostly stayed silent or ducked away. But somehow, they always seem to blame trans people for their own persecution.

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The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

They gave clippy the ability to lie and somehow that’s worth a trillion dollars and the entire economy is now based on it 🤷‍♂️

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

I explained gay in like two seconds, that was easy, and then she asked me to explain electricity

I'm glad rich people have Tamogotchis now but if they're not going to devote their lives to ending hunger, homelessness and genocide, maybe they should go to the ASPCA and do something worthwhile but 1% harder.

Is there some scifi book about rich people assigning computers agency and "sadness" so they can fix the computer "sadness" but ignore the suffering of the real-life people they're brutalizing and/or ignoring?

Anyway, either way, it's a website, it doesn't have feelings, and none of this is real.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

Expedited deportation proceedings for a preschooler in a bunny hat www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

No reporter should give him credit for this. He absolutely did this intentionally.

It’s a common anti-vax talking point that a combination of vaccines might cause autism.

And it’s something Bhattacharya has previously suggested on a podcast.

“Any single vaccine” is the key phrasing here.

And it’s deliberate. See, Bhattacharya cannot acknowledge the truth that vaccines do not cause autism—indeed the idea that they do is based on fraudulent research—without alienating his anti-vax friends with whom he made a devil’s bargain for power.

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

this is mangled. i’d been thinking about olympics reporters in my sportscentric anger but this is evil

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

If you live in the DC area, you should definitely do this

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

This is good.

There is no reforming ICE or Chuck Schumer, both need to be defunded for the safety of the American people.

Common sense is abolish ice

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story. "I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.

The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the U.S. for two decades. He had a single misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

constitutional law knowerers love to go “you know, i don’t agree but the Right and Honorable Gentleman makes an interesting argument” and the argument is, like, “actually the constitution was written on Opposite Day”

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism.

As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.

Block/mute this argument, it's an op.

This is a definition that has literally nothing to do with working or class.

This is where the comparisons to 2020 really fail. That time was very tense, yes, but we knew who the enemy were and they wore uniforms.

Here? They're fucking everywhere. That's the point.