Mary Kenyon

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Why are farmers in the United States "facing very difficult times," Secretary Rollins?

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Triple-drug therapy for cystic fibrosis - Lasker Foundation Jesús (Tito) González, Paul A. Negulescu, Michael J. Welsh

That research was just awarded one of the highest prizes in science.

laskerfoundation.org/winners/comb...

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism'

We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman

Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

Yes, do this.

"You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country.

Funny how that works.

basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit

IT DOESN’T

IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL

IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW

IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

Oh I have been waiting on this one.

"Democrats don't want the Epstein files released because it would compromise Bill Clinton."

Yeah, no, I don't care who's in the files. If Bill Clinton is implicated, I want him held accountable. I'm not part of a cult. I don't give a shit if they're a Democrat.

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control!

GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!”

GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control

GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!”

GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.

It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

NYT headline: How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost Here's the inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

People all over the place appear to have lost their entire minds about school closures during the pandemic rather than losing their entire minds about MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING DURING THE PANDEMIC

What is wrong with everyone

Gentle reminder to anyone who needs it today: The more you use technology to replace the things you used to do for for yourself, the less you will be able to do them. That goes for writing, walking, thinking, communicating, making things, and all the things humans used to be pretty good at.

Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

I’m not naive. I live in a state that has gone red since 2016 and doesn’t have a ballot measure process. I truly don’t understand why voters who support progressive measures like this don’t just vote for legislators who will enact them.

When male lawmakers pass these bathroom laws, they’re thinking of what they would do if they had access to the women’s bathroom, not what trans women do in the women’s bathroom…

RETAIL Target cuts sales outlook as retailer blames tariff uncertainty and backlash to DEl rollback PUBLISHED WED, MAY 21 2025•12:01 AM EDT UPDATED 5 MIN AGO Melissa Repko @IN/MELISSA-REPKO @MELISSA_REPKO WATCH LIVE KEY POINTS • Target missed first-quarter revenue estimates as transactions fell, and the retailer cut its full-year sales outlook.

It’s pretty remarkable just how thoroughly Target got its shit wrecked for the anti-DEI stuff
www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/t...

your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future