John Flournoy

Two cover pages of a zine in pink with text, one with a monochrome photo of a white nun playing football, the other with two young Black women laughing

Shocking Pink (1980's) feminist zine by a collective of young women in London, predating riot grrrl era #womensart

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Home of the baltiman

In case you weren't aware, prior to the ACA, it was functionally impossible to get health insurance as a trans person. I mean flat out. They considered being transgender a "pre-existing condition" and would simply not issue individual insurance. So either you had employer-issued insurance, or nada.

A visualisation of global biodiversity intactness

#30DayMapChallenge · Day 25 · Hexagons. Global biodiversity intactness.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

It's blatant vindictive prosecution and everyone involved from Halligan to Bondi to Trump need to be sued.

Indeed they did.

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

This is horrible news.

www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Software engineering needs a reckoning and a professionalism. It needs actual teeth with which individual workers can use to push back and say "no, I won't put my name on this work". It needs the structure in place for software to be held to a standard of quality befitting its societal criticality

Pete Hegseth is just a piece of shit and RFK Jr. is just a pile of weird smelling garbage.

Addiction isn’t the reason for these truths.

You’ll note lots of people have substance use problems and don’t endeavor to start wars and bring back eradicated diseases to kill many thousands of children!

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

"I would like to [submit to the patriarchy] one day"

Big report at Law Dork tonight on this decision — and much more on DOJ’s anti-trans attacks: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA IN RE: SUBPOENA NO. 25-1431-014 : MISCELLANEOUS ACTION : : NO. 25-39 MEMORANDUM KEARNEY,J. November 21, 2025 Our elected Congresspersons granted the Department of Justice limited authority in 1996 to investigate federal health care offenses involving the labeling and distribution of prescription drugs. The Department of Justice is now investigating the labeling and distribution of prescribed clinically authorized puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It subpoenaed fifteen categories of records from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia including billing and insurance records, communications with manufacturers and sales representatives, and the names and complete medical and psychological records of children receiving gender-affirming care. The Hospital agrees to produce most of the requested materials. But it objects to producing the identities of its child patients and their families along with their confidential medical files. Its objection requires we study two questions: whether Congress authorized a subpoena for the children's confidential medical records, and, if so, whether the children's privacy interests outweigh the Department of Justice's need for these confidential medical records under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. We find the answer to both questions is "no." We strike the three requests for these child- identifying and treatment and disclosure records as beyond the authority granted by Congress. We also find, even if this private information could be relevant, the heightened privacy interests of children and their families substantially outweighs the Department's need to know the children's names, addresses, and treatment along with disclosures for gender-affirming care at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Very expensive Apple TV Sim City 2000 adaptation

I dunno, what's clinically relevant mean here? What are adverse effects? Headache?

Anyway I'm not giving medical advice.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚

A digital portrait of Aquilops americanue - a small herbivorous dinosaur, related to triceratops. It has a small boney frill behind its head, with tiny quills sprouting from it. Its beaked jaws have a distinctive spike jutting forward, which may have been used to forage for food.

The real “Dolores”? I was recently commissioned to create a pencil sketch of Aquilops - a dinosaur which I’d never really paid proper attention to. In the l course of my research I became a bit obsessed and felt compelled to also create this more detailed illustration as a personal project.
#SciArt

And if I recall correctly grapefruit is pretty weak. You have to eat a lot or be on high doses. Don't skip the rec of your doc but...

Also noting that national security Dems are not the best of us. But this was an awesome troll.

Congressional Democrats who served in the military’s video reminding US personnel they have a duty to refuse illegal orders, and lawmakers will get their back if they have to, was very good.

And as @gregsargent.bsky.social notes, it jammed Mike Johnson, who’s been thwarting Congressional oversight.

Very quick and painless

2/ CIA Acting General Counsel, a career lawyer, "was among those who had raised questions about the legality of the agency’s use of lethal force."

What happened next?

CIA Deputy Director Ellis stepped in to become acting General Counsel and still hold his policy position. He then approved the ops.

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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Mike Males is hugely underappreciated in dev psych.

Full post:

mikemales.substack.com/p/social-med...

Like hey folks adolescents are basically like other people and those who are becoming adults at the bottom of the ladder are struggling and one way that shows up is risk taking.

My favorite paper of his has to do with adolescent risk taking. You know how adolescents are reward sensitive maniacs right. Well turns out things like unintentional injury or maybe it was minor crime I dunno, but was driven by a huge ses gradient.

Mike Males has been one of the adolescent development goats for so long and I don't feel like he toots his own horn that much. He's just a guy quietly looking at the data in clear eyed ways.

well, id like to see ol Zohlo Mamdani charm his way out of THIS trap!

*Mamdani charms his way out of the trap effortlessly*

ah. well. nevertheless,