Derek Fox

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

Every PA district to include Philly or Pittsburgh.

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

It is an absolute necessity that Democrats redistrict this way. Every state legislator Democrat who gives up the slightest bit of "fairness" on redistricting is inexcusably assisting the Republican party's assault on democracy.

This is what is happening right now.

This is actually hilarious 😆

Because that system also educated Americans and people with college degrees are less likely to vote for the GOP

We could pull off something close in PA with unified control and drawing every district to include part of Philly or Pittsburgh.

YES.

All surviving former IDF Chiefs of Staff, Mossad directors, Shin Bet Chiefs and Police Commissioners have issued a joint statement warning Israel that Netanyahu is leading the nation to unprecedented defeat. (Restart Israel)

Was only ever true for Republicans, anyway

"We will impeach and remove the president for his many crimes" seems like a good midterm election pitch to me idk

BREAKING: Texas House Democrats have fled the state to break quorum and stop the redistricting scheme. Minority Leader Gene Wu is declaring: This corrupt special session is over.

Democrats are now on their way to Illinois and will hold a press conference with Governor JB Pritzker at 7:15pm

Two things are simultaneously true: the Democratic Party needs gerrymandering to have any chance at holding the House and gerrymandering should be outlawed the moment they do

Mastercard: no no no, we didn't tell anyone to censor queer or adult stuff, we just don't like ILLEGAL stuff
Every App/company Mastercard forced to censor: They didn't speak to us directly, they had a related company tell us to remove our queer and adult games
Mastercard: SEE!

one of the most obvious lies imaginable (that wasn’t reported as such by our political press corps)

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and standing in front of a window . Alt: Colbert at WHCA 2006: “But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!”

“Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid… reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!”

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and standing in front of a window . Alt: Colbert at WHCA 2006: “But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!”

“Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid… reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!”

it’s almost like Trump was just lying about a bunch of shit to see what resonated with the rubes and the plan was to do project 2025 stuff all along

if only it had been possible for news orgs to do something other than take his bullshit at face value during the campaign

alas

He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.

Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.

A hugely important verdict.

The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks.

People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

The funding scramble: countries desperately seek HIV finance solutions How will countries fund and sustain their national HIV responses moving forward? This was a central question at the recent 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025) in ...

It is sickening that just when huge progress was being made in global HIV prevention, Trump pulled US funding.
If this hadn’t happened, we’d still be aiming to end new HIV cases by 2030.
Now that goal is further away than it was when Trump returned to power.
#IAS2025

Photo of a white diamond shaped object perched on a pole with a colorful clown face painted on it and swings dangling off of arms protruding to its left and right on a playground.

Close up photo of a white painted diamond with peeling paint and a brightly colored clown face on it.

Reasons to visit Bourbonnais, Illinois:
1. Creepy clown swing
2. Creepy clown swing (there are two swings on it)

Helloooo “upsides to corporate use of AI” I knew you had to be out there somewhere

The reason you don't give ground on trans rights - beyond the simple morality of it being wrong to do so - is because you don't give ground on rights period, and if you're willing to let it slide for one marginalized group it means everyone else is just a matter of price

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

A nontrivial chunk of chapter 3 The Originalism Trap is me being like, let me count the ways in which Shelby County reads like each of John Roberts's braincells were replaced by rocks. And also the rocks were racist.

It is amazing how originalism just disappears entirely when anything that conflicts with conservative political goals pops up. Even a casual glance at the intentions behind the 14th and 15th Amendments would make it clear what Congress can do, but somehow the magic Ouija board is in storage for it.

Haven’t read it and not inclined to credit every claim there made. But: Assuming every such claim to be true, what do you think would be the appropriate institutional sanction? $6 million, as paid in UCLA’s recent settlement? Or cessation of all Federal research funding?