Gretchen Kelly

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

I know we all get over-involved in the soap opera that is American politics, but for most of the world, at an extremely fundamental level, there is zero. fucking. difference. between Republicans and Democrats.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

Link to study published Feb 2026 in the Lancet about data from the NIH RECOVER study on Long Covid in children:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Photo of NIH study about Long Covid in children, "These findings reinforce an urgent message that children can develop LC not only after an initial infection, but also after reinfection... new evidence that reinfections can trigger or worsen this chronic condition... the societal burden is set to grow.

Maybe believe the NIH? Estimated at least 6 million kids disabled by Long COVID in the US, repeat infections dramatically increase the risk. You are spreading harmful disinformation. Always fun to dunk on a marginalized group though, right?

Surveys are definitely more accurate than studies 🙄 There is a mountain of research on the downstream impact of covid infections, including Long Covid. If you weren't so invested in mocking disabled people, you might learn about the many impediments to diagnosis of post viral conditions.

Made an annotated version of "Something Big Is Coming" for all of you to enjoy. I hate this guy's writing so much
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qw6k5...

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

Hey, Democrat members of Congress, every single one of you need to spend the recess in Minneapolis as legal observers and meeting with the people. Draw more news outlets, go live on the streets, be witness to the atrocities. I dare you.

I live in the Bible Belt and I've noticed the same thing.

Yep. And far too often doctors feel animosity towards patients who don't fit into (often outdated) diagnostic criteria. The best doctors are humble and willing to admit they don't know what they don't know.

I'm so sorry. And yeah, sounds about right 💔

This is the thing; we should be able to analyze accommodations as threatening not only established and well defended hierarchies of ability but also race, gender and class.
What people allegedly worried about ‘too many accommodations’ are really concerned about is the dilution of their privilege

Disabled people being denied accommodations is a far bigger issue than "pretenders gaming the system." It's deep and systemic. Many disabled people face obstacles to even getting a diagnosis, which is required for accommodations. We have to stop focusing on everything but the actual problem.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Fugees rapper says lawyer's use of AI helped tank his case, pushes for new trial The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment.

Pras' (The Fugees) lawyer used a generative AI program to write closing arguments, mixing up key facts in the case and quoting a Diddy lyric from "I'll Be Missing You."

It would be funny if AI fails didn't have such disastrous consequences.

apnews.com/article/fuge...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

This is what oligarchy looks like:

If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.

If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.

Obscene.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

This is important, and it's also important that we use accurate words for what ICE agents are doing. Every one of them needs to be charged with kidnapping. Charged w child abuse for tear gassing kids, attempted murder for hitting people with cars, etc. NO MERCY.

Abolishing ice and prosecuting those ICE officials and employees who commit these crimes must be the baseline for the Democratic Party going forward. Anyone who does not adopt this basic stance is OK with you or your neighbors being kidnapped by masked men and must be driven from political life.

Free childcare is arguably the most impactful policy when it comes to equity for women, safety of children, and lifting families out of poverty.

DON'T TEMPT US WITH A GOOD TIME ALAN

All I want for Christmas is for Ed to pepper Sam Altman with a barrage of bullshit-slicing questions.

Pulling out receipts like it's a Real Housewives reunion.

"Guidelines now focus on early adoption of the technology by students and schoolchildren. But what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot?" - Luc Steels, AI pioneer