Mark Fitzpatrick

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

Nicholas Xenos Obituary (1948 - 2025) - Amherst, MA - Daily Hampshire Gazette View Nicholas Xenos's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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I hardly look on Corey Robins page and undergrad was a lifetime ago but the one time I look at Robin's page I find out Nick Xenos, my undergrad advisor at UMass, died last March. Had no clue he passed. Very sad

Autism does not need to be cured

Ableism does

The end

Sept. 22, 2025, 5:46 p.m. ET3 hours ago Christina Jewett F.D.A. reporter My inbox is already lighting up. Arthur Caplan, the founding head of the division of medical ethics at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine, wrote: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies and dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science.”

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

I like this website for news and analysis but I can't keep up with personally micro blogging stuff.

It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it

Tweet from Ilya Shapiro: "Wait, is it the government that makes hiring/firing decisions at ABC?" responding to Chris Hayes saying: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.

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Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children?

Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado

"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?

Losing my goddamned mind.

We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

NY Times Editorial Board: America Mourns Charlie Kirk

These people are on another planet.

The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: “His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country.”

Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Fuck. The. Yankees.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.

10/10. Chef's kiss. No notes. 💯

JD Vance says he doesn't "give a shit" about being accused of a war crime

This is real, somehow

WNBA + Angela Davis?!! No wonder the authoritarians are afraid of women playing sports.

Back in the Rawls mines today. Found this nice little bit on love in ToJ: 'In general, to love another means not only to be concerned for his wants and needs, but to affirm his sense of the worth of his own person.' (p.406). Love requires positive care & encouragement to foster self-respect.

States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, Trump admin says The mandate comes just days after the Trump administration terminated funding for a sex education program in California.

The Trump administration directs 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C. to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding.

Cover of the July 2025 issue of "PS: Political Science & Politics" featuring a large, colorful Pride flag being carried by a group of people at a parade, indicating a special issue on LGBTQ+ scholarship in political science.

NEW ISSUE from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

PS: Political Science & Politics - Contemporary and Future LGBTQ+ Scholarship in Political Science - Volume 58 - Issue 3 - July 2025 - cup.org/45ivMQC

cc @apsa.bsky.social

Homeland Security & @DHSgov Uganda Man. 6:30 PM • 8/25/25 • 127K Views

They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived.

They’re simply fucking vile.

Greg, by VISUAL LEARNER 10 track album

Minneapolis-St.Paul scene is really interesting. This new record by Visual Learner is great indie pop punk from the Twin Cities

visuallearner.bandcamp.com/album/greg-2