Ryan Hubbs

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

@support.bsky.team why the hell did you suspend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social??

This is really concerning. If you’re suspending people like Sarah, what’s the point of even being on here?

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Will we wait to learn the nature of 21st century fascism until after this is all done? Or will we only rely on our understanding of 1930s fascism?

It’s utterly important we learn the history. It’s also important we understand how they’ve adapted to this moment.

Important words.

Thank you @attorneykate.bsky.social for this important post.

Trump threatening to essentially sanction Brazil for prosecuting an attempt to overturn an election is somehow a less subtle version of US-Latin America policy than the actual coups we did

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

So they want us to believe that people who were seeking work at Home Depot are a threat to our community?? The same people who suburban families invite into their homes to complete tiling and roofing projects?!
That’s who we’re supposed to fear and not the thugs in riot gear?!?

The inability or refusal of many to grapple with the horrors of this war, which is aided and supported by the U.S., is simply a moral failure. This administration could end it if it decided to. The strategic costs are a secondary consideration.

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity

we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that

what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

Initially I couldn’t tell if it was plaid chaps or a denim codpiece 😂

@CNN You assert in your headline that students protesting a brutal gen*cide - one that includes the murder of tens of thousands of children - is intrinsically “anti-Israel” rather than anti-gen*cide.

Your assertion seems far more “anti-Israel” than students protesting gen*cide does. #wakeup

Thinking you’re going to get an apology and remorse from the people who voted for this is like thinking your narcissistic parent is going to apologize for your childhood. These people think not apologizing or acknowledging regret is a virtue. And additionally, a form of image control.

Not to be confused with grief at gaining weight, also known as svelte loss

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Anyone else find it ironic that the party who hates drag queens is led by an plump, hair and makeup obsessed octogenarian and a VP who wears so much eyeliner he constantly looks like he’s on his way to auditioning for a spot with a Cure cover band? 🙄

Time it took Republican administrations to crash a thriving economy:

- GWB: 7.5 years
- Trump 1: 3.5 years
- Trump 2: 2 months

Who says the GOP isn’t progressive? 😂

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Democracy dies via craven, opportunistic oligarchic simping

Post by Yuval Abraham, announcing what has been done to Hamdan Ballal.

NO OTHER LAND directors.

One of the co-directors of NO OTHER LAND, Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and seized by Israeli soldiers from the ambulance Ballal called, per co-director Yuval Abraham. No one knows where Ballal is. (Ballal is second from right in the below photo.)

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

Gnocchi a la Titus Andronicus

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

#Mood