Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her)

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

These people want legal clearance for murder at scale, and they can just say it out loud, in public. Meanwhile, in here, if we get a little colorful expressing our derision for these monsters, the ban-hammer finds us with a pointed quickness.

YouTube video by Kate Pierson "People Have The Power" - Kate Pierson Featuring Uniting Voices Chicago

Here's a real mood lifter: Kate Pierson of the B-52's teams up with Uniting Voices Chicago (formerly known as the Chicago Children's Choir) to perform a joyous, dance-pop version of Patti Smith's anthem "People Have the Power."

Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
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Part of what’s so frustrating about the right wing attack on “DEI” is that it cornered us into fighting for a weak framework whose Implementation was overrun by deeply morally bankrupt people

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Religion in the U.S.

Immigration

Evanston church’s Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...

15 House Dems joined Republicans in voting to effectively block the Small Business Administration from issuing new regulations:

Cuellar
Davis
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gottheimer
Gray
Landsman
Lee (NV)
McDonald Rivet
Min
Perez
Ryan
Stevens
Whitesides

Sen. Moreno’s Bill Seeks to End Dual Citizenship in U.S. The Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025 would prohibit holding US citizenship and that of another country. Failure to renounce results in automatic loss of US citizenship.

On December 1, 2025, Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) introduced the Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025. The bill would prohibit any person from simultaneously holding U.S. citizenship and citizenship of another country.

Yet again I cry to the heavens, please yeet Schumer, Jeffries and the Vichy Democrats into the Sun.

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.

Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Jeffries cheering on Trump's pardon of Cuellar is particularly grotesque because...like, what did Cuellar promise Trump? he's a D rep, sure, but trump just pardoned him. is he going to fight trump's illegality now? he's in trump's debt; why is the speaker of the house enthusiastic about that?!

Stop letting 12-year-olds make consequential decisions on behalf of millions.

All STEM and no arts totally bankrupts people's minds and they don't even realize it

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They also seem blissfully unaware of how grotesque and repulsive they are.

USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts.

If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet

AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

'Mankeeping' Is Building Resentment In Straight Relationships. And Women Are Finally Talking About It. Men deserve opportunities to be vulnerable. But women are not an infinite resource for managing the emotions of men.

Arguably, its been talked abt for decades, is it finally a sustained discussion because women are, in numbers, rejecting emotional labor as asymmetrical gendered duty?

“If we want to interrupt this spiral, we must stop asking women to keep absorbing the damage"

www.huffpost.com/entry/mankee...

And this is (one of many) reasons why the humanities should be funded.

We're doing pogroms in America now

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The Goat is up!

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