Dr. Beth Rohlman

I mean, if you can honestly watch videos of the unicorn dance party protests in Portland and still be worried you don’t know how to act collectively, that is a failure of your own imagination.

This made me spit my coffee. Which I suppose is the best way to learn of such horrifying news.

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

Unfortunately, our premier in Alberta is doing her best to disprove this statement.

But I do find it particularly cringy that clearly he doesn’t know Carney himself has an enby child. Yikes.

"Blue medical masks and cloth masks are great at helping a sick person keep their germs to themselves. 🚨Only a proper fitting respirator, like an N95, KN95 or CAN95, protects the wearer from germs, especially diseases like COVID-19 and measles, which travel through the air."

😮 Pigs flew today!

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

YouTube video by pmw8000 Murrow on McCarthy, no fear, 1954

cbs news going from edward r murrow to bari weiss is a hell of a journey, and not in a good way. good night, and good luck youtu.be/vEvEmkMNYHY

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors.

They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

Pics of the day

#photography

Agreed.

This feels like it should be a bigger story. Anyone who was there knows the CBC estimate is laughably low. Where are these numbers coming from?

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15164269/south-carolina-judge-beachfront-home-arson-fire.html

Fire was yesterday (Saturday morning), but yeah. Weird how little news coverage there has been, given it was a judge's house & she'd just ruled against the Trump regime.

More pics: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

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It'd be really cool if we could have clean air in my kid's kindergarten. Is that asking too much?

I’m in year 18 at a PSI where most of my students work & live in multi generational households.

There’s an obvious difference in the class room between students who couldn’t get through the reading due to work/family & those who were so overwhelmed at reading more than 3 sentences they didn’t try.

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique.

If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you.

Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

Trump offers universities a choice: Comply for preferential funding Who needs peer review? Plan offers easier grants to schools that agree to limits.

Ars article comments have a reputation as being some of the better ones on the web, and I often come away from them having learned something. But even given those high standards, this one's really exceptional - I'm smarter for having read it:

Having now read the Administration's proposed compact with universities, I have two thoughts:
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.

New Tron movie looks pretty co - aw, shit is Jared Leto in this? Saint John, New Brunswick - Initial excitement over the latest entry in Disney’s sci-fi Tron franchise was ruined when it was discovered it also stars Jared Leto. During a recent family movie night, a...

New Tron movie looks pretty co - aw, shit is Jared Leto in this?

So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook. We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us. The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available. To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

If you’re noticing a parallel between the way people in the administration are demeaning most Americans and the way your boss is now treating you, you are in very good company. (Tyranny in government begets tyranny at work begets tyranny in the home.)

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Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

The kids are not alright.

They need the adults to do the right thing.

They need us to acknowledge the very real threat of Long Covid, and start taking steps to mitigate the risk.

We urgently need to adopt mandatory masking in healthcare, paid time off & clean air in public spaces:

Reagan can be best understood as white voters rejecting the New Deal if they had to share it with Black people