🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀

Trans people have warned for years that these anti-trans policies would hurt far more than just trans people.

A case of this magnitude, involving so many powerful figures—yet people died, the case was buried, and only then did the bank “remember” to report it? This kind of power shielding corruption is infuriating.

I got this question a *lot* when I wore my Topatoco 'Ask me about my conspiracy theories' shirt to a bar in Cambridge, Mass. I haven't put on that shirt since.

Happy Halloween, the holiday that reminds us that it’s fun and cool to give every child a welfare benefit

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Neat!!!!!

One of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps is coming to Boston.

A 35MW system will use energy from the Charles River and deliver steam to heat more than 70 million square feet of buildings across Boston and Cambridge — hospitals, schools, homes, and businesses alike.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Overheard on NPR this morning from a Maryland Democrat at a town hall: "I think they should hold out as long as possible. It's clear whose shutdown this is. The Republicans hold all the leverage and all the cards, and if we back out now then we're just showing the party has no backbone."

once again posting The Chart

How do you like my little boat?
This is the way the pioneers took to other settlements
We'll be there in ten minutes
You can see the lanterns from here
When we get there, we'll go upstairs and make free long-distance phone-calls

A bat is squished/held in a light-colored leather mitt or pouch. It has a squiggly, wrinkled face, with a nose that resembles a leaf, and wide ears that frame small black eyes. CREDIT: Maleen Mund, iNaturalist

It's Halloween 🎃! Let's learn about some scary Texas critters.

First up, the Ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla). The genus name means "hideous-faced monster" in Greek, and first of all: hurtful.

The 'ghost-face' is a sonar dish, a directional range-finder.

(📷: Maleen Mund, iNaturalist)

Happy Halloween 👻

Anyone who wants to argue needs to post an example of media in which a right winger makes a good-faith effort to listen to and understand the rest of us.

This looks like a concentration camp.

I genuinely do not and never will understand how people work themselves up into being angry about non assimilationist groups of people in the US. Like I just straight up don't care and to the extent I do I often just think it's actually kind of cool.

Noted with thanks. I ought to have said 'leftist'.

Re LRS, I RS a lot about cops on here because literally stating the things cops do makes you sound like an insane person, but after we abolish police as we know them there will still be violence and there will still be systematic property crime and we will need to do something about them.

police refusal to act on stuff like this - stolen phones in central london, buried in a known location daily to be retrieved later - is really corrosive to any sense of public trust.

Drugs are expensive. No one is putting them in your kid’s candy.

Can’t believe I’ve gotten to October 30 without seeing a “stoners are trying to give your kids free drugs” post on social media. Guess my filters are working???

if you believe that a better world is possible, you may be tarred as a doomer, because achieving a better world involves calling attention to what is wrong with this one.

your very optimism is called pessimism, particularly by people for whom the current world is more than comfortable.

Yup. Second-generation PMC myself.

i have had a piece rattling around in my brain for months about how the political is personal, the antisocial nature of current politics, and how this is particularly amplified as government services that prop up social fabric continue to be stripped away

Just got an email from Jacobin telling me that I'm being lied to about Graham Platner; of course the left journal run by a PMC-as-fuck cohort constantly trying to steal working-class valor is going to bat for the guy like there are no other DSA members in Maine. Let it go, folks.

Andrew Cuomo Is A Future Of The Democratic Party | Defector There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do not live in New York City can hear you. This is not just because the people ...

I wrote this back in June, but I stand by the assessment of the significance of this election and the threat represented by this increasingly rancid and useless establishment. I know NYC politics is exhausting and stupid, but it's going to be a lot of this, everywhere. defector.com/andrew-cuomo...