BradynDraconis

There are more disabled people who are pretending to be healthy so that you don’t judge us or think us incapable than there are healthy people pretending to be disabled. If you find yourself questioning whether someone is really disabled, you’re doing the work of the oppressor. #disability

I hope you appreciate by now that if you see the White House doing Nazi shit, then it is not a mistake.

Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

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When We Fight Trump We Can Win - 2025's Most Important Lesson Republicans are growing weary of "defending the indefensible"

HOPIUM CHRONICLES: When We Fight Trump We Can Win - 2025's Most Important Lesson www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/when-we-fi...

Mark Kelly Calls Pete Hegseth a Child “Playing Army” The Democratic senator tore into Hegseth and Donald Trump.

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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

No, you should never accept to even contemplate collaborating with the far right

It might protect you for a while if you're privileged enough but it will only legitimise them and put many communities at risk as well as democracy

I can't believe we are at the stage when this has to be said...

Watching the most comfortable men on the planet stroke their chins and wonder aloud "Mayhap these christofascists have made a convincing argument within the bounds of sensible and civilised debate!" as said christofascists burn the rest of us alive is getting real old.

How novel, a racist snipe on top of a factually inaccurate comment.

Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

Nature Begins Reclaiming Chuck Grassley

Arkansas is wild. I just got done meeting a bloomf, then I stopped at a gas station to refuel and continue on my way. And in the bathroom, I heard a coming of Christ person cold calling people advertising his church while there’s a line outside waiting to use the single poop stall

The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls, deflecting criticism with crassness and obscenity. The White House press secretary answers a question from a member of the free press a serious question about who planned a meeting between the American and Russian presidents-by saying, "Your mom did." The secretary of defense cancels DEI and other policies by saying, "We are done with that shit." The vice president calls an interlocutor on social media a "dipshit." The president of the United States, during mass protests against his policies, responds by posting an AI-generated video of himself flying a jet fighter over his fellow citizens and dumping feces on their heads. Anne Applebaum: Why Trump turned to the sewer These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs-including the presidency-for which they are not qualified.

“Trump has attracted acolytes by being the patron saint of the third string.” -Tom Nichols

Recommend reading this article.

This is a good description of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives who hate what he hates. “A Con man”. Canada has a very ill opposition political party, but that sickness can be purged if their true focus flips all Canadians.

Governments don't say they're fascists. They just declare that people against fascism are their enemy, and you have to be smart enough to put 2 and 2 together before it's too late.

Even if we get Trump and the GOP out of government those that are left have to be petitioned to do the right thing.

We have to force the hand of the system. That was our mistake last time.

The US is not party to The Rome Statute, so the ICC cannot try any sitting or even former US president. The American Service Members Protection Act prohibits US govt assistance to the ICC and authorizes the president to use military to free any American held by the ICC.

www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-th...

American Service-Members' Protection Act - Wikipedia

Not the answer you want.

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it's hardly debatable

The UN has been alerted by other countries and this happened
City of Chicago :: Mayor Brandon Johnson Testifies On Trump Administration’s Immigration Raids, SNAP Cuts Before United Nations Human Rights Council share.google/SvhegEApRt7X...

Is there any way for a normal person to file UN charges for war crimes against a rogue president?

It is cool, it is always a good time to be mad at that douche, for any reason.

I understand that as a politician, you can’t please everyone. It’s impossible. But you shouldn’t prioritise pleasing assholes. That’s doable.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

What the fuck does weird depression anthems and pedophile cults have to do with running the government of the goddamn United...oh...

#bookclub #reading #bookworm #readers #bookgroups #librarians #library #bannedbooks #publishersweekly #bookreview #bibliophile #reader #resist #Booksky

Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S. Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.

Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. trib.al/DbzlAFv

X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...