EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

“Go talk to a librarian”
“No, it’s too slow.”

Who needs to think about topics or actually do research when you can ask an LLM to give you an answer plausible enough that you feel satisfied regardless of the actually truth?

(A lot of very smart people, sadly.)

This is Frey’s entire plan to deal with the massive housing crisis his veto is about to cause.

rep Delia Ramirez is currently proposing that the money from defunding ice should go to affected communities. that would be a good start.

Also Juno and Rebel can both apparently get official comment

Juno News can get a reply from an IRCC spokesperson (www.junonews.com/p/immigratio...), but Jeremy can't. Huh!

"It was the bombing of the oil depots in Tehran, with millions of residents, that has led to this sort of horrific, apocalyptic reality ... releasing plumes of toxic smoke, rain coming down through the smoke and then carrying those toxins onto people, onto the environment, into soil, into water."

The bright red critical word in this is "Schmittian", which is the core of this whole thing. Carl Schmitt, as much as any single person, laid the ideological foundations of Nazi political methodology and the ways that the right can subvert and capture liberal democracies. They're all nazis at heart.

The US has extremely low fuel taxes compared to other countries

The federal gas tax hasn't been raised by 1993

People justify not investing in biking and walking infrastructure because the US is a "users-pay" transportation system

When we've already been subsidizing drivers for decades

a group of people standing next to each other in front of a wall with paintings on it . Alt: "Jason figured it out? Jason? This is a real low."

I feel like Ted Danson's character in The Good Place except I'm pointing at Iran and saying, "Dubya figured it out? Dubya!?"

Because even George W. Bush looked at that cost-benefit and thought, "y'know, no, that's not a good idea."

And we all know what he thought DID look like a good idea.

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

nonlinear dynamics: not fun, actually

I’m so over the persistent mindset of the medical comm’y not wanting to “panic” patients/the public when it comes to health concerns/threats.

Have you ever seen a woman manage stressful situations? Those are our wheelhouse!

Give us the info until WE decide it’s too much.

@drjengunter.bsky.social

The ADL is an anti-Palestinian hate group, not a civil rights organization.

The staff in my transplant center don’t mask. But they clap and say good job when I mask.

The Big Strong Mayor throwing the most vulnerable people in our city to the wolves. Shame on him. Blood on his hands.

In assessing the nyt, I looked at publisher AG Sulzberger’s own words in an interview w David Remnick in ‘23. He defended its trans coverage while acknowledging there are “bad faith actors who are trying to undermine trans people and attack trans rights”

What kind of actor has the nyt been?🧵

Regardless I am fully confident there will be better scholars than her to broach the subject

I have zero faith Stock has done a good job of the argument but at the very least the concerns mentioned by her fan here have been repeatedly observed in Canada, which has a MAiD system with disturbingly low guard rails

An emergency

The Independent presumably reports on this as a victory lap

A.S.Neil kind of settled the question on how to treat adolescents with a developing sexuality (by acknowledging this is a natural and healthy development, not trying to delay it, and providing safety tips) like 80 years ago, but alas, people have memory holed him.

The conservative conception of sex education and safeguarding is to basically The Village (2004) children about the existence of sexuality, as if you could preempt sexual impulses through ignorance, and the idea of age verification, to the slim extent it's honest, is downstream from that.

In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation Practitioners nationwide are striving to do what’s best for children’s health, while staying supportive in the face of mistrust and confusion.

The rise in vaccine hesitancy has hit a critical point, with nearly 1 in 6 parents now skipping routine shots.
It’s impacting basic care like Vitamin K: 3 infant deaths in Idaho linked to refusal. We're in a climate where "logic is no longer part of the discussion."
#MedSky #PedSky

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

The barriers to UBI are 100% political. It's good economic policy, it's cheaper than mitigating the results of poverty, it's better by almost every measurable metric than any means tested support. But it completely shifts the balance of power from owners to workers.

UBI Proposal

i got weird and legal with it

anyway this is a ubi bill. we should just pass it.

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

But there's also the question about who exactly is pushed into what corner by calling things by their true names. And who's drawn forth by the demonstration of boldness and solidarity. Victims of racism are not the ones who shut down when racism is identified, etc.