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xckd coming of a flowchart. The top reads "someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen?" A diamond-shape says "start" and one arrow leads to a box reading "NO" in very large letters, followed by "(there are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever DOES figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world's seismologists will not shut up about it. You won't need this flowchart."

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Trump: "Groceries -- it's an old fashioned word but it's a beautiful word."

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet.

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This is still a democracy. I'll be damned if we're gonna just give these pathetic fascists power they don't have.

Back for Day 2 of Sandwich Guy’s trial. In government opening statement: “This case is about the fact that you can’t go around throwing stuff at people when you’re mad.”

It’s enraging the extent to which the corporate media is not relentlessly covering and showing this brutality.

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

The leading cause of death?

Covid-19

Reports @motherjones.com

Don't be scared, kids! Linguists aren't real

on the flip side when dems take power it could be the codification of trans rights nationally. is it worth the three (or more) years of pain given it’s still a very uphill battle for dems to retake the senate? it would be horrible for the rights of trans people to whiplash back and forth…sigh

Instagram post from Stop AAPI HAte; horrific new details emerge about CBP's unlawful detainment of u.s. permanent resident returning from south korea. reports detail how CBP trapped tae heung "will" kim under inhumane conditions for over eight days at an airport. officers moved kim several times to "confuse and disorient him" kept the lights on at all times, gave him minimal food and no bed--forcing hi to sleep on a row of chairs.

will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.

Every single Trump trade negotiation:

why do we think a climate change hoax democrat would lose by less than 20?

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

Here’s Marty’s brief:

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

a great read that was really understandable. thank you!

Again: Tylenol carries no added risk for autism.

I review the evidence and dive hard into the math: samwang.substack.com/p/tylenol-ca...

what does “regular forces” mean? has anyone posted about it?

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

An America centibillionaire is using the $44 billion media platform he owns to stoke political violence in the UK in cahoots with a Malaysian shitposter but Americans are supposed to believe that a handful of six figure grants by George Soros to anti-racist NGOs will end Western Civilization.

"The question we need to consider is not just “how does good journalism survive” but how can journalism model survival? Personally, I believe the way forward looks like collectives and worker-owned publications. "

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ah, this guy was taken alive, unharmed, and there hasn't been an all-hands-on-deck freakout about What It Means. Guess the demographic!