Jackie C.

tweet from RFK Jr: "Medical decisions should be based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person -- never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science, and speak the truth without fear of punishment"

oh man such great news! guess we're re-legalizing abortions

A fun campaign event that makes a point about an everyday thing that's important to New Yorkers? Yeah, you can see why Democratic leaders don't like this guy. Cory Booker's idea of fun is voting to make Jared Kushner's father ambassador to France.

embed "A.i." in education and you let transphobes and fascists and racists control the responses your students get. you let fascists poison their minds and delete actual US history.

it's shameful and evil.

sounds like trash!

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

Trump moves to bar nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs hospitals The Trump administration is moving to end nearly all abortions at Veterans Affairs medical facilities, overturning a Biden-era policy that sought to protect access.

President Trump is attempting to strip veterans of their right to access care, his latest attack against women's reproductive freedom.

This underscores exactly why we must codify abortion protections into federal law. I'll keep fighting to make it happen.

The thing is, protecting women from imaginary rapists lets you control women. If you were protecting them from real rapists you might also have to alter the behavior of men

Buttigieg has doubled down on his “leave the issue of trans kids in sports up to communities.”

To reiterate: This means leaving civil rights up to localities, abdicating the role of the federal government.

School districts controlled by Moms for Liberty extremists will be free to discriminate.

Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

People interpret young men not going to college as much as a sign that young men are in trouble, but in reality it's a sign of their greater privilege.

Young men are more likely to think they can get a better deal than college than young women.

this is a disgrace and a national shame

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

Democrats: even though you voted against us, here's free money for your emergency alert system.

Kerr County GOP: fuck you and fuck your money, you fucking commies.

:::disaster strikes, the GOP fucks up the response:::

Mark Cuban: DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO MORE!

Heard someone on MSNBC say republicans might lose voters because “people vote on what affects them, not what offends them” and reader, I swear to gods if democrats keep saying this kind of shit we are fucking cooked.

Screenshot of a tweet from Senator Grassley: "2day is natl whistleblower day Too often whistleblowers are treated like skunks at a picnic they r patriotic ppl trying to keep GOVT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PPL"

A little raw, after all the whistleblowers — well-corroborated ones — were treated like skunks at the Emil Bove confirmation picnic.

Imagine, instead, that Pete said that "Segregationists have some legitimate concerns" or "Misogynists make some good points."

Would that be something we have to tolerate? If not, why is throwing the trans community under the bus any different?

The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

If we just believed the dozens of women who have told us exactly what happened, we wouldn’t need any files released.

They told us. But no one just believed them, even when they came forward, one after another, after another, after another.

They literally narrated the Epstein Files.
#BelieveWomen

Trump says Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre, a heartless and revealing admission | Opinion Without a hint of empathy, Donald Trump said his former close friend Jeffrey Epstein 'stole' a teenage Mar-a-Lago spa worker named Virginia Giuffre.

'He stole her': Trump degrades Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre. She wasn't property.

“Claiming a 16-year-old girl who fell into the hands of sex traffickers was stolen from you is the kind of thinking that makes sex trafficking possible.”

My column:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

We're all born needing full time care, and most of us will also die needing full time care. In the middle, there's a range, but no one is independent and the idea that those being cared for are a drain on our resources rather than the exact intended recipients of those resources is fucking depraved.

A key tactic in an abusive relationship is for the abuser to take things away from you for no reason and then expect you to be grateful to them when they give you back what was always rightfully yours to begin with

I feel like a broken record but the president doesn't have legal authority to do this

The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman

Absolutely serious: Angus King should resign for this. Inexcusable.

For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”