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The Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries are now headed to Game 6 of the WNBA Finals. And the teams’ fans will get to enjoy this nailbiter over either a sad desk salad or perhaps a coffee and bagel. https://bit.ly/4i6IPv4

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

There’s a home in my neighborhood in Indianapolis that already has a big Brazilian flag and a skeleton dressed in a Lula ⭐️ shirt as part of their Halloween display 🇧🇷

Making it a breakfast game for GSV fans (and I consider myself a Dream fan!) is just wrong, man… they could win the championship during your 11am meeting. But what do I know, it IS the Hawks and it IS the second week of the NBA season and it’s important not to even potentially make the men feel bad!

This is how I know what we’re doing is working: they’re now mad that education exists.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Ohio doing more to resist rape/childhood sexual assault than… *checks notes*… all major American news outlets combined?

Mique and Spoon is a law firm I would trust and hire

Currently trying to get my pregnant friends to consider “Ilya” as a gender neutral (Americanized) name and wondering on how many fronts I am participating in violence

NJ trans advocate uses time behind bars to help others reenter society newjerseymonitor.com/videos/forme...

Been re-reading Millett’s Sexual Politics today & admiring her rejoinder re: essentializing gender via scientific discourses that, esp in the case of intersex people, “science” often explicitly REJECTS physiological facts in order to uphold gender/sex binary. Intersex rights are human rights.

Sorry but what if the news is itself rage bait?

Learning does not happen when people are hungry. Starving children is another way of depriving them of education.

One thing is for sure: my cat is gonna pay attention to me if I put my laptop on my lap…

Shout out to transphobic dems for also doing reproductive violence…

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Posting the ProPublica link instead of the "snitch cop has a sad" NYT framing because this whole thing is an even wilder ride than it looks on the surface.

New report from scientists at Imperial College on excess deaths from the scorching European heat waves of 2026: "We estimate 50,391 heat-related excess deaths across the 854 cities during the summer, with around two thirds of these attributable to anthropogenic climate change."

I’ve been working on some diff-in-diff style estimates for voucher-induced public school enrollment decline net of loss due to population shifts. Ohio implies 0.1-0.3% annual, similar to other states. AZ and TX are bigger: 0.5-0.7%—still under 1% annual. www.the74million.org/article/ohio...

We have to stop doing this. Ending evil practices and industries… is going to mean losing jobs. Those should not be mindlessly and uncritically equivocated.

So confounding and it’s just the blackest parts of the state…

Me when people start talking about needing a big tent…

Interventions to promote risk-taking will never succeed until grades are eliminated. As long as the goal is to get an A (or its equivalent), students' rational response will be to *minimize* risk. (And then we blame *them* for lacking a "growth mindset" or some such.) tinyurl.com/27nch2vt

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

From me, more than 5 years ago: www.ms.now/opinion/rahm...

At least 902 cases have been documented of people being charged with crimes related to their pregnancies in the three years after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision. Many more cases are thought to exist as the research doesn't cover this year.

Commentary: Ohioans are being asked to vote on more than 130 statewide school issues to fund what the legislature won’t. State share of public school funding has fallen from 47% in 1999 down to an estimated 35% in 2026, and 32.2% for 2027. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/22/o...

Yeah, the field of edu leadership has been pumped with business degrees (and Ed Leadership degrees have turned into business degrees) so the fact that the (non-teaching) people at the helm of our schools are ignorant about education shouldn’t be surprising. NHJ knew what she was about to do.

I feel the same way about bringing Glee back as I do about bringing Kamala back

their philosophy is rape. their value system is rape. their vision of the way the world should work is rape. their aspiration for the future is rape.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

His crime -rape of an unconscious person- technically qualifies as a ‘nonviolent offense’ under California law. apple.news/ANo294xamRjK...

Indiana, where the AG sends his pals in law enforcement to threaten you because of social media posts…

Trying to expand the market for “school resource officers” (aka the school security/police industry) via theft of public funds for the wealthy

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

Great example of how Democrats rationalize attacks on public education

We are only barely scratching the surface of how much of the current moment can be made sense of by understanding how many white people were and are irate, still, over the Brown v Board case… Including Griswold and Roe…

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

Concerned by how many people, people who that are otherwise seemingly thoughtful people, are taking this moment to use being gay/queer as a punchline when talking about Trump. I know the hypocrisy matters, but if him being gay is the joke, you’re just being homophobic.