Kathy S

I'd vote for this.

I've always been afraid that rattlesnakes were immortal, and this graph qualifies my fear with facts.

You should pay property taxes but only when you have a mortgage is a bizarre belief

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

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will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

This girl is 17 1/2. She's got arthritis. Her liver numbers aren't great. She's extremely thin and frail. And yet at 2am last night she got the zoomies and went yowling through the house, up and down the stairs, for over 20 minutes. She's not the hellraiser she used to be but she can still party.

And so we decided to prove how morally superior we were by shooting a man in a wheelchair. Excuse me? No no, it’s not what you think. We let kids watch it.

We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids.

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Damn right.

This was so much fun! We even got a group of people from Milwaukee to join us. Can't wait until next year's gathering.

Read this thread to remind yourself that life can be so beautiful and humans can be wonderful.

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

Dammit. I don't want to watch a four hour movie in a theater, but I might have to because I'd like to add to the number of people he knows are laughing at him in public.

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.

I remember being so horrified by the original story, and it sounds like it's gotten even worse since then.

I'm incredibly crabby today, but I'm saving my hot takes for private chats so I don't end up in a social media brawl.

There's no hell hot enough for some people.

To the two drivers who blew through stop signs nearly hitting me and my daughter as we biked to preschool today: I hope you do something really amazing with those three seconds you saved by endangering us

It's fascinating, to me, how many columns and articles were written after Biden's withdraw from Afghanistan about the looming humanitarian catastrophe that Biden caused and how many fewer were written about Trump slashing US humanitarian aid still being sent there from $3B/year to $0 in 2025.

I am fully in support of the kids' agenda!

I had a wonderful time at the Champaign County Democratic Party Blue Unity Gala! And got to tell IL House Member and Speaker Pro Tempore (and former Illini football player!) Kam Buckner how much I appreciate his advocacy for housing and transportation.

The real goal of the anti-trans movement is the erasure of trans people from public existence, and it's grotesque. Thread:

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

one of the most mind-melting things about this moment is how so much of the media and popular discourse politely ignores or is very vague about the blindingly obvious fact that Trump has rapidly-worsening dementia www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...

Sad but very true.

We just signed up for the mailing list! Can't wait to hear more.

Really good thread here! There are a lot of autoimmune diseases in my family, and there are times we know more about some things than our doctors do. Yes, I trust modern medicine. Also, I know that doctors are human and don't know everything and there's more to learn. It's a tricky balance!

they like him and want to help him. we've seen how the times treats other politicians who they don't like when they are perceived to be dishonest

He's six months away from claiming he walked on the Moon, nine from insisting he survived Custer's Last Stand.

What really gets me are the ones who are on this site. Isn't this the reason we all left Tw*tter?

​"Why not make all of the income-restricted units affordable at 30% AMI?" is the housing discourse equivalent of "why don't they build the whole plane out of the black box?"

You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

his one brain cell is entirely focused on stealing his sister's dinner. nothing on earth can stop him. no processing power is wasted on dignity, consequences, or the fact that he was fed twelve seconds ago. he is a specialized supercomputer designed solely for dinner crimes.

I agree. Our legislature too dysfunctional to care about anything right now.

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The city of Champaign just eliminated minimum parking requirements citywide!!!

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Great news that this is now mainstream thinking!

If only.