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It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...

Sometimes I’ll open threads and immediately be hit with truths I never would expect to find there.

I started graduate school this week and we have already talked about Noam Chomsky at least five times

A pregnant stray cat showed up at my door to yell at us until we took her in… wasn’t planning on being a grandpa before 30 but the universal cat distribution system works in mysterious ways

I already encounter well-educated scientists in training every day who still believe vaccines cause autism (or at least that the claim has not been fully debunked) in my classes. This administration has made my job a fucking nightmare

i think a lot of platner's boosters are taking a line that's basically "well, the tattoo is stupid but he's not really a nazi," but that's missing the full spectrum of possibilities here. you can look at fetterman. lots of these folksy populists drift right because they don't have real commitments

“wanting to be a shitty person and hanging out with other shitty people and then being surprised pikachu when they are shitty to you” really is the perfect summary of the modern right

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

I've been starting and stopping this essay for almost two years, but recent events made it seem urgent: On war. jude-doyle.ghost.io/the-rat/

Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything

TRANS RIGHT'S ARE HUMAN RIGHT'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

how to calm down

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Imagine if there were regular polls on "diabetic issues", as well as breathless news articles on "diabetic ideology" and politicians giving speeches about the "diabetic agenda". Healthcare is healthcare, period.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

Mark Myles was part of the glue holding Selma together. To me, he was a respected colleague; to others, a father, mentor, friend, and beloved community member. After decades as a peacemaker, he died practicing nonviolence. I donated to honor his memory and I hope you will too. gofund.me/f98325b92

this article on david bowie is beautiful. i can’t believe it’s been 10 years. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

geordi and data in the morning

The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones appears to be headed for another political showdown against current Sen. Tommy Tuberville, this time for the governor’s office. 🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html 

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

My most controversial post-ejection take is that treating voters as adults with agency and telling them the truth isn’t looking down on them, while telling voters things you know to be false to validate their feelings in an attempt to manipulate them is considerably more condescending.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

really unfortunate to see this post then have my university’s student news post that he’s a freshman here 😔

if i see one more goddamn person acting like every person born in a red state is personally responsible for the state of our country, i’m just going to have to start assuming it’s a psyop to make us hate each other like buddy, pal, cmon. don’t make me tap the sign.

Left: Wow. We need gun reform. Right: Wow. We need to put the left in concentration camps. Media: Ok. It's time for the the left to bring down the political temperature here. Enough is enough.

1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans. This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i am begging people to stop spelling shit wrong on purpose to avoid censorship or whatever. I HAVE JESSE SINGAL’S NAME MUTED. PLS STOP SPELLING IT WRONG ON PURPOSE. I DONT WANT TO SEE HIM.

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.