Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

Republicans: Let’s make life worse for everyone except billionaires.

Also Republicans: Why is the birth rate declining? Why wouldn’t anyone want to bring children into this world we’re creating?

FYI: Calling a protest "a riot" is fascist behaviour. Protesters have a right to protest. It is in our Constitutions. The police do *not* have the right to stop them. That is blatantly the government restricting the right to free expression and the right to peaceably assemble.

So when the protesters are there, chanting and waving signs and otherwise doing what protesters do, IT IS THE POLICE WHO ARE IN THE WRONG. Their job is *not* to decide the demonstration is no longer "permitted". The right isn't something you can take away.

So when those police begin lobbing and shooting weapons at the protesters, THEY ARE THE ONES ACTING ILLEGALLY. They are literally the government not allowing people their rights. They are the redcoats here. They represent the King's tyrannical authority.

So never, ever call it a riot. A riot is an unreasoning mob, using violence to achieve their aims.

A protest that is attacked by police is "citizens taking up their right to self-defence when someone tries to violate their rights illegally."

Language matters here, folks. Don't accept their language. Call things what they are, not what they want you to think they are.

Also, "violence" against property is not violence. It is tortious, not criminal. Violence is what happens to *people*.

Turns out a lot of folks that like to publicly fantasize about being among those hucking tea into Boston Harbor would really be home rooting for the Redcoats.

@ErickaSimone Thank you very much for the historical context. Understanding the symbolism is important and I appreciate the education

Focus on telling people it's winnable right now. Focus on helping people find ways to have hope and follow that hope to action.

So we all have a job, and it is to loudly support the protesters. They are at the front lines of democracy right now.

them: what's your most passive aggressive trait

me: making "gfy" a keyboard shortcut for "thanks for your feedback."

Now there's someone who knows how to win votes

https://x.com/dabbs346/status/1928441971460202894

#USPol

We continue to avoid the key lesson of #COVID - we have to sanitize our exhaled waste air like we sanitized our waste food & water in the 19th century.

Until we centralize air sanitization into HVAC, we won't defeat airborne diseases like covid, flu & RSV. And many others.

ASHRAE has given us standards. Now we need the will and capital to implement them ubiquitously.

Lessons from the COVID experience - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2025-05/sonia-shah-on-pandemics-and-pushback-lessons-from-the-covid-experience

Oh for Christs sake won't someone tell this man to fuck off

Rahm Emanuel, Teasing a White ...

People naturally leave a lot of "free" stuff around for others to use. It may be organized, like a charity or the pennies at a cash register, but often it's spontaneous. Every day we make small bets on each other that may or may not "pay off" individually, but together form the glue of basic social trust.

When you build machines to find all that "free" stuff, wall it up and exploit it, you're not being clever or insightful, you're burning the fabric of civilization, and you should be punished.

Back then, the internet felt like a vast frontier, a boundless expanse waiting to be discovered. You didn't so much surf the web as explore it, encountering unknown territories and unexpected gems. Websites were less about utility and more about passion. Amateur webmasters crafted their domains as personal expressions, little slices of their world that they invited you into.

Social media had not yet standardized our online experiences, and content wasn't algorithmically manicured.

We've traded our privacy and autonomy for the convenience and connectivity it provides, and in so doing, have become commodities in an unseen market. In the pursuit of progress and personalization, we have inadvertently sterilized the very essence of the web, transforming it from a shared experience into a solitary echo chamber.

The internet has always been a reflection of society, but it used to amplify our diversity and creativity. Now, it reflects only our passivity and conformity.

There was a lot of mockery of Kristi Noem for not knowing what "habeas corpus" means. But I was struck by how little she seemed to give a shit.

That's because Noem is part of a tradition that really emerged with Sarah Palin: The proud MAGA bimbo.

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/23/kristi-noems-proud-maga-bimbo-act-builds-on-the-legacy-of-sarah-palin/

🔥 WATCH: “They won’t even read their own bill!” Rep. Leger-Fernandez (D) shames Rep. Jason Smith (R) for refusing to read a part of the Republican bill that gives a tax break for TANNING BEDS while slashing trillions in health care for seniors and the poor. 🤔 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

There needs to be:

* incentives to manufacture things that can be repaired
* a general shift to see repairability as a sign of quality, luxury and responsibility
* training a new generation to do the work
* support for these trades so it's a viable way of life

Having a job fixing things is one of those types of work that can nourish the soul. But it needs to nourish the wallet too.

Latest comic: Beware of Glernog

#cartoon #comic #oligarchy #aliens #climatechange

If your clinical trial doesn't account for Covid infections or reinfections in 2025 & you make no effort to mitigate Covid infections in your study groups, all your data may be confounded or bad. Sorry 🚮