@kcarruthers Last chance to do something meaningful.

The reliable New York Times normalizes extremism, as always, with the Kash Patel nomination. This headline does not even begin to hint at his often-stated eagerness to be a fascist apparatchik.

The Times' indifference to dictatorship is disgusting.

@kegill Can I find a Cliff's Notes version of how they see the 1st Amdt? The Establishment Clause and real history couldn't be clearer, so what is their position on destroying the separation of church and state and just ignoring ~230ish years? I can't stomach much of this hooey.

Sobering analysis from David Frum @theatlantic

For more than 40 years before #Trump, “the #FBI director was a position above politics. Never, never, never was a Senate-confirmed FBI director fired so that the president could replace him with a loyalist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trumps-fbi-kash-patel/680840/?gift=V2Xz1LHbTiPfZ3uourZyW7pSojK1LBovuxzAPcxJdeA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#USPolitics
#GiftLink

@webhat @noondlyt Bunnie is precious.

"2000 Mules" was always obviously nonsense. D'Souza's belated acknowledgement that it doesn't show what he always insisted it did comes far too late for the damage it did — as has been the case with so many other Trumpworld lies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/02/trump-2000-mules-discredited/

Fellow attys: how are you dealing with the existential despair of the end of the "golden era of the Rule of Law”?

@ewen Relish it.

✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 4️⃣: whoaaaaa, we’re halfway there 🎶

Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam.

=== Highlights ===

🎨 The team got data using all six of Rubin’s wavelength filters for the first time!

💨 The team also continued increasing the telescope’s speed as the systems that manage the forces felt by the mirrors continued to show good response.

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When Statues Become Fathers: Creative Street Art on Equal Parenting

What happens when male statues become fathers for a day? A creative campaign in Sweden is challenging traditional norms about parenting roles.

Imagine a bronze statue of a stoic leader, now wearing a bright pink baby sling with a doll nestled inside. On International Men’s Day, November 19th, male statues across Sweden were adorned with baby slings and carriers as part of a unique campaign to spotlight unequal parenting responsibilities.

Traditionally representing power, labor, or other masculine attributes, these statues were reimagined to symbolize fathers as caregivers. The campaign, organized by the think tank Arena Idé, is part of the #kvantitetstidspappan initiative, aimed at encouraging fathers to spend more time with their children and urging employers to play a larger role in enabling this.

Despite Sweden’s globally recognized parental leave policies, significant disparities remain. Swedish fathers take only 30.9% of parental leave days and 38% of sick leave to care for children.

A recent Novus survey, conducted in collaboration with Make Equal, further reveals that expectations around parental leave remain unequal in Swedish workplaces. Through this campaign, Arena Idé hopes to challenge these norms and has proposed an employer bonus for workplaces that encourage an equal division of parental leave.

The statues involved in the campaign—such as Standing Man in Umeå, Det svenska tungsinnet in Malmö, and Hjalmar Branting in Stockholm—were decorated with dolls in baby slings and carriers.

This created a contrast between the statues’ traditional symbolism and the modern role of engaged fathers.

The initiative draws inspiration from the UK-based group The Dad Shift, which earlier this year launched a similar campaign highlighting gaps in Britain’s parental leave policies.

Vilgot Österlund, a statistician at Arena Idé, emphasizes the importance of changing workplace norms: “When discussing gender equality in workplaces, the focus is often on women and the negative consequences of inequality for them. But here, we see that men are also losing out on something invaluable—time with their children. Through the statue campaign, the new statistics, and our proposals, we hope to make this clearer!”

Read more about the campaign and the proposed reforms in the original article by Arena Idé: Link to the original article.

More statues: 30 Sculptures You (probably) Didn’t Know Existed

How do you perceive the use of public art to challenge parenting norms? Can such initiatives drive societal change? We invite you to share your perspectives in the comments below.

#Kvantitetstidspappan #ArenaIdé #creativeActivism #equalFatherhood #fatherhood #genderEquality #InternationalMenSDay #parentalLeave #parentingCampaign #parentingEquality #parentingRoles #sharedParenting #societalNorms #statuesWithBabySlings #SwedishCampaign #SwedishStatues

Girls, if a boy says to you, "Your body, my choice." They've implicitly given you permission to kick them in the balls.

Or as my husband said, "My knee, your nuts."

In short, you are allowed to defend yourself from a rape threat, which is what that first statement is.

Just to clarify today's misinformation (1 of 2) Yes, there IS an Aaron Statue, thanks to Pablo Peniche - but it's not being unveiled until February 7th, 2025 - where we will have an in person party at the Internet Archive to celebrate the unveiling. 😍

Just to clarify today's misinformation (2 of 2)
There is no Aaron Swartz crypto token and there never will be. Anyone saying otherwise is lying.☠️

We will clarify misinformation & disinformation on this platform head on now - since Twitter/X is famously known for spreading both. (why we're going to get much more active on this platform)

@madopal @pluralistic The usual fascist strategy is that when the disastrous effects of policies start to be felt, they’re blamed on opponents of the regime, and the Maximum Leader calls for new, stronger measures against the designated enemies du jour.

The Leader is good and wise, and the leader’s policies are optimal. Therefore, if they don’t work, it must be sabotage.

This can work for a while. How long it works depends on how many people are committed to the scam, and how deeply.

@GottaLaff wtaf. Good grief.

@dansinker @riana It’s a nothing procedure. Easy. And your lady will be over the moon with you for being responsible after she’s been dealing with this crap her whole life. Promise.

Hey dudes, get that vasectomy.

@fesshole who’s going to tell him?

@MostlyHarmless @briankrebs Choosy judges choose Jif? Nah.