go look at mlk warning about goldwater, nixon yakking about "the jews," reagan laughing at aids patients and calling africans monkeys, bush presiding over katrina or romney pushing for an endorsement from birther trump.
theyre all connected.
democrats keep pushing a narrative that before trump the republicans were just the guys who wanted to cut taxes but bush literally wanted a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. come on.
we keep operating like trump flipped some kind of switch to make the gop more misogynistic and racist but this path has been clear since the 50s. you dont get here without goldwater, reagan, nixon, the bushes and mccain/romney. trump didnt come out of nowhere. the monster was always there.
The health impact of this will play out over years, not days.
GA 14th Dist. Special Election is tomorrow.
Brigadier General Shawn Harris is the top Dem candidate, and I am again FURIOUS that the DCCC and DNC haven’t done a DAMNED THING to get Dems across the country to help with GOTV.
If you live in GA 14, PLEASE PLEASE vote tomorrow!
There are like 8
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.
Get your shiny things here! The clock is ticking and I'm up to my elbows in medical nonsense, but there's plenty of pendants ready to ship.
"It's not just the usual, you know, ‘radical Antifa cells,’” Reilly, a 42-year-old trans Texan told @kitoconnell.com, “it's crossed over into the minds of your SUV driving soccer moms.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/02/l...
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
The New York City Council is considering a bill to allow the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development to seize buildings from landlords who have racked up housing code violations and debt from unpaid taxes and fines and turn them over to better owners.
gothamist.com/news/mamdani...
This technology doesn't spring out of a hole in the ground. It's built on unsustainable resource extraction and the burning of fossil fuels, and used for monocropping. Farmland needs to be protected, and farm workers need dignity and collective ownership. Corporate tech is not going to get us that
It's bizarre to me how many people in the comments here seem to think that automation is going to translate into more freedom for the working class.
When has that ever panned out? How much leisure time do you have, after years of these "innovations"? We are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football
how does no one know what happened to agricultural employment over the past 150 years
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.
Another conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Annette Ziegler, just announced she'll retire ahead of next year's elections.
Her announcement comes just weeks before conservatives are trying to defend a different open seat.
Liberals could emerge with a 6-1 majority by 2027.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Me six. Loved Fringe!
I keep going back to what someone here said:
The key question we need to ask ourselves is what would Trump be doing differently if he were trying to destroy America?
The answer is....nothing. His actions are perfectly aligned with what our enemies would wish we'd do.
Related: actively suspending all existing solar and wind projects in a bid to boost flagging oil and coal profits.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...
Headline: Oil surges above $100 as Gulf states cut back production; WTI nearly touched $120 a barrel at high
So great that MAGA did everything possible to kneecap the electric-vehicle market in the US, while doing everything recklessly possible to ramp up the cost of fuel.
/s
Nothing says "we support women's rights" like a bunch of beardy cunts forming a mob in order to harass a woman *about women's rights*.
"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
But to be clear: Gallagher isn’t arguing there that readers were *confused* by the late 18C (as earlier readers might have been because fiction was sold alongside “true history” for decades) — it’s that they were having emotional responses even knowing they were reading fiction.
Look: this is good, and I hope he sticks to it. But finally deciding in 2026 that what happened on January 6 2021 was unacceptable is a little late. If you couldn’t figure that out on J6, we should be questioning your judgment before we celebrate your principle. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Tillis voted to confirm Noem, RFK Jr., Hegseth, Vought, Gabbard & Patel. He voted that Trump was not guilty after being impeached for January 6. Changing a pillowcase after you’ve fouled the whole bed doesn’t make you a hero.
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
