Seems to me that if you're upset that there's not more of a student movement fighting fascism in 2026, the first place to direct your anger is the people who crushed the wave of student organizing that crested in the months immediately preceding the fascists' rise to power.
I just had to pay for some very expensive tests for my cat Merlin so if anyone is feeling generous and wants to pick up some of my paper insect templates I'd greatly appreciate it! 🪲
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One of the most depressing things about life in post GFC America is how there's just no more art or culture being produced because no one can make a living doing so any longer.
I love spring so much. The cold that makes me so unhappy is going away and flowers are all over the place and there are more hours of daylight.
On the other hand, my guys are starting their yearly cage fight with pollen and that is Not Good.
remember when the IRS put out a a free online tax filing system where you could just do your taxes through the IRS and it was actually well made and was pretty well recieved and then the tax filing industry and Republicans killed it and now you have to use TurboTax again
Lichen and fungus growth on a downed limb lying in a bed of green plants
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
If they lay off all the people who buy things, who do they expect to make a profit from by replacing the workers with AI?
This current fad of our government deliberately *creating* entirely unnecessary bad things so they can happen to people? It’s trash. Utter garbage.
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”
We can’t put profit or performance incentive on penalizing people & ruining their lives. It’s supremely evil, totally unfair and antithetical to a free society. But that’s how the whole game works. So it’s gotta go.
Well done. We have to start thinking that we are in dangerous times &, if possible, we should save books that cover topics which this & similar administrations are trying to eliminate.
History truly matters.
Imagine what we would not know if we had no paintings, books or sculpture prior to 1900
Brown leaf floating just under the surface of translucent water with reflected trees
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
This is absolutely the wrong season for it but I really really want a fresh summer peach. And no the grocery store rubber balls won’t suffice
I’ll give it a try based on the description and also a college of mine came from south bend 😄
Yellow daffodil with orange center in a pot with hyacinths out of focus in the background
You did right by her. I still regret not letting one of mine go soon enough.
Purple hyacinth blooming in a pot with daffodil leaves around and behind it
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
So the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com
I hope they have the resources needed to heal from the trauma
It’s so CRAZY to me that the UK is mobilizing criminal charges against everybody they can within the law for the Epstein files.
And over here in the US? Nothing. It is FULL mask-off white supremacy driven authoritarianism.
Laws are for the poor.
This is obviously some strange use of the word “hospice” that I wasn’t previously aware of
Second weekend winter storm is on its way. This time it’s cancelled a Scout trip and honestly I’m kind or relieved. I don’t want my kid that far away if the roads get blocked.
I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.
