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Wow. A Democrat running in the primary to take on Mike Lawler (in a district Harris won) says that while voters have appreciated her going to the West Bank to learn more about Israel's occupation of Palestine — and honestly identifying it as "apartheid" — party officials are now attacking her:

The way so many people on this app are boldly declaring that a white man doesn’t have to empathize or show solidarity with Black men because he is disabled

Nasty business

Even if you didn’t intend to hurt people, even if you didn’t have control over it, why not feel sorry that people were hurt? I think I am fundamentally confused by this allergy to empathizing enough to want to apologize and say I’m sorry you were hurt

My cousin is a very talented watercolor artist. Check out her latest work! 🥰

Phil Collins: "Everything That Could Go Wrong With Me Did Go Wrong With Me" Phil Collins has opened up about his myriad of health struggles in a new interview, declaring, "everything that could go wrong with me did go wrong with me."

Phil Collins: "I got COVID in hospital. My kidneys started to back up, you know, everything that started that could, all seemed to converge at the same time.”

He joins a LONG LIST of high-profile individuals who are now disabled since Covid began. consequence.net/2026/01/phil...

Really worth the read.

God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Being trans and meeting another trans person who chose your birth name is like seeing someone on the street wearing the sweater you donated to the thrift store. like I’m so glad it fits you, at least someone likes it.

By the way, Gelerntner has been a longtime critic of women in the workforce and also a longtime favorite of the tech-right; in 2016, Peter Thiel nominated him for the role of Science Advisor to the President, although his influence in Silicon Valley long predates that.

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis or we WILL lock up our own citizens

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

Jewish California Governor 2026 Candidate Forum Join us in Los Angeles for the Jewish community's statewide gubernatorial forum – a rare, high-stakes opportunity to hear directly from the leading candidates for Governor on the issues that matter most to Jewish Californians. This is where candidates will share how they intend to protect Jewish communities and strengthen Jewish values in California. Topics will include antisemitism prevention, the California-Israel relationship, K-12 education and ethnic studies, community safety, and the critical social safety net programs that support vulnerable populations across our state.

Despite recent polls showing a majority of US Jews oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza (less than 1/2 call it genocide but more than 1/2 say Israel’s committing war crimes) this event is organized by uniformly pro genocide, destruction, and censorship organizations. Which candidate will confront them?

Cannot stop thinking about how, when I was having panic attacks about the upcoming election in the summer of 2016, my psychiatrist told me that I was overreacting, it was just my anxiety, and I had nothing to worry about.

. @codepink.bsky.social needs to answer for the number one face of your organization posting a smiley selfie with MTG saying she’s going to miss her. This is what 99% of MTG’s career looked like. Just b/c she had a good opinion one time does not mean she gets absolved of the horrors she’s inflicted.

IT'S A VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE NOT A "TEST" OF THE CEASEFIRE! Why is American media pathologically incapable of making the simple statement that Israel is breaking the ceasefire when it kills people?

A screenshot of a section of an article from Al Jazeera: “The UN says Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect last month, as Palestinians across the enclave continue to suffer from a lack of food, shelter and other supplies”.

Since the ceasefire announcement the UN has said that Israel has rejected 107 requests to bring aid into Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

It’s not a ceasefire if one country is still firing. Over 300 Palestinians killed by Israel since the supposed “ceasefire.”

Pay attention to double standards: Hamas executed their own people and it was all over the news. Israel violates the ceasefire hundreds of times and there’s crickets.

Israel has killed over 300 Palestinians since the beginning of the “ceasefire” — more people than Hamas even took hostage — and the @apnews.com still won’t even call a single one of those killings a ceasefire violation. AP continues to justify and pave the way for genocide.

Bizarre amount of anti-strike propaganda in this season of Ghosts 🫠

We are up to 688 LoCITT participants!

If we could enroll all 1,000 participants within a month of launch (by 11/30), it would send a powerful message about the demand for remote Long COVID clinical trials.

We appreciate the community's help to spread the word:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.

(Yes, you can technically get a Medicare Advantage Plan with a lower monthly premium, but those plans are often restrictive, and they can literally just stop paying for your hospitalization if they decide you’ve been there too long)

- 2.8% Social Security cost of living increase

- 9.7% Medicare cost increase (the health insurance all Social Security recipients are required to have, and gets withdrawn from your Social Security check)

If that isn’t a summary of US late-capitalist economics, I don’t know what is 🤪

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