I genuinely would but I don’t subscribe to Substacks because of the Nazi problem. Would you ever consider moving platforms?

I wish someone would take this seriously.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

I really enjoy your writing. I wish you would consider moving away from Substack (because of their Nazi problem).

Both things can be true.

Iran Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline)

oh that's probably the good guy in this movie

Just saw over on Instagram that @firestorm.coop, a really awesome worker-owned radical bookstore and mutual aid hub in Asheville, NC, is struggling financially and needs support to stay open.

I highly recommend buying books from them, and becoming a sustainer on Patreon if you can!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

Mamdani ties 5th century resistance of St. Patrick against Romans to Irish fight against British colonialism to Irish discrimination in US to Irish building US labor unions to Ireland being first EEC country to support a Palestinian State.

Just a master class in political education.

Behavior like this is SUPPOSED to cause reputational damage. We are really doing everything possible to protect mediocre white men from facing literally any consequences for being terrible.

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Yes. 👋

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

Big challenge for political pundits:

Discuss the speech the president actually gives tonight, and not the one you maybe thought you might have seen if you squinted just right.

Compare that real speech to the real world around us.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.

Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Reasons to Mask in 2026 — Gillian Levine

Cute cartoon from Gillian Levine on reasons to mask 😷 in 2026: gillianlevine.com/reasons-to-m... I don’t know if they are on Bluesky but will tag if I figure it out.

Severe COVID-19, vaccination, and mortality among individuals with asthma: A Nationwide population-based cohort study - PubMed The COVID-19 vaccination was associated with reduced long-term mortality in individuals with asthma, regardless of COVID-19 status.

Then you are exactly the kind of vulnerable person I’m talking about protecting when *I* wear a mask. 😷 Folks with asthma are at higher risk for severe complications from covid infections. Vaccination helps, but the protection from vaccines wanes over 3-6 months. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41330187/

Are they calling the nonconsensual nudes and child porn “appreciation of beauty”?! 🤮

That would be great, and better than what most folks are doing now! Again, not all-or-nothing. But your plan does ignore two big things: 1) asymptomatic transmission is so very common so folks don’t always know they’re sick and 2) folks are terrible about assessing their own risk and vulnerability.

I can’t see the initial post this replies to but I wish you’d reconsider your stance on masks, or consider that vulnerable communities have already asked us to do this. Even something as simple as masking in the grocery store or in medical facilities helps. It doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing.

If you tell me that you’re not going to vote in an election as a “protest”
I immediately don’t care about literally any of your other opinions.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

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The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.