It would be hilarious in a noir sorta way should our eugenicist overlords create conditions which lead to their own elimination.

I'm no historian, but my impression is that revolts tend to happen when a population goes from "food secure" to "food insecure".

Happy to be corrected by anyone who knows history ...

that ... is a different way of calculating percentages, I'll give him that

zing!

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

There’s a slowly growing possibility they just outright collapse their own agricultural sector for no reason

[Zombie Marie Antoinette enters the chat room]

"lies like a Trump"

It was ginned up! They spiked her gin & tonic with gin!

[ROFL]

If you have to tell people you are smart, you have already proven that you are not actually smart.

[ROFL]

One thing that's missing from our discourse on the Iran negotiations is that the current economic situation within Iran is incredibly dire. There's possibly worse economic damage than compared to the Iran Iraq War and their economy started in terrible shape.

Co-sign.

this is absolutely horrible. I do not want my amazing, brilliant daughter to have been exterminated in the womb for being trans!

also...like, I know for a fact that she would not say that her childhood was horrific. 1

I was trained as a political scientist specializing in institutions. But the abuse of history in what passes as originalism is pissing me off. And now I'm armed w/ 16 years of research in the very relevant topics of migration and citizenship. I'm joining other historians in calling out the BS.

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Holy shit. The FBI raided this woman's house with a helicopter based on the word of a "gait analysis" quack they found on X.

Brianna Wu just went to a new level of horrible.

Screenshot of a social media post by Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) that reads: "One of my biggest hopes for the future is that we can come up with some sort of test in utero to determine if a child is going to grow up to be transsexual, and then opt them out of the gene pool. It's, I can tell you firsthand, it's a horrific way to grow up, one that no ethical person should want to inflict on a child. The reason the trans community is so unstable online is the developmental damage that we invariably get. It's like a house being built where every floor is leaning, and by the time you get to the top, the entire structure is unstable. Repairing that damage has taken me a lifetime."

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

It occurs to me I have never actually heard the Trump administration attempt offer evidence establishing the connection between "Things They are Doing" and "Things the Public Wants." Instead, they just repeatedly assert in a conclusory fashion that such a connection exists.

RFK Jr. just lied again, saying:

“The flu shot is an intervention that is often ineffective. It has a 20% efficacy rate. There are studies that show that getting a flu shot actually increases the chance of a non-flu infection”.

This man is a menace.

"An Ignorant Population Is Easier to Control" The cascading consequences of the terror campaign against children's literature

Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship.

rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

bipartisan, mind you

a man says " for cryin ' out loud " while looking at the camera ALT: a man says " for cryin ' out loud " while looking at the camera

“Extraordinarily brilliant?”

[ROFLMAO] "extraordinarily brilliant"

This Earth Day Ad hits HARD.

Trump spent billions of our tax dollars to CANCEL green energy contracts, good jobs for us and Mother Earth herself.

SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!

#EarthDay
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Head of @uscisgov.bsky.social: "We have a great relationship with ICE at our offices.... We work with ICE to pick up someone and to have them arrested." Understand: the criminals avoid USCIS offices. It's the law-abiding immigrants who he's after.

The chatbot writing Editorial Board pieces at the Bezos Post say wut?!?