My niece - super smart scientist, planning to have kids soon - is planning her escape from the USA.

Trump is making the USA less smart.

All year average, probably less than 1%.

US government is unbelievable in its fetid pettiness at the moment.

Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!

JFC, he's demented.

I'm just off the phone from my niece in USA. She is highly qualified medical researcher. She is planning her escape. Europe (but not UK) or Aus/NZ current preferences.

A bespectacled teenage girl in school uniform. She holds a copy of 'The Little Red School Book' and smiles.

Helen Leonard, one of two sixth-form students expelled for protesting against compulsory religion at Christchurch Girls’ High School.
Christchurch Star, 14th October 1972.

They are Nazis.

New minister’s track record doesn't bode well for our health From the University of Auckland – Comment: Simeon Brown's talk of 'driving change' in his new job and 'turbo-charging health' is out of touch

"(63 percent) of serious injury in New Zealand is caused by transport crashes. They keep our hospitals full to overflowing; and efforts to avoid these horrific and frequently life-changing injuries are necessary for the sustainability of the health system."

#CrueltyIsThePoint

100%

I'm in my second half century. There was no fear about Trans people during my childhood. We had a fleeting interest and then moved on to the next interesting person.

📍

BREAKING: Donald Trump is blaming DEI for the war in Ukraine, the high cost of eggs, the weird shape of eggs, his VCR flashing 12:00, the cruel inevitability of death, the 10-to-8 hotdog-to-bun disparity, and the perpetual flaccidity of his itty-bitty teeny-tiny mushroom dick.

Crusty old white blokes will continue to be celebrated.

#FuckTrump

And this is how we got into the shit we’re in Today! former Union and Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg clasping hands “as brothers” 50 years after the Confederates lost the war to enslave Africans.

These people have brain damage. They have literally destroyed their critical thinking skills by sucking up so much rotten racist garbage that they don't know how to be normal any more.

They don't realize that they are broken.

It's the Nazis.

A collage of Black figures in manuscripts and paintings and a bunch of yarn pictures.

BAD NEWS: Time is going fast One month of 2025 is already done.

GOOD NEWS: February is #BlackHistoryMonth & I'll be doing another month long thread featuring some figures, their history & colorways.

Also for the month, yarn will be 10% off, so of you have your eye on something get a deal. 🧶

‘It’s like an arrow in my heart’: The women coming to terms with not being grandmothers Increasing numbers of millennials and Gen Z don’t want children – but feel pressure from their own parents to produce grandchildren

Our kids don't owe us grandchildren. Figure out how to make your own life fulfilling.
#SINKs

www.telegraph.co.uk/family/grand...

Still can't believe Americans actually voted for this total piece of shit, and with eyes WIDE open too

-could we do ANY worse?

Nearly a MILLION DEAD last time! HIS FAULT!

What the FUCK is wrong with us?

The USA is a failed state.

Georgia gop lawmakers have proposoed HB 122. This bill is a fetal personhood bill which, if passed, would grant personhood from conception.

This is one of several bills in gop state legislatures that threaten women's rights & health.

Humans prioritize value and importance of life every day. A bean-sized fetus will never be more valuable and important than a loved and loving girl or women. Please be serious.

Was there something about 500 dead girls and women WEEKLY that you are struggling to understand?

Around 500 girls and women die WEEKLY from #UnsafeAbortion

It is a global shame.

Scottish attitudes to the British Empire | YouGov Scots are more likely to see Scotland as having been a subject, rather than a partner, in the British Empire

A key reveal from this survey for me is that more than half of Yes voters believe that Scotland was more of a subject than partner of the British Empire. I’d expect more critical thought about Scotland’s history but evidently violent imperial domination is off-limits.
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

ICE director Tom Homan is complaining that Know Your Rights campaigns are making it harder to round up immigrants, telling CNN that in Chicago “they’ve been educated on how to defy ICE.” @rebeccaburns.bsky.social and I met with those gumming up the works of Trump’s mass deportation machine.

#WhitePenisPrivilege

Are we twins? Sounds exactly like the things I do. 🤣

Sending smooth vibes for a repeat.

Is this what #EatTheRich looks like in 2024?

Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so 'they cannot be undone in the future' - Olive Press News Spain PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain's constitution so they 'can never be undone'. The left-wing PSOE

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”