Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

Understanding the federal government’s indictment of a civil rights icon, the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Poland was ahead of Hungary

Let's support queer youth

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#riseup #standup #resist #revolt #respect #support #change #together #love #nomorehate #transgender #lgbtqiap2s

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NO TAX ON BOAT LOAN INTEREST ISE ON @RepNancyMace

stiff competition but I found it, the worst policy proposal

So a new song

Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.

Aerial view of enormous crowd. Haven’t managed to source picture credit. Will post when I do

This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

Now that is how a transition should be done!!!

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Nobody is perfect but I have been really impressed by Mamdani

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Shizuoka – a model city I travelled a bit around in Japan around Christmas and New Year, and decided to stay for a couple of days around New Years Eve in Shizuoka, which lies between Nagoya and Tokyo. Unfortunately for me…

New blog post

Shizuoka - a model city

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Picking the right side If you were active in online Atheism in 2011, you are probably aware of the Deep Rifts that formed back then, initially caused by what is now been coined Elevatorgate. Even if you were not part of …

I have picked up blogging again, after about a year's hiatus

New blog post: Picking the right side

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On the 58th anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, it's time to reckon with the media's troubling role in the civil rights struggle. (I pitched this to @nytimes.com who found it "fascinating..[but] the news is making deeper & certainly more historical pieces very hard." But they're the news.) A 🧵

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

Just scrolled past a post that said, "Please stop anthropomorphizing other people!" and I'm starting to think that dictionaries should be distributed free the way phone books used to be. Words have meaning, y'all. That's kind of how language works.

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

Pam Bondi proves that for Trump, you can't debase yourself enough The fierce loyalist committed herself to Trumpian theatrics—and lost the job anyway.

Pam Bondi proves that for Trump, you can't debase yourself enough.

I consider buying books that I don't have time to read as a form of saving up for my retirement

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!

We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

American tech oligarchs have done a brilliant job of making themselves universally hated.

If they had just stayed businessmen, no one would care.

But by using their fortunes to aggressively support fascists, they guaranteed the public would turn on them

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.

I hate April Fool's stuff. In the pre-internet days it was harmless fun, but now it just adds to the noise and misinformation out there.

Also. It indicates that it is just one day you should be skeptical of stuff you read

This is what solidarity looks like. #NoKings