What’s particularly stupid about this is that the damage is done. As long as Botstein stays, Bard will be inextricably linked to Epstein. Every day he stays he diminishes the institution by association, possibly irreparably.
Sorry sorry sorry, I forgot that men have no decision making power over their own behavior and that rape is a naturally occurring phenomenon with no beneficiaries and no agents, like the weather.
finally somebody speaking for the voiceless Grade B Syrup lovers like me!!
the most boring person you know: so this is me doing a lore drop...
Map of the US those with states that have deployed their National Guard as part of Trump's Fascism Party marked in Red and States with Republican Governors but not deployed marked with RG ND. New Mexico stands as only national guard being deployed by a *Democrat* governor. The Confederacy lost the governorship of North Carolina but gained most of the territories (excepting Colorado), Missouri, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Map of the US during the civil war, with the boundary of the confederacy and slavery status of each state.
Here's the deployment map of states activating national guards, btw, in case you were curious about how the NeoConfederacy has expanded since the 1860's.
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while.
Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
In what is presumably a punishment for striking, Philadelphia is now making workers wait in unsafe buildings until someone from administration can come and verify things like "the power is out" or "it's 85 degrees inside."
So that's fun.
I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL
The municipal workers strike may be over, but District Council 33 members must now contend with the swing from the high energy on the picket lines to feeling “demoralized” at work.
The city of Philadelphia has allocated $750,000 for all library programming at its 55 branches (including Central) for FY2026.
It's spending $1.3 mil on new "slightly different shade of blue" cop uniforms.
Just in case you weren't clear on priorities here.
After an eight-day strike, DC33 reached a tentative agreement with the city of Philadelphia last week. Tonight, we’ll find out the results of the membership vote.
I wrote about the human costs of the strike and the cruelty of the city’s response for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The city handed DC 33 admin a list that had all wage increases since 1992. There was a freeze under Nutter in the 2000s that did a lot of the work but even before the increases were tiny! It averaged to 1.9% a year. I think previous union presidents just didn't work for their members.
I will never forget the way our “pro-union” Democrat mayor used lawfare, intimidation, and a disgustingly cynical PR campaign to bully and break down some of the most essential and underpaid workers in Philadelphia—and nobody else should either.
Library assistants and custodial guards will be striking. Librarians will not be on strike and will be expected to scab. The Philadelphia AFSCME unions are split between "white collar" and "blue collar" workers it's incredibly classist and racist.
yes it is
There are DC 33 library workers and DC 47 library workers. DC 33 workers are the bulk of library employees--Library Assistants, and custodial guards. It's true DC 47 has not yet voted to strike.
City of Philadelphia is on Strike tomorrow! May our lying Mayor lose and our workers find the ability to afford rent on the other side!
My shitass country keeps blowing up all the most beautiful places on earth for no real reason and yet I am still expected to play quarterly taxes
It’s a beautiful day to punch a transphobe
Rich people wasting money. Two young women dead in the last decade so these folks can unload groceries.
I fucking hate that I have to type -ai after every freaking google search to remove the stupid AI overview. I hate all the extra work that is required to opt out of a vile feature that no one asked for and actively makes my life worse, let alone the planet!
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Finally reading @elamin.bsky.social's beautifully written memoir, and oh boy. Are we ever gonna see a time when this doesn't feel like it was written yesterday? I hope so. I have to believe so. But fuck. It isn't today.
The cure to male loneliness is to join up with Barrett’s Privateers
Chalkboard sign at library that reads "Afternoon movie: My Neighbor Totoro at 3pm" hand drawn below is a mid sized blue Totoro and next to it a scary rendition of the bigger Totoro. The big Totoro has eyes that are alarmingly small and the nervous grin of a creature that wants to feast on whatever flesh is available.
what do you mean is there something wrong with my totoro?
Chalkboard sign at library that reads "Afternoon movie: My Neighbor Totoro at 3pm" hand drawn below is a mid sized blue Totoro and next to it a scary rendition of the bigger Totoro. The big Totoro has eyes that are alarmingly small and the nervous grin of a creature that wants to feast on whatever flesh is available.
what do you mean is there something wrong with my totoro?
People tell me to be safe while biking, and while I appreciate it, what I'd really appreciate is people going a step further and pondering *why* they think biking is unsafe. Because then they'd have to grapple with the fact that we've designed our society to make biking "dangerous" for many people.
If one more Boomer quotes Mister Rogers at me to try to make me feel better...I am going to end it all (this is a joke)
They will come for our Birth Control eventually.