the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

I thought this felt relatable

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

“Someone’s got to be oppressed!”

isn’t it heartening to realize all these towering figures simply dissolve into smoke the minute they die because MAGA people aren’t attached enough to either their principles or each other to sustain the kind of terrifying martyr movement we were all absolutely expecting

something to think about 😊

Making events into public memory is a cultural technology you have to do on purpose and repeat over and over. The fight to keep hold of the truth never ends it's generational and idk, maybe we're bound to lose in the end. But I have to believe we can do better than we did in the last six years.

boy this is incredibly not it

This. And also: 5???!!! 🤣 wtf

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

2010: The Year We Make Contact. Which suffered from comparison to its unmatched predecessor & which is now a couple steps in the past, but at the time felt that just 2 steps ahead & was its own solid & at times spellbinding film.

yeah yeah we know we know we’ve noticed

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place:

namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

Thank you for this. And please tell us more about what actions you are taking to see that he is removed. Are you calling colleagues who have continued to publicly support him while privately understanding his dangerous incapacity? If you're in DC, go down the hall & bang on their doors! Something!

This is a good start, but I don't understand why you're not also calling for impeachment, which is within your congressional authority to act upon. It feels like passing the buck. You must do more. Make those who won't vote to impeach go on record as the cowards they are.

Political theatre changes minds. So much politics ARE theatre. Use it. Do it. Put on a show! Flood the news cycles. Make it all anyone talks about, and it will make a difference.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan, Contact

why saying that AI is incredible followed by a series of non-loading comments because the vibe-coded site is fucking broken

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

my kingdom for schools to realize that religious literacy is a critical skill given, well, all the things.

but that would require schools to care about teaching and learning, not only about turning their students into good neoliberal cogs for industry.

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

I've said it before and will say it again, human beings' ability to compartmentalize is incredible. This pathetic racist very old man in cognitive decline has access to the nukes that can destroy us all.

Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.

It was nice to see a rocket launch that’s owned by us instead of an asshole billionaire.

Handmade signs attached to a chain link fence across the street from the federal building in Eugene OR, reading: Fuck ICE, No Kings, Insider Trading $ Fake Leadership.

Downtown Eugene.

What the fuck are we doing here