And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Several crocheted hearts on a coffee table.

I FINALLY MADE A MAGIC CIRCLE!!!!

After trying off and on for weeks, I MADE A MAGIC CIRCLE!! (and little hearts for the cats’ collars for February)

Please clap!

Breaking Up With My In-Laws Over Immigration My father-in-law asked if the reason I cared so much was because I was “illegal” myself.

As this article makes clear, anti-migrant thought is white supremacist thought. There is no light between the two www.thecut.com/article/brea...

Breaking up with your X is freeing

Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion.

Keep bibles out of public schools.

Calm, worthy, safe

Loved, fearless, strong

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

First, the owner of the LA Times spiked the editorial board’s endorsement of Harris.

Now he has gone full MAGA

People struggle with percentages, notes @anthlittle.bsky.social, so different question designs can help: bsky.app/profile/anth...

Misperceptions of the size of minority groups have been identified in prior surveys, which observers have often attributed to social causes: fear of out-groups, lack of personal exposure, or portrayals in the media. Yet consistent with prior research, we find that the tendency to misestimate the size of demographic groups is actually one instance of a broader tendency to overestimate small proportions and underestimate large ones, regardless of the topic.

YouGov: “We find that the tendency to misestimate the size of demographic groups is actually one instance of a broader tendency to overestimate small proportions and underestimate large ones, regardless of the topic.” today.yougov.com/politics/art... HT @andrewkerr9000.bsky.social

Why do we overestimate the number of trans people in the US? State legislators introduced hundreds of 2023 bills targeting transgender Americans and affecting access to health care,

“Faulty estimates result from a combination of innumeracy, as well as our brain’s tendency to remember what and whom we consider novel. For transgender people, that makes for a ‘perfect storm. It's a really tiny proportion of the population, and it's in the news.’“ www.politifact.com/article/2023...

More in this thread by @jvl.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jvl....

Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”

The results were hilarious.

Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%

The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

Just one strange cognitive bias?!?

It's called: disinformation.

Goodnight to everyone who loved her speeches, watched her rallies, cheered her plane arrivals, adored her style and dreamed of a Presidency full of joy and compassion.

We will get that dream.

One day.

A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.

#RESIST 🇺🇸

Caribbean Matters: What Haiti and Haitian Americans face post-election Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

As conditions in Haiti worsen, the Haitian people cannot look for much if any useful help from the United States after electing Haitian hate spewer Donald Trump to the presidency.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

'Not capture a majority': Trump's landslide claims evaporate as final vote counts come in Coinciding with growing resistance to President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees is an acknowledgment that, despite claims from Trump and his closest allies, the election "landslide" which he bra...

www.rawstory.com/trump-landsl...

Musk Unleashes Online Army on Federal Workers. ‘A Tough Way to Find Out She’s Losing Her Job.’ As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback.

Musk is now targeting individual federal employees by name on X, subjecting them to ridicule from his hoard of followers

He is an asshole.

Post text: Could’ve had $25,000 to buy a house $6,000 child credit $50,000 business credit But you went for the $1200 check that’s never happening. And now prices are going to go up $3000/year from tariffs alone, with no stimulus checks in sight.

Sigh.

United States of Emergency? Rachel Maddow on her fears for the US under Trump YouTube video by The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim

I am listening to this — omg. 😱 youtu.be/VkKRxuyJlyA?... Rachel lays it out. But it’s NOT 4 years people. It is fascism. Fascism doesn’t quit in 4 years. @yaldahakim.bsky.social @rachelmaddow.bsky.social

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.

Right now, Trump is not in office yet. Today republicans sunk one of trumps more egregious appointments.

These are both good things

My first goal is to stay sane. My second goal is to try and help protect democratic norms and institutions. I will try and save my outrage for things I think can’t be undone, for attacks on the structural integrity of the institutions and not trumps aesthetics.