Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.
An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks
Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding
"Gruff man softens due to influence of adorable child" is the plot of like 30% of hollywood action movies what is she talking about
As predicted, by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social
Small talk with my fellow gays going great this morning
Love this classy 404 message
What you need to know Police were called in when a man attacked a neighbor over allegedly preparing schnitzel too loudly Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt says the Iran war has so far not triggered a wave of migration to Europe
Dying at the juxtaposition of these headlines in DW's "top headlines from Germany" newsletter
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From text message to executive order The rush to change the government’s stance on the substances, described by officials and advocates, offers a window into the top-down policymaking under Trump. Trump said he was called by Rogan and people who had taken psychedelics, who joined him at the signing ceremony, about the need to open access to the drugs. Rogan said he texted Trump about research around ibogaine, and the president’s response was quick: “Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it.”
Expanding access to psychedelics for mental health seems like a good thing, but I gotta say I am not wild about this process.
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Rapidly falling teen births since 1991
The provisional fertility rate for teenagers in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15–19, down 7% from 2024 (12.6) and another record low for this age group (Table 1, Figure 2) (4,5,9–11). The rate has decreased by 72% since 2007 (41.5), the most recent period of continued decline, and by 81% since 1991 (61.8), the most recent peak. The number of births to females ages 15–19 was 125,933 in 2025, down 8% from 2024
One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes
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20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.
“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”
Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.
Another story that makes one wonder what Seattle has gained from a decade-plus of wealthy newcomers flooding in for tech
Costs skyrocketing, institutions struggling, arts shrinking
Could we look back and realize all this money, rather than an infusion, was like an antibiotic hitting the gut biome
Calls in the UK press for a gender check
Could not stop laughing at this episode, highly recommend 😂.
I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.
Bush 08 two years early
It’s one instance of voters actually paying attention enough to actual reality and changing their views accordingly
The meta glasses have no socially justifiable purpose to exist. They only exist for Mark Zuckerberg's purposes and they can only sell outside of a novelty capacity to people who want to use them for socially hostile purposes.
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Centrist Dems won’t shut up about how we’re too mean and condescending to Trump voters and how electoral expediency requires us to welcome them back into the fold.
Maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s bizarre not to extend the same argument to people who already vote for you.
There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections
Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it
When you elect a Dem majority at the state level, they immediately set about passing good, thoughtful policy. Nobody talks about it. Everybody talks about the Wesleyan freshman. Why is that?
YOU have probably been suckered into talking about the Wesleyan freshman instead of MD leg. Why is that?
Forget about the substance, the reveal that “most of” the justices talked to Mollie Hemingway for her book is bananas. Hemingway is a right-wing freak who runs a conspiracy theory blog. If literally any of the justices are taking this person seriously, the Supreme Court is GONE gone.
In the fall of 2025, NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt visited Yale as a Presidential Lecturer and presented the research behind his book The Anxious Generation, which documents the effects of smartphones and social media on adolescent mental health, attention, and social development. Haidt’s visit helped to inspire a conversation among faculty and students about the fundamental shift that has taken place in the relationship between technology and learning.47
This passage citing the work of Jonathan Haidt in the Yale Report is instructive. For a group pushing "intellectual pluralism," it is notable that it doesn't mention the widespread criticism of the book, such as the reviewer in Nature who bluntly said his argument "is not supported by science."
it would be a wild thing to say if that’s what he said
I cannot believe you people are making me defend Chuck Schumer but lying about what people say is bad.
"Some cultures are dysfunctional and regressive," say the white guys deliberately trying to make ours dysfunctional and regressive.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
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The stupidest take you ever saw. Comparing a twitch streamer to a genocidal war criminal... Both these things are the same. I am Very Smart. 🧠🧠