Liberal politics exists along the simplest of dimensions. "If the bad guys are mad at a thing it's my new favorite thing"

everyone, please, they say they "don't want politics in media" the same way they say they "don't want to use pronouns." they are not using the word to mean the word. you can try to point out that there's politics in the media they like/make, but they don't mean "politics" they mean "freaks"

Statement of Teaching Philosophy Keith Leonard My students want certainty. They want it so badly. They respect science and have memorized complex formulas. I don't know how to tell my students their parents are still just as scared. The bullies get bigger and vaguer and you cannot punch a cloud. I have eulogies for all my loved ones prepared, but cannot include this fact in my lesson plans.

The best teacher I ever had told me to meet him at the basketball court. We played pick-up for hours. By the end, I lay panting on the hardwood and couldn't so much as stand. He told me to describe the pain in my chest. I tried. I couldn't find the words. Not exactly. Listen, he said, that's where language ends.

Great to see the @foundfootagefest.com again! Thanks for a great show!

NYPD abuses people in handcuffs. How do they get away with it? New York Police Department officers use force on people already restrained, which some experts characterize as “torture”

This read on NYPD torturing arrestees has me thinking, inevitably, about those whose stories don't make it into the news.

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

myth: if you have covid, you’ll know it.

fact: with an infection, it may take testing over several days for your viral load to increase enough to finally give you a positive result from home RATs.

also, about half of infections are asymptomatic (though that doesn’t mean they don’t still damage us)

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

No one supports a war in Venezuela btw

Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.

eraserheadadult on tumblr: "tbh the current default state of operating systems & internet browsers looks fucking indistinguishable from when i gave the family desktop one billion viruses downloading Free Neopoints Hack in 2005 " eraserheadadult: "not to be a millennial but back in my day getting blasted in the eyeballs by ads on your desktop the instant you turn on your computer used to mean something was extremely wrong"

every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years

The Snowman 1982 (Full Movie) YouTube video by Adventures with Jasper

Every year I watch Raymond Briggs' The Snowman. Every year it makes me cry. But never more so than this year.

No matter how much you love it, every snowman melts.

Watching this when I was 5 was my first understanding of mortality. 40 years later, I'm still sitting by the melted snow wondering why.

That movie is so scary. Not even the stuff in the cave just the caving itself.

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Unmitigated illness is a tool used by fascists to eliminate the groups of people they hate & have deprived of resources, while making money off those who can afford to play the pay-to-win game of for-profit healthcare.

Wearing an n95 is an act of hope, solidarity, & resistance. Give/get mutual aid:

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BLUF: Press is talking about "Super Flu" bc this year's dominant strain isn't a great match to the vaccine. Get vax'd anyway (consider the high-dose vax), wear a mask (protects against airborne pathogens), and have a testing + treatment strategy ahead of time because viral replication is exponential

There should be just a small nominal tuition fee if you're doing a degree for your own edification

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:

- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Damn that's super cool! Congrats!

This was obvious from the moment it was announced, but still worth mentioning. The genocide never ended.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

My friend @distractabee.bsky.social put me onto a new game for me to play yay :3

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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Be careful w protein powders and shakes, I just saw a consumer report saying many brands have a lot of lead in them 🥶

Same. It's so nasty to see it coming back.

No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

This is the the funniest-because-it-is-true take on the internet and it is sad that you have to click through to see the context

The most important thing to remember about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl is that Puerto Rico is a colony whose residents are US citizens and pay taxes but don't get to vote for the president, have no voting representation in Congress,