It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
The Executive Summary says everything you need to know, but the short version is that high up Trump political appointees took Trump's 2025 proposed budget and implemented it at NASA even though his proposed budget was obviously not law. (In practice this meant enormous cuts.)
Tagging is broken for me now, Jared Golden you're going to hell, dawg. And not Christian hell. Tibetan Buddhist hell. Get ready to meet Yamantaka, buddy
🇭🇺🇺🇦 Péter Magyar: Ukraine is the victim of this war. Everyone knows that.
No one should tell Ukraine under what conditions it must enter peace or sign a peace treaty.
We cannot ask any country to give up its territory. If they do, they would be considered traitors.
Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”
Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government.
He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.
Tonight I'm thinking of the many Hungarians I've met over the years - many of them abroad against their wishes, many of them queer - who haven't stopped fighting, for sixteen years. For most of us, Orbán was an on-and-off nuisance on TV - at best. For them, he was a constant nightmare.
Pastor Yeison Cortes Vasquez has been released!!!!!
Image of Jen Jordan's Bluesky profile
Help!
JEN JORDAN is running to flip a Georgia State Supreme Court seat on May 19th...but she only has *2* followers.
Let's fix that!
PLEASE FOLLOW @jenjordanga.bsky.social ASAP!
(Note: Miracle Rankin - the other Dem-aligned candidate in the 2nd GA SC race - does not have an account...yet)
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Lefty ‘anti-war’ candidate Graham Platner once defended ‘urinating’ on dead Taliban, called war ‘the most enjoyable experience’
NEW: Kansas passed an anti-trans law that has retroactively voided the existing IDs of transgender residents.
One major implication: this effectively hinders their access to the polls given the requirements in this state.
Things are escalating in states.
boltsmag.org/kansas-trans...
My view on this is that the feds owe Minnesota a lump sum payment of ten billion dollars. Five for the state, five for Minneapolis specifically.
AND they need to bring all of our stolen neighbors back.
AND they need to apologize.
And even then they can’t bring back the dead.
Iraqi here. Extremely worried about EVERYTHING!
why would you want people to "make up their own minds" about women's suffrage
the answer is "yes"
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour.
The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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ICE has kidnapped a Colombian asylee and evangelical pastor, Yeison Cortes Vasquez of Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the virtual eve of Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar
still thinking about the abduction of Pastor Yeison Cortes Vasquez and getting incandescently angry. Happy Easter, He is risen! but you, Pastor, are going to a black site and then like Uganda.
BOOM:
Just apropos of the current discourse, I’m gonna make a comment:
1. Many of the people instigating are doing so in an explicitly abusive way.
2. Many of the people participating are doing so because they are scared
The latter is somewhat understandable, but the former uses it for cover.
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Idrees Ali @idreesali114 X.com March 31 (Reuters) - Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday, vowing to inflict Gaza-like destruction in the area. 9:28 AM • 3/31/26 • 826 Views
⚠️ Ethnic cleansing by Israel in southern Lebanon confirmed:
The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020
5/ She would soon find that the choice of how she’d give birth wouldn’t be hers.
The judge would decide.
It's pretty shocking to me that the NYT is reading "J-pilled" as anything other than "hates the Jews and believes the conspiracy theories about them".
If Mamdani's staffers were using "J-pilled" it would rightly be front page news. But it's cool when Republicans do it, apparently.
"Israel" doesn't start with a J.
Wow, it's almost like he's rebuking... somebody in particular. 😏
