Setting aside the substantive reasons why vaccination is extremely important for combat readiness etc: since when is enlisting in the military supposed to enhance your personal freedom? wtf are we even talking about here?
30 members of Congress have been accused of workplace sexual misconduct while in office since 2006. But that data only captures part of the scale of the problem. Few cases are publicly reported, likely due to lack of trust in the system. @gracepanetta.bsky.social
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It is pretty hard to get 'cancelled' due to sexual misconduct if you are a powerful man even in San Francisco. Of 70 men who faced public allegations (2010 - 2026), 76% are professionally active, 41% in the same or an elevated role. Only 2 in prison.
sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...
Give me a fucking break. Dark thoughts? Relationship stress? This was a domestic violence mass murder. He was a family annihilator.
every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.
in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
HHS wants to move "away from reliable contraception & toward counseling men on erectile dysfunction, testosterone levels and sperm motility, each of which merits 3 mentions in the new guidance, while IUDs & birth control pills earn none." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech
How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...
A website with 62 million monthly visitors is hosting 20,000+ videos of women being assaulted in their sleep. It's completely legal. I broke down how—and what accountability would actually look like.
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Oh:
A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
Those who created these tools were perfectly aware that they’d be used to ‘nudify’ literal children - and they’re still getting away with it
www.wired.com/story/deepfa...
Some sports betting platforms — including DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics — are pooling tens of millions of dollars into a new super PAC that is expected to focus primarily on state legislative races.
conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences
Study (N=2,689) of men (18-34) finds 95.1% reported using strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex & had not consented; 65% successful. Physical pressure & verbal coercion common; overt force, physical restraint, pain also used. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Misogynistic men often ‘lovebomb’ partners, lavishing them with praise and affection early on to convince women to give up their autonomy and outside income. Once they are trapped, the men will “drop the facade.” @jessicacalarco.com @amandamarcotte.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...
Book bans often target women's stories (Handmaid's Tale, Color Purple, The Hill We Climb) and women's stories are also absent in school curricula. Where state standards focus on women in history, they emphasize domestic roles, rather than women's work or activism.
progressive.org/public-schoo...
Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible.
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April 2025 w/ @veritenews.org)
He’s just describing the Dems but they’re too girly so bsky.app/profile/anth...
Women are more likely than men to say they’ve read a book in the past 12 months (78% vs 71%). Women are twice as likely to have participated in a book club. (10% vs 5%).
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Like I said www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... bsky.app/profile/wash...
american masculinity is a pathogen
Blah blah blah gender stratification but also if you ever say the words, “make girly jobs more manly” to me, I will laugh in your face. Just a full on guffaw. What is wrong with you?
Stevenson wants us to, “encourage us to realize that we have to help men understand that they can do caregiving roles and stay masculine.”
Alternately, I want men to read a book. And I get to choose the book.
Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.
it is very funny that someone is charging money to a bunch of losers to walk through a tunnel
