Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too.

All those things are within our reach, together.

Wow. First contact after the Far Side of the Moon is two women talking to each other about how we are fragile and interconnected.

That's the matriarchy, baby, that's what it sounds like.

That's us. All of us. Every single one. Except for those four, every person dead or alive on a vibrant blue marble that we're slowly killing while we rapidly kill each other.

What the fuck are we doing?

new corn sweat just dropped:

data center diaphoresis

“We cannot sit back and allow a handful of billionaire Big Tech oligarchs to make decisions that will reshape our economy, our democracy and the future of humanity."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Today we commemorate the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts Number of new online accounts on Polymarket platform betting a total of $70,000 suggest ‘some degree of inside info’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Most seniors in Hong Kong do not own or drive a car, because they can get anywhere they want to with the city's robust public transport system at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of $0.26 per trip.

My parents just take random day trips for fun. That is true freedom that American seniors will never have.

I guess the sort of people who don't understand or care about how complex interdependent systems in the biosphere can only take so much disruption before it overwhelms their ability to self heal, also don't get such relationships in the techno-industrial economy.

I think a lot about how people say the SCOTUS stuff won't be undone for generations and I have to say, there is a poverty of imagination at play there.

We need everyone and ESPECIALLY Dem politicians to believe that we can and will fix this, by extraordinary means if necessary (and they will be)

If Alito is worried about voters' feelings and confidence, can't he just demand that no interim vote counts be provided and information be only released after the count is complete? Not sure that level of info micromanaging is permissible under the 1st Amendment, but it would solve his 'problem'.

Cost Concerns and Coverage Changes: A Follow-Up Survey of ACA Marketplace Enrollees | KFF This KFF survey is a follow-up survey of adults who had ACA Marketplace insurance in 2025. The survey examines the cost concerns and coverage changes that these 2025 Marketplace enrollees are experien...

🚨50% of ACA re-enrollees say costs are “a lot higher” this year
🚨Enrollees worry about affording their monthly premiums, as well as out-of-pocket health expenses
🚨Health care costs are straining household budgets
The administration needs to address affordability, ASAP. www.kff.org/public-opini...

Jeffrey Epstein’s elite relationships visualised: the prince, the sultan and the politicians Guardian analysis of more than a million emails reveals financier’s deep and longstanding ties with the wealthy and powerful

Fun infographics!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Not now, concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests!

Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.

During covid Rebekah Jones warned about Ron DeSantis and Joseph Ladapo hiding data. And now they're doing it again.
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

6th anniversary of the declaration of the pandemic this week but also I would like to remind folks that the vaccine for kids under 5 wasn’t approved until summer 2022, at which point vaccination rates had sharply declined. Fewer than 10% of kids under 5 in 🇨🇦 received ONE dose. As time goes on … /1

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

It's super easy everyone!

Just bookmark this address:

bsky.app/profile/jenn...

and paste it under any mis-/dis-information post you find!

Jenny's been absolutely killing it with keeping tabs on this disastrous bill- definitely worth the follow.

And as the quoted thread makes clear, that research labor is (& should be) repackaged in a variety of ways to amply its impact. But guess what? If we allow this work to be defunded & suppressed, the opportunity to communicate its importance to wider audiences immediately vanishes.

One thing we should be taking away from the fascist crisis is that careful research on the real world is extremely fucking important. Bare minimum that work needs to be funded & expanded for us to have the information & tools necessary to cast off this regime & create a livable world from its ashes.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

(Published May 2025)

To incoming University President Mnookin: Please don’t let artificial intelligence devalue the liberal arts Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin <a href="https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/12/uw-receives-approval-to-move-l-ss-largest-majors-to-new-ai-focused-school...

students know they are being cheated

Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. These 16.5 million ...

"In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years." — @epi.org

www.epi.org/publication/...

Appreciate Ronan summarizing all the work I've done in the last 18 months.
prospect.org/economy/2024...
prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...

pretty stunning chart

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...

14 million deaths by 2030 should be a major story.

Hitler's concentration camps claimed 6 million.

Vance: "Trump might be America's Hitler.

Maybe worse.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...