I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
This war may end up the most devastating thing that happens to the US and the world in the 21st century (or, maybe TACO Tuesday, though I doubt it). It's definitely a moment for people in institutions to do something. For us, is it time to panic? I'd love to hear theories of why not. 14/14
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Which they are unlikely (unable) to learn and may not inhibit their aims towards expansion of their own borders. To continued global peril.
Very disturbing implications for a couple of places where I’ve lived, and encouraging ones for the place where I’m from.
From Pew: “We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.”
“No studies identified significant negative outcomes or harms.”
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that gender-affirming care for people of all ages is good for mental health, reduces self-harm, and leads to happier people. The media are lying about this and don’t care. I think that’s bad!
Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word.
It's just evil.
And rheumatoid arthritis and lupus ... and ... a vast array of autoimmune diseases. Gasp. Sob. Sigh.
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
10/10 amazing. please go be silly
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.
Historical Juxtaposition by Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social
Wow. I am always struck by how you find these timely, yet long-ago headlines. As the kids say today, they hit hard.
fwiw i think his obsession with the nobel prize is entirely about obama getting it (setting aside whether or not obama ought to have received it)
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
