Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

ICYMI: Nearly 11,000 Santa Cruz County residents insured through California’s FAIR Plan could face average fire insurance rate hikes of nearly 36% starting in 2026 as part of a statewide proposal submitted to the Department of Insurance.

oh man I WISH

Is there someone who writes about systems thinking and disability that you'd recommend I read? Consider this a wide net; I don't know quite what I'm looking for, so I can't ask a more focused question...

Couple in Affectionate Converse https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/1000/

The difference between Democrats surrendering in March and fighting back now is us. We must encourage Democrats to keep holding the line to protect healthcare for millions of Americans and stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Currently reading and feeling very validated by:

The 2nd of 6 faculty positions open at UNC Biology is for an Asst Professor studying critical questions in Plant Molecular Biology, focusing on molecular mechanisms illuminating fundamental aspects of plant biology, including interactions with other organisms 1/n
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Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Toni Morrison said that a pitfall of success is “you can begin to talk about things you know nothing about.”

I appreciate her point. Staying in our lane doesn’t always mean being silenced. Sometimes it’s an invitation to do really great work and have integrity.

At least four people were killed and four others were critically injured after a shooting on Sunday at a bar on St. Helena, an island off the coast of South Carolina, according to the authorities.

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

GEN-ALPHA DICKENS: it was the skibidi of times, it was the toilet of times

BOOMER TOLKIEN: I did NOT spend decades inventing languages only for you to butcher this one. Just saying!

ZILLENNIAL SHAKESPEARE: nah let him cook, brevity low-key the soul of wit fr fr

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

Several other fun facts about me:

- I’m a mom!
- My science involves understanding compulsive alcohol use in humans
- I have a little lavender farm
- I’m a painter (in my non-existent free time 😅)
- I went to community college!
- I used to be a fashion stylist
- I also used to sell diamonds

I don’t need therapy, I just need everyone to stop being wrong.

An excellent piece by Joachim Frank, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, about how we must resist the Trump Administration's crackdown on universities.

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

The "plaintiffs" seeking to dismantle the Voting Rights Act (in a case this week at SCOTUS) include:

-a member of the "Trumpettes," a group of women who ardently support for the president
-a retiree who said he didn’t remember signing up to be involved in a lawsuit.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Ladies & gentlemen & nonbinary readers - the civil rights heroes (according to this Supreme Court)!!!

omg, guys… the western alaska villages are getting hit hard. this is worse than merbok

it’s a helpless feeling watching watching these villages cry out for help on social media. where is the national guard??

many of these villages have kids here in sitka at edgecumbe

I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.