Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

I know this makes me a bit weird but the thing that really bothers me is how reactionaries don't know anything about history and don't care to learn.

Also age of marriage for peasants in medieval Europe was a looooot older than people think.

Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”

But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.

NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

I think that the next step in the civil resistance campaign to Trump should be inflicting punishment on elites and institutions who cave. They need to understand that there are costs to compliance

Emissions this century commit us to centuries of sea-level rise

Under current policies, CO2 until 2050 locks in +0.3 m GMSL by 2300; until 2090, +0.8 m

~0.6 m could still be avoided with deep mitigation

Near-term mitigation choices shape millennia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A thing I sincerely believe is that corporations would rather use AI rather than human employees *even if it costs more* because they consider people-management annoying and unpredictable. Employees do things like try to unionize or sue you for sexual harassment, and upper management resents that.

This narrative cloaks a sophisticated influence strategy.
Its psychological payload isn’t to defend China’s trade policy — it’s to erode Western moral confidence

Funny you should say that:

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

lmfao