The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all.

This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

Probably recency bias since I just got through these books, but Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn saga shift from the original trilogy to the sequel series. I was wary of the concept, but it ruled extremely hard.

Obama and Biden both motivated atypical voters to show up. Obama with strong messaging and campaigning, and Biden by just not being Trump while that was fresh in the collective consciousness. Harris campaign tried to get the fictional swing voters, and that’s what doomed them.

I cannot wrap my mind around how people haven’t figured this out yet. The real swing voters aren’t people who always vote but have no party loyalty, that person doesn’t exist in meaningful numbers. It’s irregular/new voters you need to go after.

WaPo running this story as if they aren’t actively part of the problem is wild

Assuming that this is the union that represents Attiah, they may have a specific disciplinary grievance procedure in their collective bargaining agreement. So they have actual, mechanical methods of going to bat for her that aren’t necessarily public facing but are still the most effective.

Stoically agreeing that they are “for the table.”

I just want to clarify that the fact I liked this skeet before the previous was extremely intentional

I keep coming back to the idea that reality has a bias. You don’t need to present arguments from multiple angles unless the arguments are actually credible, and credible doesn’t just mean convenient or supported by a lot of people. Sometimes things just are. To pretend otherwise leads to this.

Fascist, hatemongering state policy.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

It happened again

it’s almost like all the attacks calling Mamdani antisemitic were vapid bad faith bullshit created by politicians with no policy plan other than smashing the “scary muslim” button

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.

I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:

For sure! I had the same impulse to verify that story because it was so grotesque. Gotta check anything that incites a strong emotional response without proper sourcing.

In relevant part in case there’s a paywall:

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Here’s the source for the claim. It is the portion of the article dedicated to Jordin Castillo.

The fact that some of these nations are saying anything at all is a huge step away from previously held positions. Even though it (reasonably) may not be seen as enough by a lot of people, it’s important to note how big of a move this actually is.

One of my friends who I’ve known since we were three years old came out as trans when we were in our late twenties. There’s a learning curve for adjusting name/pronoun usage there after decades of habit, but like… just try? You don’t even have to get it right every time, the effort is what matters.

WHAT ARE WE DOING

Why are covering your face? Because you know what you're doing is wrong, yet you're doing it anyway

Why is the court blocking your name? Because it knows what you're doing is wrong, yet they're letting you do it anyway