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Women Are Scared And Scrapping Their Baby Plans Under This Administration &...
Women Are Scared And Scrapping Their Baby Plans Under This Administration & For Good Reason. āI donāt want to die trying to have another baby. I donāt want to leave...
The February 28 Economic Blackout
A broad range of Americans are organizing a 24-hour economic boycott on February 28th to protest the ongoing actions of the Trump administration and to send a message to corporate...
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next seasonās shots. āDeciding...
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next seasonās shots. āDeciding on the strains in the spring gives vaccine manufacturers enough time to produce the shots to be ready...
The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since...
The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000 ā higher than during 9/11, the 2007 financial crisis, and the pandemic. āIt is a mystery as...
The MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years...
The MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years in response to Trumpās actions illegally freezing aid. āThis is a major crisis for our sector and itās...
The United States has fallen to a score of 65 (on a...
The United States has fallen to a score of 65 (on a scale of 0-100) on Transparency Internationalās Corruption Perceptions Index (calculated before Trumpās 2nd term). Itās fallen steadily since...
Legendary actor Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. Hackman,...
Legendary actor Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead at their home yesterday. āFoul play was not...
A Son Tries to Rescue His Dad From Conspiracy Theories
NPRās Embedded podcast has a three-episode series from reporter Zach Mack about a year-long effort to convince his dad that all the conspiracy theories he (his dad) believes are bogus,...
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: āI canāt think of...
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: āI canāt think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want...
Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest 1977-2015
Whoa, HBO has made a third installment of Eyes on the Prize, the landmark series on the American Civil Rights Movement. The trailer is above and you can watch the...
Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning āfree marketsā no longer welcome at The...
Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning āfree marketsā no longer welcome at The Washington Post. āMonths after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Postās contentā¦ā LOL,...
A long but very interesting thread about how Trump & Russell Vought...
A long but very interesting thread about how Trump & Russell Vought have started weaponizing the OMB to illegally impound funding appropriated by Congress (like he did in 2019, leading...
Plan To Be More Positive Off To Shitty Fucking Start. āWell, Iām...
Plan To Be More Positive Off To Shitty Fucking Start. āWell, Iām not even three days into giving optimism a shot, and it already sucks.ā šš« š
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak. And before...
An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak. And before that, there had been only 2 measles deaths in the past 22 years: one in 2015 and one...
What do you do after you accidentally kill a child? This is...
What do you do after you accidentally kill a child? This is wonderfully writtenā¦.but also very hard to read. š¬ Join the discussion on kottke.org ā
The Great Resegregation
For the Atlantic, Adam Serwer writes about the Great Resegregation, the attempt by the Trump administration to reverse the civil rights movement. If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will...
This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI. āThis is...
This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI. āThis is not just about education. It is about who gets to participate in shaping the future of this country.ā
Let This Radicalize You Workbook. āThis workbook is intended as an extension...
Let This Radicalize You Workbook. āThis workbook is intended as an extension of the book Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes and...
On the lessons of the rise & fall of the KKK. āFascism...
On the lessons of the rise & fall of the KKK. āFascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side,...
The War on Cars debuts an ad that extolls the freedom of...
The War on Cars debuts an ad that extolls the freedom of cycling. āWhoās really more free? People beholden to traffic, gas prices, and the high cost of owning and...