In the 1970s, Kohlberg established something like 5 schools. By the 2000s, there were only 2 left. (Westchester county & CA.) As a single mom raising sons, I’m enormously grateful to Kohlberg’s “experiment”. My sons grew into ethical and empathic men, and I give Kohlberg hella lot of credit!
Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
So now your taxpayer dollars are going to protect the bone saw billionaire regime, but no healthcare for you.
Those of us who have Palestinians & Lebanese in our lives have been trying to make the supposed good party see this for years with no avail.
My friends' loved ones in Palestine are not less dead, tortured, detained, & homeless because the US president who helped Israel was a Democrat.
Palestinian American journalist & Arab feminist titan Shireen Abu Akleh is not less murdered because it was the Democratic Biden administration who helped Israel cover up her murder.
Her funeral was not less attacked by Israeli police, her home was not less raided when her relatives gathered.
What's fun (not fun) about this is that Kohlberg found that many adults never reach the post-conventional/adult stages, which I think say a lot about what is going on right now in general. Morals less sophisticated than a child.
And if you pair Kohlbergs stages with the Heinz dilemma (wife is dying and needs medicine, chemist won't sell it - should husband steal or not and why?), both of the "adult" stages of development call for Heinz to steal, just for diferebt moral reasons
Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.
If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.
If you didn't like it? They took you out.
So flufffy omg
the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand
gotta be another way to do this
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
"These are not signs of a democracy under threat," writes @eric-reinhart.com. "They are symptoms of one that eroded – if it ever existed – long ago."
"Why, then, does American political discourse remain fixated on a catastrophe that always seems imminent but never quite arrives?"
Absolutely zero surprise that Jake Tapper is platforming this zionist propaganda supersoldier
Oh man he would have crushed as Hannibal Lector
“Warfighter” is such a goddamn funny word. It’s like if they called the experience of playing a game “gameplay”
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
People run for cover in Tel Aviv as missiles come from Lebanon -APNEWS
This was all a ruse for the Mad Man of The Middle East to start a new war with Lebanon. He knew they would shoot a few rockets at Tel Aviv and it would allow him to do a full scale invasion of Lebanon and a another land grab.
Opposition to the technocracy is rapidly becoming my highest priority in electoralism, even moreso than socdem policy
I REALLY don't wanna live in a heavily surveilled country where everything is monitored and my personal life is subject to the whims of the government. I consider that a dystopia
I am allowed to have an opinion on the type of world I want to live in without running for office. Most people are not elected officials we are just some guy.
The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.
I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.
The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.
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Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
AI has given abusive governments like the US & Israel an excuse.
"We didn't bomb that school or hospital, and if we did, the computer told us to!" would be more believable coming from nations who haven't made killing civilians & committing atrocities their national pastimes.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
I hate you so much
it turns out that the answer to the headline here is: like humans. listen. don't judge, but don't endorse the beliefs, either.
as my friend wisely said: “There's value in having friendships where it's like, ‘I love you, but also, you're full of shit.’” www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
