There isn’t a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
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There isn’t a quote more perpetually pertinent than Maya Angelou stating:
“When people show you who they are, believe them the FIRST time.”
"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.
WHAT?!?!
just to be clear, being from a working class background does not actually make it okay to use the environment-destroying plagiarism machine. All use of AI in writing fiction is morally bankrupt, because it steals and it destroys - and that's not even getting into the betrayal of craft.
I hope for a day Americans will value people's lives abroad just as much, and will treat members of the military like this.
There's something really gross about the disregard for the incredible and highly available intellectual work of Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani.
I don't know how you engage with their obvious depth and thoughtfulness and come away bewildered by their son or his care for people.
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
You mean ON TOP of this god-awful bill passing, this is how I learned that someone hacked my Alma mater my personal data has been compromised?!?!?!?!
can’t decide the funnier anti-nepo narrative correction here:
Mamdani rejected by the place where is dad was professor
unlike what racists think, this demonstrates that checking an “African American box” is not some automatic ticket to the Ivy League
Columbia turned away the possible future mayor
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action. The Times agreed to withhold his real name.
His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
I think the idea that “people who voted for this should suffer the repercussions” is misguided because the repercussions of this bill are going to impact everyone, including so many people who didn’t vote for it. Political consequences are rarely felt in isolation and only by those who vote for it.
Absolutely incredible how US libs will say anything to launder genocide even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
helpful reminder that even the most stone-cold dumb as fuck people can be dangerous fascists — using recklessly dehumanizing fascist language, promoting consonant ideas and policies, etc.
It is HIGH TIME for sagacity to reign amongst us!
God 😩
Like, what really is the difference between ~whatever the fresh hell this is~ and the state of nature as described by Hobbes??
A failed, self-cannibalizing state if I’ve ever seen one, whew.
Also, all you liberals who were humping Amy Coney Barrett last month really should have listened to me when I told you SHE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEP
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules to save free access to preventive care including PrEPThe defendants in the case previously argued that supporting PrEP access was similar to supporting homosexuality. bit.ly/3ZOJZ4P
Once we start picking and choosing which librarian-approved books are okay to discriminate against, we open the damn floodgates. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
This Christian theocratic project—of which SCOTUS is a crucial part—depends on kids growing up to be bigots.
Kids aren’t born to hate. They learn it. We can’t have kids learning to respect differences because that’s how you get communism so we gotta keep letting kids be indoctrinated into bigotry.
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
When I told my Barnard students + mentees my bagel order, they damn near wanted to crucify me lmaooooo
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This is for mass surveillance. RFK Jr. already said he’d use smartwatch data for his “autism registry.” He clearly sees it as a way to get personal health information without running into HIPAA or asking for consent.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
I don’t think y’all understand just how much the entire state of New York—especially the cities upstate!—have suffered because of the unchecked greed and drastic jump in the cost of living in NYC.
So if those sociopaths want to leave—let them!
Bit rich for Shai Davidai to call for "our colleges" to become "partisan-free spaces for education" has he forgotten what hes been doing for a year and a half
