Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

Trump’s immigration crackdown is risking higher food prices for Americans, according to the Trump admin itself. 
DOL warned in an obscure document last week that “near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

The news of this proclamation is hardly surprising, but why does @npr.org keep doing the “some experts say” bullshit in even after this regime has already cut off their funding?

Yeah I'm going with....

The “tarnish” consists of letters written by “left-wing radical” Spaniards in the employ of Columbus giving an account of Columbus’ and their own actions.

www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6...

It’s not a way to “erase the heritage of Native Americans” so much as erase the heritage of white people by erasing their history of colonization and the genocide of Native Americans. If Columbus Day were a day when we remembered how horrible he was and mourn the violence he set off, okay fine.

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Standing in solidarity with colleagues at the CDC who were fired as part of yet another RIF wave.
We are all less safe without their expertise and dedication.

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

There is a way to talk about the social pressure that women of colour in the Global North feel to smell a certain way, without implying that only white women would choose to smell natural. The average South Asian isn't using deo and that's FINE.

I'm reaching across the isle here to ask please that people remember that the majority of non-white women live in the Global South, do not have the money to buy perfumes or deodorants, and are not ashamed for smelling like human beings. Which is the way it should be actually.

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

Who actually dropped balls from towers?

Who dropped them best?

The basics behind the ever-increasing multitude of collapsing houses on the Outer Banks (with @samwalkerobxnews.com)

Here’s the straight link to the YouTube version if you just want to skip all words youtu.be/5FncWsyow-M?...

Here’s @samwalkerobxnews.com and me answering every possible question you may have about the collapsing Outer Banks houses www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-are-so...

One judge compared their district’s current relationship with the Supreme Court to “a war zone.” Another said the courts were in the midst of a “judicial crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The sage grouse has lost 80% of its numbers since 1965. Now the Trump Admin. wants to gut its last habitat protections in Wyoming’s Red Desert—the densest population left on Earth. “If there’s a lot, we take a lot; if there’s a little, we take it all.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/0410202...

A list of birds that once frequented New York City, but had disappeared by 1923. It's encouraging that nearly every one that has not gone extinct can at least occasionally be spotted in the city.

“We must do everything we can to stave off the catastrophes of climate change, but, in doing so, we may create a whole other set of catastrophes,” says Beiser.
We’re not juggling unknown risks; we’re juggling known harms and pretending it is progress.
apple.news/AFbd_S5wKQXq...

Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy. Snow leopards have almost none left. As the planet changes, evolution has no time to bail them out. Extinction isn’t a question of if, but when.

abcnews.go.com/US/survival-...