Soros conspiracy theories are antisemitic, but they aren't just about Jews. They're about politicians like this using the figure of the perfidious Jewish puppet master to explain away all progressive social change, to avoid reckoning with how unpopular their policies really are.

Reading Ada Palmer’s @adapalmer.bsky.social stunning INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE. Whose thesis may be super roughly described as: what we think we know as “the Renaissance” didn’t exist: it was a way later historians organized certain facts (& excluded others) to serve & justify ideologies of power 1/

YES: A Wyoming librarian fired for refusing to pull LGBTQ books just won a $700,000 settlement for violation of her First Amendment rights. 👏 Let this be a warning to every censor-happy official in the country.

Gift link for those who want it: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

Like most wellness influencers the allure of money quickly gets to stray well outside the scope of their expertise. Not everyone can see through the misinformation when he start waxing eloquent about how to "cancer proof" your body in a soothing voice 🤷‍♀️

“There’s a hospital in the state of New Mexico — an IHS facility — that no longer offers support for moms delivering kids or having babies. And that’s all because of the Trump administration,” Sen. Luján tells me.

My latest for National Native News is live: www.nativenews.net/friday-octob...

The Guardian calls ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM "one of the best science-fiction books of the year."

US release is Tuesday, 10/14!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

You can always keep fucking with your gender.

“As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers.” #HispanicHeritageMonth

If the bombs stop, and the hostages go home, that will be a tremendous blessing. Thank goodness. But there will never be real peace--Palestinians and Israelis will never enjoy real safety--until Palestinians are free.

Come join me and @victoriaying.com on Tuesday 10/14 (7pm) if you’re in Los Angeles! RSVP here:

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

This is actually what is going to happen.

That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis.

It’s just not on the news anymore.

This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

I can't wait for @litquake.org, the SF Bay Area's iconic festival for people who love to read and write. Check out @coyotemedia.org's guide to what's happening -- I hope to see you there!!!

About a quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40% in the largest FBI field offices, according to The Washington Post. Agents have been pulled from investigations into cybercrime, drug trafficking, terrorism, counterintelligence and more.

Last week I screened Pow! at @unlv.edu along with the fantastic documentary Remaining Native as part of their Orange Shirt Screening Tour. Remaining Native is such a cool project with such a great team behind it and if it’s screening in your area, go out of your way to check it out!

MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) needs volunteers! If you're around Boston and love comics and want to help out in December, you can get more info here (and sign up to volunteer!) www.micexpo.org/volunteer

And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales

YES: “If parents get their information about parenting autistic kids from the autistic community, they will find people who think their kids are awesome and deserve to be happy, and want their parents to feel the same way. The parents will learn about autism from people who had autistic childhoods.”

USA: Mask rules are returning to Bay Area health care settings from Nov 1 as COVID, flu, and RSV cases rise.

Counties including Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Napa, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz will require masks for workers, and in some cases patients and visitors, through spring.