Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC.
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A sword
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Something I’m really appreciating about Yom Kippur this year is how the liturgy encourages us to meditate on our individual sins while confession is always collective. It provokes feeling a share of responsibility for some sins I’d normally simply lay at the feet of others. So much to atone for.

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

I rode the metro as a child in the 1990s when the murder rate was several times higher than it is now bsky.app/profile/joel...

let the gourd times roll

"There are so many profound issues being fought over in American politics right now, but the proximate cause of the shutdown is a dumb and illogical aspect of congressional procedure," argues @mattyglesias.bsky.social: www.slowboring.com/p/seventeen-...

jfc. I thought you were kidding.

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Look I like this place, the convos i have are mostly productive, there’s a lot of thoughtful posters, but like everyone once in a while someone will say something like accusing me of being racist against my darker furred cat

"The Israeli right has spent decades trying to prevent people from conceiving any alternatives to its ultimate victory," writes @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"For many hours Saturday morning, Dickinson remained the sole protester." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

"By lunchtime, hours after President Donald Trump said he would send troops to the city, it seemed everyone had a picture to post on social media — a long line at the homemade bread stand, cherry trees still blooming, a cat on a leash." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

RIP Shine, uou were too beautiful for this world www.businessinsider.com/marissa-maye...

There is one tried and true way ordinary Americans can stop Trump’s political prosecutions: Jury Nullification. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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"The Tuesday speech is expected to be the first in a series of three short lectures Hegseth will deliver." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: The U.S. has long lagged behind other wealthy countries in reducing its stillbirth rate.

Now a new five-year, $37 million NIH consortium will prioritize this public health issue. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.

Recommend @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social coverage of guy who is now dean at Harvard public health school, paid $150k when Columbia prof as "expert witness" supporting Tylenol/autism plaintiffs. (Judge tossed the case, and his testimony.)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

It’s very funny that Republicans didn’t even run a candidate in this race

I’m not sure when it became socially acceptable (in real life OR online) for people to tell you that they don’t like the thing you happily do for work.

Maybe if it’s something that actively harms people? But otherwise, you really don’t have to respond saying “You do [x]? I can’t stand [x]!”