Pissed-off griffin

For me Nurse Kristi is the most sinister.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.”

I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

So what do the maps mean in terms of war? Well, Iran has all the tactical advantages you could hope for.

If the Us invades, it will be from the South and West from low ground. This will leave the north protected and the defenders will be on high ground surrounded by friendlier neighbors. 8/n

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Small-town optometrist; social worker with the VA.

A ranting, abusive pater familias decomposing in full public view.

“This was never meant to be a fair fight,” says Hegseth, and I fear we are soon going to feel how that goes both ways.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Politely fried tf outta my man

Back to the Pliocene! (sob)

if you expect a quick end to the iranian regime just because its leadership was decapitated you may be disappointed. like imagine if the situation were reversed and america's supreme leader and defense secretary had been killed. that's right, go ahead, imagine it. think about it all day if you like.

Looks like an evil little shit.

Why do you think they ask “should biological males play sports with girls?” The second you add any context or nuance to trans healthcare people go “wait, really?” But there’s a media narrative out there designed not to do that.

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Looks like Behemoth, a.k.a. кот Бегемот.

They say it’s because parents have a right to know about their kids’ “mental health.” As if being trans is some kind of illness.

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding.

The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

Love this! 🚲

The Retreat from DEI: The Impact of Legal and Political Developments on DEI Language in U.S. Private Foundations Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, large private foundations in the United States widely adopted language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on their public-facing websites. In 2023, a series of legal and political developments began reversing the institutional pressures that had encouraged this adoption: first the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023), then state-level anti-DEI legislation, and culminating in President Trump’s Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we constructed a longitudinal corpus of 3,612 archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations and tracked the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among the nine foundations with data in both years, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test indicates a decline from 2023 to 2025 (one-sided p = .029, two-sided p = .059), with median usage falling approximately 40 percent. The decline was broad-based across many terms. These patterns are consistent with coercive isomorphism: the same process that drove widespread, convergent adoption of DEI language after 2020 now appears to be reversing it. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking how political pressure reshapes organizational communication about equity.

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce

then as farce again

then as farce one more time

tbh it's just gonna be farce from here on out

Security violations

This is like the knowledge check on annual security training

Yesterday’s attack on Iran sends a strong message to would-be dictators who use secret police to murder protesters.

Here I am, stuck in this country with you.

Iran has the capacity to launch terror and cyber attacks against allies and US. Due to DOGE, partisan firings of FBI and cyber officials, and lack of focus or know how by AG Bondi and DHS Noem, they are ignoring this possibility completely.

Good afternoon, Senator, I'm a constituent and I knocked doors for you in 2024. I'm writing to tell you in the strongest terms that I do not support war with Iran. I do not support a "limited action" against Iran. I do not support anything having to do with Iran except begging for forgiveness for the schoolgirls we killed today. Please encourage your colleagues in the House to file articles of impeachment against the president for violating the constitution with his illegal declaration of war. I don't care if it has no chance of passing. If we are to have any future after Trump, the world must know how vigorously Americans oppose this today. Thank you, Gillian Brockell

If you need inspiration, this is what I said.

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status...

all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will

such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

The level of rage I have towards the New York Times that enabled this while blaming us for it is indescribable.