Not even going to touch on the fact that certain technologies have just been dropped entirely because they're too harmful.
Don't hear many of these people screaming for leaded gasoline to come back despite all technology being inevitable.

12 thoughts about the Columbia University protests and what is happening on campuses across the country

1. I have to be honest about something: I'm really starting to hate writing about anything related to Israel or Gaza. I feel like I can't write authentically about this latest…

This reminder is a great thread on life under a Trump Presidency. Sent these to your Trump curious friends so that they can remember the daily cavalcade of straight up lies that we were fed

Barr: I think his whole administration is a disaster for the country

Collins: Is worse than subverting the peaceful transfer of power?

Barr: Did he succeed?

This is Frank.
Frank is a terrible hunting dog.
I didn’t kill Frank and dump him in a gravel pit.
I just stopped taking him hunting.
Because I’m not a fucking monster.

Some tenured faculty members at Brown University are being threatened with vague disciplinary action after having visited the encampments. They received this email from the Dean of Faculty. I’ve confirmed at least 2, but there are at least 2 more I am hearing about beyond that.

Being sick enough to lose an organ in this situation is always synonymous with being close to death

Today, the Supreme Court dispelled any lingering hope that it might prove to be an honest broker of the law.

It is not.

So, not surprisingly, it is once again up to us.

Vote. Because our democracy depends on it.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Like we don’t just do a hysterectomy wrong with a septic abortion for funsies, we do a hysterectomy when we didn’t have an opportunity to intervene in a timely fashion and it’s a Hail Mary that we hope our patient survives.

The pod people got to William Shatner before we could.

love to listen to Supreme Court oral arguments about fun hypotheticals like “if you have a womb is it possible you aren’t a person” and “should we have a king”