Please don’t use fireworks tonight! It’s terrible for the environment and the animals. And happy new year!

A huge win for free speech and a free press, and a major - and richly deserved - defeat for the pervasively corrupt agricultural industry, that has tried to use their control over governments to criminalize the exposure of their heinous practices:

Not one word, not one word about Puerto Rico.

Can a country deal with more than one original sin at a time? And if it can’t, has the U.S. decided to deal with the original sin of slavery in a way it doesn’t deal with the original sin of settler colonialism? How do the two interact? Native #'s

This might be the single dumbest thing ever happen on television, and an excellent exhibit for how nepotism and dynastic privilege degrades culture. thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-…

THREAD: I'm on record as saying that there are a lot of sincere and principled people working the campus politics/free speech beat, but lately I've grown much more cynical about the entire thing. I'd like to give you an example of why.

From the makers of "Obama's election proves racism is over," I bring you:

Y'all realize the lowest level crimes committed by the poorest people receive the heaviest policing, right? And that the wealthiest, most powerful people who are committing crimes against humanity aren't policed heavy because they own the police? I hope we all realize this.

“I am calling on the BBC and the other major broadcasters to incorporate an additional five-to ten-minute slot into the forecast that focuses properly and honestly on the Earth’s changing climate.” — Bill Giles, veteran weather presenter Agree? act.gp/2FFaKyA

Prediction regarding Peter Buttigieg: this candidacy will expose the major faultiness between white gay men and the rest of the LGBTQ community.

Rep. Banks, You and I spent a few months in Afghanistan. Rep. Omar grew up in war-torn Somalia before spending years in a Kenyan refugee camp on the Somali border. It’s not up to us to decide who is and is not “worthy” of PTSD. Trauma is trauma. A uniform is not required.

david bowie shining in the bisexual colours is something that can be so personal

I absolutely did NOT make a map of Native brokenness. I wrote about my own experiences and the ways that the unconditional love of my parents and my community delivered me whole and unafraid into this world where I now have to speak up against a misguided NYT review.