a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Growing up in Minnesota I was taught to be proud that we were a place that immigrant communities found refuge. What’s happening here now is just the ultimate expression of that pride in our community and love for our neighbors 000
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagSMokiWuff @smokiwuff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I'm a resident of the Twin Cities. A small team and I spent 3 days sculpting this for a competition/festival in extremely cold temperatures. We were disqualified for political messaging and one of the organizers defaced it. I have no regrets and I have never been more proud to be Minnesotan. (cont) 822157563
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMusic Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Four months of shootings and deaths. This doesn't even count the neglect and death in their concentration camps. Fuck. This. Shit. 4512217
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Defrauding the government/taxpayers is practically the national pastime (when white people do it) 110
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagorinoco boo @nocontroller.bsky.social · 22/06/2025You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country 4186534076
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/04/2025Correlation is not causation, and so if such a finding exists (and we should doubt everything RFK says), I strongly suspect that this “study” is just finding correlations between parental income and child IQ, which has a lot more to do with the bias in the IQ test than anything else. 2546161
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/04/2025We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this. 7359991157
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025One of the best AI-generated explanations ever. Bravo. 191143176
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bag𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Trans women ARE biologically women and no biased court can stop that basic fact from being true. Sex is a homeostatic property cluster containing an array of primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual characteristics. Trans people can and do change sex 3150421212
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagDr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025This is an unmitigated disaster, for both trans rights and for science policy. If you are familiar with human sexual development you know “biological sex” is a strange tangle of factors and that our gender/sexual phenotypes are not discrete. 519163
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025dire wolves more like liar wolves am I right 803256307
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagEthan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 08/04/2025I say this every time de-extinction comes up: it makes no sense to devote science to bringing back extinct animals when we can’t be bothered to keep extant ones alive in the first place. 1747361098
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagchira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 29/03/2025after having witnessed the birth of the internet and existing online for 3 decades I can confidently say no feedback is more validating than tumblr reblog tags 3947751856
Reposted by a cat stuck in a baganother spooky local trash panda @kayleitha.bsky.social · 25/03/2025*sigh* SARS-1? Zoonotic. MERS? Zoonotic. Ebola? Zoonotic, including Makena strain. Marburg? Zoonotic. Lassa? Zoonotic. Bubonic plague? Zoonotic. Malaria? Zoonotic. Influenza (1918 or avian) Zoo-fucking-notic. The lab leak theory gives an illusion of control, but it's still a bs conspiracy theory. 429259
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Cryptocurrency makes a lot more sense when you think of it as democratization of white collar crime. Like, finally, financial malfeasance that’s not just for the one percent. 401123169
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I still can't get over how the best possible evidence for the lab leak is just "COINCIDENCE???" 4283446
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/03/2025‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnappedwsj.com‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s UltimatumWith Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education. 208147703414
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagSarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I say this often but Germany was the preeminent research power until 1933 and in 100 since years has never caught up to where it was before the purge of Jews 11818256
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagBartholomew Collins @bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025When people speak of the shared values between America and Israel I never realized they meant "leaders who do coups to stay out of jail" but alas, here we are 0379
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Hard for me to take him seriously after how hard he worked to shut down the Columbia Grad Workers Union… 010
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Wouldn't be surprised if Columbia University agreed to change its name to Trump University, with the way things are going. 27510
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 14/03/2025hey, cis folks i keep being like, "we need you to stand with trans people because there aren't enough trans people to win the fight alone" and...is it usually good for a tiny minority group when the government starts declaring their legal documents inherently fraudulent? 111240488
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 13/03/2025how to use civility to stop the borg 322650845
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagtjnips.bsky.social @tjnips.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Dude Columbia is probably one of the most unsafe campuses in the country now and its just the beginning 112114
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025Columbia is running an incredible experiment in how to become the most hated university in the country because literally everyone on every side hates them right now 1878698
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 11/03/2025As a Jewish Columbia alum, I’m enraged by what happened to mahmoud khalil. The students who protested against genocide were so brave and no one should be prosecuted for political speech. Every Jew who supports his detention needs to spend some time reflecting on pikuach nefesh and tikkun olam 010
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna... 6672526411064
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place. 595515866
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagKaty Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 11/03/2025They want to ban trans kids from MIXED GENDER sports too now It's NEVER been about following the science or maximising fairness 9858235
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.forward.comJewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested himPro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him. 1214335721
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Obviously we shouldn’t be threatening Canada’s sovereignty, but something that pisses me off about this whole 51st sting is that Canada would need to be more than one state. 000
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/03/2025the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain 81111402239
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025There is a teeny tiny very uncharitable part of myself annoyed with the scientists who have suddenly discovered activism because our funding is at stake, none of whom did shit in all the years a handful of us tried to make it less predatory and full of harassers. 1970882
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagBrendan O’Connor @grendan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025CUNY capitulates to a total violation of academic freedom. what an outrage. nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...nypost.comGov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College ‘Palestinian Studies’ job posting, calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’The job listing has since been removed from CUNY’s website. 311224
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 25/02/2025To be clear: this was a chat room where trans people discussed medical procedures and surgeries. There was nothing "pornographic" about it, except in the imaginings of the bigots who deem every aspect of trans life pornographic. This is a purge of all trans employees, and nothing less. 151516482
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I once wrote an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he said that IQ is a bad measure of actual mental ability. It got some of the most wild, furious responses online. There are people who base their entire world view on a relatively meaningless number 883709520
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 23/02/2025In this house we believe: - whatever a man with a sufficiently tall hat says - things we read on discarded sandwich bags - anything spoken in iambic pentameter 1521720
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/02/2025i gotta say as a jew im not a big fan of the sieg heil coming back into vogue!!! 391322130
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Yet more evidence that science is, and has always been, political 010
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bageva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 18/02/2025hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist 146154116968
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I’m becoming increasingly convinced that anyone seriously talking about how the US should take over Canada is unaware of the existence of Quebec 100
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17/03/2024i do kinda lub land honestly 11926126
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory. 382327393
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The way you know “Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing is how these folks would react the moment someone tried to Birkat Ha’Mizon after lunch. 110
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The Ontario Canada ad about the importance of our economic relationship is an all timer Super Bowl ad imo 001
a cat stuck in a bag @catboypaperbag.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This makes me so sad and angry. Some of the best scientists I know are under represented minorities. We know that diversity makes research better, but mediocre white men can’t handle not being the best researcher in the room. Segregation is the point. 100
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious 793344790
Reposted by a cat stuck in a bagBlaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025 112377441
