I was 16 when this happened. I was babysitting and had just finished reading the murder scene of the LaBiancas in Helter Skelter when they had breaking news about a possible murder of a U.S. Congressman in Guyana. This led to disjointed news as everyone tried to figure out what was going on.  There was the…

Punchline?

Wow...that has to be one of the worst kinds of supremacist behavior...the quiet kind. The one where there aren’t dead bodies and names and faces plastered about, and guys running from the law because everyone knows about them and their hate.

She hid, but she didn’t know what she was hiding from, because they went around to round everyone up. Her sister left willingly, and she was like, nah fuck him, and stayed behind, hid under her bed until they’d stopped looking for people, then just went to bed. She thought it was just another speech or something. In…

Highly recommend this documentary, which includes video, photos, and audio recordings from inside Jonestown, as well as interviews of survivors:

I was really surprised to learn how many openly gay people were accepted in the people temple. There were open gay men in relationships. That’s not something that comes up in a lot of these discussions. In a time period where being openly gay was dangerous and very stigmatizing, the People’s Temple was open. I had no…

I remember reading someone had been taking a nap and slept through the whole thing and woke up to a bunch of dead bodies. That must have been fucked up.

While he operated his church, the Peoples Temple, in the U.S., he was strictly above board

“While he operated his church, the Peoples Temple, in the U.S., he was strictly above board.”

This is fascinating. I have always been interested in those who survived and HOW they survived. I can’t imagine overcoming such an experience.

Social media “fine” and actual fine are often two very different things, and spinal injuries are never a small deal. Best case she has months of recovery ahead of her.

Did anyone else see Madeleine Davies’ twitter chain about Univision?

The only things that this case determined is that Acosta didn’t get his due process. It certainly doesn’t say that anyone and everyone has to be admitted to WH press conferences.

In the past year or so, there was another commenter on some post that mentioned he and his wife were on some sort of food assistance program and he sounded as if he felt guilty admitting that he sometimes used it to buy a pint of ice cream. Like, DUDE. People have hardships from time to time and that is exactly what…

When I was living in Boston, conservatives were complaining about people on food stamps shopping at farmers’ markets (even though that’s the most efficient use of food stamps there), and also complaining that they were buying chips at grocery stores. So they shouldn’t be buying fresh produce because it seems too high…

They love to complain about flat screens and cellphones. Because somehow you are supposed to function in modern America and keep and hold a job without a cellphone.

I am amused because all the questions you pose are asked and answered on a multitude of studies. Guess what they show: That minorities receive disparate care even when they account for both commiserate comorbidity AND socio-economic status, that is what multi-variate analysis is for. PubMed is right there at your…

I read that the NRA was cutting salaries, bonuses, and corporate perks for their employees. I hope a sign that there are huge cracks starting to form in their foundation. They are the worst.

Is it still a humble brag when it’s so obviously just a brag? 

I’m not in the sciences either, but I’m “science adjacent”.