Oktoberfest at the Public Market is this Friday!

Join us 5-9 p.m. at the City of Rochester Public Market for the 3rd-annual Oktoberfest — a free, family-friendly celebration of autumn, German culture, food, music & more!

Learn more: cityofrochester.gov/oktoberfest

a chain of smaller, convenience store sized wegmans called Wegboys

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

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The Project for Awesome is a very fun and silly but also important event that raises millions of dollars for global health and other charities voted on by YOU. It has just begun. Please join us at ProjectforAwesome.com/live

Happy Valentine's Day, Rochester!

Today, we celebrate the love that makes our city special — love for our neighbors, our communities, and the vibrant spirit of the Flower City.

The 2025 Project for Awesome, which doesn't actually start until tomorrow, has already raised nearly $500,000 for organizations like Partners in Health and Save the Children. Pretty awesome! projectforawesome.com

I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes.

Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

NEW via @nbcnews.com: RFK Jr. is refusing to divest his family's interest in an anti-vaccine lawsuit. Ranking Member Wyden is calling on RFK Jr. to recuse himself from vaccine lawsuits as long as those conflicts remain www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

We have reached new levels of madness when an unelected, non senate-confirmed private citizen is overseeing an effort to overhaul or possibly end a congresionally mandated arm of our government.
This is real trouble for the separation of powers, and with it, our basic democratic institutions.

Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.

Feeling like supporting accurate, compelling science content that reaches an audience beyond the manufactured binaries of our fucked up world?

Today is the last day you can get a SciShow Postcard.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

I don’t actually have much to say here. I am a person! but I’m mostly just there to follow/like/repost.