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Hey, ever wondered what the courtroom sketches of the 1972 Angela Davis trial looked like? Whew. www.thegremlin.com/lignante1.html

It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908. "You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. KOSA is vile & every single republican openly plans to weaponize it. blackburn straight up said it exists to “protect minors from the transgender in society” & 22 GOP attorneys general openly said, “yes, i *would* use it to go after abortion info.” KOSA IS A GIFT TO FASCISTS.

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Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.

The Trumpster takeover attempt of LOC would put the executive branch in charge of our legislative research. Pretty obvious problem. Good news: when Trumpsters showed up at LOC to take over, Library staff refused. That took guts. Librarians rule!

Because the constitution says you can’t

ROBOPRIEST (2026)

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

I'm so sick of the accelerationist doomers who seem to desperately want violence. Yeah, I hate that I have to call my reps incessantly, but if we burn everything to ground, it's going to kill a bunch of innocent people, which I do not want Mocking me via qrt is a shit bag move, so to the void you go

Again they don't believe in actual meritocracy. They believe in "racial meritocracy," ie if you're born into the right skin you're good and worthy and if you're not you're not. Racist predestination bsky.app/profile/atru...

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

Openly embracing ripping people off.

If we’re not careful, we won’t see that we’ve been pretty damn effective, given what we’re up against.

Companies can now buy insurance for when their generative AI chatbots make up bullshit policies or give customers big discounts that end up costing the firms a lot of money. Gotta love all that innovation!

“After library officials resisted, the DOJ officials departed without resolving the conflict.” One of those sentences that tells you who and where we are as a country in 2025: librarians are braver than law firms and CEOs.

i can fuckin' hear the game boy version of tossed salad and scrambled eggs

"its the hot new trend of the summer -- Slurs™!" NBC fucking news

We watched CONCLAVE last night (very good), and I have been thinking a lot about the Sistine Chapel ever since. Particularly Michelangelo's depiction of an incredibly jacked Saint Catherine.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

This is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs

I think about this burn all the time.

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

A reminder that one of the most iconic American photos of the twentieth century is a portrait of a federal worker—Ella Watson, then employed cleaning federal offices in Washington DC—and was taken by Gordon Parks, who was also working for the federal government in the FSA's photography division

Call on Ireland’s Government to Protect its Seas We are at a critical moment for the future of Ireland’s seas. It's time that the Irish Government enact a strong Marine Protected Area law without further delay. #Spéirgorm only.one/act/30x30-ir...

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

Interested in spiritualism or seances on film? I'm doing an online talk about Seances and the Female Medium in British Cinema on 28 May at 8 pm BST! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seances-an...

It's very clear at this point that Trump intends to use ICE as his personal paramilitary army.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

another way to phrase this could be, "as the White House continues to purge the federal government of Black people."

1. The list of expert bodies condemning the Trump administration's pseduoscientific trans "report" is growing. They include the AAP, APA, experts at Yale, Fenway Health, Whitman Walker, and dozens of others. The latest roundup from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

are there any historians of cambodia / french colonialism in asia on here down for a quick interview she says hoping against hope

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

there's simply not enough words to convey how deranged and obsessive professional transphobes are

Once again, if the Democrats had an ounce of sense... This time, they would launch an ad campaign about how Donald Trump killed the Muppets and Sesame Street. Possibly with a Fred Rogers lookalike crying.

it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.

I really resent being governed like it’s sweeps week.

Me rolling up to Trad Cath groups: "Yeah! The Church should return to its roots! Reject the Tridentine Mass and Vulgate Latin! Drink of the cup! The Council of Trent was a perversion of the True Faith!"

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I cannot overstate how far that particular skill has gotten me in my career, and how much praise and acclaim you will win for being able to search and think your way through problems you weren’t directly trained to handle. Relying on AI robs you of that skill and any chance to develop it