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Reminder that our Constitution guarantees due process to ALL persons — not just citizens — and enshrines habeas corpus as a fundamental right. Either everyone has due process — or no one does.

The Trump team thinks Confederate traitors who killed Americans are worth honoring. But Americans who fought at Normandy in D-Day like Medgar Evers, or served in the Navy like Harvey Milk and Cesar Chavez, or worked as a spy for the US Army like Harriet Tubman, well, they are NOT worth honoring.

Some of the citations in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thursday.

Johnny Cash (in 2003): p-please can I have my medicine? I’m sick real bad… Rick Rubin: I told you old man! Not till you record a cover of “In the Meantime” by Spacehog!

[Weird Al doing Nada Surf]: 🎶 It was the Slushie / At 7-11 ... 🎶

Wow, the new Spotify podcast interface is totally unusable. There's no feed. I should probably just listen to music (and not on that app) anyway

Surprised not to see anyone say Return To Oz. It's basically a horror movie

❝We want people to realize that in one fell swoop, The Center for Popular Music is going to be the new epicenter of punk-related research.❞ www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Add IMLS.

emotional support child bride

Papal elections aren't what they used to be

Am I the only one who gets Frank Turner and Frank Carter mixed up

Another win for the billion-dollar lying machine

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I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

Books include: Racecraft by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields Half American by Matthew Delmont Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen Teaching White Supremacy by Donald Yacovone www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

If you’re in DC, join me at the Washington Monument tomorrow.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on & daring the world to stop them. On April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to say: Hands Off! #HandsOff #April5

Damn

Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office

Gonna believe this when I see it

it is done

Alt text decision tree #til www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

Oddly fascinated by the steampunk-esque bank commercial where Charles Barkley and Magic Johnson play one-on-one dirigible basketball

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool's "Timcast" channel is part of today's White House press pool. The Chicago high school dropout who became an alt-right media superstar was apparently paid $100,000 per episode by a covert propaganda campaign funded by Russia.

Elon’s coming to Wisconsin to hand out million dollar checks in his bribe scheme. They should arrest him when he does.

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#PaleFire readying friends: how do you think Shade actually felt toward Charles? Did he actually enjoy his company, as the narrator would have us believe? Just tolerate him? Loathe him (as Sybil clearly did)? #SpringtimeInZembla 🦋