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four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

oh whoa, my book came out 1 year ago today! I'm still in disbelief--both that I wrote a book and that a year has passed since it came out lol so Happy Birthday to The Originalism Trap! 🥳 I hope it has a long life, and breathes some life into democracy ❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

This is so dumb and evil. Why are they punishing kids for trying to better themselves?

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Ugh, he just gets better. 😩

submitted 15 hours ago • 296 comments

Flightplan

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

submitted 12 hours ago • 55 comments

BREAKING: Ming Li "Carol" Hui has been released from prison by ICE, her lawyer confirms to me. She's headed home to the Missouri town where she's lived for 20 years. She still could face deportation, so the battle continues. Our interview with her from jail: newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

Johnson did the same song-and-dance about the last Trump tax bill, and then voted for it when he secured a massive tax loophole for his campaign funders. He will vote for this bill, and any concession he picks up along the way will only make it worse. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-d...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

Grumpy bedtime

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

31 years! Happy anniversary, Gwen. The kids and I are so lucky to have you in our lives.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1096 comments

Say what you will about Walz. He isn’t perfect, and there are many ways that, as my governor, I wish he would do better. But damn if he didn’t come out swinging and hit a home run with this one.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

submitted 12 hours ago • 71 comments

This is devastating. Sweeps should be obviously immoral, but many people think of camp sites as visual blights, inconveniences, or places that make them uncomfortable. This is what your comfort costs.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Ms Rachel, the children’s entertainer and educator whose YouTube videos have been watched by millions of families around the world, said she is willing to "risk her career to keep advocating for suffering children in Gaza".

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

it’s time to replace all doctors with ai

submitted 11 hours ago • 118 comments

I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

LuLu has an eye ulcer, and while we treat it she'll be a cute little satellite dish

submitted 15 hours ago • 30 comments

"A hungry elephant from Khao Yai Park in Thailand caused havoc in a store, helping himself to produce on the shelves. The elephant, Plai Biang Lek, is known by locals for entering people's homes in search of food. Biang munched down nine bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich and some bananas."

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

It's really quite something.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

An attack on kids and their families trying to contribute to the country. Not to mention an attack on higher ed.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

In the age of performative cruelty, #kindness is #punk as fuck, be punk as fuck.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

"US vetoes resolution for unconditional Gaza ceasefire at UN security council: Russia, China, France and the UK all voted in favour of ‘immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’"

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

www.fox5ny.com/news/newark-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

she’s arrived

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I've never met a more disappointing group of people, and our fate rests in their hands www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

ENT surgeons say the MAHA report wrongly dismisses tonsil and ear tube surgeries as harmful, ignoring evidence that these procedures can greatly improve sleep, hearing, and behavior in children.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Trumponomics taking effect…

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

"College student's immigration detention highlights Dreamers' growing deportation risks: The case of a 19-year-old Mexico-born college student in Georgia who ended up in a detention center after a mistaken traffic stop highlights what young people without legal status face."

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Full coverage from AP. The ban takes effect at 12:01AM on Monday.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

One small victory. Proves they can do it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

I am not one of the people who believe the tensions between Musk and the administration are a kayfabe situation. Musk got burned on Jared Isaacman's nomination and on the UAE AI campus. I think he's legit pissy, and while I don't think he'll derail this bill, I think he's annoying Trump w this.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

She needs to be removed,You can't run Dep of Ed like wrestling com Education Secretary Linda McMahon flubs basic facts in Senate hearing. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 89 comments

See, when you let the bully stuff you in a trash can, he comes back with so much more respect for you … wait, that’s not how it works?

submitted 17 hours ago • 18 comments

Very important point, and the why is critical. Judge Boasberg claims that his hands are tied by SCOTUS and circuit precedent to presume good faith to a limited extent.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

OUR POSTING IS SO POWERFUL

submitted 18 hours ago • 37 comments

When Meta’s AI inadvertently gets at a driving force behind a lot of meth use (not all): Having to stay awake when overworked and exhausted, because losing your job means ruination in a country without safety nets. (And what safety nets do exist often demand urine tests.)

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Boasberg: "Absent this relief, the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action." An unassailable point. The fact that the U.S. government is fighting this tells you what you need to know.

submitted 16 hours ago • 41 comments

Breaking: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Texas over its law allowing undocumented students to receive in-state tuition, days after the state Legislature adjourned without passing a bill to repeal the statute.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

submitted 16 hours ago • 369 comments

This is TONIGHT! Join us!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

look this is just a lie. philly and pittsburgh are the economic engines of pennsylvania, we are where the majority of the state's economic activity happens and we are where the bulk of tax revenues come from. but neither city's economy can survive the kind of transit cuts that are on the table

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

I spent time in Seminole, Texas, after a deadly measles outbreak tore through. I came back with a story about anti-vaccine activists who exploited the crisis, outmatched doctors and public health officials working to contain it — and a community left to bear the cost. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...