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Earlier today we taped tomorrow’s show, and we discussed the potential for the U.S. to bomb Iran. Since taping, the U.S. has carried out several bombings. We’ll have more to say in the future, but for now our piece on Trump and the Iran Deal can help explain what got us here. youtu.be/5xnZ_CeTqyM

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Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

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its time to admit once and for all that we are a dogshit country run by dogshit people who are cheered on by dogshit people. to the extent there are many people who actually aren't dogshit, not only dont they matter at all, they are actively the enemy

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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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The joke used to be "vote Democrat for a war and Republican for a Depression." In the 21st century, our science has progressed so that you can just get both from a Republican.

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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

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another thing McBride points out is that historically successful civil rights movements were willing to compromise. which is very true! but we’re not being offered a trade, we’re just being told to cede ground.

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Put another way: rage only feels like renewable energy. It isn’t.

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NEW: There have been 4 bomb threats targeting public libraries in the last week. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

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Today @genderlib.com and activist volunteers took HRT in front of the Supreme Court and then occupied the street in front of the building. This was in defiance and dissent against Skrmetti, a demonic SCOTUS ruling that will kill so, so many trans people. Please do not avert your eyes.

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It’s been interesting (to say the least) watching people respond to this very basic post with BUT THINGS SUCK RIGHT NOW. Yes. They do. But we can’t out-anger fascists.

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Spotted by the Barclays Center. Very curious who’s paying for this 👀

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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

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This is such good advice. Reducing chaos (even a little bit!) helps so much on return.

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Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East

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A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.

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"These are not black box algorithms. They are design decisions: conscious choices about what goals to prioritize, what data sources to use, and what safety measures to include."

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since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

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BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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A nice view of the skyline from last night.

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I am unmoved by “sad farmers didn’t think ICE would come to their door” articles. What are we even supposed to do with that? There’s no coalition to be built, no tent that accommodates this kind of thinking.

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Hi new followers: if you are here for libraries and higher ed, please note we also offer cats and dirtbag leftist analysis.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

none of these people are capable of analyzing politics in terms anything other than their narrowest and most petty resentments

submitted 4 days ago • 112 comments

Over and over at #OpenRepos2025 the refrain: libraries are people, the work is not powered exclusively by systems but people making connections in the context of those systems.

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Calling it now that ICE runs out of money and in the fight to continue funding, he’ll just expect people to work for free and potentially never be paid.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Most people in the US equate health & being ablebodied with morality & wealth (among other things). Which is super ironic given the vast majority of the population is eugenics-ing themselves and their families into poverty.

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Thread. Some good news and a much-needed examples of what it looks like to undertake principled resistance to authorianism. I hope these preliminary rulings lead to the restoration of all terminated grants.

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Our team is on the road! 🛣️ Lauren Collister is at #OpenRepos2025 this week! She's sharing lessons from our "Reasonable Costs for Public Access" project TODAY at 11:00am. If you're at the #UNOpenSourceWeek, please say hi to our Executive Director @kaythaney.bsky.social + Product Lead Chrys 🚀

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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Die Trump-Regierung sieht in weiten Teilen der eigenen Bevölkerung den inneren Feind. Gegen den wendet sie sich: um das vermeintlich wahre Amerika zu verteidigen.

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Cats are both embracing raptor time and chasing something (each other?) through the apartment.

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Alex Padilla, who was roughed up by Trump's goons while simply trying to ask a question at a public press conference, nails it 👇 Tell Congress, a co-equal branch of government, to speak out and oppose Trump's fascist use of the National Guard here: bit.ly/449vUkP #ResistTrump

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Transgender For Everybody and Everything Is Computer sounds like the lineup you’d lie about seeing after they get big in Europe.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The scene in Slow Horses where a group are driving in a car with a CD player stuck on Coldplay’s The Scientist is the most relatable thing I’ve watched on TV in years.

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Having someone I reach out to on Father’s Day is still very strange but good. I have to remember I’ve had this for my entire life and he’s had this for just a couple of years.

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A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

its time to admit once and for all that we are a dogshit country run by dogshit people who are cheered on by dogshit people. to the extent there are many people who actually aren't dogshit, not only dont they matter at all, they are actively the enemy

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

The joke used to be "vote Democrat for a war and Republican for a Depression." In the 21st century, our science has progressed so that you can just get both from a Republican.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

another thing McBride points out is that historically successful civil rights movements were willing to compromise. which is very true! but we’re not being offered a trade, we’re just being told to cede ground.

Put another way: rage only feels like renewable energy. It isn’t.

NEW: There have been 4 bomb threats targeting public libraries in the last week. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Today @genderlib.com and activist volunteers took HRT in front of the Supreme Court and then occupied the street in front of the building. This was in defiance and dissent against Skrmetti, a demonic SCOTUS ruling that will kill so, so many trans people. Please do not avert your eyes.

It’s been interesting (to say the least) watching people respond to this very basic post with BUT THINGS SUCK RIGHT NOW. Yes. They do. But we can’t out-anger fascists.

Spotted by the Barclays Center. Very curious who’s paying for this 👀

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

This is such good advice. Reducing chaos (even a little bit!) helps so much on return.

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East

A truly incredible bit of pushback from a UK news outlet.

"These are not black box algorithms. They are design decisions: conscious choices about what goals to prioritize, what data sources to use, and what safety measures to include."

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

A nice view of the skyline from last night.

I am unmoved by “sad farmers didn’t think ICE would come to their door” articles. What are we even supposed to do with that? There’s no coalition to be built, no tent that accommodates this kind of thinking.

Hi new followers: if you are here for libraries and higher ed, please note we also offer cats and dirtbag leftist analysis.

none of these people are capable of analyzing politics in terms anything other than their narrowest and most petty resentments

Over and over at #OpenRepos2025 the refrain: libraries are people, the work is not powered exclusively by systems but people making connections in the context of those systems.

Calling it now that ICE runs out of money and in the fight to continue funding, he’ll just expect people to work for free and potentially never be paid.

Most people in the US equate health & being ablebodied with morality & wealth (among other things). Which is super ironic given the vast majority of the population is eugenics-ing themselves and their families into poverty.

Thread. Some good news and a much-needed examples of what it looks like to undertake principled resistance to authorianism. I hope these preliminary rulings lead to the restoration of all terminated grants.

Our team is on the road! 🛣️ Lauren Collister is at #OpenRepos2025 this week! She's sharing lessons from our "Reasonable Costs for Public Access" project TODAY at 11:00am. If you're at the #UNOpenSourceWeek, please say hi to our Executive Director @kaythaney.bsky.social + Product Lead Chrys 🚀

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Die Trump-Regierung sieht in weiten Teilen der eigenen Bevölkerung den inneren Feind. Gegen den wendet sie sich: um das vermeintlich wahre Amerika zu verteidigen.

Cats are both embracing raptor time and chasing something (each other?) through the apartment.

Alex Padilla, who was roughed up by Trump's goons while simply trying to ask a question at a public press conference, nails it 👇 Tell Congress, a co-equal branch of government, to speak out and oppose Trump's fascist use of the National Guard here: bit.ly/449vUkP #ResistTrump

Transgender For Everybody and Everything Is Computer sounds like the lineup you’d lie about seeing after they get big in Europe.

The scene in Slow Horses where a group are driving in a car with a CD player stuck on Coldplay’s The Scientist is the most relatable thing I’ve watched on TV in years.

Having someone I reach out to on Father’s Day is still very strange but good. I have to remember I’ve had this for my entire life and he’s had this for just a couple of years.

A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.

no… no, they can’t possibly be… oh my god, they wouldn’t… they can’t be… YES, THEY ARE PLAYING FORTUNATE SON

Using my George Soros protest allowance to buy weed

This is America.