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Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

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Public lands are just that: public, and owned by the taxpayer. Republicans want to auction them off to the highest bidder to pay for their billionaire tax cuts. Hell no.

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There are too many people out there that think creativity is something that some people have, and its 'extra' to life instead of something integral to humanity that all of us share and have. Its not a side thing to monetize, its something we have to grow and nurture in ourselves always!

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a lot of these A/I bros who want immediate treasure clearly didn't get the message about the friends we made along the way

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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I just want 'ai' to go away. The simultaneous widespread poisoning of knowledge; attempt to end-run professions that cultivate critical thinking; and sucking the joy out of everything while ramming unwanted technology down our throats is so exhausting. I just can't anymore.

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I'm sorry, WHAT?

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Stolen from a friend's IG:

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Climate change is helping various kinds of ticks grow their populations and spread to new areas, where they threaten to spread new diseases. I wrote about it and learned some horror-movie-worthy details that you need to know too

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Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community. Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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#NoKings but drag kings! #Buffalo #NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest

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Peaceful and patriotic showing in Buffalo, NY today! (I tried to blur any visible faces.) #NoKings #Buffalo

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No Kings in Buffalo, NY. Great atmosphere! #buffalo #nokings

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Because I currently have no money with which to get new games, I have been playing some of my older ones, including the Batman Arkham series, which honestly still hold up. As such I wanted to draw Harley and Ivy ☺️. #Art #HarleyQuinn #PoisonIvy #Batman

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

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It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

submitted 6 hours ago • 47 comments

This week, I talked with @silkys13.bsky.social about immigration raids, rising authoritarianism, mass protest, innocence narratives, and what it means to organize effectively in this moment. Given everything that's happening, I highly recommend checking this one out.

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During these unprecedented times, it’s important to remember that, although rare, ‘precedented’ is a word.

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Oh my god, last week Kristi Noem's Chief of Staff sent a memo to all DHS leadership telling them their memos need to be shorter by quoting an entire Winston Churchill memo from 1940 titled "Brevity." Text of memo shared with me:

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I live in a world where I am supposed to just accept that this sentence exists

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BREAKING — Israel Issues First Evacuation Threat to Civilians Inside Tehran

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I will hold the line on this. Right-wing violence has far more support, materially, institutionally and ideologically, in the U.S. than left-wing violence. There is no both-sidesing it.

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The entire far right propaganda machine is spinning into action to spin this violence as being perpetrated by the left. It will be successful and by week's end a solid portion of the country will believe it was committed by someone on the left, facts be damned.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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Marble head of Aphrodite emerges from the mud in the excavation of the ancient city of Aizanoi in modern day Turkey (or Türkiye). Probably 1st or 2nd century

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"...the threat of deportation by abusive spouses is louder than ever and allows abusers to wield greater power and control over their victims." www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged...

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My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.

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"De La Cruz, 29, and Perez had been delivering food to dairy farmworkers in the area when Border Patrol pulled over their vehicle in the northern Vermont town of Richford" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/m...

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Kroger has shut down four Colorado locations as grocery strike begins. The UFCW just launched these initial walk outs, but the strike could grow dramatically and spread across multiple strikes. Over 100,000 supermarket workers have authorized strikes across the West and PNW.

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LEFT: The fake picture of the Department of Defense just posted. RIGHT: The reality. So now the military is not just arresting us on street corners illegally but spreading disinformation. And it's only Monday.

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Here is the text of my keynote from the Bram Stoker Awards ceremony. It was a rant masquerading as a keynote. And in pure Becky fashion it is also a call to action. Why We Need Horror Authors in the Fight For the Freedom to Read: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-...

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There are many reasons to oppose Cuomo's attempted comeback. An often forgotten one is that during the pandemic, he tried to hand NY over to the tech oligarchs as their AI laboratory. Lots of damning clips in this 2020 interview I did on the subject: www.democracynow.org/2020/5/13/na...

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"Rosenberg, a trained attorney, said the proposed DEI ban would seem to contradict existing state laws, such as those that offer targeted property tax exemptions to help people with disabilities maintain their housing and home ownership." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/16/m...

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You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

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i think about this a lot goodnight

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“We’re coming up on our 250th birthday as a country, the association’s about to turn 150, & we’ll be meeting in our nation’s first capital. It feels momentous in a way that I’m not sure it would have in a different year.” President-elect Sam Helmick #ALAAC25 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

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Would you like to buy this fine book? Absolutely you would. Action/black comedy for people who like DIE HARD. Get it here (in USA): bookshop.org/a/23067/9781...

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"Bluesky is dead." Meanwhile, on Bluesky

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I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

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This is disgraceful and cruel. An entire society has bent to the lunatic whims of a hateful billionaire and come up with hateful rules like this. The people in UK govt and pressure groups who pushed this through should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

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And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

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This. This. This THIS. I want it in every color and size you got and I want it on every block.

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When you look at the origin of many of these programs, they all started as community-led enterprises, often spearheaded by volunteers. It sucks that we're going backwards, but as stated here: there's also a huge opportunity to remake them BETTER

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the optics | patreon.com/lubchansky

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

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The full set is up so now everyone can learn about my time on Michael Flynn's unvaccinated blood-and-semen marketplace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylpi...

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