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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is wild

submitted 7 hours ago • 121 comments

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 54 days ago • 29 comments

Arrests now at Broadway and Duane as protesters tried to block Duane a street where only federal vehicles can enter and exit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.

submitted 6 hours ago • 193 comments

Awful story. Three kids were running a lemonade stand and some driver just ploughed into them. Kids aren't safe outside because of vehicles and the irresponsible people that operate them.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

The Pasadena Community Job Center is an amazing resource for day laborers and housekeepers in the LA area. I worked with them early in COVID to fund their food bank and 40 families in need. They provided detailed reports on the aid. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

One thing is for certain after this week: Local cops in sanctuary cities—Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York—are working in lock step with DHS and ICE.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 4 days ago • 310 comments

Many of the federal workers being forced out by Trump are Black women who spent decades building a career of government service, only to see those careers shattered in a sudden purge. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“In a paper published in Nature Communications, the researchers have shown for the 1st time that mRNA can be delivered into the cells where HIV is hiding, by encasing it in a tiny, specially formulated fat bubble. The mRNA then instructs the cells to reveal the virus.” The virus can no longer hide!

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Let's improve the below with some modern stuff 😎 Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/J... via @codepen.io The perfect use case to illustrate why we need all the new improvements. To make the code more readable and less hacky. cc @ishadeed.com @nerdy.dev

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.” Well, that’s… useless. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.

submitted 6 days ago • 191 comments

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

I use it very deliberately to link the current moment to COVID! Thank you. I’ve been thinking on that rupture for awhile:

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

1. The FPV drone tech Ukraine used here has been around for a while, though it was used very ingeniously. 2. The Ukrainian attack using these drones relied upon what sounds like over a year of extraordinarily precise logistics, planning, and training. This is not something just anyone could do.

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

News worth repeating: PDX City Councilor Mitch Green donated unspent funds from his office budget to complete small street improvements in his district. Safer streets aren't that expensive. Saving lives is priceless. Thank you @councilorgreen.bsky.social! Full story: @bikeportland.org

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There's no actual belief among elites against remote work, they just know that workers like it and they oppose anything workers like on principle. Mistreating workers is the core of the ideology.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Uber sent push notifications yesterday to its users in Illinois telling them to call their state reps and oppose transit funding. The bill then stalled in the House so now CTA is on track to close 4/8 'L' lines and discontinue 74/127 bus routes, absent emergency action from the legislature.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

March 13, 1913: Fred Rodman Law becomes the first recorded person to attempt rocked-powered flight by launching himself in an 44-foot rocket from the foot of Williams Ave (at the Morris Canal), Jersey City. The site is today occupied by a Chevrolet dealership and Route 440.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Moment of Joy 😄 "That's my photo right there!" @bikejc.org Ward Tour. ~We Outside~ Oonee Pod, Public Art.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

me: do i have ADHD? doctor: no you don’t me: i don’t what doctor: you have AD240p

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 11 days ago • 463 comments

My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Saying the quiet part out loud: Republicans think you should die if you can’t afford health care.

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

Sinners is set in the city of Clarksdale, MS. Problem: there’s no theatre there. So, the citizens wrote to Warner Bros to bring the film to them. Today they & Ryan Coogler did! What a beautiful day!

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

The first screening of Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is the first time a lot of people in Clarksdale have been abled to watch the film for the first time. Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Evans, and Miles Caton were all in attendance. 📸: @/Carmen_A_Jude (on X)

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

the smart toilet's number-two factor authentication is the real hassle

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

More immigration courthouse arrests today by feds some in masks, as people are leaving court hearings, at least seven detentions that I've seen in last few hours. Congressman Dan Goldman stops in briefly asking "why are you wearing masks?"

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

The Case for Kicking Israel Out of International Soccer www.splinter.com/the-case-for...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 PJM’s delays in approving new energy projects and increasing demands from AI data centers are driving up costs for consumers — culminating in an over $20 jump on New Jersey electric bills in just a few days. Read more from @alexfromnj.bsky.social: www.njpp.org/publications...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Another banger from @const-physics.blogsky.venki.dev. Batteries will be key to unlocking a viable low carbon grid. The intermittency of solar and wind means that you have to have stable, reliable alternative sources at the ready when it’s dark and not windy. Cheap batteries solve that problem.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with"

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments