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Midwesterner. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth.
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Hesgeth used his personal phone to log into a 4th-tier sports betting site -- and to relay real-time information about U.S. airstrikes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

As the reporters say at the end of the piece, "just wow." Congrats again, @kaokaliayang.bsky.social www.kare11.com/video/news/l...

If the person in charge of health and human services stands up and calls diabetes an “exotic disease” and says he has never heard of lupus or crohn’s… he should immediately be fired for gross incompetence. This is eugenics. He’s going after disabled people so they don’t have to pay to treat them.

I defy anyone to show me a serious, thoughtful person among the MN GOP delegation. Forgot writing or sponsoring this dreck. Failing to immediately condemn it and call for its authors’ resignation is disqualifying.

Incredible.

You know what the best feeling in the world is? When you don’t win, but you still win cause your community is SOLID, produces amazing and transformative work, supports you, and cracks each other up (oh, and looks fly for all the important events. 🔥). So then, you win anyway. 🙏🏾✌🏽

So proud of @kaokaliayang.bsky.social for her unprecedented three-category triumph at the Minnesota Book Awards. She is a treasure. #mnbookawards www.startribune.com/kao-kalia-ya...

Vandals attempting to rule by conspiracy theory.

I regret that I have but one life for the Secretary of Defense's ability to text random people about impending bombing runs

Finance media is so weird. If you're a Tesla investor, why aren't you screaming for Musk to leave Tesla? Who thinks Tesla will recover if Elon leaves DOGE? Also 20 percent seems absurdly low.

"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own." - J.R.R. Tolkien www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

The idea that she is a “danger to the community” is patently absurd and dangerously racist. Free her now. Arrest her kidnappers. www.boston25news.com/news/local/t...

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I saw someone sum this issue up really well the other day on TikTok: If your science is focused on stopping autistic people from being born and not on making sure autistic people and their families have support and resources, that's eugenics.

When you've written the resignation letter and don't know it yet.

The greatest hallucination associated with AI is that of CEOs, and it is that they have a business in any real sense. It may well be that AI is inevitable, but it is not inevitable that a handful of rapacious tech bros must also inevitably become even wealthier and more powerful in the process.

The core of the AI companies's argument is not so much fair use but "because we want it." It's pure entitlement, and it's sickening.

The undervaluing of original creative work is so depressing because it's an undervaluing of humanity itself.

If you're hitting a pay wall on the Musk babies story (which you should read), you might find it via Apple News if you're an Apple+ subscriber.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

Bonkers. This is a great example of why I keep saying that no one should just accept the government's word as fact. It is run by flawed people who aren't inherently trustworthy—which is something conservatives used to understand. Once again, due process matters.

🧵 As part of a work thing, I recently spent some time listening to an AI expert (an academic and author), and ever since I’ve been ruminating on questions I didn’t think quickly enough to ask. The session didn’t fundamentally shift my viewpoint on AI, but it did serve a lot of food for thought.

"Still, legal analysts have raised questions about the legality of sending US citizens to prisons abroad." what are we doing here. it is illegal. there is literally zero question that it is illegal. what is this 'raised questions' stuff.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

Possibly the most uncontroversially lawless thing any president has said in living memory? Maybe ever?

the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public

If you were trying to design a system for defrauding Social Security recipients you would spend five seconds thinking about starting from scratch and then you’d conclude you could never do better than this. www.wired.com/story/social...