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Florida baptist church employee & christian academy teacher Joshua Dice has been arrested for soliciting a child online & traveling to rape a child. Dice is the 2nd teacher from the christian school charged with child sex crimes. www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/c...

What you’re witnessing is corporate theatre… designed to distract you. youtu.be/aAdrKfkFiyg?...

Texas baptist pastor Nathan Roach has been arrested for child grooming. www.texomashomepage.com/news/crime/w...

Amy McPhie Allebest from Breaking Down Patriarchy explains 100 years of Equal Rights Amendment history Written by Celeste Davis “80% of Americans believe that women are already guaranteed equal rights in the U.S. Constitution... but... they’re actually not” #learnsomething

Share this video with the #Women in your life. youtu.be/ZMnF32GlWss?...

Memo to Dems: It's absurd for Trump to blame foreign students for taking Americans' slots even as he's also pushing a House GOP bill that would put higher ed out of reach for hundreds of thousands of working class kids. Say so, Dems! newrepublic.com/article/1957...

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

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Now we're talking.

HRC nails it 👇 Send a letter to your senators here: bit.ly/45n1uMX #ResistTrump

But don’t let facts get in the way.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory 🗃️

We don't do this in America, and we don't have military parades either.

Zero overlap Venn Diagram

Best idea of the week.

"The results seemed unsurprising: when researchers were given access to AI tools, they became more productive. That sounds reasonable and expected." But the problem is that it was all BS. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...

Air Force One.

I am pleased to have this article, “The End of Rule of Law in America” in The Atlantic this morning. Thank you, Jeffrey Goldberg, @theatlantic.com, @washingtonweekpbs.social, @adriennelaf.bsky.social, @beccarosen.bsky.social

A former FBI special agent is currently out on $100,000 bond after being arrested for attempting to expose what he described as a covert Russian intelligence campaign to gain influence over leading American tech figures—namely Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. kyivinsider.com/fbi-agent-go...

Guinigi Tower - A 45-feet solid tower house built in the 1300s, with Holm oak trees growing in hanging gardens at the top. 📍Lucca, Italy 🇮🇹

I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

At this point, these books are road maps. They tell you where we are heading.

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

This is how the Republican Justices on SCOTUS have defined corruption-they insist it is the *only* definition of corruption. (It is not! They don't control the English language! Or common sense!) Congress has defined corruption in other ways- SCOTUS has just imposed its own definition on all of us.

So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.

I've been a doomer about DOGE data grabbing, but I'll admit it never occurred to me Musk could fire his way to stealing all copyrighted material ever