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Hey guys- White nationalists have helped a white woman in Minnesota raise $300k after she was filmed calling a five-year-old Black child the n-word. The local NAACP chapter is fundraising for the boy and his family to get legal help. The least we could do is out-fundraise the nazis. Donate here:

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Are the courts actually doing their jobs?? Wild

There's already an impeachment resolution in Congress!

Great example of right wing appropriation of the term "working class": birth, and not the exercise of power, determine allegiance. Explains racist, sexist, and capitalist uses neatly.

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

This is really bad!

- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2. - German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations - Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days

Important new paper! Housing is one of the sectors that consistently shows up as systemically significant for inflation in our analysis. There can be no doubt it is central to the cost of living crisis.

Did Panama agree to build and run Trump’s concentration camps so he’d stop talking about seizing the canal?

If you know anyone in Delaware they need to be encouraged to call their state reps and Governor right now, and take to the streets. Musk cannot be allowed to get this money easily

This is worth reading because it's not actually about congestion pricing, it's about the media ecosystem that leads to all the insane quotes you've seen about congestion pricing

What if instead of small groups of scientists working for months to make a science, all the scientists got together to make a new science every day Sounds more fun

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains how social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the social norms. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pretty sure Deftones never covered Cher's "Believe" but it's stuck in my head anyway

The climax of the next Mad Max movie:

Nerds are the ones who warned you about cryptocurrency, and NFTs, and the internet of things. Nerds are the ones trying to explain to you that "AI" is just overhyped pattern recognition which we already had for years. Techbros are not nerds. They're predators.