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Calculus vigilante, union man, proud father. Public education is a pillar of democracy.
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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

A nightmare. 🙏🏾

Russian Tass state media has just published the following on its Telegram channel: "The parliament of Iran has approved a strategic partnership agreement with Russia. This was reported by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Russia." Very curious timing.

Absolutely horrifying. A politically motivated assassination of Democratic lawmakers. The regime calling protesters in LA “animals,” sending troops to “liberate” the city from Democratic governance. A military parade in the nation’s capital. All these events are intimately connected.

For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:

Rand Paul: "I've never liked the idea of the parade. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades for the most part or North Korean parades. The parades I remember from our history were different...we never glorified weapons so much...then there is the cost"

I talked to my mom about the mayoral race and she said that it wasn't true that Cuomo tried to cut millions from Medicaid because home health care workers got improved pay under his tenure. So I texted her and said she was right i was wrong he tried to cut billions

Well said, Senator Rand Paul.

🧵 Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa. Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID #OnYourSide VC pslspokane

Robert E. Lee ordered the slaughter of 200 capture U.S. soliders because these soldiers were Black. Lee was dishonorable.

Here's my report on the Santa Fe, NM No Kings demonstration!

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

"11 Wisconsin lawmakers' names are on a manifesto police recovered in their search for Boelter. The group of Wisconsin lawmakers included eight women and three men, according to one source. All are Democrats." cl.exct.net?qs=f2530aa6c...

Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated

“I don’t want to be governed like this” is a powerful, necessary collective statement. The *exact* specifics of how you collectively do want to be governed—that’s necessarily the knotty work of years of organizing, negotiating, and building.

ICYMI: Middle Tennessee family torn apart after ICE-Highway Patrol checkpoint 'looking for color of skin,' wife says (GoFundMe link in story below.) vimeo.com/1093345200?s...

Fwiw arstechnica did a better write up of what he believes and it's more fucked up and more clearly based in eugenics He says it's miasma theory but in classic RFK Jr. fashion he defines it wrong. It would actually be better if he believed in miasma theory than his actual beliefs imho

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This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Today in Not All Wrestlers Have Shitty Politics: CM Punk** at the No Kings rally in Chicago. ** Yes I'm deeply disappointed that he's reversed his earlier stance and will be doing the WWE event in Saudi Arabia this month, which he's previously called "blood money." 😞 www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir...

Twenty years ago! wapo.st/3TnhHKX

Millions of Americans took to the streets for No Kings day as Donald Trump presided over his sparsely attended military parade-themed birthday party sponsored by Coinbase, Palantir, and Phorm energy drink in Screamin' Freedom.

This is my favorite sign from Seattle #NoKings March. It’s 100% Pacific Northwest mood 😁

“To Protect and Serve”

According to the latest WaPo/Schar School poll, Trump’s handling of deportations has 37% approval, 52% disapproval. And Quinnipiac has it at 40% approval, 56% disapproval. But @facethenation.bsky.social insists “public approval is so high on deportation.”

MAJOR BREAKING: PRO-TRUMP TERRORlST KILLS MINNESOTA DEMS Right-wing evangelical psychopath 57-year old Vance Luther Boelte has assassinated Democrat Melissa Anne Hortman, and her husband in Minnesota.

Why they gunnin' for Tweety, tho? He ain't been on TV in years...

Just want to take a moment to shout out the international reporters helping us get the real story out. When an 80-year-old veteran with a walker is hauled off with his hands zip-tied behind his back, and the media spins it as a “threatening breach” of a police barricade

Kid: "Daddy, why did you vote for Trump so he could deport Mommy?" Dad: "Because Trump told me Kamala Harris liked trans people."

In just hours yesterday, a Trump supporter assassinated Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota. An SUV plowed into a No Kings protest in Virginia. Gunfire at the Salt Lake City rally left one critically injured. Republicans need to stop this violence.

Police found a list of Democrats supporting abortion rights & other liberal causes in a vehicle used by the Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter, 57. Police described him as white, about 6-foot-1 & 220 pounds, with brown hair & brown eyes, & said he should be considered armed & dangerous!

Melissa Hortman was more than just a Minnesota lawmaker. She was a kind and decent woman who trained service dogs for American veterans.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

Members of the 1930s, 1940s "America First" movement were paid by Nazi Germany, and therefore disloyal to the USA. This included Senators and Congressmen. See also, www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The roommate of a 57-year-old Minnesota man accused of fatally shooting Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband reads the text messages he received from the suspect.

@schumer.senate.gov are ya standing up for your people?

whut?

GM Folks, feeling much better today. Yesterday started with horror and ended with a great deal of hope for many of us. Don't expect MAGA and the Russia backed influence machine to acknowledge reality about the Minnesota assassin or the "No Crowd" parade.

On this day in 1920, a mob of 5,000 to 10,000 white people lynched three Black men falsely accused of assault in Duluth, Minnesota.