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The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs. I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all gifcities.org

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The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

submitted 6 hours ago • 110 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 8 hours ago • 1540 comments

A police chief saying he expects to be arrested and jailed by the federal government for how he chooses to do his official job—esp when it seems to be in the context of NOT interfering w ppl using their constitutional rights—feels like a really bad thing.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

ICYMI: Federal judge GRANTS California Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov’s Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, telling Trump he ILLEGALLY deployed the California National Guard to LA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

Good thread. Awful actions by LAPD. #ice #lapd #losangeles

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Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

We drill into military officers that Members of Congress have Constitutional oversight rights, Members outrank four-stars in protocol, and even Congressional staffers are treated like generals/admirals. To see sworn federal officers manhandle and handcuff a U.S. Senator... I'm still shook up.

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Neat.

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Use this image to deal 14d6 psychic damage to your economist friends

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Important thread here about state level assaults on public university funding

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I believe in the rule of law, of robust systems, a strong Presidency, a strong Congress, and a strong Judiciary, and separation of powers. A strong military is important to our defense and deterrence. Allies matter. Presidents are entitled to their advisors. But right now now is going wrong.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Yet again, yes it's okay to be pissed that Democrats aren't doing more. But framing Democrats as the only ones with agency while Republicans hold the balance of power and still get to whoops-a-daisy into authoritarianism is bullshit. Call your GOP reps.

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“Who you gone believe me or your lying eyes” COMBINED with “I was so scared” COMBINED with “Why on earth would I believe a Brown man would have a right to be near me despite it being a closed announcement”

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Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

submitted 22 hours ago • 58 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 1 day ago • 688 comments

Please buy my book.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A gathering storm in civil-military relations: “What I can say is we should not have local judges determining foreign policy or national security policy for the country,” Hegseth said.

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Need to speak to an immigration law expert ASAP. Contact via Signal: signal.me#eu/VssgH88q6...

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We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI lithub.com/were-already...

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"Yet AI boosters earnestly insist that taking all the colours in the paintbox, mixing them together, and throwing them on a canvas creates art, not mud-coloured dreck." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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My University has told us that despite growing ug and grad majors, we are losing a TT history position (not filling line of departing prof). Today they announced they hired a new "chief artificial intelligence strategist." Guess how I feel about this.

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Well, and you have to remember that although the DATA is PD, the curation and refinement provided by Harvard still makes that aspect of the dataset the special purview of Harvard. Arrangement is important!

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The Role of Catholic Values in Navigating AI Ethics www.sentventures.com/thought-lead...

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so BYD is releasing a compact EV hatchback in Britain, it costs £18,650, but the price in China is less than a third of that. fuck me lol www.ft.com/content/2ff8...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

#IAW2025 Webinar – Archives, Access, and Copyright is underway.

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This headline lol www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

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A lot of folks at the Indiana State Library were laid off this week. Their budget was slashed to bits and yet I know people who still seem shocked it happened. They just thought it would all be fine. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/11/5... 📚 #PubLibs

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god how would these journos manage if they had to use BBS systems

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Jerry Lembke’s THE SPITTING IMAGE, on the myth that Vietnam-war protesters spit on veterans, seems a relevant book for our times. nyupress.org/978081475147...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Thank goodness! Think about how many kids have been fatally shot in school by Judy Blume books!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

When Los Angeles actually was burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This is called "conducting law enforcement operations" and it is illegal. I don't care if they're just standing around. It's so fucking illegal.

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A nightmare scenario

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SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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