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submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

In “Siren’s Call,” Chris H cites Cory Doctrow: “First they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

iPhone users: to report the disappearance of the “Gulf of Mexico” from the Map app, go to www.apple.com/feedback/iph...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

One of the “terrible” shows at the Kennedy Center. youtu.be/gBzrtIw6CaM?...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. “We are it We are on our own” youtu.be/2NXUCatascc?...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head. So, I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...

submitted 22 days ago • 729 comments

Copying this from another post 3 days ago The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism” zine makes a great gift for your liberal family, friends, neighbors & coworkers! Read, print & share freely! Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

This was the perfect day for TRMS to repeat their research into the relationship between Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and Curtis Yarvin. Who’s Curtis Yarvin? Here you go: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It’s fun to be “in the room where it happened” but being semi-retired has its benefits: watching the livestream in the kitchen making empanadas on a sunny day. No 4-day-long conference center air/lighting headache and no red flight back. Congrats to all the winners. www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

My Unrivaled team….who are you?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

If you have a GOP rep, you might like to know they are in Florida on retreat next week. Lots of golf and planning how to gut every program that actually provides value. Plus the agenda includes daily Bible study. I just wrote my Rep and suggested the following passages:

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)

submitted 33 days ago • 672 comments

Not safe to listen to NPR on the sub zero drive. Eyes of the World 9/25/91 x 2 got me here safe and sane.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I continued a 19 year tradition of reading Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier’s Martin’s Big Words to first graders today. I always share the fact that I was a first grader when MLK was killed and what I remember. I wonder what memories they will have of this dark time?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

We can’t keep looking back and there’s a lot of work to do, but it help a little bit to know this happened 16 years ago. youtu.be/bDX1YYJjJFs?...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Facts! 👇🏾👇🏾

submitted 35 days ago • 333 comments

democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"If all these psychologically damaged, very powerful men are going to fetishize some throwback conception of manhood, maybe start with [this]: Be your own man. Don't debase yourself by bending the knee," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the MAGA version of masculinity.

submitted 37 days ago • 55 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

So now that it’s 2025, how are we supposed to conform to page 5? As a children’s librarian in a public library, I’ve just submitted my first book order of the year. Is there a form out there I need to fill out or do I just wait for the thought police to come and get me?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Call the White House now—202-456-1111— the President can make the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land by instructing the Archivist of the United States to certify and publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment and declaring the ERA as enforceable.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The rule for 2025 in our house: “what would our grandmothers do?” youtu.be/VjcWlIkwdUE?...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Kamala Harris: You inspired us in 2024. If Vice President Harris inspired YOU like she inspired 74,749,891 Americans, it's worth a solid "all the way re-post!"

submitted 50 days ago • 439 comments