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Personal acct. Library Director @ Ferguson Library in STL. Views are my own, NOT my employer - obviously. Libraries don't opine on govt corruption, share geekery, or babble about their day.
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I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

submitted 9 hours ago • 14 comments

LEFT: The fake picture of the Department of Defense just posted. RIGHT: The reality. So now the military is not just arresting us on street corners illegally but spreading disinformation. And it's only Monday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 336 comments

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

submitted 3 hours ago • 32 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 7 hours ago • 767 comments

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

I need to say this clearly and for posterity: They are laying the ground work for an Ernst vom Rath moment, where the actions of a single trans person are offered as an excuse for a pogrom to use the full force of government to eliminate trans people as a "national security threat".

submitted 6 hours ago • 53 comments

I remember my first thought when I heard about OK bombing was that it was likely from the right wing/white supremacist militia fringe groups. Then I watched the media enlessly speculate that it was probably terrorists from the Middle East, and refusing to look inward. Flyover blindness, and racism.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 2 days ago • 592 comments

Reflexive control at work: Spur protest (which is warranted and people should do so) in order to justify military intervention, as in L.A. Voila -- troops end up on the streets of blue state cities, but not red ones

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

In 1919 (106 years ago, when most households didn't yet have phones), W.K. Haselden accurately predicted life with mobile phones.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

so cops arrived at the scene before he entered the house, before he had shot either of the two people he went on to murder, and after he started shooting, he ran *inside* the home and killed them while police were still outside and he STILL somehow managed to escape?

submitted 7 hours ago • 63 comments

Because I am a Recognized Safety Person on the Internet, I get questions. Specifically, about personal protective equipment (PPE) to take to a protest assuming a cop riot will happen. I have a meta-answer people do not like. Bringing PPE to a protest will be claimed as a intent to resist arrest.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Eric Trump: "Eventually all the phones can be built in the USA." (so Trump phones are not actually being built in the USA lol ... )

submitted 9 hours ago • 298 comments

The entire far right propaganda machine is spinning into action to spin this violence as being perpetrated by the left. It will be successful and by week's end a solid portion of the country will believe it was committed by someone on the left, facts be damned.

submitted 8 hours ago • 92 comments

So after terrorizing communities and ripping families apart with ICE raids at farms and restaurants, DHS is suddenly “pausing” because of labor gaps? Wild how the war on undocumented immigrants stops the second your rosé doesn’t pour itself and your salad’s missing veggies.

submitted 22 hours ago • 217 comments

Trump declares war on cities “We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”

submitted 23 hours ago • 1571 comments

John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman were hit by a combined 17 bullets from the Minnesota assassin, and both survived and are now recovering. Yvette shielded their daughter. www.startribune.com/john-hoffman...

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

Trump's War on Latinos Is Killing Capitalism Big Brands Hurting as ICE Raids Send Shoppers Into Hiding Gift Link to Wall Street Journal story: www.wsj.com/business/ret...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

submitted 2 days ago • 971 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 2 days ago • 1094 comments

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

submitted 2 days ago • 474 comments

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

submitted 2 days ago • 778 comments

When violent criminals are pardoned due to partisanship… When tribalism excuses violence against the opposing political party… When justice depends on political affiliation… People. Will. Die. GOP leadership must stop this.

submitted 2 days ago • 181 comments

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 2 days ago • 2162 comments

Time to jump on social media and see how many people have been injured by anonymous dudes in law enforcement gear and masks.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: Minnesota authorities have identified Vance Boelter (57) as the alleged murderer. The kill list recovered from his car also targets Gov Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, several Democratic lawmakers, & abortion-care providers. If you know where Boelter is call MN state tip line at (651) 555-TIPS.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Yep, I suspect this is the beginning of an ugly trend.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

among those shot are Melissa Hortman, the leader of the Democrats in the Minnesota House of Representatives, as in one of the most powerful Democrats in the state. Targeted for assassination by someone who either is a cop, or was posing as a cop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments