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Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...

One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>. It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.

“I’ll be back up to full speed any day now – just as soon as those autism researchers find a cure for burnout. Surely that’s what they’re working on, right??”

My brain literally cannot comprehend all of the bad stuff that just happened today so instead: scholastic book fair now has online wallets that you can use for your kiddos at the book fair- but also, you can donate to “share the fair” so others w/o can get books.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

The thing that gets me most about the passport stuff is that *it has no functional purpose* beyond harassment of an already marginalized population. It makes precisely no one safer. It *creates additional work* for bureaucrats and results in inaccurate gov't identity documents.

what the fuck is this (h/t @karavoght.bsky.social)

God I am going to miss this pharmacy, the lady who filled my anxiety prescription told me to salt my food extra for the next two weeks to counteract the low BP

Gym is not a personality. It’s barely a hobby. It’s got a lot of elements of eating disorder and body dysmorphic disorder. Cap at 4 hrs/week Job is not a personality. Most dude to dude advice is between homosocial and homoerotic. It’s what men want in other men, not what women want. Read Romances.

OH MY GOD

if by 10 tomorrow morning the democrats are not as one voice raising holy hell about this at every level of visibility — which as we all know they won’t be — then to understate the matter, that’s real bad

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

Yep: politicians need to represent their constituents and listen to their views, but politicians also need to have strong convictions and principles and should work on convincing the electorate of the correctness of those moral positions, too.

What’s happening at Plymouth State is terrible and has gotten very little media coverage www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Endorse 100%

I’d be in for this — I buy a lot of books, and yet am always thrilled to buy more!

When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.

I can see Schumer’s position that a shutdown would let Trump seize more power and that that’s not worth it (I disagree but I can see his point) but to not negotiate and force some concessions on immigration, speech, and other issues was a total abdication of responsibility.

it really pisses me off that the DOGE people don't appreciate that when you have a system that deals with 300,000,000 people, an error rate of 0.1% is 300,000 people, and if the system is a matter of life, death, and your entire financial existence, that's not a mistake you can make.

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

"they're harming the good government pupperinos" could activate like 50 million people if it gets into the wider media sphere

nearly every change made to american public schooling in decades has been to produce uneducated, fearful citizens without critical thinking skills or awareness of the world other than america. there's a reason the "my kid went to college and came back a LIBERAL" is such a stereotype

This is an incredibly thoughtful & illuminating thread📌

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

50% of the time, Tesla camera based autopilot will kill a child A lidar equipped car stops every time.

I can't stress this enough. The country and the world is not being shown just how much pushback is happening. You have to share it when you encounter it. They all think we're taking this lying down and we are not.

And combine this with AI generative transcription, which does things like insert references to gang violence in any Black patient’s narrative, means maybe we are all better off going with woo. If we’re going to die, we’ll die being heard. (This is mostly sarcasm and irony)

Great way to advertise the book 👍🏼 I didn't know about it but now I do and immediately bought the book. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

So this is some Yellow Wallpaper shit: we can lock you up if you don’t think what’s happening is okay. Minnesota Rs moving to call people ill and subject to non-consensual treatment if they don’t like the administration’s goals.

The judge is ordering the Trump administration to turn planes around that had already departed. Either the executive branch will comply or it won't. If it won't, then you're looking straight down the barrel of a dictatorship.

"safe haven"

Out of all the bullies and monsters in the administration, Marco Rubio seems like the purest specimen of how Nazism happened—not a sincere bigot or ideologue, just an empty shell who has literally no limits on what he will agree to do or pretend to believe, embracing brutality to fill his weakness

the notion of “inherent power” is anti-republican in the lower-case r sense. runs totally counter to the notion of a divided government of enumerated powers

Need more middlebrow fiction goddamnit. Some of us are too cultured for total genre slop, and not cultured enough for some MFA’s exploration of the intersectionality of grief! Give me something written at an adult reading level with emotional depth that also has a murder or a vampire or some shit!

The entire @schumer.senate.gov strategy seems to be opposition by pithy skeet or waiting for midterms that may or may not be allowed to happen. This weak response to our slide into fascism is making the @democrats.org a party of submission, not a party of opposition. Time for new leadership.

St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health system, was outspoken in defending its staff during a backlash against masks and vaccines. It also sued right-wing figure Ammon Bundy — and won. Now it’s backing its doctors on the abortion front. By @audreydutton.bsky.social and @kelciemmorris.bsky.social

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

Once again, Pragmatism is our friend. The thing is what it does. It doesn’t matter if they *call* this some convoluted anti-DEI bullshit, it’s resegregation.

“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

I’m gonna be a broken record about this. They are *using Jews as a tool to advance their fascist agenda* This has nothing to do with Jews. This has nothing to do with antisemitism. We do not consent this. We want no part of this.

The Senate Democrats understand this. They’re just counting on you not understanding it.