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Literally a life goal I don’t think I’ll ever achieve

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The president is playing videos at his political rallies of people getting their heads shaved at what is effectively a concentration camp. He’s sending people to that camp with no due process, and 9 in 10 have no criminal record. The rallies are eating it up. Forget “can.” It is happening here.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Can we not misuse the term Luddite? The Luddites were not ignorant of technology or against its use. They were against the use of exploitative technology. LLMs are an exploitative technology, so the parallel works, to some extent, just not in the way OP seems to think.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 9 days ago • 363 comments

This should be a huge story

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump administration's "firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Once again the most nonpartisan of issues are suddenly up for debate / used to hold states hostage

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 11 days ago • 660 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 12 days ago • 1428 comments

sighs Deletes #Fitbit

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this incredible news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 12 days ago • 817 comments

"Ability is, more or less, a temporary state. Each of us comes into the world helpless, and we leave it helpless.... It could happen to you tomorrow. If we make it so, life can be a broad path. There is room for all of us." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Sometimes the biggest stories are the easiest to tell through the lens of one creature. This is the story of the Eastern hellbender—a giant salamander at risk of disappearing forever—but also about ecological grief, Donald Trump, and how extinctions happen: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.

submitted 14 days ago • 2310 comments

Reading about the 30th anniversary of the bombing of OK City’s Murrah Federal Building, I can’t help but think that MAGA is a political movement built of the same dumb rage that led Timothy McVeigh to massacre 168 people — including 19 children— but infinitely more destructive. (gift link)

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I'm writing a book! "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" will expose how an extreme tech fascist ideology emerged from San Francisco to threaten the world. Grateful to @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social and @avidreaderpress.bsky.social for believing in this book ¡Orale!

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Have a tip about Elon Musk in Texas? 👀 Email, DM or Signal msg me about re: Neuralink, the Tesla gigafactory in Austin, Boring Company, X HQ and Starlink in Bastrop or SpaceX near Waco and Brownsville. Signal: lmcgaughy.40 Insta: laurenmcgaughy Email: [email protected] KUT.org/lauren

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

submitted 16 days ago • 298 comments

I have eaten The extra mild Old El Paso Fajita kit I got in the UK Forgive me I added Hot sauce It needed it

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

UGH

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Tariffs aside, how will Canada protect it's people from imported American goods produced without regulations? “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink.” Free article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

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Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

RFK Jr. is seeking to destroy the consensus around vaccines, one of the greatest public health achievements in human history. People will die because of it.

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

I can't find this anywhere but I swear I once heard a Perfume Genius cover of Sheryl Crow's "Strong Enough to be My Man." Am I insane

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 198 comments

Ah yes X, the famously factual platform that naturally reaches all our grandmas and grandpas

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Tucson just broke the record for our earliest 100° day of the year. 🫠

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Livestock waste has created a “manure crisis.” A new analysis finds millions of Americans could be drinking water with carcinogens caused, in part, by manure.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

submitted 23 days ago • 392 comments

Will we know if H5N1 is spreading before hospitals are overwhelmed? Probably not, in large part because of Trump/ICE fears “Many people don’t go to the doctor right now…They prefer to stay at home and let the pain or redness in the eye or whatever it is go away” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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“They want to destroy universities, which they see as the primary antagonist in the culture wars.” “Unfortunately, university administrators have always been cowards. They have almost always stood on the wrong side of history throughout our history.”

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is the 21st century version of burning books, people realize that, right?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Also, for pure decadence, stuff the billionaire inside another billionaire, and then nestle an olive stuffed with a caper inside. When it is cooked, eat the olive and throw the rest to the dogs.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Declaring emergencies to circumvent legal protections, in this case to justify logging national forests. "The memo has the effect of declaring nearly 60% of all national forestlands to be in a state of emergency, thereby lifting the usual requirements for public comment and environmental review..."

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

There’s a lot happening, but this deep dive on the dismantling of our public health and bio defense infrastructure in the face of a possible pandemic is quite timely, if I do say so myself

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

an incredibly concerning story from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social about the politicization of the U.S. Marshals Service and DOGE's use of the marshals to intimidate judges and other federal agencies www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

submitted 34 days ago • 70 comments

Tragic and completely avoidable.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

BRIC was established because traditional disaster responses were costly and inefficient

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

As our critic-in-residence, @timothyaschuler.bsky.social has spent the past year exploring the future of rural & overlooked landscapes. First, he examined landscape transformation in the Arkansas Delta. Then: climate boomtowns. Now, he looks at links between biodiversity, agriculture & human health.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This, Jesus Christ, this

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

For @placesjournal.bsky.social, I wrote about the new billion-dollar biodefense lab in my backyard and the intrinsic relationships between biodiversity, agriculture, and human health. The title is inspired by a great piece by @edyong209.bsky.social. placesjournal.org/article/pand...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

submitted 29 days ago • 389 comments