i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

“What does it mean to be a community?”

"around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent": openai.com/index/streng... "800M weekly users": techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/s... even on the conservative end, that’s so many people

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Many of them already don't pay personal taxes because they take out low-interest loans with their portfolios for spending money, and technically that's debt, not income, and not taxable. But yes, there are many ways for the very rich to become tax-efficient, even when/if a wealth tax is instituted.

Nice write up of @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social latest film "Dead Media", as well as a lot of other MN-connected genre fun www.minnesotamonthly.com/arts-enterta...

This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news. Here's the story, and here's what you can be doing about it. These are YOUR RIGHTS that the states want to steal from you. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Stream great MN artists for free. If you have an @hclib.bsky.social library card, you can download songs to keep. #music #Minnesota www.hclib.org/about/news/2...

This is Radley. She asks to "destroy" when she needs to let out extra energy. "She gets plenty of walks and physical activity," her family told us, "but she uses her destroy button when she is craving a little extra chaos." 13/10 (IG: radley_barkley)

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Well, the pursuit of knowledge had a nice little run there

lol okay so back to Workday: what is categorically wild about this is how companies using AI "tools" ignore how AI simply embeds the past. If your past is discriminatory, the tool will be trained to precisely DISCRIMINATE. Duh!

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

I'm getting 1980s roller rink vibes, but for adults #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #Riffotronic

Just thinking the camera operator had to do everything the actors, sometimes backwards and on skits. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #Riffotronic

I wrote something this morning reflecting on all the ways mutual aid + community are what’s really delivering help to those who need it most. We’re taking care of each other and #thelastdrivein just drove that point home perfectly. Raise a fuck ton of money tonight 🤘🏽 coldcruelchristmas.com

More creepy doll! But not the one from her room. I am disturbed. #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #Riffotronic

Creepy doll for the win #MutantFam #TheLastDriveIn #Riffotronic #Curtains

It’s getting to be that time! Handing over the account to the team from #Riffotronic for a cold cruel Christmas on #TheLastDriveIn Take it away Jim/ @wr1ghtbra1n.bsky.social Thea/ @theasabin.bsky.social and Johnny/ @mumbdaddy.bsky.social #MutantFam @therealjoebob123.bsky.social

Looking for #LibFaves25 ? Here are some books for youth of all ages, including lots of picture books. hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Looking for #LibFaves25 ? Here's some nonfiction. hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Looking for #LibFaves25 ? Here's some fiction. hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."

OUT TOMORROW! AT LONG LAST! MAN FINDS TAPE! The film Jess and I executively produced, written, directed, starring, and filmed by people Jess and I have known in the Austin film community for decades. The single most Austin film made in several years. We're very proud. In theaters & on VOD TOMORROW!

In Maryland, it's only been in the last decade or so that we've managed to dump our Taney statues. It would be nice to think that if there's a republic that survives, its rescuers won't cast any of Roberts to hang around, shaming us for a century or more.

NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)

Indivisible NE Mpls is deeply disappointed by the inaccurate and disparaging remarks made by the President about our beloved state. I encourage you to check out this page, where members celebrate what makes our city such a wonderful place to live. www.facebook.com/share/g/17VH...

I named mine Thoughts and Prayers because they frankly don't do very much.

Lots of "it's not really authoritarian" etc takes skip over details like how Trump refuses to let a majority-Republican Senate have a say in who runs several U.S. Attorney's Offices. It's profoundly anti-democratic, and by itself strong evidence of corruption and malfeasance.

I dig the brain on Lyz Lenz

Your casual reminder I have two (2) contenders in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction category this year, there's still time to vote for one of them (or another book there you like better). Go on, all the cool kids are doing it. www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...

Consider donating. Together, MLF and @mnlib.bsky.social assist Minnesota libraries, as the Foundation sponsors MLA’s MILE program, career development scholarships for library staff, the Minnesota Author Project, and other MLA special projects. www.givemn.org/organization...

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

LGBTQ youths experience real-life abuse and depression due to their gender identity/sexuality. The internet provides crucial validation absent in their toxic environments. Legislation targeting digital acceptance under the guise of "child safety" threatens these youths' digital rights and well-being

“If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning." –GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd as the proto-fascist “war on terror” raged

As the Senate tries to defend a million dollar payday to 8 of their own - and as the House GOP tries to explain why they refused to amend the CR to strip it out, let's review exactly what it is they want restitution for. Brief thread:

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Attack of the Best Lists 2025: The 100 Must Read Books of 2025 via Time Featuring THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER @sgj.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/atta...

Last night I wondered if the "evergreen" post implies the existence of a "nevergreen" post, a take that is useless from the moment it's published. Then I remembered that Bret Stephens, Ross Douthat, and David Brooks are all highly paid commentators.

Whatever you do, don’t show him this text from Assange to Don Jr in 2016.

This is….INSANE. Like, more INSANE than regular insane.

Happy Exploding Whale Day! Get out there and make it count.

Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"

After #NOAA ceased funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing #earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the month. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms

this is how joyce carol oates executed elon musk on live television