Remember when people said it was hyperbole that Republicans would cancel elections

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

Wife and I are watching some Nightline episode about Lookmaxing and I'm at a point where I'm actively cheering body dysmorphia in men. Fuck it, we're not making anything better? Let's burn it down.

Just so the #left is aware Kamala Harris advocated for a national, FEDERALLY FUNDED universal paid family and medical leave program, that aimed to provide up to 12 weeks of paid time off for workers to care for new children or sick relatives. btw 19thnews.org/2024/07/the-...

Here's the CDC report -- on how effective the Covid vaccines are -- that was censored by Jay Bhattacharya. Good for @jeremyfaust.bsky.social getting the leak: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

AI authors working on a novel.

Fuck yeah, Ypsi.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Sometimes my phone decides to autocorrect "said" to "Said," inadvertently reminding me to go read some postcolonial theory.

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This is an excellent day.

And the kids who haven't developed critical thinking skills yet having this pushed on them in schools? They're just fucked for life. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Breaking WaPo: The Trump Justice Department is now demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area — a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

More than once the JPL has fulfilled an ILL request, and the children do not know how badass that is.

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

Look, that's unsurprisingly shitty of the admin, but I happen to suspect that the Holy See could probably handle the $11M.

"The series aims to re-emphasise the importance of knowledge sharing among people, as has been done for decades: communal exchange of information and expertise based on years of lived experiences, informed by local realities, and motivated by the need to feel connected with one another."

why does the UK have so many roundabouts? 'cause their feminism isn't intersectional

ORBÁN HAS CONCEDED 60% in

We coulda had the lady with the economics degree who valued DEI & job growth all while banning price gouging on everything from groceries to housing to healthcare…but white folks did what we’ve done every election since the civil rights act because we’d rather everyone suffer than everyone thrive.

Hail, Sekhmet-Bast, who gives the Nine Gods, and ties the headband, lady of the red cloth, Mistress of the White and Red Crowns, great in the terror of your father, She over whom no gods, none, can become overlord, great in word-power in the boat of millions. (BDQ)

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

As a daughter of Ypsilanti, we don't need to call it "tiny," but we do need to tell UofM to build their shitty data center right on their goddamn quad if they want one so fucking bad.

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center...

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I was going to make a funny little joke about the Oracle of Delphi telling that one guy that if he went to war a great power would collapse. And then I looked it up to make sure I had my facts in order.

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

It’s funny cause white people could stop him at any point, but they either afraid or they are secretly enjoying this like it’s another episode of housewives.

I can't be the only one whispering to the astronauts "keep going! You're free now"...

“He’s unwell,” “he doesn’t belong near power” are as beside the point as “he shouldn’t be allowed to do this.” They’re callbacks to an order that’s been broken. We know fascism is wrong. We must after 10 years move past the part where we keep rediscovering it daily with new shock.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

Excellent essay on the larger context: A good essay just out: defector.com/its-time-to-...

My neighbor has decided that power washing his stone steps is an awesome choice. It should genuinely be illegal to make so much noise.

Oh great. The noisy gas leaf blowers are back. I love getting hearing damage if I try to open a window.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Not be all Arendtian about this, but I don't think this is optimal.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

Look. This 2023 documentary about the Nuremberg Trials is a little on the fucking nose. It's awkward.

I've been thinking about forgiveness, specifically Arendtian forgiveness, lately. This radical moment that allows the past to be healed--but what does that mean when the harm is ongoing?

Quick takes: -Utah officials reported 43 new measles cases in the past week -5 kids in Tennessee sick from raw milk -Today marks 210 days since Susan Monarez, PhD, was fired from her position as director of the CDC Read more: ow.ly/gobz50YyUum

YOU COULD HAVE JUST VOTED FOR THE NICE BLACK LADY YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES.

Listening in on my wife's work call and at the close a random person jumped in to interrogate her as to why my wife isn't using MS Copilot to write up her own meeting notes. Like. Are you so scared to let a moment of introspection happen around you?! What the fuck.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Democrats introduced bills to end the TSA shutdown on: March 5 March 11 March 12 March 18 March 19 (x2) March 21 March 23 Republicans blocked TSA funding every single time.

everything being done now was test run by Republicans on the Humanities for decades and many of our STEM colleagues were silent